Kurt Cobain

✶February 20, 1967

†April 5, 1994

United States

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About their life

Kurt Donald Cobain was an American musician and songwriter. He was the lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and a founding member of the grunge band Nirvana. Through his angsty songwriting and anti-establishment persona, he widened the thematic conventions of mainstream rock music. He was heralded as a spokesman of Generation X, and is widely recognized as one of the most influential musicians in the history of rock music.

As the frontman of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain gave voice to a restless generation and brought underground rock crashing into the mainstream.

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Biography from the article Kurt Cobain on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.