![]() Rudd received the 'Rock the Boat Award' in 2009 for his support of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. In February 2009, Rudd performed at a public rally in opposition to residential development in Torquay. In 2008, PETA named him sexiest Australian male vegetarian. Rudd was nominated for PETA's annual "World's Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrity" award in 2007. That was when I knew it was the right choice to go vegetarian. I asked the driver about it and he said, "Well, that's California's biggest beef producer." I could still smell it after we had driven for another 30 kilometers. They were standing in their own waste and-what I found worse-even had to eat it because the workers didn't offer them anything else. Plus, they'd already eaten or trampled down the grass and all the feces were just left there. ![]() They could hardly move as the area was too small for all those animals. Stood crammed together on this piece of land. Rudd described in an interview with PETA how the experience made him change his diet, saying: Rudd became a vegetarian after passing Harris Ranch, California's largest factory farm, during a United States tour. View of Harris Ranch-the beef farm that inspired Rudd to change his diet and become a vegetarian Shortly before Christmas in 2016, Rudd had his second marriage in a Byron Bay wedding ceremony to Ashley Freeman, an Australian holistic wellness trainer. This house sold for a reported $2.25 million. Lutken-Rudd ended her and Rudd's relationship in 2009, and the pair listed their off-grid, solar powered home in Jan Juc for sale.Īs at June 2015, Rudd was building a house near Byron Bay, which will include a music studio. The two married soon after, and had two sons. Rudd met Marci Lutken, an artist from Canada, when she was backpacking in Fitzroy in 1999. He also enjoys snowboarding, one of the few activities he wears shoes for. Rudd is a keen surfer, having started when he was five or six years old, and says at times surfing inspires his music. He has also spent time with people from several North American indigenous groups-the Cree, Mohawk and Iroquois. In 2003, he was adopted into the Dhuwa mob in north east Arnhem Land. Rudd has taken part in several Aboriginal ceremonies. His songs include stories of the mistreatment of the Indigenous people of his homeland. Rudd likes to spend time in the Australian bush often, and champions the traditional Aboriginal Australian way of life. He lived in villages around the country for nine months, returning to Australia at age 19. Immediately after finishing school, Rudd traveled to Fiji. He also played saxophone and clarinet as a child.Īs a child, Xavier Rudd sold recycled wood through his own furniture business. While primary school-aged, Rudd used his mother's vacuum cleaner as a makeshift didgeridoo and he began playing his brother's guitar. Rudd showed a keen interest in music growing up in a family of seven children. Rudd claims he has Aboriginal, Irish and Scottish heritage, furthermore mentioning having Wurundjeri ancestry, and that one of his great grandmothers was an Aboriginal Australian, and her child was taken away from her. One of his grandmothers was from an Irish potato-growing family and grew up in Colac, Victoria. His maternal grandfather was Dutch, born in Tilburg, a town in the Netherlands, before migrating to Australia. He attended St Joseph's College, Geelong. Xavier Rudd grew up in Jan Juc, near Torquay, Victoria. Several of Rudd's songs incorporate socially conscious themes, such as spirituality, humanity, environmentalism and the rights of Indigenous Australians. Xavier Rudd is an Australian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Vocals, guitar, harmonica, yidaki, lap steel guitar, percussion The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.Folk, blues, indie folk, folk rock, reggae If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it.
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