Martha Wainwright on music, mothering and finding her voice
Martha Wainwright is descended from extraordinary songwriters on both sides of her family.
Her mother was folk musician Kate McGarrigle and her father is Loudon Wainwright III.
Despite a lifetime of witnessing painful family truths delivered through song, she made it her life's work too.
A few years ago her beloved mum was diagnosed with cancer while Martha was pregnant with her first child.
As Kate succumbed to her illness, she passed the baton of life onto Martha's premature baby boy.
Martha recently wrote a memoir about life inside her famous musical family.
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