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Remembering Chris Cornell

The Soundgarden singer, who died Wednesday in Detroit, was 52.
Source: Mark Blinch / Reuters

Updated at 1:45 p.m. ET

Chris Cornell, perhaps best known as the lead singer of Soundgarden, one of the bands that defined the grunge sound of the ’90s, had died at the age of 52. In a statement, Brian Bumbery, his representative, called Cornell’s death “sudden and unexpected.”

Detroit Police they were investigating the death by the city’s medical examiner.

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