Kurt Cobain would turn 58: the hard childhood of the leader of Nirvana

He February 20, 1967 He was born Kurt Cobainson of a mechanic named Donald and a housewife named Wendy. His first years in Aberdeen, Washington were more than happy; He shared moments with his parents and his younger sister, Kim, He was a child with a lot of energy and entertaining the family With their song, acting and drawing.

However, his life had an episode that marked him forever. Before his eighth birthday, his mother asked his father for divorce, bitter and helpless. After separation, Kurt lived a year with his Wendy, who later expressed: “I think he was embarrassed. And he became introverted. Everything was kept. He was very shy. That devastated it.”.

Aberdeen was not exactly the people in which Kurt could disconnect from their family problems. It was a boring community of woodcutters, far from the artistic currents of which the sensitive Cobain was interested. In fact, his uncle Larry Smith recalled at his funeral the time he was beaten by a 100 kilos woodcut, whom the child responded with a smile and a “Fuck You.”

A violent and tragic family

During his childhood, Kurt was several times sickfor what they gave him Ritalin to counteract your hyperactivity. However, later He was diagnosed with chronic bronchitis and mild scoliosis.

In 1979, Kurt’s grandfather committed suicide, and five years later the same thing happened with another uncle. Two hard blows for the Cobain family, which increasingly disintegrated. When Donald married, his new family moved him away from the unhappy child, who initiated a nomadic life by houses of several relatives after being thrown out of his; First he lived with his uncles, he returned to his father, then with his grandparents and finally with three more pairs of uncles.

He returned to the mother’s house, where he lasted a year. Wendy also married again, but an episode of infidelity caused her to pointed a gun to her new husband, before the look of her two children. Then, he disappeared at night and threw all the firearms that were in the house to the Wishkah River. Kurt was then at the request of his mother to look for weapons, although he sold them to have cash, with which its first amplifier was bought.

He punk-rock It was the music that grew more and more, and for that time represented Kurt and his mood at that time. His anger and despair led him to leave high school, to be thrown out of his mother and even live down a bridge. After an idea with your friend Krist Novoselica band was born whose name mutated until reaching Nirvana.

In 1987Kurt moved to Olympia -A 80 kilometers of Aberdeen- to start a new life. There he found An ultraliberal artistic mecca, a place where he could explore his art and got a boyfriend with Tracy Marander. By the end of the 80 ‘, his group began to take off, without knowing how far it would come.

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