Maeve McDermott

USATODAY

Feb. 20, 2017 would have been the 50th birthday of Kurt Cobain, the Nirvana frontman who died at age 27 in April 1994.

Frances Bean Cobain, the late rocker's 24-year-old daughter, remembered her dad in a handwritten note she shared on social media.

"Today would have been your 50th birthday. You are loved and you are missed. Thank you for giving me the gift of life. Forever your daughter, Frances Bean Cobain," she wrote.

In an interview withRolling Stone about the HBO documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, Frances said her father sacrificed his life for his art "because the world demanded it of him. I think that was one of the main triggers as to why he felt he didn't want to be here and everyone would be happier without him."

"In reality, if he had lived,...I would have had a dad," she continued. "And that would have been an incredible experience."

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