Rufus Wainwright

Although Rufus Wainwright is the son of singer-songwriters Loudon Wainwright and Kate McGarrigle, since the 1990s he has firmly established his own musical presence. Though he's an introspective troubadour, he looks back beyond the folk and rock influences of his parents to the golden age of pop songwriting ? la Cole Porter and the Gershwins. His keening, diva-manqu? vocals and elegantly melodic compositions are as far from "rock" as any pop-based music can be. If he has any antecedents in the pop world, they would be similarly quirky L.A. songwriters of a previous era such as Van Dyke Parks (who co-produced Wainwright's debut album) and Randy Newman. His open homosexuality has endeared him to many in the gay community.

• Aimee Mann
• Andrew
• Badly Drawn Boy
• Bob Hillman
• Eels
• Elliott Smith
• Fiona Apple
• Jeff Buckley
• John Cunningham (Pop)
• Kim Fox
• Mark Eitzel
• Pernice Brothers
• Sport Murphy
• Teddy Thompson
• The High Llamas

• Annie Lennox
• Burt Bacharach
• Cole Porter
• David Ackles
• Edith Piaf
• Elton John
• George Gershwin
• Jimmy Webb
• Kate & Anna McGarrigle
• Kurt Weill/Ira Gershwin
• Noel Coward
• Paul McCartney
• Randy Newman
• The Beach Boys
• Van Dyke Parks

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