NIRVANA

After a very long time I got a chance to recall my music collection. I excitingly went searching my music library and to my pleasure found a band that in their times were music icons and are still recognized for their eminent job. Their musical spell enabled them to over shadow the king of  pop Michael Jackson by giving the block buster  album in 1991 “NEVER MIND”, which made the record of 10 million copies worldwide (woo huge success). The genre of this band is Alternative Rock and this is none other than “NIRVANA”. This rock band was designed in America by the joint efforts of singer/ guitarist KURT COBAIN and bassist KRIST NOVOSELIC. Their smash hit was SMELLS LIKE TEENAGE SPIRIT and many others like RAPE ME, HEART SHAPED BOX, SILVER, DUMB, COME AS YOU ARE and so on. Their charisma is yet not over and have a huge fan following worldwide. The young lot of music lover in Pakistan knowing the true essence of music greatly idealizes Nirvana. They were the first one to revolutionize the rock music and enjoyed great influence over the youngsters. Cobain encouraged self expression and provided outlet for frustration becoming the spokesmen for the teens struggling with intrinsic fears. Bands such as KORN, THE VINES, PUDDLE OF MUDD are inspired by the same exemplary band.

 The biggest blow of the band was the tragic death of the lead singer KURT COBAIN. His was found at his home lying dead for days, on 8 April, 1994. Curt Cobain was addicted to Heroin; over dose of drugs led him to a terrible death. He came from a broken family and out of depression had several suicide attempts till he succeeded, no matter how. Indeed he was the soul of NIRVANA and his death proved out to be the death of entire band. Surprisingly, this tragic end led them to even greater heights of fame and he is still alive in the hearts of his admirers like me.