R.I.P. Kurt Cobain Died 25 Years Ago Today

SEATTLE, WA. (THECOUNT) — Friday, April 5th marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Kurt Cobain.

In honor of the fallen singer and Nirvana musician, many fans left flowers, candles and handwritten messages at a Seattle park near his house where he reportedly took his own life.

Cobain, whose band rose to fame by creating the Seattle grunge scene in the early 1990s, was 27 when he died April 5, 1994.

He was married to Hole singer, Courtney Love, at the time of his untimely death.

His home in located in a wealthy neighborhood near Lake Washington.

Fans trekked Friday to nearby Viretta Park, leaving memorials on benches, where flowers mixed with handwritten phrases like “thank you for your art” and “find your place.”

In an essay on the Crosscut news website, Cobain biographer Charles R. Cross wrote that few Seattle musicians “have been as tied to Seattle in the mind of the popular zeitgeist as Kurt Cobain.”

Nirvana’s breakthrough album, “Nevermind,” was released in 1991. Featuring the hit “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” the album went to No. 1 on the Billboard charts and has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide, reports KUSI.

An investigation determined that Cobain died after ingesting a massive amount of heroin and then somehow shooting himself.