Kurt Donald Cobain was born February 20, 1967 in Aberdeen, Washington.
At 2, Kurt already had a penchant for music. According to Aunt Mary Earle, the sister of the boy’s mother, at 4, he sang and wrote songs. When the boy was 8 years old, his parents divorced (a detailed biography of the musician - )
At first he lived with his mother, but because of conflicts with her new roommate, he moved to his father. He soon married a woman with 2 children. The boy could not get along with his father’s new family - after that he alternately lived with relatives on the part of his father and mother.
At age 14, he started learning to play the guitar, which his uncle gave him on his birthday. Soon he met with members of the Melvins band and other musicians, in this company he found his future partner - Chris Novoselich.
In 1984, Kurt returned to live in the house of his mother, who married a docker who was pretty fond of drinking.
The boy decides not to go to art college. This exacerbates the already imperfect relationship in the family, after which Kurt leaves home. In the future, he alternately stayed with his friends.
On May 18, 1986, he was arrested for illegally entering into private land while intoxicated, and Cobain was detained for 8 days.
A little bit skilled in playing the guitar, Kurt begins to look for his own style, experimenting with sound.
Soon he gathers his 1st team - “Fecal Matter”. Kurt sings and plays the guitar, Dale Krover plays the bass, and Greg Hawkson sits at the drum kit.
Throughout 1987, Cobain was looking for a new line-up for the group, replacing the collective names one after another.
In 1988, Cobain finally assembled a team. Soon, the musicians gave their first concert under the name of the subsequently become legendary group - “Nirvana”.
In the summer of 1989, the presentation of the band's first album, “Bleach”, was held, which earned deafening fame. After that, the team gives a number of concerts in the vastness of the USA and Europe. In the same year, Kurt met his future wife - Courtney Love.
After 3 years, in 1992 they got married, Courtney was already pregnant.
At the same time, Cobain begins to have problems with heroin. This year in the life of a musician follows a strip of diverse events. Members of Nirvana give a series of concerts with the presentation of their new album, quite rarely getting out of alcoholic drug ecstasy. Also this year, Kurt's daughter, Francis Cobain, is born. After some time, the press becomes aware that Courtney gave herself heroin injections during pregnancy, as a result of which the court assigns regular drug tests to Cobain and Courtney.
In 1994, the musicians went to Europe with concerts, on March 1 in Munich, Kurt discovered acute laryngitis and bronchitis. After 3 days, March 4, Love discovers her husband unconscious at the hotel.
Doctors diagnosed the musician with a pharmacological coma that occurred as a result of the parallel use of rogipnol, which was prescribed to Kurt and champagne. Cobain comes to life after 20 hours.
2 weeks after these events, a quarrel arose between Cobain and Courtney. Love called the police, saying that her husband intends to commit suicide. Kurt denies everything.
On March 20, Kurt, under the influence of his wife, is again enrolling in a rehabilitation course. In a conversation with doctors, Cobain does not cease to say that he does not use drugs.
April 1, 1994 the musician flees from the clinic and flies to Seattle.
Exactly a week later, on April 8, 1994, the body of Kurt Cobain was found in the greenhouse. His head was badly damaged by shotgun shots, there were traces of injections on his hands, and a lethal dose of heroin in his body.
A note was found near the body. It does not explicitly indicate suicide. It is possible that the lines that he allegedly addressed to his wife were written by someone else.