Some followers didn’t need to journey very far — they had been from Seattle. Others, from Portland, traveled a bit farther. Two flew in from Dublin.
All got here to Viretta Park in Seattle for a similar cause: to honor Kurt Cobain on the thirtieth anniversary of his loss of life.
Cobain, the lead vocalist, main songwriter and guitarist for grunge rock band Nirvana, died by suicide on the age of 27 in 1994.
Jared Sparks from Portland wore a black and pink sweater he purchased from a thrift retailer. He mentioned they had been colours Cobain preferred and Cobain preferred to buy at thrift shops. Sparks was planning to go away the sweater behind on a bench for the rock star.
Louise Johnston, from Belfast, Northern Eire, went to a Nirvana live performance there in 1992. A lifelong fan of the band, Johnston was sharing her fandom Friday together with her daughter, whom she introduced together with her from Northern Eire. The park is adjoining to the house the place Cobain lived together with his spouse, Courtney Love, and their daughter, Frances Bean Cobain.
Johnny Arnoux and his brother Martin Noticed Bear additionally visited the park, the place a bench is roofed with flowers, candles and notes in honor of Cobain. Arnoux mentioned that he and others who grew up in troublesome circumstances may relate to the angst in Nirvana’s music. Arnoux, a member of the Crow tribe and Blackfoot Confederacy, seems like Nirvana has particular significance to him and different Native Individuals.
He attended the memorial for Cobain at Seattle Middle in 1994 when he was 13. “Cobain’s music is sort of a letter from a complete stranger telling you that all the things was going to be all proper.”
