![]() ![]() That's what the song's about, the world waiting. Rudd wrote the song 12 September, which would feature on his first studio album To Let, about the day after the attacks. Rudd felt "spun out" watching the American media coverage, including graphic imagery of the destruction of the World Trade Center. Rudd was in Canada when the September 11 attacks happened. His music first took him overseas when he traveled to Whistler, British Columbia-Rudd was in a band and would play each night after a day of snowboarding. ![]() He drew inspiration from artists such as Leo Kottke, Ben Harper, Natalie Merchant and multi-instrumentalist David Lindley, as well as music from diverse sources such as Hawaiian and Native American music. Career 1998–2002: Early career to debut studio album īefore launching his solo career, Rudd began playing music as part of the band 'Xavier and the Hum'. He lived in villages around the country for nine months, returning to Australia at age 19. Immediately after finishing school, Rudd traveled to Fiji. Īs a child, Xavier Rudd sold recycled wood through his own furniture business. He also played saxophone and clarinet as a child. While primary school–aged, Rudd used his mother's vacuum cleaner as a makeshift didgeridoo and began playing his brother's guitar. Rudd showed a keen interest in music growing up in a family of seven children. ![]() Rudd is of Aboriginal, Irish and Scottish heritage, furthermore mentioning having Wurundjeri ancestry, and that one of his great grandmothers was an Aboriginal Australian, and her child (Rudd's paternal grandmother) was taken away from her. One of his grandmothers was from an Irish potato-growing family and grew up in Colac, Victoria. His maternal grandfather was Dutch, born in Tilburg, a town in the Netherlands, before migrating to Australia. He attended St Joseph's College, Geelong. Xavier Rudd grew up in Jan Juc, near Torquay, Victoria. Several of Rudd's songs incorporate socially conscious themes, such as spirituality, humanity, environmentalism and the rights of Indigenous Australians. I’m so blessed to be able to be able to travel around and play music and connect with so many people in so many places in so many cultures.Xavier Rudd (born ) is an Australian singer, songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist. It comes from the audience and channels through me and I put it back in the audience. I feel like it’s all of us, one big connection and I just happen to be channeling the energy through music. ![]() I don’t really feel like it’s me and the audience. “That’s sort of the blanket that seems to sort of settle in the room, or on the venue when I play, but I sort of feel not solely responsible. “And it sounds full.”Quotes:“It’s all about peace and happiness,” he says of his performances. “What I do now is just more me,” he says. Though it was a short- lived experiment, as Rudd quickly found that it wasn't the right way to go for him. He drew inspiration from artists such as Leo Kottke, Ben Harper, Natalie Merchant and multi-instrumentalist David Lindley, as well as music from diverse sources, such as Hawaii and Native American music.Īs with most solo singers, Rudd has experimented playing in a band. He started performing at his school, with solo gigs following. As a teenager, Rudd really got into songwriting. ” He learned to play the digeridoo, the 50,000-year-old wooden trumpet of the Aboriginal people, by practising on a vacuum cleaner pipe. But to see that show and that whole thing happening, I sort of felt comfortable as a human, and thought. It sort of made sense, because I’d always lived in my head, in this world of song that was my own little secret. “I remember seeing it and knowing that that was what I was gonna do,” he says. It's an experience to watch him perform his songs live, as he plays the guitar, digeridoo and various percussion instruments simultaneously, using a unique stage setup.īut the real magic comes when he opens his mouth and his soulful voice spills upon his audience.Rudd recalls that when he was 10, his dad took him to see Paul Simon’s Graceland tour. Rudd is skilled with a variety of instruments, include guitar, shaker, didgeridoo, Weissenborn slide guitar, Tongue drum, stomp boxe, djembe, harmonica, ankle bells, and slide banjo. The songs are written and sung with compassion and they urge the celebration of life. His songs include stories of the mistreatment of the indigenous people of his homeland they tell of humanity, spirituality or the environment. Xavier Rudd (born 1978) is a soulful Australian surf/roots artist from Torquay, Victoria (Australia), which is near the famous surfing location, Bells Beach.Rudd's music is compassionate and always manages to render emotion in his fans. ![]()
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