Martha Wainwright

What draws me to Martha Wainwright is the nerve it took to find her own voice inside an overwhelming musical family. With Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III as parents and Rufus Wainwright as a brother, it would have been easy to disappear. Instead, the Montreal native carved out seven acclaimed albums of raw, unvarnished songwriting that sounds like no one but her. I respect how she turned the burden of constant comparison into fuel rather than excuse. That refusal to imitate, even when imitation would have been the safe path, is exactly what makes her the real thing to me.

Name (English)

Martha Wainwright

Name (Japanese)

マーサ・ウェインライト

Reading

まーさ・うぇいんらいと

Born

May 8, 1976 (age 50)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Dragon

Origin

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Occupation

singer-songwriter / singer / musician / composer / recording artist

• Official sitehttps://www.marthawainwright.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/martha.wainwright/
• Xhttps://x.com/WainBright
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20Wainwright
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q236613

Tags

• Quebec
• singer-songwriter
• singer
• musician

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.