Chris Cornell

Originally finding success as the singer/frontman of Seattle's Soundgarden, Chris Cornell also established a successful solo career after the band's 1997 break-up. Born in Seattle on July 20, 1964, Cornell's music career didn't take shape until he was a teenager - playing drums in bands that mixed punk/new wave and metal covers. After dropping out of high school and working as a cook, Cornell formed a band that with a few line-up changes, would become the great and influential Soundgarden by the mid-80's. Chris switched to vocals around the time of the band's formation, with friend Hiro Yamamoto on bass, Kim Thayil on guitar, and eventually, Matt Cameron on drums.
Soundgarden was one of the first bands of the late-80's Seattle underground to sign with a major label, A&M, who issued Louder Than Love in '89. After the album's release however, Yamamoto left - first replaced by ex-Nirvana member Jason Everman, and eventually permanently by Ben Shepherd.
With Soundgarden's stable line-up in place, the band rightfully became one of rock's most popular bands on the strength of such albums as 91's Badmotorfinger, 94's Superunknown, and 96's Down on the Upside. With each album, Cornell's singing grew stronger and stronger, together with his great talent for lyric writing.
In 1990, Cornell organized a tribute for late Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood in the form of  Temple of the Dog project, which is one of my most favorite albums of Cornell's work. Cornell's first officially released solo composition, the acoustic "Seasons", was the highlight of the 1992 motion picture soundtrack Singles. His bluesy voice also worked amazingly well on a superb cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Hey Baby" on the 1993 Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix compilation (under the pseudonym 'MACC'), and on "Sunshower", a great song from a motion picture. He also found the time to write songs for other acts, such as Flotsam and Jetsam and Alice Cooper, as well as producing Screaming Trees '1991 release Uncle Anesthesia. After Soundgarden's break-up in April of '97, Cornell slowly but surely began to put a solo album together, with his friends from the band Eleven. Finally issued in 1999, Euphoria Morning was a departure from his former band's sound - it was in a more singer/songwriter mold, that focused more on Cornell's vocals and lyrics than heavy guitar riffs. Shortly after its release, Cornell launched his first solo tour, mixing songs from all eras of his career. Lately he did "Mision 2000" song on the Mission Impossible soundtrack.
His new project nowadays involves the members of Rage Against The Machine, and their debut album will be hopefully released somewhere around the end of 2002.

- From Yahoo's music biography

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