Sloan Wainwright

Biography

Sloan Wainwright (born 1957) is an American artist and member of the American independent music scene. Her musical style consists of a combination of folk, rock, jazz, and blues; which she developed while writing and performing in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. She released 11 albums between 1996 and 2021.

Life and career

Sloan Wainwright is the daughter of Loudon Wainwright Jr. and Martha Taylor. She is the younger sister of Loudon Wainwright III, and aunt to Canadian-American musicians Martha Wainwright and Rufus Wainwright, and American musician Lucy Wainwright Roche.
She was married to George McTavey who died in December 2008 after a long illness. They had two sons, Sam and Gabe McTavey.
As a performer, Wainwright is known for her contralto voice. Her musical style combines pop, folk, jazz, and blues. Born into a musical family, her teenage years were influenced by a constant flow of diverse artists, writers and musicians. She developed her songwriting style while writing and performing in the Greenwich Village scene,
In the mid-1990s, Sloan began a collaboration with guitarist Stephen Murphy. They assembled a band, and Sloan released a self-titled debut CD in 1996, 'Sloan Wainwright'. The Sloan Wainwright Band followed with a second release in 1998, a tribute in memory of Wainwright's mother Martha, entitled 'From Where You Are.' The third band release in early 2001,The Song Inside, merged traditionally-based folk music with more eccentric variations. In 2003 she released Cool Morning, featuring her rendition of U2's "Where The Streets Have No Name".