1. Justin John Rutledge was born on January 3,1979 and is a Toronto-based Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter signed to Outside Music.
13 Facts About Justin Rutledge
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In 2006, Justin Rutledge was named Toronto singer-songwriter of the year by NOW magazine.
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Justin Rutledge has toured Canada, the UK, the United States, and Europe, and has played shows with Kathleen Edwards, Jim Cuddy, Blue Rodeo, Hawksley Workman, Luke Doucet, and Dolly Parton.
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Justin Rutledge was born and grew up in the Junction neighbourhood of Toronto, a working-class community centred around an intersection of four railway lines.
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Justin Rutledge was raised in an Irish-Catholic family and grew up with aspirations of becoming a writer.
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Justin Rutledge dropped out after three years of school, as his musical career got in the way.
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Justin Rutledge told Maclean's in an interview that his backup plan would be to finish his university studies in English "if this music thing doesn't work".
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Justin Rutledge has remarked that, "I would often do a studio session during the day and then head straight to work until 4 or 5 in the morning".
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The songs "Alberta Breeze" and "San Sebastian" were written for In the Fall, the album that Justin Rutledge scrapped in 2006, and were rerecorded for Man Descending.
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In 2009, Justin Rutledge took part in an interactive documentary series called City Sonic.
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Justin Rutledge wrote several songs with a single character in mind from author Michael Ondaatje's novel Divisadero after collaborating with Ondaatje on a theatrical adaptation of the novel.
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Justin Rutledge composed music and worked as musical director for a production of Max Frisch's The Arsonists.
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Justin Rutledge married designer Sarah Keenleyside, the cohost of HGTV Canada's Backyard Builds, in 2018.