Kurt Cobain
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Born 1967-02-20
Died 1994-04-05
Aberdeen, Washington, USA
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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.
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Acting
54 credits
MTV Video Music Awards
Classic Albums
The UnXplained
The Nineties
Too Young to Die
70 Years of Youth Revolt
Cobain: Montage of Heck
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage
Stupor Mundi: Book 3, The Most Dangerous Encounter
Soaked in Bleach
I Hate Myself and I Want to Die
27: Gone Too Soon
VH1 News Special: Grunge
Kurt & Courtney
Hype!
The Work of Director Anton Corbijn
Nirvana: Unplugged In New York
Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit
The Secret Lives of Bill Bartell
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All
Kurt Cobain: About a Son
Nirvana: Live and Loud
RuPaul's Christmas Ball
Welcome to My Castle!
Kalvøyafestivalen - 50 år siden første riff
1991: The Year Punk Broke
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
Hit So Hard
Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind
25 Years of Punk
All Apologies: Kurt Cobain 10 Years On
Grunge: A Story of Music and Rage
Nirvana: Live in Amsterdam 1991
MTV Unplugged: Nirvana
Nirvana: Live at Reading
The Britpop Story 'It Really, Really, Really, Could Happen'
Nirvana: Live in Dallas
Nirvana: Unplugged in New York - Rehearsal
Loki: Arnaldo Baptista
Nirvana: Live at the Paramount
When Nirvana Came to Britain
The Teacher
Nirvana: Live at the Paradiso
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
Nirvana: Live at Hollywood Rock Festival
Nirvana: Live On Air
Nirvana: Teatro Castello, Rome, Italy
Nirvana - In Utero: Under Review
Nirvana The Path from Incesticide to In Utero
Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses
The Last 48 Hours of Kurt Cobain
Nirvana - Live on Leeds Polytechnic, UK, 1990
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The Word
Kurt Everywhere
Nirvana: Unplugged In New York
BUSCANDO MI NIRVANA
Nirvana: With the Lights Out
Hippo
Nirvana: Veterans Memorial Coliseum Phoenix, Az
Writing
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