Kurt Donald Cobain

1967 - 1994

Kurt had a happy childhood, until he was seven years old when his parents got divorced. It was an ordinary divorce, but Kurt got very upset about it. He became shy and difficult to deal with. The years after the divorce Kurt moved back and forth from his parents. In the end his parents did not want anything to do with him so he had to move in at some relatives. This period of his life is also reflected in his lyrics, e.g. in Silver.

Kurt did not like school, he felt lonely and lost. He liked to paint and sing, but the other boy�s were more into football and stuff like that. Most of the girls liked Kurt and he spent alot of time with them. The boys wanted to hang out with Kurt to come closer to the girls, but Kurt hated the guts of those jocks. Kurt felt more like a girl rather than a boy and has later told: "I'm a heterosexual . . . big deal. But if I was a homosexual, it wouldn't matter either."

Until Kurt was nine years old he only listened to The Beatles and The Monkees, but in 1979 his father joined a record club and he started to listen to music like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Kiss. He also started to listen to British alternative rock like Sex Pistols and The Clash.

In February 2nd 1981, on Kurt�s 14th birthday, he bought his first guitar. And in the years to follow he tried to create his own music style and started to hang out in the Seattle underground, where he was roadie for a band called Melvins.

In May 1985, a few weeks before graduation, Kurt dropped out of school and started to work. He had a few jobs but it was never a success, and he never held on to a job for that long.