Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22 1960 into a middle-class family in Brooklyn, New York. Basquiat was one of the most influential and internationally recognized African-American artists of the late twentieth century. His father was born in Port au Prince, Haiti, and his mother was a New York native of Puerto Rican descent. According to his claims, his father was physically violent and his mother was volatile. Despite suffering from depression, his mother made time to take him to ...

The turbulent life, the endless parties, the drug addiction, the love affair with Courtney Love, and the enormous success of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” – Cobain’s death, like his life, had such an impact on the music scene that no one can say “Nevermind”.