I've just found this today (2018) and I was rather shocked to see that k.d. won over Madonna - the rest ? yeah, no competition - but Madonna ? so happy k.d. won, Canada's icon
In the Brit Awards, they think to every details : Jimmy Nail was an Inspired Choice for giving the award to Kd Lang...On stage there was....."A Big Boned Gal" from Canada & "A Big Boned Guy" from Britain !!!! 😄😄
kd Lang was such an odd win that year. It didn't really feel like she'd done much - just that soundtrack to a film no one saw which produced no hits and only scraped into the top 40 itself. Not that 'hit = awards', but I thought Tori would have got this one given she was alternative (and that's what the BRITS were all about at the time), plus she'd had some chart and critical success.
Agreed. But I think they took into account the Ingenue era as well (she had never been nominated prior to this). I love both ladies dearly, but Tori would've made more sense considering she had a huge year in the UK throughout 1994 (Under the Pink going to #1, Cornflake Girl was a Top 5 hit, etc).
kd hadn’t been nominated for this specific category (International Female) before but she was nominated in 93 for the International Solo Artist award (they didn’t separate out male and female artists in 90, 92 and 93) so she sort of was nominated previously but just in a different version of the category.
