Courtney Love is a famous Rock Singer, born on July 9, 1964 in United States. As of January 9, 2023, Courtney Love’s net worth is $100 Million. She formed Hole in 1989 and was lead singer and rhythm guitarist. The band’s third album Celebrity Skin earned them four Grammy nominations.
| Father | Hank Harrison (publisher), Frank Rodriguez (step father) (garbage man), Mark (step father), Dennis Menely (step father), Tim Barraud (step father) (veterinarian) |
| Mother | Linda Carroll (therapist) |
| Sister(s) | Jaimee Rodriguez (half sister) (lawyer), Nicole Rodriguez (half sister) (therapist) |
| Brother(s) | Daniel Menely (half brother) (writer), Benjamin Barraud (half brother), Joshua Barraud (half brother), Tobias (half brother) (professor) |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Kurt Cobain , James Moreland |
| Children(s) | Frances Bean Cobain |
Biography
Rock singer, movie actress, and widow of former Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain. She was also the frontwoman in the rock band Hole and in 2015, she began playing Elle Dallas on the FOX series Empire. Courtney Michelle Harrison was born on July 9, 1964, at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco, California, the first child of psychotherapist Linda Carroll (née Risi) and Hank Harrison, a publisher and road manager for the Grateful Dead. Love’s godfather is the founding Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh. Her mother, who was adopted at birth and raised by a prominent Italian-Catholic family in San Francisco, was later revealed to be the biological daughter of novelist Paula Fox; Love’s maternal great-grandmother was screenwriter Elsie Fox. According to Love, she was named after Courtney Farrell, the protagonist of Pamela Moore’s 1956 novel Chocolates for Breakfast. She is of Cuban, English, German, Irish, and Welsh descent. Love was raised Catholic..
She got married to James Moreland on February 14, 1989, but they divorced four months later. She then married Kurt Cobain in 1992 and she and Kurt had a daughter together named Frances Bean Cobain.
Courtney Michelle Love (née Harrison; born July 9, 1964) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. A figure in the punk and grunge scenes of the 1990s, Love’s career has spanned four decades. She rose to prominence as the lead vocalist 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.”
Ethnicity, religion & political views
Many peoples want to know what is Courtney Love ethnicity, nationality, Ancestry & Race? Let's check it out! As per public resource, IMDb & Wikipedia, Courtney Love's ethnicity is Caucasian. We will update Courtney Love's religion & political views in this article. Please check the article again after few days.She has played a variety of Fender guitars throughout her career, including a Jaguar and a vintage 1965 Jazzmaster; the latter was purchased by the Hard Rock Cafe and is on display in New York City. Between 1989 and 1991, Love primarily played a Rickenbacker 425 because she “preferred the 3/4 neck,” but she destroyed the guitar onstage at a 1991 concert opening for The Smashing Pumpkins. In the mid-1990s, she often played a guitar made by Mercury, an obscure company that manufactured custom guitars, as well as a Univox Hi-Flier. Fender’s Vista Venus, designed by Love in 1998, was partially inspired by Rickenbacker guitars as well as her Mercury. During tours after the release of Nobody’s Daughter (post-2010), Love has played a Rickenbacker 360 onstage. Her setup has included Fender tube gear, Matchless, Ampeg, Silvertone and a solid-state 1976 Randall Commander.
Courtney Love Net Worth
Courtney Love is one of the richest Rock Singer & listed on most popular Rock Singer. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Courtney Love's net worth $100 Million.
| Net Worth | $100 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Rock Singer |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
She was involved in a number of music projects in the early 1980s, including Sugar Babydoll alongside friends Ursula Wehr and Robin Barbur.
She has played a variety of Fender guitars throughout her career, including a Jaguar and a vintage 1965 Jazzmaster; the latter was purchased by the Hard Rock Cafe and is on display in New York City. Between 1989 and 1991, Love primarily played a Rickenbacker 425 because she “preferred the 3/4 neck,” but she destroyed the guitar onstage at a 1991 concert opening for The Smashing Pumpkins. In the mid-1990s, she often played a guitar made by Mercury, an obscure company that manufactured custom guitars, as well as a Univox Hi-Flier. Fender’s Vista Venus, designed by Love in 1998, was partially inspired by Rickenbacker guitars as well as her Mercury. During tours after the release of Nobody’s Daughter (post-2010), Love has played a Rickenbacker 360 onstage. Her setup has included Fender tube gear, Matchless, Ampeg, Silvertone and a solid-state 1976 Randall Commander.
Love has been candid about her diverse musical influences, the earliest being Patti Smith, The Runaways, and The Pretenders, artists she discovered while in juvenile hall at age fifteen. As a child, her first exposure to music was records that her parents retrieved each month through Columbia Record Club. The first record Love owned was Leonard Cohen’s Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967), which she obtained from her mother: “He was so lyric-conscious and morbid, and I was a pretty morbid kid,” she recalled. As a teenager, she named Flipper, Kate Bush, Soft Cell, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Lou Reed, and Dead Kennedys among her favorite artists. She has also spoken of her appreciation for new wave and post-punk bands she became acquainted with while living as a teenager in the United Kingdom, such as Echo and the Bunnymen, The Smiths, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Television, Bauhaus, and Joy Division.
Love spent her early years in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco until her parents’ 1969 divorce, spurred by her mother’s allegations that her father had fed Courtney LSD when she was a toddler. Though he denied the claim, full custody of Love was awarded to her mother. In 1970, Carroll relocated with Love to the rural community of Marcola, Oregon where they lived along the Mohawk River while she completed her psychology degree at the University of Oregon. There, Love was adopted by her then-stepfather, Frank Rodriguez. He and her mother had two daughters and a son who died in infancy of a heart defect when Love was ten; they also adopted a boy. Love attended a Montessori school in Eugene, where she struggled academically and had trouble making friends. At age nine, a psychologist noted that she exhibited signs of autism.
Courtney Love Husband
According to our records, Courtney Love married to Kurt Cobain , James Moreland. As of January 12, 2023, Courtney Love’s is not dating anyone.
Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Courtney Love. You may help us to build the dating records for Courtney Love!In 1981, she was granted a small trust fund that had been left by her adoptive grandparents, which she used to travel to Dublin, Ireland, where her biological father was living. While there, she enrolled in courses at Trinity College, studying theology for two semesters. She would later receive honorary patronage from Trinity’s University Philosophical Society in 2010. After leaving Trinity, Love relocated to Liverpool, where she became acquainted with musician Julian Cope and his band, The Teardrop Explodes, and briefly lived in his house. “They kind of took me in”, she recalled. “I was sort of a mascot; I would get them coffee or tea during rehearsal.” In Cope’s autobiography Head-On, Love is referred to as “the adolescent.” After spending a year abroad, Love returned to Portland: “I thought that [going to the United Kingdom] was my peak life experience,” she said in 2011. “—that nothing else [would] happen to me again.” In 1983, she took short-lived jobs working as an erotic dancer in Japan and later Taiwan, but was deported after the club was shut down by the government.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
Courtney Love's height 5 feet 10 inches weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.| Height | 5 feet 10 inches |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
| Hair Color | Not Available |
| Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
Facts & Trivia
Ranked on the list of most popular Rock Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous celebrity born in United States. Courtney Love celebrates birthday on July 9 of every year.
Love began several music projects in the 1980s, first forming Sugar Babylon (later Sugar Babydoll) in Portland with her friends Ursula Wehr and Robin Barbur. In 1982, Love attended a Faith No More concert in San Francisco and convinced the members to let her join as a singer. The group recorded material with Love as a vocalist, but she was subsequently kicked out of the band. According to the Faith No More keyboardist Roddy Bottum, who remained Love’s friend in the years after, the band wanted a “male energy”.
Did Kurt Cobain Love Courtney?
Cobain and Love begin dating “I was determined to be a bachelor for a few months […] but I knew I liked Courtney so much right away that it was a really hard struggle to stay away from her for so many months,” Cobain is quoted as saying Come As You Are.
How much money does Courtney Love make from Nirvana?
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Courtney Love has a net worth of $100 million, as of 2021, which is mostly derived from her ownership of her late husband Kurt Cobain’s band, Nirvana. The value of Cobain’s writing and publishing rights that she inherited are around $245 million.
What is Courtney Love's real name?
Courtney Michelle Love
Who was suing Courtney Love and Why?
Courtney Love Sued by Frances Bean Cobain’s Ex-Husband for Alleged Kidnapping & Murder Plot. Courtney Love is being sued by her daughter’s ex-husband, alleging she conspired to have him murdered over ownership of her late husband Kurt Cobain’s 1959 Martin D-18E guitar that was used during…
Why did Nirvana wear dresses?
“I like to wear dresses because they’re comfortable,” Kurt Cobain told Melody Maker in December 1992. “There’s nothing more comfortable than that cozy flower pattern… It just feels comfortable, sexy and free wearing a dress.
She later formed the Pagan Babies with friend Kat Bjelland, whom she met at the Satyricon club in Portland in 1984. As Love later reflected, “The best thing that ever happened to me in a way, was Kat.” Love asked Bjelland to start a band with her as a guitarist, and the two moved to San Francisco in June 1985, where they recruited bassist Jennifer Finch and drummer Janis Tanaka. According to Bjelland, “[Courtney] didn’t play an instrument at the time” aside from keyboards, so Bjelland would transcribe Love’s musical ideas on guitar for her. The group played several house shows and recorded one 4-track demo before disbanding in late 1985. After Pagan Babies, Love moved to Minneapolis, where Bjelland had formed the group Babes in Toyland, and briefly worked as a concert promoter before returning to California. Drummer Lori Barbero and bassist Maureen Herman recalled Courtney’s departure: “She lived in my house for a little while. And then we did a concert at the Orpheum. It was in 1988. It was called O-88 with Butthole Surfers, Cows & Bastards, Run Westy Run, and Babes in Toyland. And I guess Maureen took Courtney to the airport after she stole all the money. She stayed and stayed, and then the next day she wanted me to take her to the airport. And so I drove her to the airport. She had just had some weird fight with the guy at the desk, and then she left. She said, ‘I’m going to go to L.A. and I’m going to get my face done and I’m going to be famous.’ And then she did.”
Deciding to shift her focus to acting, Love enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute and studied film under experimental director George Kuchar. Love was featured in one of his short films, titled Club Vatican. In 1985 she submitted an audition tape for the role of Nancy Spungen in the Sid Vicious biopic Sid and Nancy (1986), and was given a minor supporting role by director Alex Cox. After filming Sid and Nancy in New York City, she worked at a peep show in Times Square and squatted at the ABC No Rio social center and Pyramid Club in the East Village. The same year, Cox cast her in a leading role in his film Straight to Hell (1987), a spaghetti western starring Joe Strummer and Grace Jones filmed in Spain in 1986. The film caught the attention of Andy Warhol, who featured Love in an episode of Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes. She also had a part in the 1988 Ramones music video for “I Wanna Be Sedated”, appearing as a bride among dozens of party guests.
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 short-lived 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 was cast in the Alex Cox films Sid and Nancy (1986) and Straight to Hell (1987). She formed Hole in Los Angeles, receiving attention from underground rock press for the group’s 1991 debut album, produced by Kim Gordon. Hole’s second release, Live Through This (1994), was met with critical accolades and multi-platinum sales. In 1995, Love returned to acting, earning a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance as Althea Leasure in Miloš Forman’s The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), which established her as a mainstream actress. The following year, Hole’s third album, Celebrity Skin (1998), was nominated for three Grammy Awards.
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