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Curt Cobain
  • Birth Name:
    Kurt Donald Cobain
  • Common Name:
    Kurdt Cobain, Nirvana
  • Date of Birth:
    February 20, 1967
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Pisces
  • Place of Birth:
    Aberdeen, Washington, USA
  • Place of Death:
    Seattle, Washington, USA
  • Date of Death:
    April 5, 1995
  • Cause of Death:
    Suicide
  • Height:
    5' 10"
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Hair Color:
    Brown
  • Eye Color:
    Blue
  • Nationality:
    American

Family

Curt Cobain
  • Sister:
    Kim
  • Spouse:
    Courtney Love
  • Daughter:
    Frances Bean Cobain

Career

Curt Cobain

Trivia

Curt Cobain
  • Ashes were scattered in McLane Creek- Olympia, a handful were scattered under the willow at the front of 171 Lake Washinton Boulevard, Seattle, another handful was givern to a Buddhist to make a tsatsu - a memorial sculpture.
  • Guitar and vocals for the legendary grunge band Nirvana.
  • Although Cobain's death was officially ruled a suicide, certain aspects about his death have led to speculation that he was murdered: - He had entirely too much heroin in his system at the time of his death to have been able to operate a shotgun. He would have been incapacitated within seconds of injecting it. - The so-called "suicide note" may have been a letter to his fans expressing his desire to quit both Nirvana and the music business altogether. - One of Cobain's credit cards was being use
  • After his death, many musicians recorded tribute songs to him. Some of the better known of these include R.E.M.'s "Let Me In", Patti Smith's "About a Boy", Neil Young's "Sleeps with Angels", and Cher's "The Fall".
  • His songs have been covered by Tori Amos, Sinéad O'Connor, Herbie Hancock, and Branford Marsalis.
  • His most famous song, "Smells Like Teen Spirit", was voted by Rolling Stone Magazine and MTV as the 3rd best pop song out of 100 of all time.
  • Was of Irish, English, German, and French ancestry.
  • He's hailed by many as the most influential artist since the Second World War. His lyrics portray a musical virtuosity.
  • According to his widow, Courtney Love, Cobain left behind 109 unreleased, recorded songs when he died in 1994. Some are just song fragments, some music "collages", and about eight are acoustic numbers that Love deems good enough for release. One song, "Stinking of You", which he wrote with Love, includes the line "Stinking of you...I don't care if my life is shattered, it's my point of view..."
  • His most popular songs include "About a Girl", "Been a Son", "Negative Creep", "Aneurysm", "Dive", "Sliver", "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Lithium", "In Bloom", "Polly", "Something in the Way", "Heart-Shaped Box", "Rape Me", "Dumb", "Pennyroyal Tea", "All Apologies" and "You Know You're Right" (written and recorded shortly before his death but not officially released until October 2002).

Quotes

Curt Cobain
  • "I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play."
  • "When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band."
  • "The music comes first. Lyrics are second."
  • "If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs."
  • "I'm not gay, but I wish I was just to piss off the homophobes."
  • "I stared into his eyes and told him that I thought he was a respectable human. I did tell him straight out that I think his band still sucks."
  • "It isn't going to be about food, is it?".
  • "I think people who glamorise drugs are f**king ***holes and if there's hell they'll go there."
  • "Id rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not."
  • "I'm not a death rocker, and I don't wear black."
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Biography

Curt Cobain
Last Updated: Monday, September 21, 2009

curt cobainKurt was an American musician, best known as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of grunge band Nirvana. Kurt and his family lived in Hoquiam for the first six months of his life then later moved back to Aberdeen, where he had a happy childhood until his parents divorced. The divorce left Kurt's outlook on the world forever scarred. He became withdrawn and anti-social. He was constantly placed with one relative to the next and at times even homeless, forcing him to sleep under a bridge. Kurt was not the most popular person in high school, getting picked on by "jocks" and being labeled as "queer".

In 1985 Kurt left Aberdeen for Olympia where he formed the band Nirvana in 1986. In 1989 Nirvana recorded their debut album Bleach under the independent label Sub-Pop records. Nirvana became very popular in Britain and by 1991 they signed a contract with Geffen. Their next album Nevermind became a 90s masterpiece and made Kurt's Nirvana one of the most successful bands in the world. Kurt became trampled upon with success and found the new lifestyle hard to bear. In February 1992 Kurt married Courtney Love, the woman who was already pregnant with his child, Frances Bean Cobain.

curt cobainNirvana released their next album Incesticide later that year. The album appealed to many fans due to the liner notes, which expressed Kurt's open-mindedness. In September 1993 Nirvana released their next album, 'In Utero', which topped the charts. On March 4, 1994, Kurt was taken to hospital in a coma. It was officially stated as an accident but many believe it to have been an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Family and friends convinced Kurt to seek rehab. Kurt was said to have fled rehab after only a few days from a missing person's report filed by Courtney Love.

On April 8th Kurt's body was found in his Seattle home. In his arms was a shotgun, which had been fired into his head. Near him laid a suicide note written in red ink. It was addressed to his wife Courtney Love and his daughter Frances Cobain. Two days after Kurt's body was discovered people gathered in Seattle, they began setting fires, chanting profanities, and fighting with police officers. They also listened to a tape of Courtney reading sections of the suicide note left by Kurt. The last few words were "I love you, I love you".

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