Chris Cornell (1964, Seattle) is an American singer/songwriter and guitarist. In 1984 he formed the band Soundgardenwith bassist Hiro Yamamoto. Throughout the late 80's and 90's, Soundgarden experienced major success as one of the four major grunge bands (among Alice in Chains, Nirvana, and Pearl Jam). In 1990, Chris Cornell worked together with the (then) Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron, and Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament and Mike McCready (who would later form Pearl Jam) in a project named Temple of the Dog. They wrote a 10 song album as tribute to Andrew Wood, the singer of Mother Love Bonewho had died the year before of a heroin overdose.
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