Krist Novoselic is a musician born on May 16, 1965. Krist is best known as the drummer of Nirvana. But after the band broke up, he formed Sweet 75, and then Eyes Adrift, releasing one album with each band. From 2006 to 2009, he was a member of the punk band Flipper, with whom he played on the studio album Love and the live album Fight. And in 2011, he played drums in the song I Should Have Known by Foo Fighters.
In addition to musical activity, Krist is interested in politics and creates the JAMPAC committee, which advocates for the rights of musicians. From November 2007 to September 2010, he wrote a weekly column on music and politics for the Seattle Weekly website. From 2008 to the present, he has been Chairman of the Board of the FairVote Electoral Reform Organization.
The early years of Krista Novoselic's life and the formation of musical preferences
The biography of Krista Novoselic begins with birth in the city of Compton, California, in the family of Croatian emigrants Kristo and Maria Novoselic. He lived there for a year before Krist's parents moved to the Croatian Los Angeles area in San Pedro, where he lived for most of his childhood. Novoselic has two brothers Alan and Dillon Malloy Novoselic. He also has a younger sister, Diana.
When real estate prices rose in 1979, the Krista Novoselic family moved to Aberdeen, Washington. Here he becomes interested in bands such as Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath and Devo. According to Krista Novoselich, in Aberdeen he began to become very complex, about his great growth - 202 cm. He began to have a severe depression. This was the reason that in 1980, Krist's parents sent him to study in Zadar, Croatia, which at that time became part of Yugoslavia. There he feels better. His interest in punk music is growing even more, he learns about the bands Sex Pistols and Ramones. Krist Novoselich himself notes that John Entwistle, Geezer Butler, Gene Simmons and Paul McCartney had a fundamental influence on him.
Return to Aberdeen and meet Kurt Cobain
After a year of living in Croatia, the family returns him back to Aberdeen. After some time, Novoselic's brother Robert introduced him to his friend Kurt Cobain, who noticed loud music. Robert told Cobain that this is his older brother who loves punk rock. Cobain eventually made friends with senior Novoselic, as the couple eventually shared similar musical tastes, including a love for the local band The Melvins. In addition, they had many mutual friends.
The formation of Nirvana and gaining worldwide popularity
At one point, Cobain gave Christ a demo of his former band Fecal Matter and suggested he form a band together. A few months later, Novoselic finally listened to the tape, which, in the end, he liked and agreed to create the Nirvana group together with Kurt Cobain. Kurt and Krist remained the same members of the group. But several musicians managed to visit the drummers, including Aaron Burkhard, Melvins Dale Krover, Chad Channing with whom in 1989 they recorded their debut album Bleach.
Subsequently, Chad also left the group, and further searches for the drummer led Cobain and Novoselic to a punk band called Scream. They were impressed by the play of drummer Dave Grohl. And after a couple of weeks, learning that Scream had broken up, they invited Dave to their group. Grohl auditioned and joined the Nirvana. In 1991, the band recorded their main debut album Nevermind, the album made the band famous all over the world with the single Smells Like Teen Spirit.
The death of Kurt Cobain and the collapse of Nirvana
Nirvana broke up in 1994 after the unexpected death of Kurt Cobain. For most of this year, Krist stepped back from the spotlight. Novoselic and Cobain were almost inseparable for almost ten years, and the loss of his best friend was especially severe for him. One of the few public appearances took place in September at the MTV Video Music Awards, where the Nirvana Heart-Shaped Box video was awarded for the best alternative video. Krist Novoselic took the opportunity to pay tribute to his bandmate and best friend.
Continuation of the musical career of Krista Novoselich
The following year, Novoselic continued to play in various music groups. He was asked to do bass in the new Foo Fighters band with his friend and former bandmate Dave Grohl. But both musicians refused. They thought people would think that Foo Fighters was a rebirth of Nirvana.
In 1995, a group formed by Krist Novoselic, Sweet 75 released one album, and in 2000 broke up. After that, he joined Jell Baffer and, who left Soundgarden, Kim Tyil in No WTO Combo. Then to former Puppets vocalist Kurt Kirkwood and drummer from Bud Gaugh to form Eyes Adrift, which was also disbanded in 2003. This group was significant for Krist, as it was the first official release in his career where he performed vocals. He also took a very active role in the process of writing and recording songs, together with Kirkwood. After the collapse of Eyes Adrift, Novoselic announced that he was leaving the music business, saying that he did not like the process of creating ads for new recordings. However, in recent years, Novoselic has sometimes worked on music for a possible solo album. “Now I'm just doing it for myself,” Krist said.
In November 2006, it became known that Novoselic would join Flipper, replacing Bruno DeSmartas with bass for a tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland. Krist was a full member of the group and worked hard on his new album. September 22, 2008, due to family circumstances, Novoselic announced his departure from the group. As a result, the group canceled the remainder of the tour. In 2009, he played a newspaper trader in the movie "The Best Dad," starring Robin Williams. In October 2010, Dave Grohl, a former assistant to Nirvana, announced on the BBC radio that Krista Novoselic would join Foo Fighters on the band's next album as a bass player and accordionist. The record was released in 2011.
In 2012, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smir, along with Paul McCartney, performed at a charity concert, the purpose of which is to help those affected by Hurricane Sandy.
Public activity of the musician
In parallel with music, Krist Novoselich was engaged in social and political activities. In 1992, Washington state law attempted to pass a bill called the Erotic Music Act. The law allowed the courts to allocate certain erotic albums according to their content and prohibit the sale of them to persons under the age of 18 years. In response to the bill, a lobbying group called the Washington Music Industry Coalition was created. Krist Novoselic Nirvana actively campaigned against the bill and performed at a charity concert for a lobby group in September 1992. In 1995, the Erotic Music Act was reintroduced to Washington state law as a bill on harm to minors.
The music industry had a major influence in Seattle, so Novoselic created a committee to protect the rights of JAMPAC musicians (the “Joint Artists and Musicians Committee”).
Political activity
In 2004, he wrote and released the book Of Grunge and Government: Let's Fix This Broken Democracy (“Grunge and Government Let's Fix This Broken Democracy”). It was published in October 2004. In it, Krist talks about his musical past and the existence of Nirvana before gaining world fame in the 1990s. The book also covers Krist’s interest in politics, his support for electoral reform.
Novoselic supported Barack Obama in the presidential election in 2008. In 2007, he made a donation to Libertarian Republican Congressman Ron Paulo. Krist Novoselic is a vegetarian and publicly advocates for animal rights. Also calls for self-organization and electoral reform in the United States.
Personal life of a musician
Krist Anthony Novoselic was twice a genre. The first time his wife was Shelley Dilly. They met in high school and started dating. They were married since December 1989 and divorced by the end of 1999. In 2004, Novoselic will marry a second time, the artist Darbury Stenderi. After that, he moved to live in the small rural town of Wahkiakum in Washington State.