Kurt Cobain

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born

February 20, 1967 in Aberdeen, Washington, The United States

died

April 05, 1994

gender

male

genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Poetry, Arts & Photography

influences

William S. Burroughs, John Lennon, K Records, Evel Knievel, Univox

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Kurt Donald Cobain, was an American musician who served as lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the Seattle-based rock band Nirvana.

Cobain formed Nirvana in 1987 with Krist Novoselic. Within two years, the band became a fixture of the burgeoning Seattle grunge scene. In 1991, the arrival of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" marked the beginning of a dramatic shift of popular rock music away from the dominant genres of the 1980s (glam metal, arena rock, and dance-pop) and toward grunge and alternative rock. The music media eventually awarded the song "anthem-of-a-generation" status, and, with it, Cobain was labeled a "spokesman" for Generation X.

During the last years of his life, Cobain struggled with drug addiction and the media pre...more

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Books by Kurt Cobain

Average rating: 3.83 · 3,077 ratings · 203 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Journals 3.84 avg rating — 3,039 ratings — published 2002 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Odeio-me e quero morrer by Kurt Cobain, João Lisboa (Translator) 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Artwork. 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Le Canzoni Dei Nirvana 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	The Man Who Sold The World 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love: In Their Own Words by Nick Wise, Kurt Cobain 3.36 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating: