Biography of Kurt Cobain
Demon returned to the sky
February 20, 1967April 5, 1994
It was the day April 8, 1994 when local Seattle radio aired the first, chilling rumors about the tragic death of one of the fathers of grunge: "the lead singer of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, killed himself with a shot fired at his home," croaked the voice of announcer. News that threw a whole army of fans into despair, untold numbers of kids who recognized in bitters and without hope of sensitive Kurt. Chronically melancholy, perpetually sad and for years before the fatal gesture, lacking some vital stimulus (as evidenced by his newly published diaries), the leader of Nirvana, was born in 1967 in a small town in Washington State. Parents, needless to say, were of humble origins, as well as suited to any self-respecting rock star. His father was a mechanic sensitive man and the generosity of spirit, while her mother, a housewife, was the strong character of the family, the one who sent forward to the House to take major decisions. Tired of staying at home, one day he decides to be a Secretary to supplement their income, unable to accept the subordinate role of housewife. Kurt, proves to be a curious child.
In addition to having talent for drawing, is also brought in acting as well, but you don't have to say, for music. At one point, the first fierce disappointment: family divorce, he is only eight years old and is too small to understand the drama of a couple. Only know that suffers as never happened to him before.
The father carries him to a community of woodcutters, indeed unhelpful towards "the sensitive and creative misfits". In particular, Kurt is especially lively and agitated though often in poor health conditions: to calm him down, he was given the dangerous Ritalin, a drug by fame left (even if you know only recently). Suffice it to say that Ritalin, which is still given to children in order to reassure them, affects the brain more powerful than cocaine. Using brain imaging "(a technique used to record images that we assume faithfully represent changes in regional neural activity), scientists have found that Ritalin (taken from thousands of English children and four million children in the United States), saturated those neurotransmitters that are responsible for the" euphoria "experienced by drug users more than cocaine inhaled or injected. In short, a drug capable of having an adverse effect on the personality, especially if taken at a young age. Kurt, in turn becomes, despite just being Ritalin tablets to calm him down, increasingly aggressive, uncontrollable, so much so that it sends into pieces the relationship with his father. At the age of seventeen breaks all ties with family and for several years led a nomadic life. Between late 1985 and early 1986 born instead Nirvana, band founded by Cobain with Krist Novoselic (initially the drummer was Chad Channing, later replaced by Dave Grohl).
These were the years when the punk rock music moves permanently to dance beat the youthful years of protest (exploded throughout the Western world); but they are also the years in which the music is expressed despair, anger, lack of artifice. A new form of protest that no longer passes from squares, but is expressed through sound. "Smells like Teen Spirit" became the anthem of the grunge generation, but also other songs from their most famous album "Nevermind" represent a continual reference to "pain of living," the futility of a life alienating. "Come as you are", "In Bloom", "Lithium", "Polly": all direct attacks with power and youth problems. And all signed by Cobain.
The truth, however, is that few have understood the depths that you could open in that soul torn apart, few are able to understand the real reason for his suicide. In this sense, reading her diaries, its painful and convoluted sentences, is an experience that puts chills. The result is a contradictory soul, never at peace with itself and marked basically by strong disesteem. Cobain always was considered "wrong," "sick," hopelessly "different". That rifle shot in the mouth comes right in the period of greatest success of his band, just after a recording "umplugged" (acoustic) for MTV that remained in history and in the hearts of millions of fans. Rich, famous and lionized, his songs were changing the face of music in the 1990s, but the leader of Nirvana had now come to an end, intoxicated heroin for years. Kurt Cobain died so only 27 leaving a wife who loved him and a daughter who will not have the good fortune to meet him.
Like other rockstar (like Jimi Hendrix or Jim Morrison), was killed by his own fame, a seemingly clear and transparent sea made of idolatry, of excesses and flattery but on its bottom reveals clearly the words "solitude."
Article contributed by the team of collaborators.