On April 5, 1994, at the age of 27, Kurt Cobain, leader of Nirvana, died. The singer's lifeless body will be found three days later, on April 8, at 8.40 am, by the electrician of the company Veca Electric, Gary Smith, who had gone to the villa at 171 Lake Washington Boulevard East, in Seattle.

The world has lost an icon of the 90s, the one who was able to give a voice to young people who could not find their size, but who felt represented by that blond boy who came from the American province, dressed in a flannel shirt , jeans ripped but he had made it. He was there to sing about everyone's malaise, that malaise that started from his stomach and went up to his throat, until it was released in a chorus that became collective. There were no social networks in the 1990s but news of Cobain's death spread quickly in Seattle. A word of mouth that started from the moved voice of the radio announcers who issued the first information and awaited confirmation, hoping to have denials, which unfortunately did not arrive. The news had shocked fans around the world. In Seattle, so many gathered to remember him.

Cobain was the symbol of a generation that identified in his music through that angry but energetic cry, and also with the melancholy lyrics and the distorted melodies. With his death, the spotlight on the so-called "grunge" scene in Seattle went out, the volumes were lowered and suddenly the silence of mourning and a void fell that has never been filled by anyone except by the memory for everything. what has been and what could still be. "It is better to burn quickly than to go out slowly", said Neil Young in "My my, hey hey".

Angelo Barraco