I wonder if we would know so much today about a beautiful, talented artist named Frances if her parents were not the sensational rock musicians of the 90s - Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain?
Frances Bean Cobain was born in Los Angeles on August 18, 1992. only child Kurt and Courtney Cobain. The name was given in honor of Kurt's favorite singer - Frances McKee, and Bean was added because Cobain looked like a bean on an ultrasound.
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Problems with parental rights for young parents arose almost immediately: during pregnancy, in one of her interviews, Courtney made a reservation that she was taking heroin. They managed to resolve this issue and get their daughter back, but even after Cobain’s death, Frances was raised by her grandmother and aunts, and not by Courtney Love.
When the baby was just over one and a half years old, she was left without a dad. Her difficult relationship with her mother can be explained by Courtney's weaknesses towards bad habits and drugs, which forced her to stay in rehab centers while her daughter remained in the care of relatives.
In Seattle, Frances attended Happy Middle School and studied at Highland Hall Waldorf School, where she always performed well.
Today, you can see many photographs on personal pages on social networks. happy family Cobain. By the way, godparents the girls are Drew Barrymore and Michael Stipe.
Career
Frances could not go unnoticed: from the very early childhood attention was drawn to her. In her very first interview with Teen Vogue, Frances said:
"I don't want to be known as the daughter of Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain. I want to be known as Frances Cobain."
For some time, Frances Cobain interned at the New York offices of Rolling Stone and performed on stage as a vocalist.
Unlike her star musician parents, Frances gave preference to another art form - drawing. An exhibition of her paintings has already taken place in a Los Angeles gallery.
Below are some of her works:
In 2017, Cobain presented her spring collection famous designer Marc Jacobs:
Despite her successful experience in the fashion world, Frances noted that this is not for her, and is not going to continue.
Personal life
As expected, the same creative person became the lover of the daughter of famous musicians. Frances, 21, married Isaiah Silva, her elder by almost ten years, on June 29, 2014, but the couple divorced two years later on March 23.
Fans noted that her husband is very similar to Kurt Cobain:
Cobain's relationship with her ex did not end there. True, these were already legal issues regarding the late father’s guitar. According to TMZ, the heiress has filed court papers demanding that her ex-husband return his 1959 Martin D-18E guitar. It is known that during his lifetime, the leader of Nirvana performed songs using this musical instrument at the MTV Unplugged concert in New York in 1993. The cost of the instrument is estimated at $100 million.
Isaiah Silva insisted that this guitar was nothing more than a gift from ex-wife. Frances herself categorically denied this version, emphasizing that she would not give a priceless family heirloom to anyone.
Kurt Cobain shot himself when his daughter was 1 year and 8 months old, so Frances can only tell stories about her father that she has heard many times in the family circle.
The girl explains her father’s actions as follows:
“Kurt got to the point where he eventually had to sacrifice everything he had in his art because the world demanded more of him. I think that was one of the main factors that made him leave this place."
Surprisingly, the daughter of the Nirvana leader is not a fan of his work, with the exception of some individual songs. She treats with trepidation every recording in which his voice is heard and emphasizes that she finds in him a striking similarity with her voice, although they never had a chance to hear each other.
Frances Cobain once answered the question of what would have happened if her father had not died:
“I would have had a dad, and that’s the best thing that could have happened.”
Several years ago, Frances completed a summer internship at the New York office of Rolling Stone magazine. Remembering that time, the daughter of the Nirvana singer (and executive producer of the first dedicated to him documentary film"Kurt Cobain: Montage of God"), laughs loudly: "I was a 15-year-old little goth girl back then." She helped the editors with a cover story about the Jonas Brothers and sat in front of a wall with a giant portrait of Cobain. “Yes, yes,” she says with a forced smile, “I looked at dad every day.”
This is just one of many stories that came up during a three-hour interview with Frances in March. The 22-year-old artist spoke openly for the first time about her father and her life after his death. difficult relationships with mother Courtney Love and a new film written, directed and produced by Brett Morgen. “Kurt got to the point where he had to sacrifice absolutely everything in his life for the sake of music. Because the world demanded it of him,” Francis reflects. “I think that’s one of the reasons why he didn’t want to be with us anymore and thought everyone would be better off without him.”
“But if he were alive,” she continues, “I would have a father. And that would be wonderful."
We publish the most bright quotes from our conversation:
What can you say about the movie “Montage of Heck”?
This is emotional journalism. If Kurt had talked about his life in his own words, something similar would probably have happened. This is a portrait of a man struggling with his humanity. When we met Brett, I already knew exactly what image of Kurt I wanted to see on the screen. I said, "I don't need Cobain's romantic mythology." Although he died the most terrible death, his image is usually romanticized. Because he is always 27. The shelf life of musicians or artists, as a rule, is not very long. Kurt has become an icon because he never ages. He will always be handsome and young.
All creative people have something of a maniac, a madman. Tropic of Cancer is my favorite book. Its author, Henry Miller, forced himself to get out of bed every day and write five pages. It was his strict rule. When I learned about this, I realized that if you work, you make progress. Many people are satisfied with everything “as is”. My father was extremely ambitious. But such fame fell upon him that he had never dreamed of. He wanted his group to be successful. But he didn't want to be the damn voice of a generation.
Do you remember the first time you heard a Nirvana record, knowing that your father was singing? I talked to Sean Lennon about this. He knew his father a little longer than you knew yours. And he said that through Jonah's music he realized what kind of man his father was.
I don't really like Nirvana that much. (Smiles.) Sorry, advertising companies and Universal studio. But I'm closer to Mercury Rev, Oasis, Brian Jonestown Massacre. (Laughs.) The grunge scene is not very interesting to me. But "Territorial Pissings" from Nevermind is a great song, as is "Dumb" from In Utero. I always cry when I listen to it. It reflects how Kurt perceived himself - when he was high, when he was sober, when he felt he was unfit to be the voice of a generation.
IN adolescence Were you embarrassed because you weren't very interested in your father's work?
No, it would be weird if I was his fan. At the age of 15, I realized that there was no escape from it. Even when I was just driving in the car, his music was constantly playing on the radio. He was “bigger” than his entire life. Yet our culture is obsessed with dead musicians. We love to put them on a pedestal. He could have become another guy who abandoned his family like a pig... But he didn’t. He was literally canonized. He became "Saint Kurt". After his death he became even more famous than during his lifetime. It seemed impossible, but it happened.
After the film's premiere, one guy told me that it was "a very interesting film about people I don't like."
Great description! (Laughs.)
It was funny that the story of Kurt, which Morgen told, did not awaken a drop of sympathy in this viewer, that Kurt’s art did not influence him in any way. He only noticed a person he didn't like.
But it's an interesting point of view. It seems to me that the main merit of this film is that it does not retell gossip and fables for the tenth time, but shares facts with the audience. There is now factual evidence of the kind of child (and teenager, man, husband, and musician) my father was. The film explores every minute aspect of his life.
I mean his live remarks and monologues.
Don't underestimate the power of genetics.
Yes, this is all very strange. Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear came to my house one day. For the first time in many years they got together. And when they looked at me, they kept seeing Kurt. They stared at me as if they had seen a ghost. Dave said, "She looks so much like Kurt." They whispered to each other, remembering some old stories that I had heard a million times. I sat in a chair, staring at the floor, and blew rings of cigarette smoke. And they said: “Your father would do the same thing in such a situation!”
But I was glad they came. (Smiles.) This small Nirvana reunion took place without one member. Not counting, of course, his offspring.
Now that the film has been released, what are you planning to do? You acted as an executive producer of the film at 22 years old. At this age, your father had just recorded Nirvana's first album.
Yes, it was a coincidence. Oddly enough, it was this year that I first started to see fire in my eyes, and it had nothing to do with working on the film. I gained motivation as well as ambition that I didn’t have before. I say to myself: “I’ll go and paint a picture.” The most difficult thing in the creative process is to force yourself to start. But now, when I get out of bed in the morning, I immediately go to the studio and start drawing. I go there and work.
The other day, the daughter of rock legend, Nirvana band leader Kurt Cobain, Frances Bean Cobain surprised everyone with her secret wedding, which, as it turned out, even Frances’ mother, Courtney Love, knew nothing about. 23-year-old Frances married her boyfriend Isaiah Silva, he is also a musician, like the girl’s father. Their relationship lasted almost five years, after which the couple decided to get married. As you know, the young people got married secretly, in the presence of only their closest friends in Los Angeles.
The media report that the one who was most struck by the news of Frances’ wedding was her mother, who learned about her daughter’s marriage a few days after the wedding. Of course, the point is that Courtney Love was not even invited to the celebration. However gossips Rumor has it that the newly-made mother-in-law can't stand her daughter's husband. This is most likely due to Isaiah's extraordinary physical and personal resemblance to her husband Kurt Cobain, who committed suicide in 1994 by shooting himself with a shotgun.
According to friends close to the family, the relationship between Frances and Courtney has long been quite strained. And numerous press reports prove this. Almost five years ago, after a quarrel with her mother, Frances went to court and won permission to live with her grandmother.
To date, the reason for this disagreement remains for everyone mysterious circumstance. The scandal was not soon forgotten and, it would seem, reconciliation awaited mother and daughter. But now that Frances got married, hiding the fact of the ceremony from her mother, it will be very difficult to restore relations with her mother. The discord in the family was also contributed to by the fact that Frances, having received a share of her father’s inheritance, squandered all the money on various pleasures and purchases, which also did not make Courtney very happy.
The last straw was when Courtney met her daughter's boyfriend. Courtney Love openly declared her dislike for her potential son-in-law and it didn't have much effect. last role in the matter of inviting her to the wedding.
Francis speaks ambiguously about his father. She doesn't remember him well, but looking at videos and photographs from family archives, claims that she is confident in Kurt’s fatherly love. At the same time, she does not hide her anger at her father for not being in her life.
They say that now the young brawler Frances has calmed down and is starting to build new life. She became seriously interested in painting, and when she gets married, she will most likely want to create a full-fledged family.
0 October 4, 2016, 20:30Over the past few weeks, the name Frances Bean Cobain has often appeared in the media: either she is at Fashion Week, or everyone is discussing the alimony that the girl will have to pay ex-husband. the site decided to find out more about the 24-year-old daughter of the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.
Childhood
The daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love was born on August 18, 1992. The girl received double name: Frances - in honor of the singer Frances McKee from the Scottish group The Vaselines, Bean - because on an ultrasound examination she seemed like a bean to her father (bean - beans in English).
The baby's godparents were close friends of Kurt and Courtney - rock musician Michael Stipe and actress Drew Barrymore.
From the first days of her life, or more precisely, even before she was born, Frances found herself at the center of a scandal. The fact is that Courtney Love mentioned during pregnancy that she was taking heroin - and thunder struck. The press was filled with devastating articles in which the negligent mother was censured. The singer later stated that her words were taken out of context and misinterpreted, but the matter could not be stopped. The guardianship authorities decided to take control of the situation and began their own investigation, as a result of which Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain lost their parental rights - Frances was then only two weeks old.
The couple soon managed to return their daughter, but the problems did not end there. After Cobain's death, the girl was raised not only by Love herself, but also by the family of the late musician - her grandmother and aunt Frances. It was under their care that the girl was under her mother's care. rehabilitation centers, where she was treated for drug addiction.
Relationships with parents
Frances barely remembers her father: last time the girl saw him when she was not yet two years old. Maybe it’s good that he doesn’t remember: the date with Kurt took place in a “rehab”, where he was undergoing another course of treatment in the hope of getting rid of his drug addiction. It was April 1, 1994, and on the 8th Cobain was discovered in his own home.
But despite the fact that Frances’ father could not be identified, the girl feels a strong connection with him. At the same time, in Kurt his daughter sees, first of all, a close and loved one, and not a generation hero and cult musician. True, Frances’s father’s work is not close: she does not hide that the songs are by Nirvana. He also doesn’t like it when they talk about “club 27” and romanticize Cobain’s suicide (whether it was actually a suicide is still unknown).
Frances received 37 percent of her father's inheritance (millions and millions of dollars), and she also owns the copyright to the musician's legacy. The girl manages all this carefully. In 2015, she became the producer of the documentary film “,” dedicated to the musician.
The girl's relationship with her mother is not easy. When Frances was little, Courtney Love often ended up in rehabilitation clinics, and her daughter found herself under the supervision of other relatives and social authorities.
But even when Courtney took care of her daughter herself, family idyll did not work. It got to the point that in 2009, Frances sued her mother, claiming that she was hers. Courtney was deprived of parental rights and was forbidden to see her daughter, and Frances moved to her grandmother. For a long time, mother and daughter did not communicate at all, and Love even learned about the wedding of her only heiress a few days later - Courtney was not invited to the celebration.
However, in Lately women managed to find mutual language: They get along again, communicate, go out together and even do art projects.
Career
Art projects are Frances' passion. It was art that the girl decided to study when she went to college - and for this reason she refused a role in Tim Burton's film "Alice in Wonderland". Young star She tried herself in both music and journalism, but she was truly fascinated by painting - in 2013, the girl’s first personal exhibition took place.
Many predicted the daughters of Kurt and Courtney modeling career, because Francis has everything necessary today for success in the fashion industry - a spectacular appearance and a big name. Magazines were eager to get the star girl on the cover, but this path did not appeal to Kurt Cobain’s daughter - at one time she even stopped watching her weight and did not pay attention to the extra pounds.
Frances had no intention of being a good girl at all: tattoos, piercings, pink hair, provocative behavior, alcohol... Many were seriously worried that she would follow in the footsteps of her father and mother, but it seems that for now there is no need to fear this - the daughter of rockers has forgotten about provocative antics and leads a quiet life.
Personal life
At 24 years old, Francis is already in. Young woman for a long time with musician Isaiah Silva, whom she eventually married two years ago. This marriage was discussed in the press for a long time: everyone said that the girl’s husband was a copy of her late father.
The marriage did not last long - Frances filed for divorce this spring. Now the court has ordered the girl to pay her ex-husband alimony - 12 thousand dollars for the entire four months that the divorce proceedings will last. Frances doesn't mind, she just wants to forget this story as soon as possible and move on.
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And Kurt Cobain. Kurt Cobain is a famous rock musician, vocalist and guitarist of the popular group Nirvana. Frances was born in the late summer of 1992 in Los Angeles (California, United States of America). Knowing the name of Kurt Cobain's daughter, it is interesting to know who she was named after. And they named her in honor of Kurt Cobain’s favorite singer and actress - Frances McKee. Girls' godparents become Good friends her parents are actress Drew Barrymore and rock musician
Favorite daughter of Kurt Cobain
As soon as Frances was born, Kurt began to literally idolize her. He sang songs to her, fed her, stood up to her crib at night and rocked the baby to sleep, he loved the girl very much. The last time Frances saw her father alive was when she was less than two years old - it was April 1, 1994. On this day, she visited him in a drug rehabilitation clinic, her father played with her and sang songs to her, and about a week after that, Kurt was found shot in his house.
Father's tragedy
An examination found a fairly large dose of heroin in Kurt Cobain's blood; death occurred from the head. There is another version - Kurt was killed. Proof of this is the amount of heroin found in the singer’s blood, which, according to experts, in itself already entails death. Then it is unclear why Kurt needed to shoot himself after that. And besides, there is a possibility that in such a state he simply would not be able to hold the gun in his hands. The gun had 3 rounds, which is absolutely meaningless when a person is about to shoot himself in the mouth. Also, no fingerprints were found on the weapon, not even of Kurt himself. This means that someone simply erased them.
On April 10, 1994, the funeral of the famous Kurt Cobain took place. His widow, Courtney Love, spoke with grieving fans of the popular group Nirvana and distributed some of the singer's belongings to all of them. Kurt Cobain's body was cremated. Courtney Love brought some of the ashes to a monastery in Ithaca (New York), where they were blessed and added to clay, from which ritual memorial figurines were then made. Courtney kept the other part of the ashes for herself. On Memorial Day 1999, rock musician Wendy Cobain's mother decided to hold a final farewell ceremony for Kurt Cobain. The farewell ceremony was attended by: mother - Wendy Cobain, wife - Courtney Love, father - Donald Cobain, friend and ex-girlfriend Kurta is Tracy Marander and Kurt Cobain's daughter herself is Frances Bean Cobain. While the monk read prayers, daughter Frances scattered her father's ashes over a stream in Olympia, where Kurt Cobain sometimes lived and worked in the late 80s and early 90s.
Frances' difficult start to life
Since her father's death, little Frances' life has become simply terrible. Kurt Cobain's daughter, whose biography is full of tragedy, has become popular. She was constantly followed by paparazzi, and what her mother Courtney Love did was simply terrible! Courtney was deprived of parental rights more than once. The first time they wanted to do this was just a few months after Frances was born. The mother was accused of using heroin during pregnancy, but Courtney managed to fight off the accusations. Love herself claimed that at the time she was using heroin, she did not yet know about pregnancy. Then Courtney was deprived of parental rights 2 more times. The girl managed to live with her grandparents and in an orphanage, while her mother ran to drug clinics and courts. On August 18, 2010, it was reported that Frances received almost half of the inheritance from her father.
Rebel or glamorous diva?
Frances grew up as a girl with character and very naughty. Studying at school was quite easy for her. The daughter of Kurt Cobain, whose photos periodically appeared on the pages of magazines, gave her first interview at the age of 13. In her interviews, the girl talked mainly about her style, her parents and great desire get into show business. Frances told the press that she loved feminine clothes and melodrama. Her glamorous interviews, in which Frances showed off Prada shoes, greatly disappointed Kurt Cobain fans. They would like to see Frances as a rebel, just like her father was.
From June to August 2008, Frances interned at a famous magazine. Her career did not take off, since the editorial office only allowed her to make coffee for the employees, so her interest in this work quickly faded. There were speculations that Frances would play the role of Alice from the film Alice in Wonderland in 2010, but Frances refused, citing preparations for university entrance exams.
Attempts to break into show business
Frances celebrated her 16th birthday in Dead Man's Party style. The holiday itself looked more like Halloween than a young girl's birthday. The girl expressed her passion for horror films in her dark drawings.
By the age of 17, Frances had accumulated quite a lot of drawings, and she organized her own personal exhibition under the pseudonym Tim Fiddle. In her drawings, the girl depicted incomprehensible abstractions, parts human bodies, monsters. It is not clear what the girl wanted to express in her drawings. Maybe this is another protest of the child towards difficult childhood or another trick by Miss Cobain to somehow attract attention. But still, society recognized these works as talented (this is understandable, she is the daughter of Kurt Cobain!). Some drawings were even purchased, but not for high price, as Francis probably wanted.
At the age of 19, Frances starred in a photo shoot organized for her by photographer Hedi Slimane. She had the image of a rebel: a rock princess, a dark beauty with tattoos on her snow-white skin. These photos created a big stir on the Internet.
Personal life Cobain
Frances has a friend; she has been dating musician Isaiah Silva for quite some time, who looks very similar to her father. But not everything is as good as it seems. On this moment There are rumors that Frances has been acting very strange lately.
Kurt Cobain's daughter rarely leaves the house these days. Basically, he asks the servant to go grocery shopping, and very rarely sees friends and relatives. Her friends say that over the past year and a half they have seen the girl only a few times, and her behavior has become similar to paranoia.
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