Rufus Wainwright

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地区: Canada 加拿大

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外文名 Rufus Wainwright

出生地加拿大

出生日期 1973年7月22日

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Rufus Wainwright出生于一个音乐家庭，他的父母Loudon Wainwright III和Kate McGarrigle 在音乐领域赫赫有名。作为一名歌手与歌曲作者，Rufus Wainwright华美的流行风格可以追溯到Tin Pan Alley（20世纪初的一种流行音乐形式）风格，酒馆音乐甚至是歌剧风格。

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1973年出生于加拿大蒙特利尔的Rufus Wainwright，双亲都是民谣歌手，在13岁那年便参加了家庭巡演，若是吃老本一直民谣下去，恐怕也不是问题。但不知是否受了当地法国欧洲文化的影响，14岁那年，Rufus居然被《Verdi's Requiem/威尔第安魂曲》震撼到不可自拔的地步，以致接下来的十年除了歌剧外是啥也不听了，并选择在纽约音乐学院进修了五六年的古典音乐。无奈学院派对技巧的钻营使Rufus终于感到了自己在庞大古典世界中的无力，“如果不能用音乐，不能用歌曲去追求生活中的那理想极致的美，那创作的价值究竟何在？”Rufus如此描述自己的创作理念：“人生总是茫然昏睡的时候居多，我只是在想方设法抓住那一丝一瞬迷雾中的火花，让它们耀眼燃烧，直到你们不得不醒来。”

如此王尔德的做派本来确实挺让人讨厌的，可人们确实无法拒绝Rufus Wainwright为流行曲风及歌词所带来的古典诗意，98年他的第一张同名专辑《Rufus Wainwright》便获《滚石》杂志“最佳新近艺人”之称。第二张专辑摆起《Pose》，一段颇具自传性质的音乐旅程在几曲简单淳朴的北美民谣小调中充分体现了出来，受业内好评的同时，却似乎更坚定地与主流划清了界线，不理想的销量使其一度堕落吸毒磕药；接下来的两年内，在家人朋友帮助里振作，Rufus接连推了两张系列专辑：《Want One》，歌曲出奇得成熟理智，按各大杂志的评价，则是“充满了优美的文学性”；之后的《Want Two》，歌词与曲风却是在感性方面向“理想极致的美”更进一步；系列专辑的成功让他重新找准了自己独立音乐人的位置。07年，Rufus在德国制作的专辑《Release The Star》发行后继续广受好评，兴致一起来，便拉上了小时候家庭巡演时的姨妈姑姐，重新演绎了61年Judy Garland最为轰动的演唱会，以年末的一张《Rufus Does Judy At Carnegie Hall》纪念当年这位将百老汇音乐成功推广于流行音乐的一代女星；不但如此，07年Rufus还受邀在童年所向往的纽约大都会剧院创作一部正式的歌剧。

专辑列表

Rufus Wainwright（1998）专辑

Poses（2001）专辑

Want One（2003）专辑

Alright, Already - Live In Montreal（2005）专辑

Want Two（2005）专辑

Release the Stars（2007）专辑

Milwaukee at Last!!!（2009）现场专辑

House of Rufus（2011）精选集

Out of the Game（2012）专辑

Vibrate: The Best of Rufus Wainwright（2014）精选集

Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets（2016）专辑

Life and career

Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright (born July 22, 1973) is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer.He has recorded seven albums of original music and numerous tracks on compilations and film soundtracks. He has also written a classical opera and set Shakespeare sonnets to music for a theater piece by Robert Wilson.

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 for most of his youth. He is a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, the 17th century Dutch governor of New Netherland, the 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 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. 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. He was nominated for a 1990 Juno Award for Most Promising Male Vocalist of the Year.

Wainwright identified as gay while a teenager. 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 "mother and father 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.

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.

In 2009 the unofficial biography There Will Be Rainbows: A Biography of Rufus Wainwright and the story of Loudon Wainwright and Kate McGarrigle by Kirk Lake documented Wainwright's early struggles.

Through weekly shows at Cafe Sarajevo, Wainwright was on the Montreal club circuit and eventually cut a series of demo tapes produced by Pierre Marchand, who later produced Wainwright's album Poses. The resulting tapes impressed his father Loudon, who passed them on to his friend Van Dyke Parks. Parks sent the recordings to Lenny Waronker, the DreamWorks executive who eventually signed Wainwright to his label. Waronker stated the following of Wainwright: "When I was about to listen to his tape, I remember clearly I was thinking, 'Gee, if he has the mom's musicality and smarts, and the dad's smarts and voice, that'd be nice.' Then I put it on and I said, 'Oh, my God, this is stunning.'"

The singer moved to New York City in 1996, performing regularly at Club Fez. He relocated to Los Angeles that year and began his first studio album, 1998's ‘Rufus Wainwright’. 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. The sessions cost $700,000.

Wainwright's self-titled debut received critical acclaim; Rolling Stone recognized it as one of the best albums of the year, and named the singer "Best New Artist" of the year. Wainwright was nominated for four awards by the Gay & Lesbian American Music Awards, including Album of the Year, Pop Recording of the Year and Video of the Year, and won for Best New Artist. Rufus Wainwright won a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Music Album and a Juno Award for Best Alternative Album. However, commercial success of the album was limited; the debut failed to chart in any country, though he ranked No.24 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart.

In 1996 Wainwright toured the UK as "Special Guest" of Kate & Anna McGarrigle.He toured with Sean Lennon in 1998 and began his first headline tour later that year. In December 1998, he appeared in a Gap commercial directed by Phil Harder, performing Frank Loesser's "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?". In March 1999, Wainwright began a headlining tour in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Wainwright lived in the Chelsea Hotel in New York City for six months, during which he wrote most of his second album. On June 5, 2001, Wainwright's second album, Poses, was released to critical acclaim but limited sales. The album ranked No.117 on the ‘Billboard’ 200 and No.1 on the Top Heatseekers chart. Poses won a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Music Album and a Juno Award for Best Alternative Album, and was nominated by the Juno Awards for Best Songwriter ("Poses" / "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk" / "Grey Gardens"). From 2001 to 2004, he toured with Tori Amos, Sting, Ben Folds, and Guster, as well as headlining the 2001 and 2002 tour in support of the album.

Wainwright became addicted to crystal meth in the early 2000s and temporarily lost his vision. His addiction reached its peak in 2002, during what he described as "the most surreal week of my life." During that week, he played a cameo role in the UK comedy television program Absolutely Fabulous, spent several nights partying with George W. Bush's daughter Barbara, enjoyed a "debauched evening" with his mother and Marianne Faithfull, sang with Anohni of Antony and the Johnsons for Zaldy's spring 2003 collection, and experienced recurring hallucinations of his father throughout. He decided after that he "was either going to rehab or I was going to live with my father. I knew I needed an asshole to yell at me, and I felt he fit the bill."

In 2003 Rufus released the full-length ‘Want One’.Then Wainwright's album ‘Want Two’, from which four songs were released as the EP ‘Waiting for a Want’, was released by DreamWorks/Geffen on November 16, 2004. Afterward, a live iTunes Sessions EP entitled ‘Alright, Already: Live in Montréal’ was released on March 15, 2005. A DVD entitled ‘All I Want’, featuring a biographical documentary, music videos, and live performances, was released internationally in 2005.That same year, Wainwright made two major contributions as a solo vocalist to a pair of records: the Mercury Prize-winning Antony and the Johnsons' I am a Bird Now’ and Burt Bacharach's At This Time.

‘Want One’ and ‘Want Two’ were repackaged as Want for a November 2005 release to coincide with the beginning of a British tour. This version of ‘Want One’ contains two extra songs: "Es Muß Sein" and "Velvet Curtain Rag". The Want package in the UK has two bonus tracks: "Chelsea Hotel No. 2" (a Leonard Cohen cover) and "In With the Ladies", which replace "Coeur de parisienne – Reprise d'Arletty" and "Quand vous mourez de nos amours" from 2004's augmented edition.

On June 10, 2006, NPR's ‘Weekend Edition Saturday’ broadcast an interview of Wainwright by Scott Simon. The segment concerned Wainwright's sold-out pair of Carnegie Hall shows on June 14 and 15, 2006 in which he performed the entire Judy Garland concert album that was recorded there in 1961. He later repeated his performance at the London Palladium, the Paris Olympia, and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Live CD and DVD recordings of the concerts were released on December 4, 2007. The DVD is entitled ‘Rufus! Rufus! Rufus! Does Judy! Judy! Judy!: Live from the London Palladium’. The CD album, ‘Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall’, is a recording of his show at the legendary New York venue. In 2008, Garland's daughter Lorna Luft expressed strong approval of Wainwright's recordings of her mother's songs.The album was nominated for a 2009 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album.

Wainwright created the concept of Blackoutsabbath in early 2008. In an attempt to become more environmentally conscious, participants are asked to live "off the grid" as much as possible on a designated date by unplugging appliances, walking or cycling for transportation, turning out lights and decreasing energy usage in any other ways possible.

As the sun sets on the evening of Blackoutsabbath, participants write ways they can contribute to the Earth's well-being throughout the rest of the year. Annual benefit concerts take place to raise awareness of the cause. Special guests performing at the concert included Joan Wasser, Jenni Muldaur, and friend and fellow singer-songwriter Teddy Thompson.The organization's official site contains updates about the program and contains links to various tools, green products and services, studies, and groups that promote energy conservation and environmental protection.

In December 2008 Rufus performed alongside his sister, Martha Wainwright, and mother, Kate McGarrigle, as well as many more of his family at the Knitting Factory in downtown Manhattan. Joined by other artists such as Grammy Award-winner Emmylou Harris, Velvet Underground front man Lou Reed and famed performance artist Laurie Anderson, the eclectic cast performed original and traditional Christmas-themed songs. In November 2009 Revelation Films released the concert on DVD.

Following his 2007–2008 tour, Wainwright began writing his first opera, ‘Prima Donna’, about "a day in the life of an opera singer", anxiously preparing for her comeback, who falls in love with a journalist.There are four characters, and the libretto is in French. The opera was originally commissioned by Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb. However, because of a dispute over Wainwright's decision to write the libretto in French and the Met's inability to schedule an opening in the 2009 season, Wainwright and the Met ended their relationship.Instead of a New York opening, ‘Prima Donna’ was staged during the Manchester International Festival, where the first performance took place at the Palace Theatre on July 10, 2009.Reviews for the performance were mixed, with one publication suggesting Wainwright "may struggle to convince critics he is worthy of a place among the greats".’Prima Donna’ won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Musical/Opera in June 2011.

In November 2009, Wainwright announced that he had finished recording his sixth studio album, and was calling it ‘All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu’.The album was released on March 23 in Canada, April 5 in the UK and April 20 in the US, with the first single "Who Are You New York?".

In December 2009, Wainwright appeared with sister Martha Wainwright and mother Kate McGarrigle at the Royal Albert Hall in London, raising $55,000 for the Kate McGarrigle Fund, which was established in 2008 to raise awareness of sarcoma, a rare cancer that affects connective tissue such as bone, muscle, nerves, and cartilage. It was the last performance made by his mother before her death in January 2010.

Wainwright and his husband, German arts administrator Jörn Weisbrodt, in 2010.

In late 2010 Wainwright became engaged to his partner Jörn Weisbrodt. The couple moved to Toronto, Ontario in early 2012 after Weisbrodt was named artistic director of Toronto's annual Luminato festival.

In 2011, Wainwright announced that he and friend Lorca Cohen, daughter of Leonard Cohen, had had a child in a parenting partnership.He announced on his website: "Darling daughter Viva Katherine Wainwright Cohen was born on February 2, 2011 in Los Angeles, California to proud parents Lorca Cohen, Rufus Wainwright, and Deputy Dad Jorn Weisbrodt. The little angel is evidently healthy, presumably happy, and certainly very very beautiful."

In July 2011 a 19-disc box set called ‘House of Rufus’ containing all his studio and live recordings as well as previously unreleased material was released.

Wainwright recorded his seventh studio album with producer Mark Ronson. He described the new songs as more "danceable" than his previous material. The album, titled ‘Out of the Game’, was released in late April 2012 in the UK and Canada and in early May in the US.

On August 23, 2012 Rufus Wainwright and Jörn Weisbrodt married in Montauk, New York.Artist Justin Vivian Bond officiated.

In 2015, Wainwright launched a new version of his first opera, accompanied by a film directed by Francesco Vezzoli, featuring Cindy Sherman as the Prima Donna. The finale was shot in Paris during spring 2015 and produced by Petite Maison Production,before it premiered in Athens in September.

His second opera, called Hadrian, will premiere at the Canadian Opera Company as their opening production of the 2018 mainstage season at the Four Seasons Centre, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The libretto is being written by Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor.

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