Artist: Rufus Wainwright: mp3 download Genre(s): ROck: Alternative Other Rock Rufus Wainwright's discography: Release the Stars Year: 2007 Tracks: 12 Want Two Year: 2004 Tracks: 12 Waiting For A Want (EP) Year: 2004 Tracks: 5 Waiting For A Want Year: 2004 Tracks: 4 I Don't Know What It Is Year: 2004 Tracks: 3 Want One [Bonus Tracks] Year: 2003 Tracks: 2 Want One Year: 2003 Tracks: 14 Poses [Bonus Track] Year: 2002 Tracks: 14 Poses (Promotional Copy) Year: 2002 Tracks: 8 Rufus Wainwright Year: 1998 Tracks: 13 Black Session Year: 1998 Tracks: 14 A singer/songwriter whose lush, theatrical belt down harked clop for to the traditions of Tin Pan Alley, nightclub, and even opera, Rufus Wainwright was born in 1973; the boy of kinfolk music luminaries Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, his parents divorced patch he was a child, and he was embossed by his mother in Montreal. Beginning his piano studies at age vI, by 13 he was touring with his mother, aunt Anna, and his sister Martha in a group billed as the McGarrigle Sisters and Family; a year afterwards, Wainwright was nominated for a Juno (the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy) as Most Promising Young Artist, spell his "I'm a-Runnin'" was concurrently nominated for a Genie (the Canadian countepart to an Oscar) for Best Song in a Film. Approach out as a homo while still in his teens, Wainwright sought solacement in opera throughout his adolescent geezerhood, besides becoming an tremendous fan of performers including Edith Piaf, Al Jolson, and Judy Garland. After attention the prestigious Millbrook School in upstate New York, he briefly studied music at Montreal's McGill University, finally turn aside from classical carrying out toward pop and stone. Becoming a fixedness on the Montreal clubhouse electric circuit, Wainwright presently cut a series of demos with producer Pierre Marchand; Loudon Wainwright III and so passed a copy of the tape to friend Van Dyke Parks, world Health Organization in reverse handed it on to DreamWorks white House Lenny Waronker. The label signed him presently after, resulting in the sack of Rufus Wainwright during the spring of 1998. The album landed on several critics' "Best of 1998" lists, spell Wainwright exhausted the following few age touring and appearance sporadically on soundtracks (Shrek) and compilations (The McGarrigle Hour). His sophomore album, Poses, brought like hail in mid-2001. Subsequently expenditure practically of 2001 and 2002 touring on his have and with Tori Amos, Wainwright colonized into Bearsville Studio, in Woodstock, NY, with manufacturer Marius de Vries to record sort of a double album. The first plan, Want One, was released in September 2003, with Want Two following a year subsequently. In 2007, Wainwright released both Acquittance the Stars and Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall. |