Latest Release
- 15 MAR 2024
- 1 Song
- Meet the Robinsons (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) · 2007
- Shrek (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 2001
- Hallelujah (feat. Choir! Choir! Choir!) - Single · 2016
- Poses · 2001
- The Loneliest Time · 2022
- Want One · 2003
- Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 2006
- Release the Stars (Bonus Track Version) · 2007
- Out of the Game · 2012
- I Am Sam (Music from and Inspired By the Motion Picture) · 2002
Essential Albums
- 2003
Artist Playlists
- He's the gifted son of two folk legends.
- With operatic gusto and verve, he owns every song he sings.
- 2024
- 2023
- 2023
Compilations
Appears On
- Bear McCreary
- Crane Like the Bird
- Martha Wainwright
- Joan As Police Woman
More To Hear
- Rufus Wainwright examines his place among folk music’s royalty.
About Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter and composer, whose music has been influenced by cabaret, opera, and Tin Pan Alley. ∙ The son of folk musicians Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, he began studying piano at age six. ∙ When he was 15, Wainwright received a Best Young Artist Juno Award nomination for his song “I’m Running,” which was featured in the 1988 film Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller. ∙ His self-titled debut LP, produced by Jon Brion (Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann), won a Juno for Best Alternative Album and inspired Rolling Stone to name him the Best New Artist of 1998. ∙ In 2005, he sang guest vocals on “Go Ask Shakespeare” from Burt Bacharach’s Grammy Award-winning album At This Time. ∙ Release the Stars, from 2007, was his most commercially successful album, peaking at No. 23 on the Billboard 200 chart and reaching No. 2 in the UK. ∙ Canada’s CBC radio network ranked Wainwright No. 9 on their list of the 25 Greatest Canadian Singers Ever. ∙ After an eight-year break, he released 2020’s Unfollow the Rules and performed an Austin City Limits televised concert filmed without an audience due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- HOMETOWN
- Rhinebeck, NY, United States
- BORN
- 22 July 1973
- GENRE
- Rock