Nick Traina
Nicholas John Steel Traina , nicknamed Nick Traina (born May 1, 1978 , † September 20, 1997 ) was an American singer; he was the lead singer of the punk rock band Link 80 .
Live and act
His mother is the writer Danielle Steel (* 1947), his father was Steel's third husband, William Toth, a heroin-addicted burglar from whom she divorced. The last name Traina is that of his adoptive father, John Traina. Nick Traina grew up in San Francisco and attended the Town School for Boys there .
At the age of 13 he formed his first band Shanker with Max Leavitt . At sixteen he joined the band Link 80 , with which he was for three years. In August 1997 he left Link 80. Traina formed a new band called Knowledge .
Nick Traina has received multiple psychiatric treatment for substance abuse and bipolar disorder . After three unsuccessful suicide attempts, Traina committed suicide at the age of 19 through an overdose of morphine.
Traina was buried in the Cypress Lawn Memorial Park cemetery in Colma, California . His mother Danielle Steel wrote about his life and the struggle with his illness in her 1998 book His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina (German translation His beaming light ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Nick Traina in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jeffrey L. Geller: His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina - The Outsider: A Journey Into My Father's Struggle With Madness - Ordinary Paradise . In: Psychiatric Services . 2000; 51, pp. 1324-1325.
- Nick Traina at Find A Grave
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jerry Carroll: Danielle Steel's Plot Thickens. San Francisco social circles buzzing as romance author, fourth husband split . In: San Francisco Chronicle, October 22, 1995.
- ↑ Danielle Steel: His Shining Light: The Story of Nick Traina . Chicago Review Press, ISBN 978-1-55652-754-8 . , P. 377.
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SURNAME | Traina, Nick |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Traina, Nicholas John Steel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American punk singer |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1978 |
DATE OF DEATH | September 20, 1997 |