sorry for the spelling...I heard this singer at Virgin records, but I forgot his name...something like rufus weinbe..... :/

 

has anyone heard of him...i liked the what I heard, but would like to check more of his music out

anyone?

Rufus Wainwright, great singer, does a great cover of "Across the Universe" by the Beatles and "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen, i get a lot of comparisons to him, i guess its the tone of voice... he has a voice like no one else

Cool..that's it! Thanks. I'll check out if he has a website!

He's GAY!! thats nice. i like that.

his cd comes out September 23. and didn't he just over come his drug addiction?

haha i saw an "interview" thing on much news and he was talking about other musicians that were using drugs and eventually diedddd....but he was saying that he didn't want to turn to that path and he wanted to LIVE LIFE. haha

I like Ciggarettes and Chocolate milk and April fools...yea...

hah, I've had Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk stuck in my head all day...

great name for a song :lol: :P

http://www.rufuswainwright.com

 

Go there. NOW!

 

 

 

Bwahahaha! :sneaky:

R u f u s W a i n w r i g h t

 

Hey people :cool:

My boyfriend is quite a big fan of Rufus' music and got us tickets to see him in Cambridge this Thursday :D

Any other fans out there? :)

 

For those of you who are fans , have you heard "I Eat Dinner", ft. Dido? It's a beautiful song :beatnik:

I love him!!! Yay I'm going to see him too! Next Tuesday! :P :cool:

I can't wait to see what whacky outfits he'll be wearing! :lol: :wink3:

 

I love I eat dinner! Didn't his mother write it? My favourite Rufus song is go or go ahead :heart:

sorry but i don't like him!

he was support act from the keane concert this year!

i was bored from rufus!

sorry

Rufus has a very nice voice, and pleasent songs.

Rufus. The only man to ever make me cry.

I love him!!! Yay I'm going to see him too! Next Tuesday! :P :cool:

I can't wait to see what whacky outfits he'll be wearing! :lol: :wink3:

 

Well.

I really don't know what else to say about the concert, other than BRING A CAMERA AND GET AS CLOSE TO THE FRONT AS YOU CAN!!!

 

LOL. I really don't want to spoil it for you :lol: so we can talk more when you've been :cool:

 

Rufus' voice and the whole performance just blew me away.

The support act "Joan as Policewoman" was fantastic - what a voice, she gave me goosebumps!!

 

She also turned out to be one of his backing singers.

 

:D

im seeing him monday in york, he is amazing, say him las year too, and he is playing glastonbury..... his last three albums have been brilliant....

i like him! i really do! :)

out of all my favorite artists, he ranks in my all-time top 3

Rufus is someone you either love or hate. I think he's a genius. He doesn't get the recognition he deserves. Want One was a fantastic album and will probably remain a firm favourite. It's a really clever piece of work... as is Want Two.

I think he's a genius. He doesn't get the recognition he deserves.

 

I totally agree. I had never heard any of his songs until I went to see him and now I have all of his albums and I can't get enough of him!!

 

I can now say it was THE best concert I have ever been to. His songs have everything.... they are haunting, funny, and sometimes the lyrics had me close to tears because he sang so passionately....

 

:)

I love Rufus!!

It's a shame that he's gay!!

because he's really hot

He had that Gap commercial people, he was recogized. He is just more indie and Canadian, so it's harder for him to break through.

What Gap commercial :thinking:

 

Maria Chaplin, I totally agree!! He is very sexy in real life :dozey:

In the Winter of 1998, Rufus was featured in a seasonal Gap Commercial, singing "What Are You Doin' New Years Eve".

 

 

From http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/9911/music-murphy.shtml :

"Singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright has reaped the rewards of performing in an ad campaign as well, with an astounding sales increase of 1,500 percent from when his Christmastime Gap ad first aired. Using the ad as a tool, Wainwright's publicist Jim Merlis was able to get the attention of hard-to-impress bookers at Late Night with David Letterman and The Today Show. "At the same time the Gap ad ran, Rufus was named by Rolling Stone as Best New Artist for 1998," Merlis recalls. "It was the synergy of these two things that sealed the deals with these TV bookers. Because of the television bookings we saw a spike in sales, but those bookings came from the commercial."

Interesting! :idea2:

 

But the link doesn't work :/

Take out the ':' and it does. It's just where I got the quote from.