Krist Novoselic

Krist Novoselic (2011)

Krist Anthony Novoselić (born May 16, 1965 in Compton , California ; also known as Chris Novoselić ) is an American musician and founding member of the band Nirvana .

The son of Kristo and Maria Novoselić from Croatia moved with his family from Compton to San Pedro in 1966 , where he spent most of his childhood with his two brothers and his sister, who was born in 1973. In 1979 the family moved to Aberdeen, Washington state . In June 1980 his parents sent him to Croatia, where he lived with relatives for a year. After his return he met Kurt Cobain in 1982 , with whom he played in various bands from 1986 onwards and founded the band Nirvana in 1987, whose bassist he remained until its breakup in 1994.

After Cobain's death in 1994 he released albums with the bands Sweet 75 , No WTO Combo and Eyes Adrift . These also remained commercially unsuccessful because Novoselic had repeatedly expressed negative comments in relation to the music magazine Rolling Stone and the music broadcaster MTV , which then withdrew their support.

In 2004, Novoselic, who is active in the Democratic Party , considered applying for the post of lieutenant governor of his home state Washington, but later refrained from doing so. That same year he married for the second time and published his first book, Of Grunge and Government: Let's Fix This Broken Democracy . In February 2005, he hosted a charity festival in Seattle for the victims of the 2004 earthquake .

In December 2006 Novoselic replaced the bassist DeSmartass of the band Flipper for a UK and Ireland tour and thus returned to music. He became a permanent member of the band and recorded a studio album with her. At the end of September 2008 he announced his departure from the band.

Since November 2007, Novoselic has been writing a weekly column on music and politics for Seattle Weekly's website . He is a board member at FairVote . This organization works for better suffrage in the United States.

In 2011 he played bass and accordion on the song I Should Have Known on the album "Wasting Light" by the band Foo Fighters . In 2013 he took part in a project by his former bandmate Dave Grohl about the Sound City studios in Los Angeles . They recorded a CD with other musicians and then the song Cut Me Some Slack , for which they received a Grammy Award for best rock song .

Web links

Commons : Krist Novoselic  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Krist Novoselic in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Krist Novoselic in the nndb (English)
• Novoselic.com - a website dedicated to Krist Novoselic

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://serviette.ca/audio/interviews/mp3/media/krist2.mp3
2. ↑ http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/09/22/news-ticker-radiohead-aerosmith-war-child-and-flipper/
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.