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Rufus Wainwright (Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright) was born on 22 July, 1973 in Rhinebeck, New York, U.S., is a Canadian singer-songwriter and composer. Discover Rufus Wainwright's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 50 years old?

Popular As Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright
Occupation N/A
Age 50 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 22 July 1973
Birthday 22 July
Birthplace Rhinebeck, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Who Is Rufus Wainwright's Wife?

His wife is Jörn Weisbrodt (m. 2012)

Family
Parents Loudon Wainwright III Kate McGarrigle
Wife Jörn Weisbrodt (m. 2012)
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Children 1

Rufus Wainwright Net Worth

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Source of Income Composer

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1973

Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright (born July 22, 1973) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and composer.

He has recorded eleven studio albums and numerous tracks on compilations and film soundtracks.

He has also written two classical operas and set Shakespeare's sonnets to music for a theatre piece by Robert Wilson.

1989

His song "I'm a-Runnin'", which he performed in the film Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller at the age of 14, earned him a nomination for a 1989 Genie Award for Best Original Song.

1990

He was nominated for a 1990 Juno Award for Most Promising Male Vocalist of the Year.

Wainwright identified as gay while a teenager.

1995

Throughout the summer of 1995, Wainwright played weekly shows at Cafe Sarajevo in Montreal.

Eventually, he cut a series of demo tapes produced by Pierre Marchand, who later produced Wainwright's second album Poses.

The resulting tapes impressed Wainwright's father Loudon, who passed them on to family friend and musician Van Dyke Parks.

1996

Parks then in turn sent the recordings to DreamWorks Records executive Lenny Waronker, who signed Wainwright to the label in 1996.

The singer moved to New York City in 1996, performing regularly at Club Fez.

Waronker paired Wainwright with producer Jon Brion, and the two spent most of 1996 and 1997 making the record.

Wainwright recorded 56 songs in total, on 62 rolls of tape.

1998

Wainwright's self-titled debut album was released through DreamWorks Records in May 1998.

He relocated to Los Angeles that year and began his first studio album, 1998's Rufus Wainwright.

1999

In 1999, he told Rolling Stone that his father recognized his homosexuality early on.

"We'd drive around in the car, he'd play "Heart of Glass" and I'd sort of mouth the words, pretend to be Blondie. Just a sign of many other things to come as well."

Wainwright later said in another interview that his parents "could not even handle me being gay. We never talked about it really."

Wainwright became interested in opera during his adolescent years, and the genre strongly influences his music.

(For instance, the song "Barcelona" features lyrics from the libretto of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Macbeth.) During this time, he became interested in Édith Piaf, Al Jolson, and Judy Garland.

As a youth he trained at Interlochen Arts Camp, studying classical music.

At age 14, Wainwright was sexually assaulted in London's Hyde Park after picking up a man at a bar.

In an interview years later, he described the event: "I said I wanted to go to the park and see where this big concert was going on. I thought it was going to be a romantic walk in the park, but he raped me and robbed me afterwards and tried to strangle me".

Wainwright states that he survived only by pretending to be an epileptic and faking a seizure.

He has been reported to have stated that he remained celibate for five or seven years after the incident, and eventually became promiscuous.

2001

His second album, Poses, was released in June 2001.

2003

Wainwright's third and fourth studio albums, Want One (2003) and Want Two (2004), were repackaged as the double album Want in 2005.

2007

In 2007, Wainwright released his fifth studio album, Release the Stars, and his first live album, Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall.

2009

His second live album, Milwaukee at Last!!!, was released in 2009, followed by the studio albums All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu (2010) and Out of the Game (2012).

2015

The double album Prima Donna (2015) was a recording of his opera of the same name.

2016

His ninth studio album, Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets (2016), featured nine adaptions of Shakespeare's sonnets.

2017

His father is a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, the 17th century Dutch governor of New Amsterdam, later New York.

Wainwright has dual US and Canadian citizenship.

He attended high school at the Millbrook School in New York (which would later inspire his song "Millbrook"), and later briefly studied piano at McGill University in Montreal.

He began playing the piano at age six, and started touring at age 13 with "The McGarrigle Sisters and Family", a folk group featuring Rufus, his sister Martha, his mother Kate, and aunt Anna.

2020

Rufus' 10th studio album, Unfollow the Rules, was released on July 20, 2020.

His 11th, Folkocracy, was released on June 2, 2023.

Wainwright is the son of musicians Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, and the older brother of singer Martha Wainwright.

Wainwright was born in Rhinebeck, New York, to folk singers Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III.

His parents divorced when he was three, and he lived with his mother in Montreal, Canada for most of his youth.