The Singer of the Screeneming Trees Group, then member of Queens of the Stone Age, died on Tuesday, 57 years old in Ireland. It was renowned for his baryton’s voice.
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He was the friend of Grunge Kurt Cobain, and he himself considered a pioneer of this musical current born in Seattle and who exploded worldwide in the early 1990s: the American musician Mark Lanegan is dead Tuesday, February 22, at home in Ireland, at age 57, announced his loved ones.
“Our beloved friend Mark Lanegan died this morning at his home in Killarney, Ireland. Singer, a songwriter and loved musician, he was 57 years old and leaves behind his wife Shelley” Brien, Is it written on the own Twitter account of the disappeared, stating that “no other information will be available” for the moment by “respect for family intimacy”.
Born in November 1964, near Seattle in the state of Washington, in the United States, Mark Lanegan was first the singer and leader of Rock Screaming Trees group from 1984 to 2000. SA Nearly Lost You song appears on the soundtrack of the movie singles (1992) whose history is happening in the city of Grunge. He was then a member of Queens of the Stone Age training until 2014.
having also led a solo career and collaborated with other artists, it can avail about fifteen studio albums. In addition to his talents as a musician (guitar, keyboards), he was renowned for his baryton’s voice.
plaguing many addictions
Mark Lanegan was Kurt Cobain’s friend of the mythical group Nirvana, who commissioned in 1994 at the age of 27, as well as the American cook and writer Anthony Bourdain, who also gave death by hanging In Alsace (East of France) in 2018.
The musician has never done mystery in his autobiography of his addictions to alcohol and heroin and told having brought death in March 2021 because of COVID-19, illness for which he has a time believed to certain conspiracy theories, before doing self-criticism and to advocate vaccination.
In an interview granted in 2020 at the French edition of the Rolling Stone magazine, Put online for free on the occasion of his death , Mark Lanegan had wanted to “minimize his place in the grunge dynasty”, according to the newspaper .
“To continue to make music, I had to take my distance from Seattle’s business. I had to keep my distances to avoid being known as an ex-grunge addict that n ‘never succeeded, “he explained to the media.