Kurt Donald Cobain – was a famous American singer, songwriter and musician Among his main compositions, the single Smells Like Teen Spirit, from Nirvana’s second album, “Nevermind”, was responsible for the beginning of the success of the group and Kurt himself , popularizing a subgenre of alternative rock that the press came to call grungeor to have been ´´O Nirvana“ was considered the band “flagship of Generation X”, and its singer, Kurt Cobain, was anointed by the media as a spokesman for the generation, even against his will. Founder, vocalist and guitarist of the band Nirvana.

Since their debut, the band Nirvana, with Cobain as a songwriter, has sold more than twenty-five million albums in the United States, and more than fifty million worldwide.

In 2006, twelve years after his death, Forbes magazine listed the thirteen dead celebrities who most profited in the last twelve months of the year. The singer took first place on the list, with earnings estimated at fifty million US dollars. Even after his death, Kurt’s music, like himself, continues to inspire people around the world.

Cobain is considered the hero and idol of many teenagers, due to his lyrics, which tend to express, in most cases, frustration, anger, depression and fear. [99] In the years following his death, Cobain was remembered as one of the most famous rock musicians in the history of alternative music. In 2003, he was considered the 73rd best guitarist and the 45th greatest singer of all time by the American magazine Rolling Stone, and the seventh among the “22 Best Voices in Music” by MTV. [100] [101] In 2006, it was in twentieth place in the list made by Hit Parader magazine of “100 Greatest Metal Singers of All Time”.