Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and artist. He became the idol of millions thanks to his participation in the rock group Nirvana.

Kurt Donald Cobain was born in February 1967 in Aberdeen, near Seattle.

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The parents of the future celebrity are Donald Leland Cobain, who worked as a mechanic at a service station, and Wendy Elizabeth Cobain (Freinderberg), who at one time was a teacher and then a waitress at a bar. In addition to his mother and father, the boy was cared for by other relatives. 3 years after the appearance of Kurt in the Cobain family, a girl named Kimberly was born.

Kurt showed interest in music at the age of 2. As a child, the boy liked The Beatles and The Monkees. Cobain often attended rehearsals for his uncle and aunt, who performed as part of a country ensemble. When the future Nirvana soloist was 7 years old, Aunt Marie Earl presented a children's drum kit as a present. Later, Kurt became interested in the work of the bands AC / DC, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Joy Division, Black Sabbath, Aerosmith and Kiss.

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At the age of 8, Kurt Cobain had to go through the divorce of his parents, which did not have the best effect on the psyche and further behavior. Since then, Kurt has become withdrawn, aggressive and cynical. At one time Cobain lived with his mother, but then moved to his father in Montesano. During this period, his own uncle, whom the musician loved very much, committed suicide. The father married Jenny Westby. Kurt did not get along with his father's new passion, so he moved out of him. As a teenager, the future rock performer alternately lived with relatives.

At the age of 14, Cobain learned to play the guitar, and his first mentor was Warren Mason, a musician from The Beachcombers. After graduating from school, the guy wandered among friends for some time. Then he got a job, and in 1986 he was sent to prison for 8 days for illegal entry into foreign territory and drinking alcohol.

In 1985, Kurt Cobain founded the music group Fecal Matter. The collective had 7 compositions, but without releasing a single disc, the group broke up, but this experience influenced the musician's creative biography in the future. Then Kurt's friend, musician Krist Novoselic, suggested creating a rock band. In addition to Novoselic and Cobain, drummer Chad Channing appeared in the band.

The musicians could not find a suitable name for their team - the group was called Skid Row, Ted Ed Fred, Bliss and Pen Cap Chew. In the end, we settled on Nirvana. In 1988, the band's single Love Buzz / Big Cheese was released, and the following year, the band released their first album, Bleach. The songs performed by Kurt Cobain as part of Nirvana have become a kind of combination of punk and pop styles.

Worldwide popularity came to the band in 1991 after the release of the album Nevermind. The composition Smells Like Teen Spirit, having stayed at the top of the charts for a long time, has become a real anthem of the generation. After the release of this composition, the musician's albums were sold in millions of copies. Even the legendary Guns N 'Roses remained out of competition.

Each concert of the musician attracted thousands of loyal fans. Cobain was uncomfortable with such popularity. The musician was irritated that he became the idols of the broad masses. Nevertheless, media representatives called the Nirvana group "the flagship of generation X".

The musician sought to be identified with the direction of independent rock, so the next album In Utero, released in 1993, was made by the American rock artist deliberately dark. The album did not become as popular as the previous one, but took the leading places in the charts. The most successful songs were About a Girl, You Know You're, All Apologies, Rape Me, In Bloom, Lithium, Heart-Shaped Box and Come As You Are. The clips for these compositions have become popular all over the world.

The musician's fans also liked the cover version of the song And I love her, which was performed by the Beatles. In an interview, Kurt has repeatedly noted that as a child he loved to listen to the compositions of a popular band from the UK.

Kurt Cobain met his future wife in 1990 at a concert in one of the Portland clubs, where both performed as part of their groups. Courtney Love herself claimed that she noticed Kurt back in 1989 at a Nirvana concert and instantly showed interest in him, but the musician ignored the girl.

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Later, the performer explained his behavior with a desire to stay longer as a bachelor. An affair began between Kurt and Courtney, and in early 1992, the girl found out about her pregnancy. Already in February of the same year, the couple played a wedding.

The wedding ceremony took place on the Hawaiian beach of Waikiki. Courtney Love was in a dress that once belonged to Frances Farmer (the newlyweds admired this actress), and Kurt Cobain, too lazy to put on a suit, showed up to the celebration in pajamas. On August 18, 1992, the couple had a daughter, Frances Bean Cobain.

Kurt Cobain's health problems have been observed since childhood. The perpetrator was given several diagnoses, including manic-depressive psychosis, as a result of which he was forced to take psychostimulants. In his youth, Kurt became addicted to drugs, and this hobby grew into a full-fledged stable addiction. This was also influenced by the fact that alcoholics and mentally ill people were present among Cobain's relatives - the musician's father's uncles committed suicide.

After experimenting with various drugs, Kurt Cobain switched to heroin. In 1993, a man suffered a severe overdose of this drug. A couple of weeks before his death, friends persuaded Kurt to undergo a rehabilitation course, from where the artist fled the next day.

The musician's body was found on April 8, 1994 in his own house. Electrician Gary Smith, who arrived at the Cobains to install an alarm, was the first to see the dead Kurt. After several rings at the door, Smith went into the garage and went up to the greenhouse, where through the glass door he saw a man with no signs of life. At first, Smith assumed that someone was asleep, but then noticed blood and a gun.

Considering the overdose incidents, the police drew up a formal protocol, according to which the musician injected himself with an excessive dose of heroin and fired a shot in the head with a gun. A suicide note was also found near the body, indicating a suicide. Suicide was named the cause of death. Fans are still convinced that the death of Kurt Cobain was faked, and the assumption of police officers that the idol of millions shot himself is wrong.

The deceased idol still haunts fans today. After the death of the musician, directors presented a large number of films about his life and work. The movie "Kurt and Courtney", released in 1997, was especially noted by the audience. In this film, the authors tried to tell about the reasons for the death of a celebrity.

Later, the picture "The Last 48 Hours of Kurt Cobain" appeared, and in 2015 the documentary film "Cobain: Damn Editing" was released. The last tape turned out to be believable, since the members of the Nirvana group and Kurt's relatives, who own the unpublished materials, provided access to the creators of the picture.

Thousands of fans have expressed a desire to attend the funeral of the idol. On April 10, 1994, a public memorial service for Cobain was held. The singer's body was cremated, and the ashes were divided into three parts.

In 2013, the media reported that the house in which the leader of "Nirvana" grew up would be put up for sale. A similar decision was announced by the mother of the legendary musician.

After his death, the diary of Kurt Cobain gained particular popularity, which contains letters and diary entries of the musician from 1980 to 1994.

The quotes and reflections of the American artist have become as legendary as his songs.

Studio albums:

Bleach Nevermind In Utero

Concert albums:

MTV Unplugged in New York From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah Live at Reading

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