#Hallelujah rufus wainwright movie

Fortunately, he's happy to provide them, as he does here with some of his most intriguing songs. Like the best operas, Wainwright's songs benefit from Playbill-like synopses to provide background. After seven albums, Rufus went into 'pop exile' in 2013 and made two operas before emerging in 2020 with Unfollow The Rules, produced by Mitchell Froom. When his dad, who had a hit with 'Dead Skunk' the year Rufus was born (1973), passed along his demo tape, Rufus landed a deal with DreamWorks Records, which got him the Shrek placement in 2001 and had him cover 'Across The Universe' that same year for the film I Am Sam. He and his sister Martha, also in the family business, were raised by their mom in Montreal after their parents divorced. Rufus is the son of Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, both singer-songwriters of great consequence who passed on their genetic gifts without binding him to a legacy of a Dylan or Lennon. It's inflected his work since his first, self-titled, album was released in 1998 after a polar-opposite musical style - grunge - had come to pass.

He's always loved it: the orchestrations, the tragic drama, the costumes.

His mark of distinction, what sets him apart from the Sufjan Stevens of the world, is opera. Those who found Wainwright through 'Hallelujah' discovered a catalog of daring, elegant, and mysterious songs. At this point, he's married to the song in an almost literal way (more on that later). 'It got a little bit annoying, because everybody demanded it, constantly,' he says, although since Leonard Cohen's passing, Rufus has put it back in his setlists.

#Hallelujah rufus wainwright movie

Rufus Wainwright's sublime rendition of 'Hallelujah,' first heard on the soundtrack to the movie Shrek, is by far his most popular recording.