Krist Novoselic

The son of Kristo and Maria Novoselić, who came from Croatia, moved with his family from Compton to San Pedro [1] 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 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. 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. He married a second time that same year 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 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. [2] Novoselic has been writing a weekly column on music and politics for Seattle Weekly's website since November 2007. [3] He is a board member at FairVote. This organization works for better suffrage in the United States. [4] 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 participated in a project of his former bandmate Dave Grohl about the Sound City Studios in Los Angeles. With other musicians they recorded a CD and then the song Cut Me Some Slack, for which they received a Grammy Award for best rock song.