Chris Cornell would have turned 54 on Friday, July 20. Though the occasion is presumably bittersweet for the Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman’s loved ones, his wife, Vicky Cornell, offered some happy news by announcing her family’s plans to memorialize Chris with a life-size bronze statute she’s commissioned an artist to have erected at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, where Chris was born and raised. Created by sculptor Nick Marras, the piece is expected to feature Chris wearing his go-to boots and dog tag. Vicky called the sculpture a gift from her family to “the tight-knit community that gave [him] his start,” according to the New York Post. Chris was found dead of an apparent suicide in his hotel room after performing in Detroit on May 18, 2017.
