"rowing up speaking Croatian, and all of a sudden in kindergarten I have to speak English - I guess my brain was just like 'OK, what’s this new thing here? I might as well pick it up and learn how to do it.' And my parents were different culturally too. hen we lived in San Pedro, all of our relatives were Croatian people. He attended kindergarten at Los Angeles’ Leland Street School, where he struggled a bit to pick up English. Krist was raised speaking Croatian as his first language. The family expanded with the addition of his siblings, Robert (b. Krist was born in Compton on May 16, 1965. The young couple then moved to Gardena, and finally to Compton, California. Soon after, he moved back to San Pedro, where he met and, in 1964, married a recent émigré, Marija (“Maria”) Mustac, from Privlaka, Yugoslavia. He had relatives in the Pacific Northwest town of Aberdeen, Washington, and relocated there in about 1963. After eight years in Germany, Krsto emigrated to the Croatian enclave in San Pedro, California. 1935), who came from Iz Veli, Yugoslavia, and fled in the mid-1950s to Köln, Germany, where he worked as a machinist. Krist Anthony Novoselic inherited a venerable old Croatian family name from his father, Krsto Novoselic (b. Born to Croatian-American immigrants, Novoselic is a well-read and -traveled, multilingual Renaissance man who has also contributed to his culture and community as an author, filmmaker, newspaper blogger/columnist, radio host, rural Grange member, political activist, and futurist. In that Aberdeen, Washington-based grunge band’s brief span of activity - from its formation in 1987 to the production of several multi-million-selling albums (including 1989’s Bleach, 1991’s Nevermind, 1992’s Incesticide, 1993’s In Utero, and 1994’s MTV Unplugged in New York), to its demise with the tragic suicide of the band's guitarist/singer Kurt Cobain (1967-1994) - Novoselic won a reputation as a formidable musician, a kind and winsome individual, and a socially aware and active citizen. Krist Novoselic rose from the Pacific Northwest’s 1980s underground punk rock scene to earn global fame as bassist with Nirvana - the most impactful rock ‘n’ roll band of his generation.
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