Xavier Rudd

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Xavier Rudd (born 29 May 1978) is an Australian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

Several of Rudd's songs incorporate socially conscious themes such as spirituality, humanity, environmental, and the rights of Indigenous Australians.

Background and early life

Xavier Rudd grew up in Jan Juc, near Torquay, Victoria. He attended St Joseph's College, Geelong. His maternal grandfather was Dutch and born in Tilburg, a town in the Netherlands, before emigring to Australia. One of his grandmothers was from an Irish potato-growing family and grew up in Colac, Victoria. Rudd is of Aboriginal, Irish, and Scottish roots, as well as claiming that one of his great grandmothers was an Aboriginal Australian, and that her child (Rudd's paternal grandmother) was taken away from her.

Rudd's love for music grew up in a family of seven children. Rudd started playing his brother's guitar when he was in primary school. As an infant, he played saxophone and clarinet.

Xavier Rudd, a boy, sold reclaimed wood for his own furniture business. Rudd arrived in Fiji immediately after finishing school. He was in villages around the country for nine months before returning to Australia at the age 19.

Personal life

Rudd spends a lot of time in the Australian bush, promoting the traditional Aboriginal way of life. His songs include tales of the mistreatment of the Indigenous people of his homeland. Rudd has appeared in many Aboriginal ceremonies. He was adopted into the Dhuwa mob (one of two moieties of the Yolngu people) in northeast Arnhem Land in 2003. He has also spent time with people from many North American indigenous groups, including the Cree, Mohawk, and Iroquois.

Rudd is a keen surfer who started when he was five or six years old, and he says surfing fuels his creativity at times. He also likes snowboarding, one of the few sports he wears shoes for.

Rudd's religious beliefs "I'm not religious in the sense that I don't believe in a God and don't adhere to the tenets of organized churches, but I believe in nature and everything that surrounds me: I love Earth, the sun, the sea, and animals. "My only church is music."

When Rudd was backpacking in Fitzroy in 1999, she met Marci Lutken, a Canadian artist. Both parents married soon after and had two sons at the time. Rudd obtained dual citizenship in Canada. Lutken-Rudd ended her and Rudd's marriage in 2009, and the pair listed their off-grid, solar-powered house in Jan Juc for purchase.

Rudd built a house on Ocean Shores, north of Byron Bay, in June 2015.

Rudd's second marriage in Byron Bay to Ashley Freeman, an Australian former exotic model and dancer and holistic wellness coach, started just shy of Christmas in 2016. After selling their Ocean Shores home for $2.25 million, the couple relocated to the Sunshine Coast.

Rudd became a vegetarian after visiting Harris Ranch, California's largest factory farm, during a United States tour. In an interview with PETA, Rudd shared how the experience made him change his diet, adding: "The experience made him change his diet," Rudd said.

In 2007, Rudd was nominated for PETA's annual "World's Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrity" award. PETA named him as the best Australian male vegetarian in 2008.

Rudd appeared in Torquay at a public rally in February 2009.

In 2009, Rudd received the 'Rock the Boat Award' for his support of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Rudd is a student at the University of On the beach, Rudd is a member of the Canadian environmentalist Paul Watson, who created Sea Shepherd. Rudd was one of the few passengers aboard Sea Shepherd ship Ady Gil in January 2010, just days before it sank after a collision with the MV Shnan Maru 2 Japanese whaling vessel.

Rudd was outspoken against Colin Barnett's proposal to bring the Kimberley mines back to mining operations in 2012. To save James Price Point, he joined the Save the Kimberley campaign.

Rudd, a volunteer with Surf for Life and Waves of Hope, worked with other volunteers to create a high school in northern Nicaragua in late 2013.

Rudd appeared at the Bentley (unrelated to the car maker's name) anti-gas blockade campsite in 2014 in favor of the Lock the Gate Alliance. He had previously traveled to Doubtful Creek, seam gas test fracking site in February 2013 to voice his doubts about the gas exploration, saying, "Our government is hopeless, ruthless, and risky in terms of protecting our land." The protestor's behavior at the Bentley Blockade, where they prevented the delivery of oil- and gas-drilling equipment for weeks, prompted the New South Wales government to suspend Metgasco's drilling licence.

Rudd was chastised for allowing a multinational company KFC, a factory-farmed chicken manufacturer, to use his song "Let Me Be" in a television commercial in 2015. Some commentators believed that the television campaign in conjunction with the Australian cricket season weakened Rudd's activism.

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Career

Rudd started playing music as part of the band 'Xavier and the Hum' before embarking on his solo career. Leo Kottke, Ben Harper, Natalie Merchant, and multi-instrumentalist David Lindley, as well as music from various sources such as Hawaiian and Native American music, inspired him. When he first travelled to Whistler, British Columbia, Ruddd was in a band and would perform every night after a day of snowboarding.

In 2006, discussing the song, Rudd said:

Rudd released Solace, his first album to be released by a major label—Universal Music Australia in 2004. Rudd performed all of the instrumentation on the album alone, rather than arranging guest artists to accompany him on the tour. Instruments included didgeridoos, slide guitars, stomp boxes, djembe drums, slit drums, and the harmonica. Rudd's live show appeared to be well-known for his 'one-man band' performances.

Rudd recorded Food in the Belly in mid-2004, but it wasn't on break from a long North American tour. The recording was made on May 2004 at Bowen Island, part of the Greater Vancouver Regional District.

On his mother's 30th birthday, White Moth was written about a moth that followed Rudd's son Joaquin for several hours. Rudd believed it was the spirit of his then wife's grandmother. Rudd and his family were on holiday on an island off the coast of Sri Lanka to commemorate the occasion.

Rudd co-founded the "Better People Campaign" in 2007, which was a joint venture between Clif Bar's GreenNotes program and Clif Bar's GreenNotes. The campaign was about expressing gratitude to the people in the world who are making positive change.

The first track on Rudd's 2008 album "Dark Shades of Blue" was named after one of Lutken-Rudd's paintings. Rudd's album saw him produce a darker, more somber tones, with electric guitars in place of acoustic guitars. Dave Tolley, a percussionist drummer who had previously performed with White Moth and Food in the Belly, collaborated with him.

Rudd, a Dark Shades of Blue blogger, told media that the heavier sound was a "precursor to things" that might come. My music is way ahead of me all the time. Rudd was referring to his and Lutken's divorce, which was finalized in 2009.

Rudd was helped in his mourning and restoration by his former South African bandmates, bassist Tio Moloantoa, and drummer Andile Nqubezelo. At the 2008 Wiesen Nuke Festival, Rudd had met Moloantoa and Nqubezelo. Rudd described his friendship with Moloanto and Nqubezelo as "i feel like they were sent to me."

Rudd bought 20 hectares of property at Koonyum Range, Mullumbumbimby, in 2010. The location inspired Rudd's album name, Moloantoa and Nqubezelo, Koonyum Sun, which Rudd would debut with. The album went from Dark Shades of Blue's heavier sound to a more upbeat style.

Rudd underwent emergency back surgery in 2011 to restore three herniated disks, bone spurs, and nerve damage. Rudd wrote the song Comfortable in My Skin, his 2012 album Spirit Bird, when he was suffering from severe nerve pains before his surgery. The collection included 30 species of Australian birds in its entirety.

Spirit Bird came after Rudd's encounter with a red-tailed black cockatoo in the Kimberley. Rudd had a traumatic rush of imagery and emotion during his encounter.

The 2015 album Rudd, released in collaboration with the United Nations, promotes cultural awareness and condemns bigotry and intolerance. Rudd and the United Nations helped record the album, assassinating producer Errol Brown. Rudd said in an interview published in The Aspen Times that Nanna had a chance to concentrate on his vocal performance. He said he never really liked his voice before and that vocals were often little more than an afterthought, but by 2016, he was embraceing it.

The song "Shame" on Nanna was inspired by discussions of racial profiling surrounding AFL player Adam Goodes, an Aboriginal football player who was consistently booed at matches. Rudd had already voiced support for Goodes during the AFL Players' Association's 2014 Season launch. Rudd was collaborating with a Shaman in Peru at the time of writing "Celester" for the album. He attended many functions, one of which involved vomiting and experiencing hallucinations, and another that involved mud bathing. Rudd described the album as something that flowed out of him over a week when he looked like he was outside of himself, trying to figure out from a distance.

Rudd was forced to cancel his North American tour for Nanna short in late 2015 in order to have disc replacement and fusion surgery in his lower back after suffering with chronic pain for many months.

Rudd's song "Let Me Be" appeared in an Australian TV commercial promoting KFC, a major fast food restaurant chain specialising in factory farmed fried chicken. Many fans of the song's inclusion on the commercial used social media to vent. PETA expressed concern that Rudd had not approved the use of his music for the advertisements.

Rudd had signed with recently rebranded Virgin Music Australia in April 2021. Rudd's lead single from his forthcoming tenth studio album "Stoney Creek" was released on June 17th, 2021.

Rudd's third single from his tenth studio album, "Ball and Chain," appeared in January 2022.

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