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Frances Bean Cobain
b. 1992
American visual artist (born 1992)
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Biography
Frances Bean Cobain is an American visual artist and model. She is the only child of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and Hole frontwoman Courtney Love. She controls the publicity rights to her father's name and image.
Timeline
The story of Frances Bean Cobain, told in moments.
Twenty months old when her father died. She has no memories of him. Everything she knows comes from recordings and other people.
Began modeling and visual art. Her paintings showed influence from Mark Ryden and Frida Kahlo. She avoided music deliberately.
Appointed executor of Kurt Cobain publicity rights. At 22, she controlled the image of a man she never got to know.
Released her first original song, "My Body is a Cage," a cover for a documentary. She said making music felt like talking to a ghost.
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really unsympathetic handling of my dealing with a family crisis
members complained that Gabriel was showing a lack of commitment to the band. Gabriel saw this as a "really unsympathetic handling of my dealing with a family crisis" and said it caused a breakdown in...
The idea is to do it like a magazine, which will only come out once a year,
studio albums. All were labelled Peter Gabriel, using the same typeface, with designs by Hipgnosis. "The idea is to do it like a magazine, which will only come out once a year," he remarked in 1978....
So it's the same title, the same lettering in the same place; only the photo is ...
designs by Hipgnosis. "The idea is to do it like a magazine, which will only come out once a year," he remarked in 1978. "So it's the same title, the same lettering in the same place; only the photo...
I've got back into a rhythm consciousness. And the writing—particularly with the...
onic instrumentation with sampling world beat percussion. "Over the course of the last two albums," he observed, "I've got back into a rhythm consciousness. And the writing—particularly with the...
one of rock's most ambitious, innovative musicians, as well as one of its most p...
n 2006, and Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2008. AllMusic described him as "one of rock's most ambitious, innovative musicians, as well as one of its...
Hymns played quite a large part. They were the closest I came to soul music befo...
other and developed an interest in drumming. At age 10, he purchased a floor tom-tom. Gabriel later remarked of his early influences, "Hymns played quite a large part. They were the closest I came to...
[Banks] was extraordinarily possessive about the keyboards. I'd done a bit of fl...
ing nothing during instrumental sections. He would have preferred to play keyboard instruments, but said, "[Banks] was extraordinarily possessive about the keyboards. I'd done a bit of flute at...
, at age 12. An aunt gave him money for professional singing lessons around this...
great when you used to get the old shivers down the back." He wrote his first song, "Sammy the Slug", at age 12. An aunt gave him money for professional singing lessons around this time, but he used...
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