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, Rudd sold recycled wood through his own furniture business. He also played saxophone and clarinet as a child. While in primary school, 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. Xavier Rudd (born ) is an Australian singer, songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist.
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