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. Wainwright has dual US and Canadian citizenship. His father is a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, the 17th century Dutch governor of New Amsterdam, later New York. His parents divorced when he was three, and he lived with his mother in Montreal for most of his youth. Wainwright was born in Rhinebeck, New York, to folk singers Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III. 4 Work in film, television, and theatre.
His ninth studio album Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets (2016), featured nine adaptions of Shakespeare's sonnets. The double album Prima Donna (2015), was a recording of his opera of the same name. 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). In 2007, Wainwright released his fifth studio album Release the Stars and his first live album Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall. Wainwright's third and fourth studio albums, Want One (2003) and Want Two (2004), were repackaged as the double album Want in 2005. His second album, Poses, was released in June 2001. Wainwright's self-titled debut album was released through DreamWorks Records in May 1998. He has also written two classical operas and set Shakespeare's sonnets to music for a theater piece by Robert Wilson. He has recorded nine albums of original music and numerous tracks on compilations and film soundtracks. Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright (born July 22, 1973) is an American-Canadian singer, songwriter, and composer.
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