Blog 4

Hello teacher and classmates, today I talk to you about one of my favorite’s singers, Chris Cornell.

His real name was Christopher John Boyle, but when his parents got divorced he takes the maiden name of his mother, Cornell.  He has born in Seattle, United States in 1964 and the magazine Rolling Stones places him in the 9th place of the best singers in history.

When Chris has fourteen years old, his parents got divorced and this cause he suffered a severe case of depression during his adolescence and this motivated him to learn to play guitar and drums.

After this he formed the band Soundgarden, one of the most important bands for the grunge genre of the early 90's.

I like Chris Cornell mainly for the feeling he conveyed with his voice in each song, he said that he "tried to see the pain as a scream", so many of his songs are loaded with a very strong meaning and feeling.

Due to that powerful voice that characterizes him, he caught my attention when I was 15 years old and when I researched about his biography I felt quite identified with his story and his way of using music to overcome pain and sadness.

Unfortunately, Chris committed suicide on May 18, 2017 in full tour with the band Soundgarden reunited after 12 years. But he left a very important legacy as one of the most important voices of Rock and one of the few Rock singers capable of venturing into different musical genres.