Courtney Love

Background

Courtney Love is an American multi-talented singer, songwriter, and actress who has achieved celebrity status due to her persistence and a mixture of raw talent. Love made through unstable childhood and teenage years to become a renowned female musician of the 1990s. Courtney Michelle Love was born July 9, 1964, in San Francisco, California, U.S.A. Her Zodiac sign is Cancer, and her nationality is American. Love is the daughter of Linda Caroll, a psychotherapist, and Hank Harrison, a road manager for the Grateful Dead. Love was raised as Roman Catholic; however, her mother raised her gender-free household with no dresses, canopy beds, or leather shoes, to name a few. The singer’s childhood was unstable, as her parents divorced in 1970 when she was very young. Love struggled academically and socially, and at age nine, a psychologist noted that she might have autism. At 16, Love was granted a small trust fund from her mother’s side that she used to travel around the world.

After meeting the musician Julian Cope in Liverpool, England, Love began his music career. They moved in together, and Love was a regular face in Cope’s gigs. Their relationship did not last, and Love decided to travel back to the U.S.A, where she joined up with Bjelland and Jenniffer Flinch, forming a singing group called Sugar Baby Doll. The singer auditioned for the film “Sid and Nancy,” however she lost the role to Chloe Webb but played another role in the film. The following year the actress was cast in “Straight to Hell.” Both films were not successful, and Love was yet to obtain a breakthrough. The singer taught herself how to play guitar, and in 1988 she moved to Los Angels. The singer recruited Eric Erlandson (guitarist), Lisa Robert, and Caroline Rue, where she started the band Hole in 1998. The group’s debut album was “Pretty On The Inside.” Before the second album, “Live Through This,” Love’s husband died due to suicide. One of the group members, Kristen Ptaff, died months later. The group released their third album, “Celebrity Skin,” in 1998, which was a success.

Love started another group called Bastard in 2001 due to the group’s uncertainty in Hole. The group did not achieve much success as solo artist Love released several albums, including “America’s Sweetheart,” in 2004, which did not fare so well. His second album was released in 2005, called “Nobody’s Daughter.” Love’s personal life is well documented, including his troubled childhood and teenage years. She has also faced several controversies in her career. She was married to Kurt Cobain, a fellow singer who died of suicide in 1992, after the birth of their daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, six months later. Her personal life has also faced several legal lawsuits and her arrest at Heathrow Airport in 2003 for chaos during a flight that caused her to be banned from Virgin Airlines. On the brighter side, the singer continues to perform philanthropic work, such as being a staunch supporter of the L.G.B.T. community and contributing to AIDS organizations.