Nirvana

Despite just a short stint in the limelight, Nirvana helped define the punk rock music scene of the early ’90s.  Frontman and lead vocalist, Kurt Cobain was a visionary in musical style before his tragic passing in 1994.

While Nirvana is part of music history, they played under many different names before that one, some of which included “Throat Oyster,” “Skid Row,” and “Ted, Ed, and Fred.” Cobain chose the Buddhist term “nirvana,” which means the release from a cycle of rebirth and suffering, and told it to his bandmates about how it means “attaining perfection.”