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Xavier Rudd (born 1978) is a soulful Australian surf/roots artist
originating from Torquay, Victoria, near to the famous surfing location Bells Beach.
Rudd’s music is very compassionate and always manages to render emotion within his fans. His songs include stories of the mistreatment of the indigenous people of his homeland, tell of humanity, spirituality or the environment. They are written and sung with compassion, and urge the celebration of life.
Rudd is skilled with a variety of instruments, which are heard throughout his songs. These include guitars, shakers, didgeridoos, Weissenborn slide guitars, Tongue drums, stomp boxes, djembes, harmonica, ankle bells, and slide banjo. He showed an interest in music from an early age, and learned to play the digeridoo,the 50,000-year-old wooden trumpet of the Aboriginal people, by practicing on a vacuum cleaner pipe.
It’s one thing writing about all these instruments, but it’s a whole other experience watching and listening to him perform his songs live; he plays the guitar, digeridoo and various percussion instruments simultaneously using a stage setup unique to himself, in which he is engulfed by his various instruments. But the real magic comes when he opens his mouth, and such a soulful voice spills upon his audience.
Rudd first found that music was the path for him when he was 10, and his dad took him to see Paul Simon?s Graceland tour. |
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