Loudon Wainwright III

Loudon Snowden Wainwright III is a Grammy Awardwinning American songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor. He is the father of musicians Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche, brother of Sloan Wainwright, and the former husband of the late folk singer Kate McGarrigle. He resides in Canada.

Wainwright was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the son of Martha Taylor, a yoga teacher, and Loudon Wainwright, Jr., a columnist and editor for Life magazine. His greatgreatgrandfather was politician and diplomat A. Loudon Snowden. His father was not a professional musician, but did play piano and wrote some songs, exposing his children to musicians such as Tom Lehrer and Stan Freberg, whom Wainwright later cited as influences. Wainwright grew up in Bedford, New York, in Westchester County. Among his sisters is Sloan Wainwright, also a singer. He graduated from St. Andrews School in Delaware. He is a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, the last DirectorGeneral of New Netherland .

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