- Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain was the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the Seattle-based rock band Nirvana. Cobain was born in Aberdeen, Washington and grew up with a troubled childhood, which he frequently addressed in his songs and interviews. Known for his abrasive and often disturbing songwriting as well as his distinctive vocal style, Cobain is often cited among the most influential musicians of his time. Cobain formed Nirvana in 1986 with Krist Novoselic. - Johnny Grunge
Michael "Mike" Durham was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Johnny Grunge. He was best known for the tag team he formed with Rocco Rock known as The Public Enemy. - Neil Young
Neil Percival Young OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and film director from Omemee, Ontario. His work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and an instantly recognizable nasal tenor (and frequently alto) singing voice. - Dave Grohl
David Eric Grohl (born January 14, 1969, in Warren, Ohio) is an American rock musician and songwriter. Grohl formed the Foo Fighters in 1995. Previously, he was the drummer of Nirvana from 1990 until the band dissolved in 1994 after frontman Kurt Cobain's death. Grohl began his music career in the 1980s as the drummer for several Washington, DC area bands, most notably the punk rock band Scream. - Mark Lanegan
Mark Lanegan (born November 25, 1964 in Ellensburg, Washington) is a singer and songwriter. He has had a noteworthy career as a solo artist, but until recently was best known for his tenure as the lead singer of Screaming Trees, a band that was part of the Seattle grunge phenomenon of the 1990s. - Mark Arm
Mark Arm (born Mark McLaughlin on February 21, 1962) is the vocalist for the grunge band Mudhoney. He is also credited with coining the term "grunge" to describe his (and other Seattle rock groups) style of rock music (although Kurt Cobain claimed that Sub Pop executive Jonathan Poneman created the term). His former group, Green River, is, arguably, the first grunge rock band. - Jerry Cantrell
Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. (born March 18, 1966, Tacoma, Washington) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with the grunge/metal band Alice in Chains, as guitarist and main songwriter. He performs lead vocals on his solo projects, and was part of Alice in Chains' distinctive harmonizing dual-vocal style. He currently resides in Los Angeles and spends time on his family ranch in Oklahoma. - Jack Endino
Jack Endino is a music producer based in Seattle, USA. Long associated with Seattle label Sub Pop and the grunge movement, Endino worked on seminal albums from bands such as Mudhoney and Soundgarden, but is probably best known for producing the first Nirvana album, "Bleach", released in 1989. More recently he has produced albums for artists such as Hot Hot Heat, Therapy? The Black Halos, and Zeke. He also played in a band called Skin Yard and in October, … - Kim Thayil
Kim Thayil (born September 4, 1960 in Seattle, Washington) is best known as the guitarist for Seattle-based grunge band Soundgarden, which he founded with Chris Cornell and Hiro Yamamoto in 1984. He was named 100<sup>th</sup> best guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone Magazine. - Sean Kinney
Sean Kinney, born Sean Howard Kinney on May 27, 1966, is a musician best known for being the drummer of the influential grunge band Alice in Chains. His interest in music was developed early by his grandfather, who was part of a band known as "The Cross Cats", which Kinney was made a member of when he was nine years old. Sean played drums for Alice in Chains for their albums "Facelift", "Dirt", … - Ray Wilson
Ray Wilson (born 8 September 1968 in Dumfries) is a Scottish rock musician, who got his start in the grunge band Stiltskin; they released one album and had a number one hit in the UK with the single "Inside". He is the cousin of Ian Wilson, better known as Ian Catskilkin, of UK Indie band Art Brut. Ray started off in a band called Guaranteed Pure in the early 1990s. They released an album called "Swing Your Bag", … - Todd Snider
Todd Daniel Snider is a singer-songwriter born October 11, 1966 in Portland, Oregon. Best known for his wry humor, Snider has been a fixture on the Americana, alt-country, and folk scene since his debut on MCA, entitled "Songs for the Daily Planet", named after The Daily Planet bar where Snider used to play regularly in Memphis. On that album were the minor hits "Talkin' Seattle Grunge Rock Blues", … - Everett True
Everett True (born Jerry Thackray in 1960 or 1961) is a British music journalist, who grew up in Chelmsford, Essex. He became interested in rock music after hearing The Residents, and formed a band with school friends. In 1982, he went to a The Laughing Apple gig and met the group's lead singer Alan McGee. McGee offered him a column in his new fanzine, "Communication Blur", but Thackray left after two issues, … - Donita Sparks
Donita Sparks (born April 8, 1963, Chicago, Illinois) is a vocalist, guitarist and song-writer in Los Angeles, California. In addition to performing with her eponymously named solo project, she is also the co-founder, along with Suzi Gardner, of punk rock band L7. The band has released six studio albums, one live CD and a greatest hits record. - Nina Gordon
Nina Rachel Shapiro Gordon is an American rock singer. Co-founder of the band Veruca Salt, Gordon pioneered and revived Bangles inspired pop-rock for the mid-'90s grunge generation. She quickly became known for her instantly infectious power-pop hooks and melodies, writing Veruca Salt hits "Seether" and "Volcano Girls". Since leaving Veruca Salt in 1998, she has released the successful solo album "Tonight and the Rest of My Life", written songs for Fefe Dobson, … - Bruce Fairweather
Bruce Fairweather is a guitarist/bassist based in Seattle. In 1985, he replaced Steve Turner in the grunge band Green River, which included Mark Arm (later of Mudhoney), Alex Vincent as well as Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard, later of Pearl Jam. In 1988, shortly after the release of the band's mini album "Rehab Doll", Green River disbanded over band disputes. Singer Mark Arm reunited with Turner (whom Fairweather had replaced in Green River) to form Mudhoney. - Beck Hansen
Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970) is a Grammy Award-winning American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, known by his simple stage name of Beck. With his pop collage of musical styles, oblique, ironic lyrics, and post-modern arrangements incorporating samples, drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, … - Doug Pray
Doug Pray is an American documentary film director, cinematographer, and editor who often explores unique subcultures in his films. Among others, he has directed "Scratch", a documentary about turntablism and DJ culture; "Hype!", a documentary about the Seattle grunge scene of the early '90's; and "Infamy", a documentary about graffiti culture. His newest film is "Big Rig" a documentary about truck drivers. - Travis Meeks
Travis Meeks (born April 27, 1979 in Charlestown, Indiana), is an American musician, and is the lead singer and guitarist for Post-Grunge band Days of the New. - Guy Maddison
Guy Maddison is primarily known as a bassist associated with punk and grunge music. A native of Perth, Australia, Maddison played in mid-1980’s punk bands such as Greenhouse Effect. After moving to Sydney in 1986 he played bass for Lubricated Goat under the pseudonym Buster Smallgoods. Maddison formed a side project with former Lubricated Goat band mate Peter Hartley called Monroe’s Fur and relocated to Seattle. In the mid 1990’s Guy played with Mark Arm, … - Scott Lucas
Scott Lucas, born David Scott Lucas on May 10, 1970, is best known for being the singer and guitar/bass player, as well as the only remaining original member, of the grunge band Local H. Local H was started by high school friends Lucas, bassist Matt Garcia and drummer Joe Daniels in 1987. The band originally had as many as five members, but members would leave and rather than replacing them, the band just went on with the same musicians. - Ed Kuepper
Ed Kuepper (born Edmund Kuepper in Bremen, West Germany 20th December, 1955) is an Australian guitarist, singer and songwriter. He co-founded the seminal punk band The Saints, the experimental post-punk group The Laughing Clowns and later the grunge-like The Aints. He has also recorded over a dozen albums in his own name with a variety of backing bands, notably The Yard Goes On Forever, The Oxley Creek Playboys and The Institute Of Nude Wrestling. - John Baker Saunders
John Baker Saunders was a founding member and bassist for grunge rock supergroup Mad Season, as well as a member of The Walkabouts. He died of a heroin overdose in 1999. - Karl Mueller
Karl Mueller was a U.S. rock musician. He was the bass player and a founding member of the Minneapolis rock/grunge band Soul Asylum. In the early 1990s, after nearly a decade of constant touring and critical acclaim, Soul Asylum found themselves without a recording contract. Mueller worked for part of this time at a restaurant in downtown Minneapolis. - Beth Liebling
Beth Liebling, born in 1967, co-founded with guitarist/keyboardist/samplist Ryan Campbell, a.k.a. "Cambell 2000", the experimental instrumental group Hovercraft in 1993 in Seattle, Washington, and played bass for the band under the stage name "Sadie 7." Prior to forming the trio Hovercraft, Liebling and Campbell had played together in Space Helmet, which formed when Liebling moved to Seattle. - Chris Hanzsek
Chris Hanzsek is an American musical engineer and record producer currently living in Snohomish, Washington. He was co-founder, with then partner Tina Casale, of C/Z Records and their recording studio, Reciprocal Recording, in 1984. Many of the bands he produced in the mid-1980s are regarded as the foundation of Seattle’s “grunge” scene, such as, The Melvins, Soundgarden, The U-Men, Malfunkshun, Skin Yard, … - Lisette Melendez
Lisette Melendez is a freestyle/latin pop/dance-pop singer born in 1976 in Spanish Harlem, NYC. She is best known for her 1991 hits "Together Forever" and "A Day In My Life (Without You)". With powerful and sultry vocals, these songs propelled her debut album "Together Forever" to gold status with over 700,000 copies sold. Both songs were such big dance music hits that they are credited as helping renew interest in Freestyle music in the early 90s, … - Jason McCaslin
Jason Paul McCaslin, better known as "Cone," is the bass guitarist and backing vocalist of Canadian pop punk band Sum 41. Born in Toronto, Ontario, on September 3, 1980, and he joined the band as the last member of its current lineup in February 1999, replacing Mark Spicoluk. Sum 41 was signed by Island Records only months after he joined. - Joseph Szabo
Joseph Szabo (born 1944 in Toledo, Ohio) is a photographer. Szabo studied photography at the Pratt Institute where he received his MFA. He taught photography at Malverne High School in Long Island, New York from 1972 to 1999 and he continues to teach at the International Centre of Photography. Joseph Szabo is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Visual Arts Fellowship and his work resides in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, … - The John Francis
The John Francis is a San Francisco, California, based singer, guitarist, and songwriter, currently signed to Rerum Novarum Records. The John Francis is the stage name of a single musician, Jack Francis, though his performances and recordings are not always solo efforts — he is often accompanied on drums by Ilk Koskelo and occasionally on bass by Myke Stryker (the two of whom also comprise the rhythm section for We Be the Echo). - Chuck Paugh
Charles Michael Paugh (born July 25, 1967 in Valparaiso, Indiana) is an American record company owner who founded Party Til Dawn Productions in 1985. Chuck Paugh has served as the president of Party Til Dawn Productions since founding the company in October 1985. His exposure to the music industry began at an early age having been raised in Southern California amidst the peak of the 1970s punk rock scene, … - Jeff Muendel
Jeff Muendel is both an author and Hammond organist/keyboardist who has published several novels and played with bands including Rattlebone, Backbiter, Circus Of Power, Masters of Reality and Hum Machine. - Brian Castillo
Brian Castillo is an American musician/producer, and photographer born in Tacoma, Washington. Best known for his work with The Living Jarboe and In Gowan Ring, sometimes in a musician role and sometimes as a producer/engineer. He no longer uses the pseudonym but in the 90s he sometimes recorded under the name pFrenz-C . - Ashley Rothschild
Ashley Rothschild (born 15 May 1973) was the lead vocalist for Caligula, an Australian techno-grunge band from the 1990s. He is presently in an undergound band entitled The Graphics. They are a Sydney based Synth Rock band and are giging on the pub circuit. Ash has been known for some of his onstage antics such as Popin' and Lockin' and Breakdancing to their unique techno beats. - Jeff Lorien
Jeffrey Lorien (born September 19, 1962) is an American musician known for playing lead guitar in the punk rock band Coffin Break from 1992 until the band's 1994 break-up. His recording contributions for Coffin Break included the Epitaph Records release Thirteen in 1992. Shortly after the break-up the following year, he formed his band Orange King which released an EP and 7" single before disbanding in 1997. - Svilen Noev
Svilen Noev (born September 22, 1975) is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, best known for being the bandleader of Ostava. His eclectic, deeply personal work shows the influence of various types of rock'n'roll music - the British indie rock scene, the Seattle grunge scene, the American rockabilly of the 50s, to name a few. Noev cites Elvis Presley, Nirvana, R.E.M., Radiohead, The Smiths as key influences on his style. - David Beaudoin
David Beaudoin (born on 7 February 1996) is an actor from Montreal, Canada He was discovered by DJ Bob Sinclar through an Internet casting in Canada and the United States organised to find the protagonist or "leading boy" for his music video of "Love Generation", where a young blonde boy skips school and uses his bike to travel around the USA. Following his success in the music video, Beaudoin was cast in all following music videos by Sinclar. - Ritchie Neville
Richard Neville Dobson also known as Ritchie Neville was born on 23 August, 1979, in Solihull, West Midlands, UK to musical parents. Neville attended the private Bromsgrove School in Worcs. - Johnny Grunge
In 1997, Public Enemy entered the WWF surrounded by a lot of controversy. The WWF roster did not accept PE since it was understood that they were jumping from a sinking ship (WCW). In 1997, Public Enemy entered the WWF surrounded by a lot of controversy. The WWF roster did not accept PE since it was understood that they were jumping from a sinking ship (WCW). One half of the wrestling tag team known as Public Enemy with Ted Petty better known as Rocco Rock. They worked for WCW, WWF, ECW... - Grunge
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