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Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright | |
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Wainwright at the Metropolitan Opera in | |
| Birth name | Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright |
| Born | () July 22, (age51) Rhinebeck, New York, United States |
| Genres | Baroque Pop |
| Instruments | Piano, guitar |
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Rufus Wainwright (born July 23, , Rhinebeck, New York) is a Canadian-Americansinger. He is the son of singers and performers Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle. His sister Martha Wainwright is also a well known singer.[1]
In he wrote his first opera, Prima Donna, which was first performed at the Manchester International Festival.[2]
Wainwright made his first album in It was called Rufus Wainwright.
Discography
[change | change source]See the main article: Rufus Wainwright discography
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Stories I Might Regret Telling You A Memoir (Martha Wainwright).
The singer-songwriter’s heartfelt memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experiences with love, loss, motherhood, divorce, the music industry, and more.
Out March 29,
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Born into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III and sister to the highly acclaimed, genre-defying singer Rufus Wainwright, Martha grew up in a world filled with incomparable musical legends—Anna McGarrigle, Leonard Cohen, Suzzy Roche, Richard and Linda Thompson, Emmylou Harris—and struggled to find her voice in a milieu in which every drama was refracted through song. Then, in , she released her critically acclaimed debut album, Martha Wainwright, containing the blistering hit, “Bloody Mother F*cking Asshole,” which the Sunday Times called one of the best songs of that year. That release, and the albums that followed, such as Come Home to Mama and I Know You’re Marri