Thirty years later, there are those who cannot get over Kurt Cobain’s suicide. To assume it would be, perhaps, to assume the end of his own youth; which It took place in the early 90s listening to a band, Nirvana.born in a city as rainy as it is boring, Seattle, from which its illustrious neighbor inherited its clouds.

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the Gulf War in 1990 plunged the world into a new world order. And there, in the midst of everything, a youth felt alone and helpless. Hidden under layers of baggy, worn clothing, Cobain was the voice of grunge and of an entire generation that in the solitude of their rooms felt that someone finally understood them.

And that was his downfall. The boy who hated success ended up signing with a multinational company and selling more than 70 million copies of his only three studio albums (‘Bleach’, ‘Nevermind’ and ‘In Utero’). His face, printed on t-shirts around the world. His lyrics, revered as a bible.

He says he bought a gun, but opted for drugs. A marijuana smoker since he was a teenager, he also took to heroin, and in March 1994 he tried to commit suicide with pills. A month later, he shot himself. Unable to accept it, his fans blamed his wife. We lost something on April 5, 1994 that we are still looking for.