Courtney Love

Courtney Michelle Love née Harrison born July 9 1964 is an American singer guitarist songwriter and actress A figure in the alternative and grunge scenes of the 1990s her career has spanned four decades She rose to prominence as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the alternative rock band Hole which she formed in 1989 Love has drawn public attention for her uninhibited live performances and confrontational lyrics as well as her highly publicized personal life following her marriage to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain In 2020 NME named her one of the most influential singers in alternative culture of the last 30 years Born to countercultural parents in San Francisco Love had an itinerant childhood but was primarily raised in Portland Oregon where she played in a series of shortlived bands and was active in the local punk scene After briefly being in a juvenile hall she spent a year living in Dublin and Liverpool before returning to the United States and pursuing an acting career She appeared in supporting roles in the Alex Cox films Sid and Nancy 1986 and Straight to Hell 1987 before forming the band Hole in Los Angeles with guitarist Eric Erlandson The group received critical acclaim from underground rock press for their 1991 debut album produced by Kim Gordon while their second release Live Through This 1994 was met with critical accolades and multiplatinum sales In 1995 Love returned to acting earning a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance as Althea Leasure in Miloš Formans The People vs Larry Flynt 1996 which established her as a mainstream actress The following year Holes third album Celebrity Skin 1998 was nominated for three Grammy Awards Love continued to work as an actress into the early 2000s appearing in bigbudget pictures such as Man on the Moon 1999 and Trapped 2002 before releasing her first solo album Americas Sweetheart in 2004 The subsequent several years were marred with publicity surrounding Loves legal troubles and drug relapse which resulted in a mandatory lockdown rehabilitation sentence in 2005 while she was writing a second solo album That project became Nobodys Daughter released in 2010 as a Hole album but without the former Hole lineup Between 2014 and 2015 Love released two solo singles and returned to acting in the network series Sons of Anarchy and Empire In 2020 she confirmed she was writing new music Love has also been active as a writer she cocreated and cowrote three volumes of a manga Princess Ai between 2004 and 2006 and wrote a memoir Dirty Blonde The Diaries of Courtney Love 2006 Description above from the Wikipedia article Courtney Love licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia