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May 17, 2017 – Chris Cornell (Soundgarden) was born Christopher John Boyle on July 20, 1964 in Seattle, Washington, where he was too raised. He was the fourth of six children. His male parent, Ed, was a pharmacist; his mother, Karen, was an accountant. Cornell was a loner; he tried to deal with his anxiety around other people through stone music but during his early on teenage years, he spiraled into severe low and almost never left the house. His first favorite band were the Beatles. A noteworthy rumor later on was that Cornell spent a ii-year catamenia between the ages of 9 and eleven solidly listening to the Beatles later finding a large drove of Beatles records abased in the basement of a neighbor'due south house.

At the historic period of 12, he had access to heroin, marijuana and prescription drugs and reportedly used them daily by age 13, before he stopped for a year. He dropped out of school at 14, after his parents divorced, and took his mother Karen's maiden proper name Cornell. He relapsed at historic period 15 for some other year until he turned to music. After dropping out of schoolhouse he worked in a seafood warehouse and every bit a prep-melt at Ray'south Boathouse in Seattle to have some income, but at xvi Cornell turned to music for emotional release and subsequently picked up the drums as his instrument.

In the early 1980s, Cornell became a member of a cover band called The Shemps, which performed around Seattle. The Shemps featured bassist Hiro Yamamoto. Afterward Yamamoto left The Shemps, the ring recruited guitarist Kim Thayil. Cornell and Yamamoto stayed in contact, and after The Shemps bankrupt upward, Cornell and Yamamoto started jamming together, eventually bringing Thayil to join them. Cornell was the founding member of Soundgarden in Seattle in 1984, with him originally on drums and vocals. Soundgarden became the first band from Seattle'due south grunge scene to get signed to a major characterization and the band became a template for grunge and helped pave the manner for bands similarPearl Jam, Alice In Chains and Nirvana, three other bands from the same city. On a side note: Of the four famous Seattle bands from those days, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam is at present the just lead singer still live today.

Their first effort with recording let to a little known album in 1988, soon followed past a major label release in 1989 of Louder than Love, leading to some music video work and several band changes. Bassist Yamamoto leaves the band to return to college. Jason Everman, formerly of Nirvana, joined the band briefly. He played bass on the ring'due south cover of The Beatles' Come up Together and appeared in the Loud Love video. Shortly afterwards, he was replaced by Ben Shepherd. In the early 1990s, along with Alice in Chains, Nirvana, and Pearl Jam, Soundgarden became one of the nigh successful bands from Seattle's emerging grunge scene.  With Shepherd on bass, the new line-up recorded Badmotorfinger in 1991. The anthology brought the ring to a new level of commercial success, and Soundgarden found itself amongst the sudden popularity and attention given to the Seattle music scene.

Badmotorfinger was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 1992. It was as well ranked number 45 in the October 2006 event of Guitar World on the magazine's list of the 100 greatest guitar albums of all time.

As a result of the album's success, they take off on a 1991 Tour with Guns Due north' Roses, and later release the video compilation Motorvision filmed during that tour.

The side by side year Soundgarden appears in the Cameron Crowe film Singles performing Nascency Ritual and Chris Cornell solo vocal Seasons is also included on the soundtrack. From July on, the band joins the Lollapalooza tour alongside the Cerise Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, and Ministry.
The adjacent year Cornell covers Jimi Hendrix'south "Hey Baby (Business firm Of The New Rising Dominicus)" forth with Mike McCready, Jeff Ament and Matt Cameron under the name Grand.A.C.C. The rail is released on Hendrix tribute anthology Stone Free, aslope tracks by Eric Clapton, Jeff Brook, Paul Rodgers and others.

And and then in March 1994 the huge quantum sets in with the release of their next album Superunknown. It became the band'due south breakthrough as it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, supported by several successful singles, including "Spoonman" and "Black Hole Sun". Information technology was the album that brought Soundgarden international recognition. Superunknown achieved quintuple platinum status in the U.s., triple platinum status in Canada and gold status in the United kingdom, Sweden and the Netherlands.
All at in one case Soundgarden plays everywhere on on a worldwide tour, including in Australia and Nippon for the kickoff time. The music video for Blackness Hole Sun is a hit on MTV and wins Best Metal/Hard Rock Video at the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards. Soundgarden received two Grammy Awards in 1995; Black Hole Sun for Best Difficult Rock Operation and Spoonman for All-time Metallic Functioning.

The ring'south 5th album was 1996's self-produced Down on the Upside. The anthology spawned several singles, including "Pretty Noose", "Burden in My Paw", and "Blow Upwardly the Outside World". The album was notably less heavy than the group'south preceding albums, and marked a further departure from the band'south grunge roots. Soundgarden explained at the fourth dimension that it wanted to experiment with other sounds. David Browne of Entertainment Weekly said, "Few bands since Led Zeppelin have and then crisply mixed instruments both acoustic and electric."

Still, tensions inside the group arose during the sessions, with Thayil and Cornell reportedly clashing over Cornell'south desire to shift away from the heavy guitar riffing that had get the band'southward trademark. Despite favorable reviews, the anthology did not friction match the sales of Superunknown. In 1997, Soundgarden received another Grammy nomination, for the lead single "Pretty Noose". Due to tensions within the ring, Soundgarden announced information technology was disbanding on April 9, 1997. In a 1998 interview, Thayil said, "It was pretty obvious from everybody'south general attitude over the course of the previous half-year that there was some dissatisfaction."

After Soundgarden broke up Cornell pursued a solo career for a handful of years and began writing and recording with guitarist Alain Johannes and keyboardist Natasha Shneider of the band Eleven. His starting time solo album Euphoria Morning was released on September 21, 1999 to much acclaim. The album'due south unmarried Can't Change Me was nominated for "Best Male person Rock Song Performance" at the 2000 Grammy Awards and the anthology'due south bonus track Sunshower was featured on the soundtrack for the picture Great Expectations, while a reworked version of the track Mission, retitled Mission 2000, was used on the soundtrack to the film Mission: Impossible Ii.

In 2001, simply earlier going back into the studio for his next solo project, close friend and producer Rick Rubin asked Cornell to head up a new band namedAudioslave — a project pursued past the three remaining members of Rage Against the Machine with Tom Morello (lead guitar), Tim Commerford (bass and backing vocals) and Brad Wilk (drums), following the difference of singer Zack de la Rocha.

Morello described their kickoff see with Cornell equally: "He stepped to the microphone and sang the vocal and I couldn't believe it. It didn't just sound good. It didn't sound corking. It sounded transcendent. And … when there is an irreplaceable chemistry from the offset moment, you can't deny information technology."

The 4 bandmembers wrote 21 songs during nineteen days of rehearsal and began working in the studio in late May 2001 resulting in such huge radio hits "Like a Stone" and "Cochise."

The self-titled debut album, Audioslave, was released on Nov nineteen, 2002 and entered the Billboard 200 chart at number 7 after selling 162,000 copies in its kickoff week. Certified gold by the RIAA inside a month of release, past 2006 the album had achieved triple platinum status. It became the most successful Audioslave album, having sold more than three million copies in the United States alone.

A calendar week after the album's debut, Audioslave performed live on the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway in New York Urban center, for the Late Bear witness with David Letterman. Information technology was the kickoff fourth dimension whatever ring has appeared on Letterman's marquee. Similar a Rock, the second unmarried from Audioslave, was released in early 2003, and peaked at number ane on Billboard'due south Mainstream Stone Tracks and Modern Rock Tracks charts. Information technology was certified gold by the RIAA and becomes Audioslave's most successful unmarried. The band spend eight months of that year touring worldwide.

At the 46th Grammy Awards Similar a Stone was nominated for Best Difficult Rock Functioning and Audioslave for Best Rock Album. Audioslave spend part of 2004 working on a 2d album and in March, Cornell married his second married woman Vicky Karayiannis. Their first child, Toni Cornell (named later on Vicky's mom, Antonia) arrived September 18, 2004. Their son, Christopher Nicholas Cornell, was born 15 months afterwards Dec fifth, 2005.

Audioslave's second album Out of Exile was released internationally on May 23, 2005, and a 24-hour interval later on in the U.S. Information technology debuts at the elevation of the Billboard 200 chart, the only Audioslave album to reach this position, and the band tours in back up of it from April until November. On May half-dozen, 2005, Audioslave becomes the first American rock group to play a free show in Havana, Cuba, in front of an estimated fifty,000 people at the La Tribuna Antiimperialista José Martí. Audioslave also performs at the Alive 8 do good concert in Berlin on July 2, 2005, and tours North American arenas from late September to Nov. Audioslave'due south second DVD, Live in Cuba, featuring the concert in Havana, is released on October 11, 2005, and becomes certified platinum in less than two months.

In December of 2006, Audioslave receives its third Grammy nomination in the Best Hard Rock Functioning category for Doesn't Remind Me. Audioslave spent the early part of 2006 in the studio. Revelations, Audioslave's third album, influenced by 1960s and 1970s funk and R&B music, is released in September 2006. A special marketing campaign places the album'due south art concept on Google Earth as a fictional isle, Audioslave Nation, in the South Pacific. The anthology entered the Billboard 200 at #two and sold 142,000 copies during its outset calendar week of release.

All of Audioslave's lyrics were written by Cornell, whilst all 4 members were credited with writing the music. Their songwriting procedure was described past Wilk as "more collaborative" and "satisfying" than Rage Against the Machine'southward, which was "a battle creatively". Cornell, for his part, saw Soundgarden'south songwriting method every bit inferior to Audioslave'due south. Cornell'southward lyrics were mostly apolitical; Audioslave's Morello referred to them as "haunted, existential poesy." They were characterized past his cryptic arroyo, often dealing with themes of existentialism, love, hedonism, spirituality and Christianity.

Cornell'southward ongoing battle with addiction to prescription drugs and alcoholism was always a defining factor in the writing and recording process. Even though the singer admitted that he was "never able to write effectively" while drinking and attended rehab after recording the debut album, Morello stated that Revelations was "the first record, Cornell didn't fume, drink or take drugs through the recording." However, Morello said: "Chris was rock sober during the making of our Out of Exile anthology. Chris was also sober during the making of Revelations and prior to recording he gave upwardly smoking as well. I apologize for whatever confusion or concern that was stirred upwards past the original commodity. Sobriety can be a matter of life or death and Chris' courage in maintaining his health for years has been an inspiration."

News about Cornell's departure emerged offset in July 2006, when insiders stated that later the third album he would leave to pursue for some other solo career. The singer immediately denied the rumors, stating: "We hear rumors that Audioslave is breaking up all the time. … I always merely ignore them."

Yet On February fifteen, 2007, Cornell officially announced his departure from Audioslave, stating that "Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well equally musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other 3 members naught but the best in all of their futurity endeavors." As the other iii members were busy with the Rage Confronting the Machine reunion with de la Rocha coming dorsum, Morello and Cornell each released solo albums, Audioslave officially disbanded.

For a 2d time in ten years Cornell returned to solo projects and for the next 3 years he immersed himself musically in solo work as he released his 2d solo album Carry On, produced by Steve Lillywhite, which includes a magnificent reinvention of Michael Jackson dance archetype Billie Jean as a slow blues.
Cornell then writes and records a third solo anthology Scream with producer Timbaland and plays summer shows beyond the Us with Linkin Park'due south Projekt Revolution tour. In the fall, he plays solo shows in the US and Canada and appears in front of the President at the Kennedy Center Honors Gala in Washington DC, playing The Who's "Won't Go Fooled Once again" in tribute to the band.

In the spring of 2009 "Scream" is released worldwide and Cornell continues to bout in Northward and South America and across Europe, taking in a total of 21 nations and including a triumphant open-air prove in Tel Aviv, Israel. In December, he plays the first in his acclaimed "Songbook" series of solo acoustic shows at the Hotel Café in Los Angeles.

In early 2010 he continues with a series of collaborations with rock guitarists Slash (on "Promise"), Santana (on "Whole Lotta Love") and Italian nu-jazz group Gabin ("Lies"), before reuniting in August with Soundgarden for new live dates and recording of what initially appeared to exist their final anthology with Cornell as lead vocalist, 2012'due south King Animal.

However Soundgarden's historic return to the live stage every bit headliners for Chicago's Lollapalooza festival, leads commencement to the release of their retrospective anthology 'Telephantasm' in September, followed past the March 2011 release of the live album 'Live on I5', taken from their 1996 U.s.a. bout, and the band then enters the studio to begin recording new material. That Summer, following a sold-out 'Songbook solo acoustic tour of the US, he releases "The Keeper", an original song written for the Marc Forster directed film Machine Gun Preacher, released by Relativity in September 2011. The song is the atomic number 82 track on the film'south soundtrack album and in December receives a Aureate Globe nomination for All-time Original Song.
In 2013 he records his song 'Misery Chain', a duet featuring Joy Williams, for the film soundtrack album 'Music From and Inspired By 12 Years A Slave'.

In the fall of 2013 Soundgarden embarks on a tour of the United states and Canada and from here on Chris keeps super decorated with a myriad of projects and collaborations both with the band Soundgarden too as solo tours to Europe, New Zealand, Australia and South America. Soundgarden Touring the World continues for the next 4 years.

In 2016, he rejoined the members of Temple of the Dog, in a live reunion with Pearl Jam members at the PJ20 Festival in Alpine Valley, WI.  The re-issued album became a certified meg copy seller. (In 1990 Chris had formed side project Temple of the Dog as a tribute to his friend, the late Andrew Wood, pb vocaliser of Malfunkshun and Mother Beloved Bone, who overdosed on heroin at historic period 24. Temple of the Domestic dog saw Cornell experiment with a more soulful style alongside the future members of Pearl Jam. The line-up included Stone Gossard on rhythm guitar, Jeff Ament on bass guitar (both ex-members of Female parent Dearest Bone), Mike McCready on pb guitar, Matt Cameron on drums and Eddie Vedder on bankroll vocals. On November 13 1990, Temple Of The Dog played its but live show at Seattle's Off Ramp Guild in front of 299 people.)

I call up that I always struggled with depression and isolation, and then those could come out. I call back that the mood of Seattle to me, and the way that I always interpreted that mood was something that was always a fiddling fleck introspective and dark. And I wouldn't say "depressing," but introspective in a way that could be moodier and darker. No affair how happy you are, you tin can wake up one twenty-four hours without any specific affair occurring to bring you into a darker identify, and you'll just exist in a darker place anyway. To me, that was e'er a terrifying thought, because that's something that – as far as I know – we don't necessarily have control over.

Blessed with the multiple talents of composing, lyrics writing and performing, Cornell continually redefined his sound and vision during his 3 decade career in music, even though he was best known equally one of the master architects of the 1990s grunge movement. With his all-encompassing itemize equally a songwriter, his nearly 4-octave song range, and his powerful vocal belting technique, he was naturally inclined to experiment with new musical directions. He released five solo studio albums, Euphoria Morning (1999), Carry On (2007), Scream (2009), College Truth (2015), and the live album Songbook (2011). Cornell received a Aureate Globe Accolade nomination for his song "The Keeper" which appeared in the film Car Gun Preacher and co-wrote and performed the theme song to the James Bond pic Casino Royale (2006), "You Know My Proper name". The final solo release by Chris was the charity single "The Hope", written for the ending credits for the moving-picture show of the aforementioned proper name.

He was voted "Rock'due south Greatest Singer" past readers of Guitar World, ranked quaternary in the list of "Heavy Metal's All-time Superlative 100 Vocalists" by Hit Parader, 9th in the listing of "Best Lead Singers of All Time" by Rolling Rock and 12th in MTV's "22 Greatest Voices in Music".

According to Nielsen Music, beyond his entire catalog (Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple of the Canis familiaris and solo career), Cornell sold 14,8 million albums, viii,8 million digital songs, 300 million on-demand audio streams in the U.Due south. and sold over 30 meg records worldwide every bit of 2017.

His soundtrack work has spanned both big budget and independent cinema. He was the offset male American creative person to write and perform the theme song for a James Bond movie ("You Know My Name" for Casino Royale). He wrote the end title song "Live to Rising" for The Avengers, the third highest grossing picture of all time. He duetted with Joy Williams on his song "Misery Concatenation" which appeared on the soundtrack of the Oscar-winning 12 Years A Slave and his vocal "The Keeper" from Marc Forster'due south Machine Gun Preacher was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2012.

Cornell'south solo acoustic 'Songbook' tour attracted sellout crowds and critical acclamation worldwide. Jim Farber of the New York Daily News observed, "sometimes you lot don't recognize the full power of a voice until you strip everything away from it."

Chris Cornell died on May 17, 2017 in his hotel room in Detroit, shortly after concluding his concluding Soundgarden concert. Equally the result of a depression medication overdose, he allegedly hung himself. He was 52 and full of plans for things yet to accomplish.

As is often the case with glory musicians who pass suddenly and unexpectedly, the interest in their work launches them dorsum into the spotlight in the wake of their death. Chris Cornell, who committed suicide as the upshot of an overdose of prescription medication, saw 5 of his albums re-enter the Billboard 200 in the wake of his decease.

Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell paid tribute to his friend Chris Cornell unveiled personal stories nigh them spending time together on the route and beyond, in a touching interview with Variety.

Farrell said he and Cornell first met when Soundgarden played Lollapalooza for the outset time in 1992. Calling Cornell "one of the most talented singers of my life," Farrell discussed Cornell'due south amuse and charisma during shows. "He stood there and the girls' jaws would all be dropped, including my wife and the dancers we were traveling with," he recalled.
Farrell also relayed a sweet story about running into Cornell at a Toys "R" Us on Christmas Eve several years agone, where Cornell scored an in-need kids gift. "He says to me, 'I got the very terminal Sleeping Beauty Castle. Sold out.' He was and then proud, he was trying to brag to me he got the very concluding fairy princess castle."
"It's such a bummer. In that location weren't – and there aren't still – very many that could sing the style Chris can. Certainly very few rock performers, and even pop performers. People only don't have it, that'south a God-given talent," Farrell likewise noted. Farrell concluded by advising people to listen to Soundgarden's "Black Pigsty Sun," which he said he always loved. "I don't know what did Chris in, but I hope he'south in a good place now. He was a super talent and the world should be happy they got to hear him," Farrell said.

Linkin Park'due south Chester Bennington was also a friend of Cornell's. Bennington and Cornell shared the stage when they toured together in the late 2000s. The pair sang with each other while performing a version of Temple of the Dog'south "Hunger Strike" and Linkin Park's "Crawling" while on tour.
Bennington penned a heartfelt remembrance addressed to his belatedly friend. "I dreamt about the Beatles concluding nighttime. I woke upwardly with Rocky Raccoon playing in my caput and a concerned wait on my wife's face up. She told me my friend had simply passed away," he wrote. "Thoughts of you flooded my mind and I wept."
Expressing his gratitude for the time they had together, Bennington as well addressed Cornell's gifts. "You have inspired me in many means you could never have known," Bennington added. "Your talent was pure and unrivaled. Your voice was joy and hurting, anger and forgiveness, love and heartache all wrapped upwards into one."

Alice Cooper raved about working with Cornell. "Nosotros could pick a voice for each vocal, the fashion a guitarist might pick either a Fender Strat or a Gibson Les Paul," the veteran rock star tells Billboard. "To get from Unholy War to Stolen Prayer (from 1994 anthology The Concluding Temptation) together, two entirely different songs, proved his range, his versatility, in both writing and singing.
"In every genre of music there are exceptional people, and whereas that Seattle movement had its own singled-out sound, he could practise that and so much more. Working with Chris was, for me, effortless. When we got together to write it seemed like either he was in my band or I was in his."

Bush-league frontman Gavin Rossdale reveals he enjoyed his private chats with the quiet Soundgarden frontman "in dressing rooms at different festivals", revealing they ran into each other quite a bit because Chris shared a manager with Gavin's ex-wife Gwen Stefani.
"We had these parallel lives as parents with jobs equally singers," Rossdale says. "That's really dominated my whole idea procedure, just thinking of his family unit, his great married woman and children. You lot wish he had constitute a way to reach out to whoever there was in his life that could assistance him."
"He was one of the greatest rock singers always… and he was such a plaintive singer, that'due south what I beloved nigh him. I suppose he constitute solace in music and in singing, which I relate to… He always found a way to put melody over difficult riffs, then much of the time, people play hard riffs and then they dog bark their way through information technology, scream and stuff. With Chris, in that location was this innate, beautiful tune and beautiful words that anyone with whatsoever degree of sensitivity could relate to and did."

Jane's Addiction star guitarist Dave Navarro is actually struggling with Cornell'south death, because and then many of his peers take now died: "I simply can't believe that all these people I came upward with are gone: Scott (Weiland), Kurt (Cobain), Layne (Staley), now Chris," he says. "All my friends are dying. How is it possible?"
"I remember in 2003 Jane's Habit was on tour with Audioslave for Lollapalooza, and Chris and I were both make clean from drugs and alcohol and we invited kids from treatment centres at unlike spots in the country to hang out backstage and only prove them you can do what we practise and bask touring and the music without beingness loaded," he adds.
"That's what makes this so very difficult to wrap my head around. This is a guy who was involved in making the world a better place for people."

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