Early musical career
Love began her professional music career with a brief stint as the lead singer of Faith No More. Keyboardist Roddy Bottum described the band at the time as “democraticâ€, saying that Love’s dominating personality did not fit in. The two artists have remained friends, working together in 2005 on a track for the film Adam & Steve.
At age 22, Love moved back to Portland, then on to Los Angeles in 1987 with fellow musician Kat Bjelland, beginning a period in which Love would form bands with Bjelland only to be ousted by her from each. The pair first formed a band in L. A. with Jennifer Finch called Sugar Baby Doll (alternately Sugar Babylon). During this time Love and Bjelland began to dress alike, wearing dirty Babydoll dresses, plastic girl’s hair clips, ripped stockings and overdone, often smeared makeup. An argument between the two raged over who had come up with their signature style, later dubbed Kinderwhore. Love claimed that she took the style from Christina Amp
More about Courtney Love (From Wikipedia)
Early Life
Courtney Michelle Harrison was born in San Francisco, California to a family of Irish and Jewish descent. She regards herself as "a nice Jewish girl". Love’s biological family read more...
Early Musical Career
Love began her professional music career with a brief stint as the lead singer of Faith No More. Keyboardist Roddy Bottum described the band at the time as “democraticâ€, read more...
Marriage
Love met Kurt Cobain on January 12, 1990, in Portland, Oregon’s Satyricon club before fame hit, when the two singers still led underground rock bands. Love made advances afterwards, read more...
Live Through This Tour (1994)
Hole was struck by disaster again when bassist Kristen Pfaff died of an apparent heroin overdose on June 16, 1994, just two months after Cobain's death and the new album's release. read more...
Celebrity Skin Era (1996–2000)
Love received considerable acclaim for her role as Larry Flynt’s wife, Althea, in Miloš Forman’s 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, opposite Woody Harrelson as read more...
Health, Drug Abuse And Legal Issues
In 1992, while unknowingly carrying Kurt Cobain’s child, Love admitted to taking heroin, and other drugs. This led to media questioning her on whether Frances was born addicted read more...
America’s Sweetheart (2001–2004)
In early 2004, just as she had completed her first batch of songs, Love contacted ex-Hole drummer Samantha Maloney asking her to fly to France (after drummer Patty Schemel departed read more...
2005–present
In June 2005, three months after being released from court-ordered drug rehabilitation, Love started recording her second solo LP, Nobody's Daughter. An anti-cocaine song entitled read more...
Family History
Love’s mother Linda Carroll was adopted by an Italian-American couple at birth, retaining no contact with her birth father or her birth mother, whom she later discovered was read more...
Courtney Michelle Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison on July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician and Golden Globe-nominated actress. Love is best known as lead singer, songwriter read more...