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In the early 1980s, Cornell was a member of a Seattle-based cover band called The Shemps, which featured bassist Hiro Yamamoto. Before he was a successful musician, Cornell worked as a busboy, as a dishwasher, as a fish monger at a seafood wholesaler, and as a sous-chef at Ray's Boathouse in Seattle. He credited his mother for saving his life when she bought him a snare drum, the instrument he first adopted on his path to becoming a rock musician. Ĭornell took piano and guitar lessons as a child. At 14, he had a bad PCP experience and later had panic disorder and agoraphobia. At the age of 12, Cornell had access to alcohol and marijuana he used them daily by 13, stopped for a year, but relapsed at age 15 for another year until he turned to music. During his teenage years, he spiraled into severe depression, dropped out of school, and almost never left the house. Cornell described himself at this age as a loner he was able to deal with his anxiety around other people through rock music. He spent a two-year period between the ages of nine and eleven solidly listening to The Beatles after finding a large collection of Beatles records abandoned in the basement of a neighbor's house. Ĭornell traced his musical influences back to Little Richard via The Beatles. 'Explain this to me.' And they couldn't, so we started creating a lot of problems.' Cornell subsequently attended Shorewood High School, where he later dropped out. We both sort of made it clear in classroom situations that we didn't get it. Being young people who have a natural curiosity and half a brain, you're going to start finding inconsistencies, which there are tons of in organized religion. He recalled the episode in a 1994 interview with Request magazine: 'With a religion like that, it's not designed for anyone to question.

When he was in seventh grade, his mother pulled him and his sister out of Catholic school for fear they were about to be expelled for being too inquisitive. Cornell attended Christ the King, a Catholic elementary school, where he performed for the first time in front of a crowd, singing the 1960s anti-war song ' One Tin Soldier'. He and his siblings adopted his mother's maiden name, Cornell, following their parents' divorce when they were teenagers. Cornell was one of six children he had two older brothers and three younger sisters. Boyle, a pharmacist of Irish Catholic descent, and Karen Boyle ( née Cornell), an accountant of Jewish background and self-proclaimed psychic. Early life Ĭornell was born Christopher John Boyle on July 20, 1964, in Seattle, Washington, where he was raised. His death was ruled a suicide by hanging. He was found dead in his Detroit hotel room in the early hours of May 18, 2017, after performing at a Soundgarden concert an hour earlier at the Fox Theatre. Ĭornell struggled with depression for most of his life. He was voted 'Rock's Greatest Singer' by readers of Guitar World. 12 on MTV's '22 Greatest Voices in Music'. 9 on the list of 'Best Lead Singers of All Time' by Rolling Stone, and No. 4 on the list of 'Heavy Metal's All-Time Top 100 Vocalists' by Hit Parader, No. He was nominated for 18 Grammy Awards, winning three. alone, as well as over 30 million records worldwide. His last solo release before his death was the charity single ' The Promise', written for the ending credits for the 2016 film of the same name.Īcross his entire catalog, Cornell sold 14.8 million albums, 8.8 million digital songs, and 300 million on-demand audio streams in the U.S.

He received a Golden Globe Award nomination for his song 'The Keeper', which appeared in the 2011 film Machine Gun Preacher, and co-wrote and performed ' You Know My Name', the theme song to the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale. Cornell released four solo studio albums, Euphoria Morning (1999), Carry On (2007), Scream (2009), and Higher Truth (2015) the live album Songbook (2011) and two compilations, The Roads We Choose (2007) and Chris Cornell (2018), the latter released posthumously. He is well known for his extensive catalog as a songwriter, his nearly four- octave vocal range, and his powerful vocal belting technique. Ĭornell is considered one of the key figures of the 1990s grunge movement. Several music journalists, fan polls and fellow musicians have regarded Cornell as one of the greatest rock singers of all time. Cornell was the founder and frontman of Temple of the Dog, a one-off tribute band dedicated to his late friend Andrew Wood.

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He also had a solo career and contributed to numerous movie soundtracks. Christopher John Cornell ( né Boyle July 20, 1964 – May 18, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter and musician best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and primary lyricist for the rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave.

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