Mark Lanegan, former singer and co-founder of the American rock group Screaming Trees, then the protagonist of a successful solo career from the 1990s onwards, died Tuesday morning. The causes of death are not known: a press release posted on his official Twitter profile simply states that Lanegan died at his home in Killarney, Ireland. Lanegan was 57 years old, and in 2021 he had had Covid-19 in a very serious form, then describing the experience in a bookin which he also says that he regrets having believed in conspiracy theories about the pandemic.
Lanegan began his career in music in the mid-1980s with the Screaming Trees, considered to be one of the first groups grunge together with Soundgarden, Nirvana and Pearl Jam, with whom they shared the state of origin (they were all part of the Washington music scene, in the northwest of the United States). Lanegan gave a strong and recognizable stamp to the Screaming Trees, with his deep voice from crooner more than as the frontman of a rock group.
But in his prolific career he had many collaborations with other groups and artists, including Kurt Cobain, Moby, Neko Case and Isobel Campbell of Belle and Sebastian, among others. In addition to releasing 11 solo records, Lanegan was part of the Queens of the Stone Age and helped found the Gutter Twins.
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