High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wainwright (born 6 March 1973 in Warrington, England) is a singer-songwriter from Canada.Wainwright is a Canadian singer, songwriter and musician. He was born in Warrington England, a small working class town outside of Liverpool. As a young boy he relocated to St. Catharines Ontario. He began playing guitar when he was 12. He founded the band Flat Broke in high school along with his brother Paul. Since the mid-1990s, Wainwright has also played guitar, assuming the role of John Lennon in The Caverners, a Beatles cover band.