The heartfelt message from Kurt Cobain’s daughter 30 years after the death of the Nirvana leader

Kurt Cobain, leader of Nirvana, took her own life on April 5, 1994 at the age of 27, leaving behind a unique musical legacy and a daughter who was barely a year and a half old. Now, at 31 years old, Frances Bean expressed through her networks her feelings of loss and her tribute to her late father.

Frances Bean accompanied her message with a series of photographs of both her with her father and a little Kurt frolicking with his mother, Wendy.

The message from Kurt Cobain’s daughter 30 years after his death

“Over the last 30 years, my ideas about loss have been in a continuous state of metamorphosis,” he says.

“I wish I had met dad. I wish I knew the cadence of his voice, how he liked his coffee, or how he felt when he snuggled up after a bedtime story.. I always wondered if she had caught tadpoles with me during the muggy Washington summers, or if she smelled like Camel Lights and strawberry Nesquik (her favorites of his, I’m told).”

“His mother, Wendy, often pressed my hands against her cheeks and said, with a numbing sadness, ‘You have his hands.’ She inspired them as if it were her only chance to have him a little closer to her, frozen in time. I hope you have your hands wherever they are.”

The message concludes with a reflection on a letter Kurt wrote before she was born, in which he promised to always be with her.

“Kurt wrote me a letter before I was born. The last line says: ‘Wherever you go or wherever I go, I will always be with you’. He fulfilled this promise because he is present in many ways. Whether listening to a song or through the hands we share, in those moments I can spend time with my dad and he feels transcendent. For anyone who has ever wondered what it would have been like to live alongside the people they have lost, I have you in my thoughts today. The meaning of our pain is the same.”