Kurt Cobain

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Born: February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994
From: Aberdeen, Washington, USA

Biography

Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – c. April 5, 1994) was an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana. Cobain formed Nirvana with Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1985 and established it as part of the Seattle music scene, having its debut album Bleach released on the independent record label Sub Pop in 1989. After signing with major label DGC Records, the band found breakthrough success with "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from its second album Nevermind (1991). Following the success of Nevermind, Nirvana was labeled "the flagship band" of Generation X, and Cobain hailed as "the spokesman of a generation". Cobain however was often uncomfortable and frustrated, believing his message and artistic vision to have been misinterpreted by the public, with his personal issues often subject to media attention. He challenged Nirvana's audience with its final studio album In Utero (1993). During the last years of his life, Cobain struggled with heroin addiction, illness and depression, his fame and public image, as well as the professional and lifelong personal pressures surrounding himself and his wife, musician Courtney Love. On April 8, 1994, Cobain was found dead at his home in Seattle, the victim of what was officially ruled a suicide by a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. The circumstances of his death have become a topic of public fascination and debate. Since their debut, Nirvana, with Cobain as a songwriter, has sold over 25 million albums in the US alone, and over 50 million worldwide.

Works

58 films

Cobain: Montage of Heck

20157.6

Stupor Mundi: Book 3, The Most Dangerous Encounter

2019

Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage

20216.5

The Devil and Daniel Johnston

20067.7

Kurt Everywhere

2018

VH1 News Special: Grunge

2001

I Hate Myself and I Want to Die

2023

Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!

19947.6

27: Gone Too Soon

20185.8

Nirvana: Unplugged In New York

19938.6

Soaked in Bleach

20157.0

Welcome to My Castle!

2007

The Secret Lives of Bill Bartell

2025

Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos

19947.5

Nirvana: Live and Loud

19938.9

Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit

19917.7

Kurt Cobain: About a Son

20076.9

Hype!

19967.4

The Work of Director Anton Corbijn

20057.8

RuPaul's Christmas Ball

199310.0

Kurt & Courtney

19986.0

Nirvana: Live at the Paramount

20118.1

Kalvøyafestivalen - 50 år siden første riff

2021

Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind

20057.0

MTV Unplugged: Nirvana

19938.7

Nirvana: Live in Amsterdam 1991

19917.8

Hit So Hard

20125.0

1991: The Year Punk Broke

19926.8

Grunge: A Story of Music and Rage

20217.2

The Britpop Story 'It Really, Really, Really, Could Happen'

2005

25 Years of Punk

20017.0

(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale

20047.0

Nirvana: Unplugged in New York - Rehearsal

199310.0

Nirvana: Live in Dallas

1991

Nirvana: Live at the Paradiso

19918.3

When Nirvana Came to Britain

20217.4

Nirvana: With the Lights Out

20047.4

Nirvana: Live at Hollywood Rock Festival

19938.0

All Apologies: Kurt Cobain 10 Years On

20066.4

Nirvana: Live at Reading

20097.3

Sub Pop Video Network Program 1

19919.0

Loki: Arnaldo Baptista

20096.8

BUSCANDO MI NIRVANA

2025

Nirvana: Live On Air

2010

Nirvana: Teatro Castello, Rome, Italy

19917.0

Nirvana: Rockin’ T.P., Santa Fe 1989

1989

Nirvana: Veterans Memorial Coliseum Phoenix, Az

1993

Foo Fighters: One Less Hero

20229.0

The Teacher

2023

Nirvana - the Definitive Critical Review

2006

Nirvana The Path from Incesticide to In Utero

20068.0

Nirvana - Live on Leeds Polytechnic, UK, 1990

1990

Nirvana - In Utero: Under Review

20068.0

The Last 48 Hours of Kurt Cobain

20076.1

Nirvana: Astoria Theater London

1991

Nirvana: Terminal 1, Munich

1994

Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses

2011

Kurt Cobain: The Early Life of a Legend

20046.5