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Sufjan Stevens - 100% match to Rufus Wainwright

1 July 1975, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Indie pop singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sufjan Stevens built up a cult following in the early years of the twenty-first century with a series of ambitious solo albums informed by his religious faith. Raised in Detroit, Stevens... Read more

Elliott Smith - 97% match to Rufus Wainwright

Steven Paul Smith, 6 August 1969 Omaha, Nebraska, USA, d. 21 October 2003, Los Angeles, California, USA. Raised in a musical family, acclaimed singer-songwriter Smith first recorded with Portland, Oregon-based alternative rockers Heatmiser. Despite achieving a modicum of success... Read more

Jeff Buckley - 88% match to Rufus Wainwright

Jeffrey Scott Buckley, 17 November 1966, Orange County, California, USA, d. 29 May 1997, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The son of respected singer-songwriter Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley not unnaturally took exception to comparisons with his father, and cited his mother Mary Guibert as... Read more

Ben Folds - 83% match to Rufus Wainwright

Benjamin Scott Folds, 12 September 1966, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. Singer-songwriter and pianist Folds rose to cult status as leader of the oddly named trio Ben Folds Five, one of the most appealing acts to emerge from the US alternative scene of the 90s. Also... Read more

Bright Eyes - 82% match to Rufus Wainwright

Bright Eyes is one of many projects instigated by indie singer-songwriter and guitarist Conor Oberst (Conor Mullen Oberst, 15 February 1980, Omaha, Nebraska, USA). His recordings explore a similar lo-fi territory to the work of Will Oldham and Bill Callahan's Smog, although... Read more

Beck - 81% match to Rufus Wainwright

Bek David Campbell, 8 July 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA. Hansen rose swiftly to prominence in 1994 with his exhilarating marriage of folk (Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie) and guitar noise. As a child he loitered around his bluegrass street musician father, living with his... Read more

Cat Power - 78% match to Rufus Wainwright

Andrew Bird - 72% match to Rufus Wainwright

11 July 1973, Chicago, Illinois, USA. A classically trained violinist, Bird studied music at Illinois' Northwestern University, graduating in 1995. His early work was as a session musician for various acts in and around Chicago and he formed funk rock band Charlie Nobody, which... Read more

Ryan Adams - 70% match to Rufus Wainwright

David Ryan Adams, 5 November 1974, Jacksonville, North Carolina, USA. Adams' first foray into music was with high school punk band, Patty Duke Syndrome, fuelled by influences such as the Dead Kennedys and Sonic Youth. However, first experiences of love-turned-sour converted... Read more

Joseph Arthur - 65% match to Rufus Wainwright

28 September 1971, Akron, Ohio, USA. This highly literate singer-songwriter, who also works as an artist and a poet, was the first non-world music artist to be signed to Peter Gabriel's Real World Records. After graduating from Firestone high school in 1990 Arthur worked on his... Read more