A figure in the alternative and grunge scenes of the s, her career has spanned four decades. She rose to prominence as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the alternative rock band Hole , which she formed in 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 , NME named her one of the most influential singers in alternative culture of the last 30 years.
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 pursuing an acting career. The group received critical acclaim from underground rock press for their debut album Pretty on the Inside , produced by Kim Gordon , while their second release, Live Through This , was met with critical accolades and multi-platinum sales.
Larry Flynt , which established her as a mainstream actress. Love continued to work as an actress into the early s, appearing in big-budget pictures such as Man on the Moon and Trapped , before releasing her first solo album, America's Sweetheart , in The subsequent several years were marred with publicity surrounding Love's legal troubles and drug relapse, which resulted in a mandatory lockdown rehabilitation sentence in while she was writing a second solo album.
That project became Nobody's Daughter , released in as a Hole album but without the former Hole lineup. Between and , Love released two solo singles and returned to acting in the network series Sons of Anarchy and Empire. In , she confirmed she was writing new music. Love has also been active as a writer; she co-created and co-wrote three volumes of a manga , Princess Ai , between and , and wrote a memoir, Dirty Blonde Love spent her early years in Haight-Ashbury , San Francisco, until her parents divorced in Observational therapy.
