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''Rufus Wainwright'' is the eponymous debut studio album by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, released in the United States on May 19, 1998 through DreamWorks Records. The album was produced by Jon Brion, except "In My Arms" was produced and mixed by Pierre Marchand, and "Millbrook" and "Baby" were produced by Brion and Van Dyke Parks. Lenny Waronker was the executive producer. Wainwright was signed to the DreamWorks label in 1996 after Waronker heard the demo tape he recorded with Marchand. Over the course of two years, Wainwright and Brion recorded 56 songs on 62 rolls of tape at a cost that exceeded $700,000, which was then narrowed down to twelve tracks for the album. No singles were released from ''Rufus Wainwright'', though Sophie Muller directed the music video for "April Fools", which featured Wainwright in Los Angeles attempting to prevent the deaths of opera heroines. To support the album, Wainwright toured throughout the United States and Canada following its release. Overall, reviews for the album were positive. Though the album failed to chart in any nations, Wainwright reached number 24 on ''Billboard'' Top Heatseekers chart (which highlights sales by new and developing musical recording artists) and ''Rolling Stone'' named Wainwright the Best New Artist of 1998. ''Rufus Wainwright'' also earned him recognitions from the Gay & Lesbian American Music Awards, the GLAAD Media Awards and the Juno Awards. The album was released in Japan with the bonus track "A Bit of You", and later in 2008 in LP form through the record label Plain Recordings. ==Background== Wainwright, born into a musical family which included parents Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle and sister Martha Wainwright, began touring in his early teens with his family throughout Canada, Europe and the United States. At age fourteen, his song "I'm a Runnin', written for the 1988 Canadian film ''Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller'', earned him a Genie Award nomination for Best Achievement in Music – Original Song and a Juno Award nomination in 1990 for Most Promising Male Vocalist of the Year.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.academy.ca/hist/history.cfm?categid=17&shownum=10&winonly=0&awards=1&rtype=5&curstep=4 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://junoawards.ca/database/ ) Note: User must define search parameters as "Rufus Wainwright".〕 Wainwright attended McGill University in Montreal to study classical composition for a short time. With his mother's support, he began pursuing pop songwriting and learned how to play guitar.〔 Wainwright started performing at the night club Sarajevo, and eventually recorded a demo tape with record producer Pierre Marchand, a "family friend" who had also worked with Kate and Anna and who also later produced Wainwright's second studio album ''Poses''. Songs were recorded at Marchand's studio in Morin-Heights, Quebec, and no edits were made to the simple live tunes. The tape impressed Wainwright's father, who passed the songs along to producer Van Dyke Parks, who in turn presented them to DreamWorks executive Lenny Waronker.〔 〕 Waronker had signed McGarrigle to Warner Bros. Records in the 1970s. Describing his initial reaction to Wainwright's music, Waronker stated: "When I was about to listen to his tape, I remember clearly I was thinking, 'Gee, if he has the mom's musicality and smarts, and the dad's smarts and voice, that'd be nice.' Then I put it on and I said, 'Oh, my God, this is stunning.'"〔 Wainwright acknowledged that having musicians as parents gave him a "foot in the door", but attributed his success to hard work.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rufus Wainwright (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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