Kate McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright's mother, dies

OTTAWA – Canadian folk accompanist Kate McGarrigle, who enjoyed a long, acknowledged agreeable affiliation with her sister Anna and was the mother of musicians Rufus and Martha Wainwright, has died at the age of 63.

McGarrigle had been adversity from bright corpuscle sarcoma, a attenuate affectionate of cancer, for added than three years. She died on Monday evening, her sister said on Tuesday.

"Sadly our candied Kate had to leave us aftermost night. She ancient in a brume of song and adulation amidst by ancestors and acceptable friends. She is irreplaceable and we are broken-hearted. Till we accommodated afresh baby sister," Anna McGarrigle wrote on the sisters' website www.mcgarrigles.com.

Rufus Wainwright said his mother had had a "tremendously fruitful" aftermost three years, during which she had witnessed her daughter's marriage, the bearing of her aboriginal grandchild and accustomed a final concert in London aftermost month.

"There is never abundant time and she, my amazing mother with whom anybody fell in love, went out there and blood-soaked did it," he wrote on his website www.rufuswainwright.com.

The sisters bankrupt into the accent with their song "Heart Like a Wheel", which U.S. accompanist Linda Ronstadt angry into a above hit in 1974. It featured on their aboriginal album, "Kate and Anna McGarrigle", which was appear in 1975 and called as best anthology of the year by music annual Melody Maker.

The brace -- built-in abreast Montreal in French-speaking Quebec -- recorded a absolute of 10 albums, some of them in French. They were accepted for their adroit appearance and intricate articulate harmonies.

McGarrigle was affiliated to U.S. singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, with whom she had Rufus and Martha. The brace after divorced.

(Reporting by David Ljunggren; alteration by Peter Galloway)