By José Gandue @spinning zone
Today he would have turned 50. If he had lived to this day, Kurt Cobain could have with his band Nirvana having done more heartbreaking songs, and perhaps thus have enjoyed the category of "classic", while walking down some street in Washington state. Things of the imagination.
If we indulge in silly speculation (dreaming and inventing nonsense is free), Cobain might have been able to abandon his rockstar status and, without making radical life decisions, disappear from the media spotlight, and, copying JD Salinger, He could have hidden in a mansion lost in some forest of the American West. having definitively separated from his catastrophic wife Courtney and he would have been better off enjoying leisure time with his daughter Francis Bean, with whom he would have fabulous father-misunderstood teenager fights.
In the most unlikely scenario, he might have accepted, like other unhinged celebrities, to record a duet with Tony Bennett, And, tired of looking like a rebel left to his own devices, he would change his 90s grunge look and adopt something more formal, buying a tie or two- We're just imagining things, but perhaps, as we've seen with so many musicians who grew old and resigned themselves to the world around them, Cobain would be seen at various sporting events, sitting in his box seat, watching the Seattle Mariners, not because he liked baseball, but because every now and then It would be good to surround himself with the masses and remember that love and admiration that others would feel for his figure.
It is likely that, if Kurt Cobain were still alive and He would not have decided to commit suicide on April 5, 1994, At 27 years old, he fondly remembers his early performances at Iguana's, a venue for teenage rockers in Tijuana, or the already massive show at Vélez Sarsfield Stadium in Buenos Aires, alongside Los Brujos. Perhaps, with the newfound money for concerts in Latin America, We would have seen his band in Colombia, in Peru or in Chile. Perhaps, in the middle of his presentations, he could have told us «"One day I was about to take my own life, I had the shotgun in front of me, but then I realized that I wanted to meet them and that's why I stayed.". The truth It would have been better if Cobain had had that cheesy moment and would have stayed with us.
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of his birth, we bring you four covers of his songs performed by Latin American projects. One Venezuelan (Georgina), and 3 Brazilians: Detonautas Roque Club, Gomes do 8, and the great Caetano Veloso.