19 Facts About Martha Wainwright

Martha Wainwright was born on May 8,1976 and is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician.

Martha Wainwright owns and operates Ursa, a cafe, concert-hall, bar, and recording space in Montreal.

Martha Wainwright moved to Montreal with her mother and brother when she was one year old, and was raised in Montreal in a musical family.

Martha Wainwright is Rufus Wainwright's sister and they frequently perform together and collaborate on each other's albums.

Martha Wainwright's first release was an album-length independent cassette of ten tracks, Ground Floor, released in 1997.

Martha Wainwright wrote the track as a response to her father's way of writing songs about his family, rather than tending to them.

Martha Wainwright's self-titled debut album was released through Zoe Records and Drowned in Sound in April 2005, and earned Martha Wainwright a nomination for New Artist of the Year at the 2006 Juno Awards.

In 2006, Martha Wainwright collaborated with Snow Patrol on their song "Set the Fire to the Third Bar", off their critically and commercially successful album Eyes Open.

The album was hailed for showcasing Martha Wainwright's musical maturity and talent as a songwriter, and was a Long List Nominee for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize.

In 2015, Martha Wainwright collaborated with her half-sister Lucy Martha Wainwright Roche on the album Songs in the Dark.

In May 2020, Martha Wainwright released "Wolves", a duet with Rufus Martha Wainwright that was recorded during the sessions for Goodnight City.

In 2021, Martha Wainwright released Love Will Be Reborn, which has been received as her best album since her self-titled debut.

Martha Wainwright began writing the album in 2017 after her separation from Albetta.

Martha Wainwright participated in the 2015 edition of Canada Reads, advocating for Jocelyne Saucier's novel And the Birds Rained Down.

In 2019, Martha Wainwright opened a cafe-bar in Montreal called Ursa on Parc Avenue.

Martha Wainwright's 2021 album, Love Will Be Reborn, was recorded at Ursa during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Martha Wainwright spearheaded several balcony sing-alongs working alongside POP Montreal, where Montrealers sang at night on their balconies to uniting community anthems, including Leonard Cohens "So Long, Marianne" and "I Lost My Baby" by Jean Leloup.

Martha Wainwright released her memoirs in English: Stories I Might Regret Telling You and in French: Rien de grave n'est encore arrive translated by Fanny Britt in the spring of 2022.

Martha Wainwright married her producer and musical collaborator Brad Albetta in September 2007.