Rolling Stone magazine hailed Wainwright as the Best New Artist that year citing this album as one of the best of 1998. While this first album was met with great critical acclaim it did not gain any corresponding commercial success. The debut album in 1998 was simply titled Rufus Wainwright. So far in his career, Rufus Wainwright has released 10 albums between 19. As well as writing commercial pop music, Wainwright has also written operas and much music for soundtracks. He cites a wide variety of musical influences such as Judy Garland, Edith Piaf and Al Jolson, along with his many operatic favourites. His music brings together many and varied genres including, pop, opera, baroque, rock, classical and ragtime into a unique style. Rufus Wainwright, born in New York although holding both American and Canadian citizenship, is a singer, pianist, songwriter and composer.
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