Historical Figure
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
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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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