MARK LANEGAN. Pioneer of grunge, renowned American singer and musician, Mark Lanegan died on Tuesday February 22 at the age of 57.
[Mis à jour le 23 février 2021 à 14h31] He was one of the pioneers of world grunge: Mark Lanegan died on Tuesday February 22, 2022 at his home. The artist was 57 years old. “Our dear friend Mark Lanegan passed away this morning at his home in Killarney, Ireland. A beloved singer, songwriter, songwriter and musician, he was 57 and is survived by his wife Shelley. No further information is available at this time. . His family asks everyone to respect his privacy”, can we read in a message posted on the artist’s social networks, which therefore does not specify the causes of this disappearance.
Born on November 25, 1964 in Ellensburg, near Seattle in the State of Washington in the United States, Mark Lanegan first became known as the singer and leader of the rock group Screaming Trees, from 1984 to 2000. The formation will have marked spirits with titles like Nearly Lost You Where All I Know At the same time, he began a solo career and worked with Kurt Cobain. He then joined the group Queens of the Stone Age, until 2014.
The hoarse timbre of Mark Lanegan’s voice was instantly recognizable. Throughout his career, solo or with the groups Screaming Trees, Mad Season, Queens of the Stone Age, The Gutter Twins or The Jury, the American singer has built his myth and has established himself, since 1985, as the one of the pioneers of global grunge. Mark Lanegan has worked with the greatest, such as Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, PJ Harvey, Isobel Campbell, Moby or Mike Watt. He had met Kurt Cobain when he arrived in Seattle and it was with the group Screaming Trees that he became one of the faces of grunge (of which Seattle is the cradle), this style of music derived from rock, dark and tortured.
An outstanding musician, the artist left his mark on international grunge with his particular timbre of voice, his melancholy and raw style. With fifteen albums to his credit, Mark Lanegan had also been talked regarding for his addictions to alcohol and heroin.
In 2021, contaminated by Covid-19, he said he had been close to death following relaying conspiracy theories, then changing his mind in favor of the vaccine. His Covid-19 infection had caused Mark Lanegan hallucinations, deafness and several cracked ribs. The musician had also had to be hospitalized and plunged into an artificial coma. “This thing was trying to dismantle me,” he confided then, as reported by the newspaper The Guardian.
