Kurt Cobain Biography
      Kurt Donald Cobain was the leader of Nirvana, the multi-platinum grunge band that redefined the sound of the nineties.
     
      Cobain was born on the 20th of February 1967 in Hoquaim, a small town 140 kilometres south-west of Seattle. His mother was a cocktail waitress and his father was an auto mechanic. Cobain soon moved to nearby Aberdeen, a depressed and dying logging town.
     
      Cobain was for most his childhood a sickly bronchitic child. Matters were made worse when Cobain s parent s divorced when he was seven and by his own account Cobain said he never felt loved or secure again. He became increasingly difficult, anti-social and withdrawn after his parent s divorce. Cobain also said that his parent s traumatic split fueled a lot of the anguish in Nirvana s music.
     
      After his parent s divorce Cobain found himself shuttled back and forth between various relatives and at one stage homeless living under a bridge.
     
      When Cobain was eleven he heard and was captivated by the Britain s Sex Pistols and after their s... (More NIRVANA Biography)