Martha Wainwright

Martha Wainwright is an internationally renowned singer-songwriter with over two decades of industry experience. Critically acclaimed for the rawness and emotional honesty of both her vocals and lyrics, her albums include: Martha Wainwright (2005); I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too (2008); Come Home to Mama (2012); the JUNO nominated Songs in the Dark (2015), a collaboration with her half-sister Lucy Wainwright Roche; Goodnight City(2016); and her latest album Love Will Be Reborn (2021). She is also an actress and was featured in Martin Scorsese’s Aviator and the HBO special, Olive Kitteridge. 

Born into music royalty — the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III and sister to the highly acclaimed, genre-defying singer Rufus Wainwright — she grew up in a world filled with incomparable musical legends: Anna McGarrigle, Leonard Cohen, Suzzy Roche, Richard and Linda Thompson and Emmylou Harris. She struggled to find her voice in a milieu in which every drama was refracted through song. Then, in 2005, she released her critically acclaimed debut album, Martha Wainwright, containing the blistering hit, “Bloody Mother F*cking Asshole,” which the Sunday Times called one of the best songs of the year. That release and the albums that followed showcased her searing songwriting and established her as a powerful voice to be reckoned with.