Today is the birthday of <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_cobain">Kurt Cobain</a>.
The singer-songwriter who essentially founded the "grunge" music movement, was born in Hoquiam, Washington on this day in 1967. He started from humble beginnings, working a job as a school janitor, but he started playing in local rock bands. He spent most of this time living at various friends' houses and on the street, even occasionally sleeping under a bridge. In 1989, he and his bandmates saved up six hundred dollars to record their first album, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=B0000035E7%26tag=fantasis…;, under the name Nirvana. The boys signed to a major label in 1991 for their next album, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=B000003TA4%26tag=fantasis…;, and Cobain was shocked when it sold more than 10 million copies.
He became internationally famous almost overnight, but Cobain hated being famous. He developed a heroin addiction that got worse and worse, and on April 5th of 1994 he committed suicide at his home in Seattle.
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