Chris Cornell‘s daughter Toni has paid tribute to the late Soundgarden frontman to mark what would have been his 58th birthday.Cornell died by suicide on May 18, 2017.
He was 52 years old.Yesterday (July 20), Toni Cornell – who is also a musician and singer – took to Instagram to share an intimate home video of herself and her father.
In the clip, we see Toni singing along to Rihanna‘s chorus from Eminem‘s 2010 single ‘Love the Way You Lie’ as Chris plays the track on acoustic guitar.“Singing high is not the same as singing loud, though,” Chris tells his daughter in the video. “You don’t have to sing it loud.
You can sing it quiet.” He later nods along in encouragement, telling a young Toni: “That was great.”In the caption to the post, Toni referred to one of her dad’s favourite songs to cover. “‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ is not just a song,” she wrote. “It’s what I truly think when I look back at our life and memories together.“You were always playing music for us, singing with us, dancing with us.”A post shared by Toni Cornell (@tonicornell)The message continued: “Losing you was one of the hardest things we had to go through.
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