Xavier Rudd

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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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