[Musicians] Chris Cornell

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• Musician Name:Christopher John Boyle
• Birthday / Location: July 20, 1964 Seattle, Washington, USA Death May 18, 2017 (age 52) American
• Main instrument: metal alternativo, heavy metal, grunge, rock alternativo, hard rock
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• Other Information: Christopher John Boyle (Seattle, July 20, 1964 - Detroit, May 18, 2017), better known as Chris Cornell, was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter, considered one of the founders of the grunge movement and known as the lead singer of the bands Soundgarden , Temple of the Dog and Audioslave. Winner of three Grammy Awards (with 16 nominations in total). In 1991, Cornell gained notoriety with his band Soundgarden with the release of the album Badmotorfinger, and the band achieved worldwide fame with the hit "Black Hole Sun", from the 1994 album Superunknown. Cornell also released five solo albums between 1999 and 2015, and was also famous for his four-octave vocal range. In 2007 he released the single "You Know My Name", the theme song for the film 007-Casino Royale, becoming the first American singer to record the theme song for a 007 film. The song sold 3.5 million copies. digital copies. In 2013, Cornell composed the song "Misery Chain" for the soundtrack of the film 12 Years a Slave, where he performed a duet with singer Joy Williams.
• Cornell was chosen as "The Greatest Rock Singer" by readers of Guitar World magazine in 2013, ranked 4th on Hit Parader magazine's "Top 100 Heavy Metal Vocalists of All Time" list in 2006, ranked 9th on Rolling Stone magazine's "Greatest Vocalists of All Time" list in 2011, and 12th place on MTV's "22 Greatest Voices in Music" list in 2005. Alice Cooper referred to Cornell as "the best voice in rock" in 2017
• Across his entire catalog (his three bands and solo career), Cornell has sold 14.8 million albums, 8.8 million digital songs, and 300 million on-demand audio streams in the United States alone, and more than 30 million of albums sold worldwide by 2017.
• Son of Edward F. Boyle, a pharmacist, and Karen Cornell, an accountant. Chris was born and raised in Seattle, the son of a Jewish mother and a Catholic father, and attended Christ the King Catholic Elementary School, and then Shorewood High School as a teenager. Chris and his five siblings changed the name Boyle to their mother's maiden name, (Cornell), when their parents divorced. In a 2008 interview, Cornell stated that he did not follow any religion and was a freethinker, but revealed that he believed in the existence of Jesus Christ.
• Cornell spent a two-year period between the ages of nine and eleven listening only to the Beatles after finding a large collection of the band's records abandoned in the basement of a neighbor's house.
• Cornell was a loner; he was able to deal with his anxiety around other people through Rock. During his adolescence, he had severe depression, dropped out of school and almost never left the house. At age 12, he had access to alcohol, marijuana, acid and prescription drugs and used them daily until age 13, stopped for a year, but returned at age 15 for another year before turning to music
• Before becoming a successful musician, he worked at a seafood wholesaler and was a sous chef at Ray's Boathouse restaurant in Seattle.
• His first instrument as a child was the piano, but he began his career as a drummer in the Jones Street Band. In the early 1980s, Cornell was a member of a cover band called The Shemps, which performed in Seattle. The Shemps had Hiro Yamamoto as bassist. After Yamamoto left The Shemps, the band recruited guitarist Kim Thayil. Cornell and Yamamoto remained in contact and after The Shemps broke up, Cornell and Yamamoto began a jam session together, eventually bringing Thayil to join them.