![]() ![]() That passion would eventually lead to him writing two original operas, “Prima Dona” (2009) and “Hadrian,” which premiered in 2018 in Toronto, Canada. That was really for me the beginning of my personal journey into the world of music, specifically with songwriting.” It was very quick, I heard one piece, I was listening to Verdi’s ‘Requiem,’ and, after that two-hour séance, I could only listen to opera. “I plunged into this passion for that type of music. “When I was about 13 years old, I had a major conversion to opera,” Wainwright said. Still, he looks back to one specific moment that changed the entire course of his life. She loved to teach people music in general and to play music with people, so to have her son so eager was a real blessing that she took advantage of.” ![]() “My mother very much took on the challenge and really enjoyed that whole process. “From a very early age I expressed a real precocious nature and loved to sing and perform,” Wainwright said. When Wainwright was 3, after his parents divorce, he moved to Montreal, Canada with his mother. More the folk-rock version, because my mom went with my dad in the studio after the hospital and they put me in a guitar case.” “I wasn’t quite born in a truck or anything, but my first ever crib outside of the hospital was a guitar case. “I was a poster child for showbiz lore,” he said. His father, Loudon Wainwright III, was also a famous songwriter, known best for his ironic lyrics and pop-up performances on the ’70s war comedy “M*A*S*H”. His mother, Kate McGarrigle was a songwriter and half of a famous Canadian folk duo with her sister, Anna. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.īorn in 1973 in Rhinebeck, New York, Wainwright may have been destined for a life in music.
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