![]() ![]() ![]() Rufus had first begun tinkering with the piano at the age of six and, by 13, he was accomplished enough to start touring with The McGarrigle Sisters & Family: an extended folk group featuring Rufus alongside his sister Martha, their mother Kate and their aunt Anna McGarrigle. He moved to NYC to study at the prestigious private school Millbrook (which later inspired his song ‘Millbrook’) before heading back to Montreal to study piano at McGill University. ![]() His parents – Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III – were both well-established, critically hailed folk singers in their own right, but their personal relationship was turbulent and they divorced when Rufus was only three.Īccordingly, while Rufus was born in Rhinebeck, New York, in July 1973, he spent much of his childhood and early adolescence living in Montreal, Canada, with his mother. His enviably eclectic CV to date includes seven full-length studio LPs, plus a classical opera, and he has also successfully set Shakespearean sonnets to music for a theatre production by renowned Philip Glass collaborator Robert Wilson.īorn Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright, the young Rufus’ musical education began before he was out of the cradle. Influential American rock magazine Rolling Stone earmarked him as their Best New Artist following the release of his eponymous debut album in 1998, while his sixth album, Rufus Does Judy At Carnegie Hall, secured Wainwright his first Grammy Award nomination in 2009. Flamboyant, American-Canadian singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright has long since been on first-name terms with critical acclaim. ![]()
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