Kurt Cobain

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Kurt Cobain

For our modern day hero we used the singer and songwriter Kurt Cobain from the
band Nirvana. This punk Seattle band moved almost mainstream almost overnight.
Nirvana caught on fast and changed rock and roll music forever and molded the
music of the 90’s, alternative. Cobain had an enormous amount of talent but
unfortunately his life was cut short by a still controversial suicide in his
Seattle home. On April 9, 1994, his body was discovered. He is a hero for many
of today’s troubled youth because his music influences how these troubled kids
feel. They are able relate to Cobain and his music. Kurt Cobain was born in
1967. He lived with his sister and parents two hundred miles away from Seattle
in the small logging town of Aberdine. His aunt, who helped him form his first
band, introduced him to music at a very young age. His parents divorced when
Kurt was only seven years old. Torn up by his parents’ divorce, he went to
live with his mother in a trailer. After the divorce, Kurt was forced to look at
his life in a different light. Kurt became extremely anti-social, had few
friends, and was picked on in school because kids thought he was gay or weird.
Kurt started writing poetry at the age of thirteen, and when he was 14, he
received his first guitar. Throughout high school he was in many bands- Fecal
Matter, Skid Row, Brown Cow, The Sellouts and Pencap Chew. He formed Nirvana
during his senior year of high school with his friends Chris Novoselic and Dave
Grohl who Kurt called “the world’s best drummer.” Shortly after the band
was formed, Kurt dropped out of high school, and his mother kicked him out of
the house. Homeless, he lived under a bridge at the end of his street. It was
here that he would spend time alone writing his own songs. From his parents’
divorce to his mother pushing him out of the house, Kurt had become even more
alienated from other people and life. He was very detached. Kurt hated the music
of big rock bands like the Sex Pistols, Rolling Stones and Aerosmith. He felt
their lyrics were sexist and pointless with no meaning. Kurt was a very
sensitive and emotional person, a characteristic that showed through all of his
songs. Eventually he became so famous that he a...

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