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. It comes from the audience and channels through me and I put it back in the audience.” “My music is about good spirit. 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. Like his other albums, it focuses on social issues. Australian singer known for his album Nanna, which was produced in conjunction with the United Nations. He collaborated with Errol Brown on Nanna. He is best known for being a Folk Singer. “What I do now is just more me,” he says. Xavier Rudd was born on the 29th of May, 1978. 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. But to see that show and that whole thing happening, I sort of felt comfortable as a human, and thought.” He learned to play the digeridoo, the 50,000-year-old wooden trumpet of the Aboriginal people, by practising on a vacuum cleaner pipe. 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. Rudd recalls that when he was 10, his dad took him to see Paul Simon’s Graceland tour. But the real magic comes when he opens his mouth and his soulful voice spills upon his audience. 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. 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. Rudd's music is compassionate and always manages to render emotion in his fans. Xavier Rudd (born 1978) is a soulful Australian surf/roots artist from Torquay, Victoria (Australia), which is near the famous surfing location, Bells Beach.
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