Why all the stars love Rufus
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 10/05/2007
He may be the son of folk singers, but Rufus Wainwright is pure Hollywood. Helen Brown meets him
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'Do I disappoint you?" is the first line of Rufus Wainwright's new album, Release the Stars. You wonder if he's addressing his famous parents, folk musicians Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, who he has often said found it difficult to accept his homosexuality. Or if he's asking what more he can possibly offer a public who have not, to this date, granted him the commercial success his precocious talent surely demands.
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To read Wainwright's press over the nine years since he was named "Best New Artist" by Rolling Stone magazine, you'd think the 34-year-old musician would be a household name.