person

Kurt Cobain

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1967-02-20

Place of Birth

Aberdeen, Washington, USA

Kurt Cobain

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kurt Cobain, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Kurt Cobain: About a Son

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Nirvana: Live at Reading

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Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!

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Nirvana: With the Lights Out

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1991: The Year Punk Broke

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Kurt & Courtney

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Nirvana: Unplugged In New York

Dec 16, 1993

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Nirvana Unplugged In New York Original MTV Version

Dec 16, 1993

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Nirvana: Live at the Paramount

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Kurt Cobain: The Early Life of a Legend

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Nirvana The Path from Incesticide to In Utero

Oct 31, 2006

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Nirvana - In Utero: Under Review

Nov 21, 2006

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Nirvana: Live in Amsterdam 1991

Nov 25, 1991

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Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage

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Soaked in Bleach

Jun 09, 2015

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Cobain: Montage of Heck

Mar 23, 2015

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Nirvana: Live at the Paradiso

Nov 25, 1991

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Nirvana: Live And Loud

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Nirvana: [1991] Rome, Italy

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Nirvana: Live On Air

May 31, 2010

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Nirvana: Live in Dallas

Oct 18, 1991

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The Last 48 Hours of Kurt Cobain

Feb 18, 2007

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Foo Fighters: One Less Hero

Apr 28, 2022

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All Apologies: Kurt Cobain 10 Years On

Jan 01, 2006

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Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit

Jan 01, 1991

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Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses

May 10, 2011

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Hype!

Nov 08, 1996

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Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos

Aug 16, 1994

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Nirvana: Unplugged in New York - Rehearsal

Nov 18, 1993

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Sub Pop Video Network Program 1

Jan 01, 1991

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The Work of Director Anton Corbijn

Sep 13, 2005

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(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale

Sep 12, 2004

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Kurt Everywhere

Feb 01, 2018

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27: Gone Too Soon

Mar 26, 2018

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25 Years of Punk

Apr 19, 2001

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RuPaul's Christmas Ball

Dec 25, 1993

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Welcome to My Castle!

Dec 04, 2007

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Hit So Hard

Apr 20, 2012

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Nirvana - Live on Leeds Polytechnic, UK, 1990

Oct 25, 1990

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Nirvana - Live At Estadio José Amalfitani

Oct 30, 1992

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The Devil and Daniel Johnston

Mar 31, 2006

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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

Jan 27, 2025

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I Hate Myself and I Want to Die

Nov 17, 2023

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Kurt Cobain's Horror Movie

May 05, 1984

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101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment

Jul 18, 2003

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70 Years of Youth Revolt

Nov 21, 2020

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MTV Video Music Awards

Sep 14, 1984

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The Nineties

Jul 09, 2017

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Too Young to Die

Jul 14, 2012

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Saturday Night Live

Oct 11, 1975

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Classic Albums

Apr 14, 1997

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The UnXplained

Jul 19, 2019