According to Love, she was named after Courtney Farrell, the protagonist of Pamela Moore's 1956 novel Chocolates for Breakfast.
Her parents met at a party held for Dizzy Gillespie in 1963.
Courtney Michelle Love (née Harrison; born July 9, 1964) is an American singer, songwriter and actress.
Love is of Cuban, English, German, Irish, and Welsh descent. Love spent her early years in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, until her parents' 1970 divorce.
In 1970, Carroll relocated with Love to the rural community of Marcola, Oregon where they lived along the Mohawk River while Carroll completed her psychology degree at the University of Oregon.
Though Love was raised Roman Catholic, her mother maintained an unconventional home; according to Love, "There were hairy, wangly-ass [running around naked [doing Gestalt therapy," and her mother raised her in a gender-free household with "no dresses, no patent leather shoes, no canopy beds, nothing". In 1972, Love's mother divorced Rodríguez, remarried, and moved the family to Nelson, New Zealand.
In 1973, Carroll sent Love back to Portland, Oregon, to be raised by her former stepfather and other family friends.
She was intermittently placed in foster care throughout late 1979 until becoming legally emancipated in 1980, after which she remained staunchly estranged from her mother.
She was intermittently placed in foster care throughout late 1979 until becoming legally emancipated in 1980, after which she remained staunchly estranged from her mother.
During this period, she enrolled at Portland State University, studying English and philosophy. In 1981, Love was granted a small trust fund that had been left by her maternal grandparents, which she used to travel to Dublin, Ireland, where her biological father was living.
I was sort of a mascot; I would get them coffee or tea during rehearsals." Cope writes of Love frequently in his 1994 autobiography, Head-On, in which he refers to her as "the adolescent". In July 1982, Love returned to the United States.
In late 1982, she attended a Faith No More concert in San Francisco and convinced the members to let her join as a singer.
She rose to prominence as the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989.
A figure in the alternative and grunge scenes of the 1990s, her career has spanned four decades.
The group received critical acclaim from underground rock press for their 1991 debut album, produced by Kim Gordon, while their second release, Live Through This (1994), was met with critical accolades and multi-platinum sales.
I was sort of a mascot; I would get them coffee or tea during rehearsals." Cope writes of Love frequently in his 1994 autobiography, Head-On, in which he refers to her as "the adolescent". In July 1982, Love returned to the United States.
In 1995, Love returned to acting, earning a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance as Althea Leasure in Miloš Forman's The People vs.
The following year, Hole's third album, Celebrity Skin (1998), was nominated for three Grammy Awards. Love continued to work as an actress into the early 2000s, appearing in big-budget pictures such as Man on the Moon (1999) and Trapped (2002), before releasing her first solo album, America's Sweetheart, in 2004.
The following year, Hole's third album, Celebrity Skin (1998), was nominated for three Grammy Awards. Love continued to work as an actress into the early 2000s, appearing in big-budget pictures such as Man on the Moon (1999) and Trapped (2002), before releasing her first solo album, America's Sweetheart, in 2004.
The next several years were marked by publicity surrounding Love's legal troubles and drug relapse, which resulted in a mandatory lockdown rehabilitation sentence in 2005 while she was writing a second solo album.
That project became Nobody's Daughter, released in 2010 as a Hole album but without the former Hole lineup.
She later received [degree|honorary patronage] from Trinity's University Philosophical Society in 2010.
Between 2014 and 2015, Love released two solo singles and returned to acting in the network series Sons of Anarchy and Empire.
Between 2014 and 2015, Love released two solo singles and returned to acting in the network series Sons of Anarchy and Empire.
In 2020, NME named her "one of the most influential singers in alternative culture of the last 30 years." Born to countercultural parents in San Francisco, Love had an itinerant childhood, but was primarily raised in Portland, Oregon, where she played in a series of short-lived bands and was active in the local punk scene.
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