Chris Cornell's Personal LifeĬhris Cornell was a married man who tied the knot to American publicist Vicky Karayiannis in 2004. Cornell's house in the Continuum South Beach is worth $6 million and his Beverly Hills Estate house was estimated to be $5.4 million in 2013. He was entitled to some luxurious items and properties. In 2011, the live album named Songbook from his band Soundgarden grabbed $80k and the following year their album King Animal earned him $235k. Cornell had an estimated whopping net worth of $60 million which he earned from his 35 years of musical career. The late vocalist Chris Cornell is regarded among the 50 richest musicians and ranks at number 40 in the list. Besides he won Grammy Awards twice and was nominated for it 15 times. Cornell is still remembered as one of the Best Musician and was placed number nine in the list of Best Lead Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine and number fourth in the list of Heavy Metal's All-Time Top 100 Vocalists by Hit Parader.Ĭhris Cornell has sold around 8.8 million digital songs, 14.8 million albums and 300 million on-demand audio streams in the United States and made a worldwide sales of 30 million records.
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For his song The Keeper, he landed a Golden Globe nomination.īefore his death, he released a song named The Promise which was also used for the movie of the same name. He has released four solo studio albums like Higher Truth, Scream, Euphoria Morning, Songbook and so on. It was in 2007 he went solo and went to two world tours. Later in 2000, Cornell joined the Audioslave band and recorded three albums with them.Īs for his solo career, he had helped make music for some big movies like Casino Royal and The Avengers for which he co-wrote their theme song and sang as well. Some of their songs even ranked on the top list in the Billboard 200. Soundgarden was later on signed to A&M Records in 1988 and released songs like Louder Than Love and gave hits like Outshined, Rusty Cage, Jesus Christ Pose and so on.
They were the talk of the town for their music and was even nominated for Grammy for best metal performance for their 1988 SST release Ultramega OK. The band was first signed to Sub Pop Record in 1987 and released two EPs the following two years. Cornell was on the vocals, Kim Thayil and Yamamoto were guitarists and for the drums hired Sundquist later replaced by Matt Cameron. Soundgarden/ Audioslave Band & Solo MusicĬornell formed his own band named Soundgarden in 1984 and recruited musician Kim Thayil and Hiro Yamamoto who were also a member of his former band, The Shemps. In 2009, he planned to make a movie of Philip Carlo's true crime book, The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez and in 2011 there was news that the role of the main lead Ramirez will be portrayed by James Franco. Cornell was the face of fashion producer John Varvatos' 2006 ad campaign.īesides, he launched his own music publishing company called You Make Me Sick I Make Music and opened up his restaurant in Paris and named it Black Calavados. Later on, he also started appearing in movies and began involving himself in advertisements and endorsement deals. He played instruments like guitar and drums but mostly did vocals. His music genre is heavy metal, grunge, alternative rock, hard rock, and alternative metal. After the band disbanded he formed his own band named Soundgarden. Chris Cornell's CareerĬhris Cornell was professionally a singer, musician, and songwriter who started off his musical career in the early 1980s from the cover band, The Shemps and used to perform around his hometown, Seattle. Then he went on to pursue his career as a musician. Before gaining recognition in the music world, he spent his time doing part-time jobs and worked as a busboy, dishwasher, sous chef at Ray's Boathouse and a fishmonger at a seafood wholesaler. He even took guitar and piano lessons & was overwhelmed when his mother gifted him a snare drum. At the mere age of 12, he even got into drugs as he started taking marijuana, LSD, psilocybin mushroom, prescription drugs, and alcohol.Ĭornell was interested in music from an early age and his early musical influence was the Beatles. After dropping out of school he wouldn't go out much and stayed locked in his room listening to rock music as music controlled his anxiety problems. Being a young fresh mind he had many questions which mostly proved to be notorious and inappropriate.
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