Informative Essay On Kurt Cobain

For this project of mine, my person of history is Kurt Cobain. Kurt is an important person because he created a new independent genre of music, it was called “grunge”. He was the lead vocals and guitar in the three man band “Nirvana”.

Kurt was born and raised most of his life in Aberdeen, Washington. Kurt was diagnosed with ADHD when he was a child and had to take medication for this symptom. Kurt’s family life wasn’t very happy. Kurt loved his mother more than anything in the world, his father he was not so fond of. Kurt wasn’t entertained by sports; his father always wanted him to be interested in sports, but Kurt never approved. He had a hard life in is “father-son relationship”, in his documentary “About A Son”, Kurt talks about his father

M. Weatherwax High School in Aberdeen, it teaches 9-12 grades. Kurt whenever he switched schools didn’t have a lot of friends. He was picked on and he said he got beat up a lot. Kurt said in school he pretended to be gay for a couple of years, not for attention, but because he enjoyed the conflict that was involved in it. Then after a couple years he started to stop. This was because he would change schools every now and again due to his father’s working conditions as a mechanic. Unfortunately, Kurt never got his diploma. He dropped out of high school in his senior year, and then he went looking for a

In 1986 Kurt, Krist, and Chad Channing (drums) started playing together for fun. At first they were called “Fecal Matter”, but Kurt decided the last and final name was; “Nirvana”. The first album they made under Nirvana was “Bleach”, in 1989. For a while, they just played and messed around keeping a few recordings around, but they decided they wanted to make a record. And Sub Pop Records in Seattle made one for them. The record was a major hit, It included songs such as; Blew, About a Girl, Negative Creep, School, Love Buzz, Paper cuts, and Scoff. There is more but these were the hits of the album. Kurt wanted to be a rock star ever since he can remember he’s said. He said playing guitar was like an escape from the “real” world, he enjoyed more than anything in the world. The first song he learned was Back in Black by ACDC, and stairway to heaven by Led Zeppelin. The guitar teacher said after a couple parts of Stairway to Heaven he stopped taking lessons. Kurt said he did this because “When you learn power chords then you can write songs.” So the reason why he chose this profession is because he was good at it, and with all that happened in his life he could write impacting songs for