KURT COBAIN THE SINGER OF NIRVANA

REACHED BY ITS MANAGER

Danny Goldberg in the music business since the 1960s, regrets that

"His image in the media was a bit distorted and focused on his death disproportionately, rather than his life and work,"

points out one who has also taken care of another independent rock band, Sonic Youth. Goldberg, who was close to the 25-year-old singer of Nirvana, pays homage to him in the book Serving The Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain.

He describes an artist of genius, as well as a melancholy character with a lively mind and a great humanity.

"His voice had an incredible soul," he says, "and sweats vulnerability and intimacy as rarely."

"He had a sensitivity that helped people feel less odd, less lonely," he says.

Author or co-author of all of Nirvana's successes, Kurt Cobain committed suicide on April 5, 1994 in his home in Seattle, a region of the northwestern United States of origin, while the grunge group became a global phenomenon since the release of Nevermind in 1991.

Far from his image as a lingering teenager, this false nonchalance that "hid a very sophisticated mind", such wants to present him the one that Cobain called his "second father".

"I always knew there was a depth behind that energy and the sensations with which he played," says Goldberg.

By showing fragility, Kurt Cobain also broke with a certain vision of rock, says the former manager, and helped to "redefine masculinity" in the world of music.

"He could be powerful and fascinating but also sensitive and caring at the same time," says the one who also collaborated with Led Zeppelin.

The group took off the grunge phenomenon, a musical movement but also clothing and, more broadly, cultural. A meteoric rise, halted by Kurt's desperation during his last weeks, admits former manager

. "Maybe there is a crystallization of the depression that tormented him for a long time," admits the former manager.

"I do not have the passion any more, so remember, it's better to burn all at once than to burn slowly," wrote Kurt Cobain about the word he left with him when he suicide, citing Neil Young's My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue).

Danny Goldberg wrote his book celebrating an artist, "a musical genius," who deserves more than the recurrent evocation of his depression or addiction to drugs.

For him, Kurt Cobain's music continues to speak to a generation born after his death around the world.

"This is one of the few artists whose work is out of time," says Danny Goldberg, who met the American guitarist and composer in 1990, a year before the release of the album "Nevermind", which was going place Nirvana in orbit.

A powerful book that constantly brings us back to the songs of this young cult singer with the eyes of a melancholy blue.