Kurt Cobain was raised in Seattle, and started NIRVANA, a band that would go on to be one of the most well known bands of the 90's. Many would go on to idolize him as an artists, and others would go on to see him as a fool. Kurt Cobain killed himself in 1994, though many fans would argue that it was not his doing. In the end, he was found with a shotgun wound to the head, through the mouth..