Kurt Donald Cobain (Aberdeen, Washington , Feb. 20 of 1967 - Seattle , Washington, April 5 of 1994) was the singer , songwriter and guitarist of the

prominent grunge band, Nirvana .Cobain and Nirvana helped transform popular music in the 90's. In 1991, the

arrival of Cobain's best known song, " Smells Like Teen Spirit "marked the beginning of a dramatic change in the music of his time away from the dominant genres of the 80's , the glam metal and pop such as "radio friendly", and leading to the rise to alternative rock subgenre and the

grunge , the latter becoming the dominant genre in the first half of the decade, and paving the way for the continue as the dominant alternative rock the rest of the decade when British counterpart grunge, another subgenre of alternative, the cheerful Britpop became popular to 1994. By January 1992,

Nevermind, the disk containing just to Smells Like Teen Spirit , had moved to disk Dangerous of Michael Jackson the Billboard top spot, marking a moment of great importance in the history of contemporary music and the triumph of

the pop rock.On April 8, 1994 Cobain was found dead at his home in Seattle.

Kurt Cobain was positioned at number 12 of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone in 2003 and ranked 45 of the 100 greatest singers of all

time in 2008, both by the magazine Rolling Stone.

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SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT

Kurt Cobain was born in Washington on February 20, 1967, within a Christian family (later reflect this stage in the song " Lithium "). She lived her first 6 months in Hoquiam , until his family returned to Aberdeen. His father was Donald Lenald Wendy Cobain and his mother Elizabeth Fradenburg. It also

had a younger sister, Kimberly, born April 24 , 1970. Cobain became interested in music at an early age.

Cobain's life changed dramatically after 9 years because of their divorce. After a year living with his mother after the divorce Cobain moved to

Montesano to live with his father.Played drums in a school group of 10 to 16 years without knowing how to

read music or scores. His first electric guitar was a gift from his uncle Chuck.

Cobain received his first guitar at the age of 14. Since then Cobain tried to form bands with friends, singing songs of AC / DC and Led Zeppelin . In high

school, however, Cobain had frequent problems finding someone to play with, because none of his friends had any particular musical talent. Subsequently, Cobain met Krist Novoselic , a faithful devotee of punk rock , who lived across

the Young Street bridge. Novoselic's mother owned a beauty salon, so they could practice on the second floor of the building occasionally. A few years after Cobain tried to convince Novoselic to form a band with him, and lent him a copy of a demo home,recorded by one of the first bands that formed

Cobain, Fecal Matter . After months of thinking, Novoselic agreed to join Cobain, which laid the foundation of Nirvana.

In the early years as a group, Novoselic and Cobain to rotate frequently touched them drummers . Finally, Chad Channing joined the band, which recorded Bleach , released on Sub Pop Records in 1989. Cobain, however,

was dissatisfied with Channing's style, and the band replaced him with Dave Grohl . Along with Grohl, the band found success with their debut album on a

major label, Nevermind. Then in 1993, came the album In Utero .Cobain had a lot of trouble adjusting to the massive success of Nirvana with

his strong roots underground. In addition, he was persecuted by the media to the point of comparing himself to Frances Farmer , and had resentment

against people who claimed to be fans of the band, but they did not understand this message. One incident that particularly bothered Cobain

involved two men who raped a woman while singing the Nirvana song Polly. Cobain condemned the episode in the notes to the U.S. versions of the

compilation Incesticide.

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Courtney Love met Cobain in 1990. In the following weeks, after learning from Grohl's hand she and Cobain shared mutual

feelings, Love began to look frequently. After weeks of meetings and conversations, in the autumn of 1991, both were seen

together more often. Around the time of submission of Nirvana on Saturday Night Live, Love discovered she was pregnant . A

few days after the end of the tour of Nirvana for the Pacific , on Monday 24 February of 1992 , Cobain married with Love on the beach at Waikiki in Hawaii . On August 18 the first born and only daughter of the couple, Frances Bean Cobain .The reason for the unusual middle name was that Cobain thought she looked like a

bean in her first ultrasound .

Love was somewhat unpopular with many fans of Nirvana: critics said she was using Cobain as a vehicle to achieve fame. Critics

who compared Cobain to his idol, John Lennon , also compared to Love with Yoko Ono . There are persistent rumors that say that Cobain wrote most successful songs on the album Live Through

This of Love's band, Hole . However, except for a mixture of early song "Asking for It", which Cobain sang backing vocals, there is

no evidence that can prove this statement.

In a 1992 article for the magazine Vanity Fair admitted that Love used heroin while pregnant

without knowing it, which seriously damaged his public image. Although the romance of Cobain and Love had attracted the media before the

article was published, the pair found themselves besieged by reporters often tabloids wanted to

know if Frances was born addicted to drugs. The notoriety of the article even resulted in an

investigation by child protective services to measure the ability of the couple as parents.

Love, along with Cobain, claimed that Vanity Fair took her words out of context.

During his life, Kurt battled various illnesses that affected him emotionally.Cobain had his first contact with drugs in late 1990. For some months Cobain's drug use casually, but it was not long before it became an

addiction . In late 1991 its use began affecting the band's tour in promotion of Nevermind. In early 1992 , shortly after he and Courtney found out they

were going to be parents, decided to enter rehab. After leaving, Nirvana embarked on a tour of Japan and Australia, where Cobain was pale. Shortly

after returning to America, Kurt's addiction resurfaced. Before a performance at the New Music Seminar in New York City in May 1993, Cobain suffered an overdose of heroin. A few hours later, Nirvana played with one of the most memorable concerts of the year. The public did not notice that something

strange had happened.

On 23 February 1994 Kurt Cobain made his last appearance on television. The next day he went to Rome for medical treatment. His wife would be there on March 3. The next morning when he awoke, Love found Cobain had overdosed on a combination of champagne and flunitrazepam. Cobain was taken immediately to hospital and spent the rest of the day unconscious. After spending five days in treatment, Cobain left

the hospital and returned to Seattle. The March 25 Love convened a meeting on drug use of Cobain. Among the ten people who were there that day, Cobain described as "extremely skeptical" and "denied it was doing something really self-destructive." However, by the end of the day, Cobain agreed to enter a detoxification program. The March 30 Cobain arrived at Exodus Recovery Center in Los Angeles. On the

afternoon of April 1, Frances Cobain (Cobain's daughter), took the place for a one hour visit with his father. Then Cobain he took a taxi to the airport and returned to

Seattle. The next morning he stopped at his house. During the following days, Cobain was visiting Seattle, but several of his relatives and friends were not aware of what he did. The next day, Love filled out a missing person report with the name of

the Cobain's mother without his permission. He added that it wanted to commit suicide and was in possession of a firearm. On April 8, 1994, Cobain's lifeless body

was discovered in a room by Gary Smith. Smith arrived at the house that morning to install an electrical system and saw the body thinking it was a mannequin. With the

exception of a small amount of blood coming out of Cobain's ear, Smith reported that he had not noticed any visible signs of trauma , and at first thought he was

asleep. Smith found what appeared to be a suicide note in a small vase of flowers. Beside the body was found a shotgun . An autopsy concluded that Cobain's death

was the result of "an injury by gunshot to the head inflicted. " The report estimates Cobain died on 8 April around 11:30 am.

CLUB 27

As Cobain died at age 27, some people consider "member" of the Club 27 (group of musicians who died at 27 years of age,

as Robert Johnson , Brian Jones , Jimi Hendrix , Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin .

LEGACY

In the hometown of Kurt Cobain proposed to be named the bridge

Alexander Young. However, council members voted ten to one against the decision and refused to change the current name. The reason was

that it was a suicidal drug addict publicly. He also made negative comments

about living locally. However, the City Council agreed to baptize each other that a small strip of

the Wishkah River near the bridge as Cobain Landing, since the lead singer of Nirvana said to have slept in more than one occasion at that site. Then was created created

a foundation to help addicts with Cobain's name.