Who is Nirvana?

Nirvana was a popular and highly influential American grunge band. The band formed in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987, and as their popularity rose, alternative rock became a dominant genre on American and Canadian radio and music television during the early-to-mid ’90s. T The musical roots of Nirvana lay in the soil of punk rock, though their style came to be known as grunge. Among other things, it shared with a punk rock a tendency toward alternating slow and fast, soft and loud passages. By comparison with popular groups of the 1980s, Nirvana’s music was dissonant and frenetic, with a guttural bass underlining, liberal distortion effects, and a heavy drum line.  Nirvana’s brief run ended with the suicide of Cobain in 1994, but the band’s popularity expanded in the years that followed. Eight years after Cobain’s death, “You Know You’re Right”, an unfinished demo that the band recorded two months prior to Cobain’s death, topped radio playlists around the world. Since their debut, the band has sold more than fifty million albums worldwide, including more than ten million copies of Nevermind in the US alone. Nirvana remains a consistent presence on radio stations worldwide.

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