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Rufus Wainwright
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is a Canadian and 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.
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entertainment · Canadian-American singer-songwriter (born 1973) · composer · singer-songwriter · pianist · singer · musician · television actor · film actor · voice actor · actor · also Rufus Wainwright, Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright, Wainwright
Born 22 July 1973 · Q192402
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2026· 3 entries
“could not even handle me being gay. We never talked about it really.”
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Public attention spiked: 3,411 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.2× the usual 814, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 5 entries
Released album “I'm a Stranger Here Myself – Wainwright Does Weill”.
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The Guardian: ‘There was a little bit of the devil in her’: Damon Albarn and Rufus Wainwright remember Marianne Faithfull
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The Guardian: ‘I’d dress as Judy Garland and scare my parents’: Rufus Wainwright’s honest playlist
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Released album “Dream Requiem”.
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The Guardian: Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem album review – a sense of special occasion, all concerned believe in it
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2024· 5 entries
The Guardian: Rufus Wainwright: ‘I had a great party trick, but it once blew up in my face’
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The Guardian: ‘Height of blasphemy’: Rufus Wainwright and Leonard Cohen estate oppose Trump use of Hallelujah
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The Guardian: Brexit didn’t bring down the curtain on Rufus Wainwright’s show. The play’s the thing | David Benedict
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The Guardian: Rufus Wainwright blames UK’s ‘narrow outlook’ after Brexit for Opening Night’s flop
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Wainwright was featured in Bear McCreary's song "Old Tom Bombadil" from the score to The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
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2023· 10 entries
The Guardian: Sheridan Smith to star in Rufus Wainwright musical Opening Night
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The Guardian: Rufus Wainwright: Want One and Want Two review – double-Prom epic is magnificently opulent
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Wainwright appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in the BBC Proms, performing songs from his albums Want One and Want Two specially arranged for the BBC Concert Orchestra, with conductor Sarah Hicks
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The Guardian: Rufus Wainwright: ‘I call Yorkshire Gold the crystal meth of teas’
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Published video “Rufus Wainwright - Cigarettes And Chocolate Milk (Official Music Video)”.
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The Guardian: Rufus Wainwright: Folkocracy review – an illustrious feelgood duet party
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Released album “Folkocracy”.
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Wainwright released the single "Dear World", a piano ballad about healing the world
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Wainwright announced his eleventh studio album, Folkocracy, would be released in June 2023
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“This album is almost like a recorded birthday party and birthday present to myself. I just invited all the singers that I greatly admire and always wanted to sing with.”
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2022· 1 entry
Released album “Rufus Does Judy at Capitol Studios”.
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2021· 3 entries
Released album “Rufus Wainwright and Amsterdam Sinfonietta Live”.
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Released album “Unfollow the Rules (The Paramour Session)”.
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Released ep “Technopera / Solitude of Heart / Do It To The Music”.
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2020· 3 entries
Released album “Roadtrip Elegies: The McCabe's Live Sessions”.
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Released album “Unfollow the Rules”.
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The date the LP was originally due to be released
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2019· 2 entries
Published video “Rufus Wainwright - Blue (Joni 75: A Joni Mitchell Birthday Celebration/Audio)”.
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Published video “Rufus Wainwright - All I Want (Joni 75: A Joni Mitchell Birthday Celebration/Audio)”.
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2018· 2 entries
Released album “Northern Stars”.
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And stating "It's impossible to minimise the ineptitude and pure evil of the Trump administration" in a 2020 interview with NME
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2017· 1 entry
Published video “RufusWainwrightVEVO Live Stream”.
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2016· 2 entries
Released album “Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets”.
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Released ep “Live at Coventry”.
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2015· 2 entries
Released album “Prima Donna”.
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Wainwright launched a new version of his first opera, accompanied by a film directed by Francesco Vezzoli, featuring Cindy Sherman as the Prima Donna
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2014· 3 entries
Released album “Vibrate: The Best of Rufus Wainwright”.
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Released album “Live From the (((Artists Den)))”.
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Wainwright reiterated he was a "complete libertarian", and explained that while he did not initially support President Barack Obama, he said he has "become a very big Obama fan", expressing support for his agenda, includ
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2012· 10 entries
Published video “Rufus Wainwright - Baby, It’s Cold Outside ft. Sharon Van Etten”.
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Published video “Rufus Wainwright - Fuse News (Austin City Limits 2012)”.
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Wainwright and Jörn Weisbrodt married in Montauk, New York
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Published video “Rufus Wainwright - Jericho (Live From The Artists Den)”.
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Published video “Rufus Wainwright - Jericho”.
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Published video “Rufus Wainwright - Out Of The Game (Instagram Version)”.
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Published video “Rufus Wainwright - The Making Of Out Of The Game - Candles”.
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Released album “Out of the Game”.
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Wainwright, a gay man, married German art administrator Jörn Weisbrodt on August 23, 2012.
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Wainwright wrote and sang "Metaphorical Blanket" in the film Any Day Now
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2011· 4 entries
Released album “Rufus at the Movies”.
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Released album “House of Rufus”.
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Conceived via sperm donation by Wainwright to photographer and antique dealer Lorca Cohen, daughter of Leonard Cohen
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Wainwright announced the birth of his first child, with childhood friend Lorca Cohen, daughter of Leonard Cohen
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2010· 1 entry
Released album “All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu”.
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2009· 2 entries
Released album “Milwaukee at Last!!!”.
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Followed by the studio albums All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu (2010) and Out of the Game (2012)
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2008· 6 entries
Awarded GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award (2008).
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With a concert at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City
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And a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album in 2009 and 2020
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Garland's daughter Lorna Luft expressed strong approval of Wainwright's recordings of her mother's songs
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To raise awareness of sarcoma, a rare cancer that affects connective tissue such as bone, muscle, nerves, and cartilage
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"I don't think any government should encroach on what goes on in the bedroom at all
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2007· 4 entries
Released album “Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall”.
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Released album “Release the Stars”.
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Released album “Rufus! Rufus! Rufus! Does Judy! Judy! Judy! (Live From The London Palladium)”.
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Wainwright released his fifth studio album, Release the Stars, and his first live album, Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall
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2006· 1 entry
NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday broadcast an interview of Wainwright by Scott Simon
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2005· 3 entries
Released ep “Alright, Already: Live in Montréal”.
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Features a full-length documentary (A Portrait of Rufus Wainwright), performances at Central Park Summerstage and Cambridge Corn Exchange, studio sessions, music videos, and two bonus Easter eggs: a 12-minute documentary
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Released album “Want”.
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2004· 2 entries
Released album “Want Two”.
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Released ep “Waiting for a Want”.
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2003· 3 entries
Released album “Want One”.
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Rufus released the full-length album Want One
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Released album “Black Session #199”.
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2002· 1 entry
During what he described as "the most surreal week of my life"
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2001· 2 entries
Wainwright's second album, Poses, was released to critical acclaim but limited sales
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Released album “Poses”.
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1999· 2 entries
For Rufus Wainwright and one in 2002 for Poses
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Told Rolling Stone that his father recognized his homosexuality early on
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1998· 3 entries
Released album “Rufus Wainwright”.
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And began his first headline tour later that year
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Released album “Sessions at West 54th”.
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1989· 1 entry
Was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Original Song
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1973· 1 entry
Born 1973-07-22.
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