That morning, Cobain, a year-old electrician, died of an apparent suicide in a greenhouse above the garage of his Seattle home. According to Rolling Stone, 1 gauge shotgun. The cover of Kurt Cobain Diaries. Courtesy of Riverhead Books. But for the naysayers who think the Journals have little value beyond being a pacifier for crying fans who are grieving. Essay Title: Kurt Cobain: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Personality. Kurt Cobain was the lead singer of the Seattle-based grunge rock band Nirvana. As the songwriter, guitarist and lead singer of Nirvana, Cobain took the music industry by surprise and is considered the godfather of the grunge rock movement. Cobain and his group had Brett Morgen, director of “Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck,” in Los Angeles. John Francis Peters for The New York Times. Eventually, Mr. Morgen, 46, said he discovered a guy who was “hugely.” Even in his youth. Kurt Donald Cobain was born at Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Aberdeen, the only son of Donald and Wendy Fradenburg Cobain. Don worked as a mechanic at a Chevron gas station near their rental home on Aberdeen Avenue in Hoquiam. In August, the young family moved E, Frank Micelotta Getty Images Iconic singer and guitarist for grunge rockers Nirvana, Kurt Cobain committed suicide after shooting himself in his Seattle home. "Now he's gone and joined this stupid club," said Kurt Cobain's mother, Wendy O'Connor. "I told him not to join that stupid club