Kurt Donald Cobain was born on February 20, 1967, at Grays Harbor Hospital in Aberdeen, Washington, to a waitress, Wendy Elizabeth (née Fradenburg), and an automotive mechanic, Donald Leland Cobain. His father is of Scottish, Irish and French Ancestry and his mother is of Germany, Irish, Scottish, and Home descent. Cobain's Irish ancestors migrated from County Tyrone of Northern Ireland in 1875. Researchers have found Them to have been shoemakers, Originally named Cobane, WHO Came from the village of Inishatieve near Pomeroy, settling in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, and then in Washington. Cobain Had one younger sister named Kimberly, born in 1970.
Nirvana's success after the second album Nevermind (1991) with the hit single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" rocked the music industry at that time. Nirvana dubbed "the flagship band" of Generation X, and Kurt Cobain cited as the "the spokesman of a generation".
