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. It's about the next day and that's why I called it the 12th of September. No one could really do anything about it. All of a sudden there was an attack and there was these people who were equally as toxic that were going to retaliate. That's what the song's about, the world waiting. Rudd wrote the song The 12th of September about the day after the attacks. Rudd felt 'spun out' watching the American media coverage, including graphic imagery of the destruction of the World Trade Center. Rudd was in Canada when the September 11 attacks happened. 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. Black Water the first track on Rudd's 2008 album Dark Shades of Blue is named after one of Lutken-Rudd's paintings. The two married soon after, and had two sons, Joaquin and Finojet. Rudd met Marci Lutken, an artist from Canada, when she was backpacking in Fitzroy in 1999. His music first took him overseas when he traveled to Whistler, British Columbia-Rudd was in a band and would play each night after a day of snowboarding. He drew inspiration from artists such as Leo Kottke, Ben Harper, Natalie Merchant and multi-instrumentalist David Lindley, as well as music from diverse sources, such as Hawaiian and Native American music.

His brother can still play guitar, but went on to become an accountant in Orlando, Florida.īefore his solo career he began playing music as part of the band 'Xavier and the Hum'. 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. His father was born with Aboriginal, Irish and Scottish heritage, and Rudd has Wurundjeri background, one of his great grandmothers was an Aboriginal Australian, and her child (Rudd's paternal grandmother) 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.

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