The American activist and musician Krist Novoselic is best known as the bassist and also a founding member of the rock band Nirvana. He later left music to concentrate on politics.
Krist Novoselic has had an interest in politics since high school. He described himself as an anarcho-capitalist, and also socialist. He has even run for political office.
Biography
Novoselic was born on May 16 1965 in Compton, California to Kristo Novaselic and Marija Mustac. His parents were Croatian immigrants. His father was a native of Veli Iž on the Island of Iž while his mother Marija comes from Privlaka.
Krist Novoselic’s parents moved to a Croatian neighborhood of San Pedro. Novoselic grew up with his two siblings, a brother Robert and a younger sister, Diana.
Krist Novoselic attended Aberdeen High School and after high school, he worked as a painter and decorator. He later earned a B.Sc in Social Sciences from Washington State University Global campus.
Krist Novoselic’s Career
Music
Krist Novoselic’s brother Robert introduced him to his friend after the latter noticed Novoselic had an interest in punk rock. His brother’s friend Kurt Cobain later gave the activist his demo tape and asked him to form a band with him.
The band lasted for just a couple of weeks before it was disbanded, as they formed a Creedence Clearwater Revival cover band. Cobain was in charge of drums while Novoselic was in charge of vocals and guitar.
The duo later met drummer Chad Channing and they recorded their debut album Bleach in 1989. Channing left the band later on and was replaced with Dan Peters.
Krist Novoselic was the sole songwriter of the group. The group was officially called Nirvana.
Novoselic began to struggle with his music career after his friend Cobain passed in 1994 and the band also came to an end at almost the same time. His music career did not end there though, he co-formed another band named Sweet 75 together with Venezuelan musician Yva Las Vegas in 1995.
After releasing a solo album in 1997 and doing a few uncredited background vocals, Novoselic decided to quit the music business at that moment but that didn’t go as planned for him.
Aside from music, he appeared as a newspaper vendor in the movie World’s Greatest Dad.
Novoselic announced in November 2016 that he was in the process of writing his new song and in 2017 he formed a band Giants in the Trees with Jillian Raye, Erik Friend, and Ray Prestegard.
Political career
His attention shifted to politics after he proposed the creation of a political action committee known as JAMPAC( Joint Artist and Musicians Political Action Committee). The group was formed after Novoselic and his bandmates were against the Erotic Music Law that was passed at that time.
In 2004, he wanted to run for Lieutenant Governor of Washington as a Democrat. He later published his first book Of Grunge and Government: Let’s Fix This Broken Democracy in October 2004.
During the former Barack Obama campaign in 2008. Novoselic supported in the presidential election in 2008. He later left the Democratic party.
Novoselic became interested in supporting political reforms using social media platforms as factors in shaping the political future.
The activist has been very vocal about his views in politics and his views cannot be categorized as his political philosophies are of both sides.
Aside from being a rock star, he is known to be a writer as well. He has a blog dream journal and has also written for some other blogs like the Seattle Weekly website but he stopped in 2010.
In 2014, his formed band Nirvana was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and he appeared as a guest on the show The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon.
Novoselic became an FAA-licensed pilot after he passed his flight test in April 2002. He later earned a multi-engine pilot certificate in February 2018.
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Does Krist Novoselic Really Have 80 Million?
Krist Novoselic currently has a net worth of $80 million. His major source of wealth is his music career. His rock band Nirvana was said to be quite successful and famous during the 90s.
The 60 year-old former band sold 350,000 albums in just 2013 and 900,000 singles the same year. Nirvana’s music is said to have generated a huge sum of almost $4,4 million at that time.
His huge net worth most have come from his own percentage of the band’s proceeds and also from his real estate businesses.
Krist Novoselic’s Personal Life
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Novoselic married his high school girlfriend, Shelli Hyrkas in 1989 but the marriage ended a few years later in 1999.
He remarried Darbury Ayn Stenderu an artist in 2004. They have two children together. He currently resides on a farm near Deep River, Washington.
Aside from growing his food on the farm, Novoselic has a strong interest in animals, and nature generally.
