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BIOGRAPHY OF KURT COBAIN  KURT DONALD COBAIN Kurt Donald Cobain was born on February 20, 1967 in a small logging town in Oregon named Aberdeen, approximately 200 miles from Seattle, Washington. He lived there with his parents and little sister. At age seven Kurt’s life took a drastic change, his parents divorced, and Kurt was forced to look at the world in a different light. Kurt found his housing situation unbearable as he was passed around to live with ten different relatives and family friends. His aunt introduced Kurt to music at a very young age; to Kurt music was the only way to let out his anger. He was isolated at school and his peers viewed him as unusual. His guitar became his only friend and he brought it with him every where. One of his classmates recalls a day when Kurt boarded the school bus with a broken guitar and told everyone “ Don’t ask me to play it, it’s broken”. His guitar became his persona, his mask, and the reason for people to care about him. At age fourteen Kurt Cobain discovered a body of a young man who hung himself, he also dealt with the suicide of his uncle, and at least three others in his larger family. Kurt would later claim in life that he had “suicide genes”. By the time K