Rufus Wainwright is tagged as: singer-songwriter, indie, folk, alternative, canadian
Rufus Wainwright McGarrigle (born July 22, 1973) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter
Wainwright was born in Rhinebeck New York USA to folk singer Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle (they divorced when he was a child), he began playing piano at six years age and the age of thirteen he was touring with his sister Martha Wainwright, mother Kate and aunt Anna McGarrigle Sisters and the Family song I run as he made the movie Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveler (where he also played a minor character) was nominated to the 1988 Genie Award for Best Original Song and earned him a nomination to the 1990 Juno Award for Most Promising Male Vocalist
He lived in Montreal with his mother for most of his childhood and briefly joined McGill University, where hanstuderat both klassisk and 'rock' piano Some of his songs feature his mastery of French Wainwright still has a residence in Canada
He came out as gay while a teenager
Wainwright became interested in opera throughout his youth (such as his track Barcelona Features texts by Giuseppe Verdi), he also became an enthusiast of such performers as Édith Piaf Al Jolson and Judy Garland
