Loudon Snowden Wainwright III (born September 5, 1946) is an American songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor. Biography Early life Wainwright was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the son of Martha T., a yoga teacher, and Loudon Wainwright, Jr., a columnist and editor for Life magazine.http://www.filmreference.com/film/10/Loudon-Wainwright-III.html Wainwright grew up in Bedford, New York, a town in Westchester County. Among his sisters is Sloan Wainwright, also a singer. He graduated from St. Andrew's School. Career Wainwright's career began in the late 1960s. He had played the guitar while in school, but would later sell it for yoga lessons while living in San Francisco. Later, in Rhode Island, Wainwright's grandmother got him a job working in a boatyard. He was inspired by an old lobster fisherman named Edgar to borrow a friend's guitar and write his first song (entitled "Edgar").

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