Biography
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright (born July 22, 1973) is a Canadian-American
singer-songwriter. He has recorded five albums of original music, EPs, and
tracks on compilations and film soundtracks.
Wainwright was born in Rhinebeck, New York, to folk
singers Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III. His parents divorced when he
was three years old, and he lived with his mother in Montreal, Canada for most
of his youth. Wainwright is both a U.S and Canadian citizen. He attended high
school at the Millbrook School in upstate New York (which would later inspire
his song "Millbrook"), and later briefly studied piano at Concordia and McGill
Universities in Montréal. He began playing the piano at age six, and started
touring at thirteen with "The McGarrigle Sisters and Family", a folk group
featuring Rufus, his sister Martha, his mother Kate, and aunt Anna. His song
"I'm a-Runnin'", which he performed in the film Tommy Tricker and the Stamp
Traveller at the age of fourteen, earned him a nomination for a 1989 Genie Award
for Best Original Song. He was nominated for a 1990 Juno Award for Most
Promising Male Vocalist of the Year.
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