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Īt age 14, Wainwright was sexually assaulted in London's Hyde Park after picking up a man at a bar. As a youth he trained at Interlochen Arts Camp, studying classical 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. Wainwright became interested in opera during his adolescent years, and the genre strongly influences his music. 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'd drive around in the car, he'd play ' Heart of Glass' and I'd sort of mouth the words, pretend to be Blondie. In 1999, he told Rolling Stone that his father recognized his homosexuality early on. Wainwright identified as gay while a teenager. He was nominated for a 1990 Juno Award for Most Promising Male Vocalist of the Year. 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 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. 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.

1.7 All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu and birth of daughter.

1.5 Release the Stars and Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall.

Wainwright is the son of musicians Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, and the older brother of singer Martha Wainwright. Rufus' 10th studio album, Unfollow the Rules, was released on July 20, 2020. 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 10 studio albums and numerous tracks on compilations and film soundtracks.

Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright (born July 22, 1973) is an American-Canadian singer, songwriter, and composer.