Chris Cornell Announced as Keynote Q&A for Billboard Touring Conference — billboard.com

Chris Cornell, the legendary front man for pioneering bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, will be featured as the Keynote Q&A at the 11th annual Billboard Touring Conference, set for Nov. 19-20 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York. Though he resists genre labels, there is no doubt that Cornell is the chief architect of the '90s grunge movement that turned rock 'n roll upside down. Widely considered one of the elite vocalists in rock music, as well as a visionary pioneer, and a multi-Grammy Award winning musician, lyricist, and touring artist. Cornell's band Soundgarden, which re-united for a wildly successful tour in 2010, was the first Seattle band to a major record label, and the musical approach of Soundgarden and its contemporaries changed rock music forever over the course of five electrifying albums and numerous global tours. Always a man in musical motion, as the millennium turned, Cornell joined with three other musical pioneers from Rage Against the Machine to create Audioslave, a multi-platinum, multi-Grammy nominated rock supergroup. Always defying borders of all types, in 2005, Audioslave played a State Department-endorsed cultural exchange via a free show in Havana, Cuba for over 50,000 people, becoming the first American rock group to perform an open-air concert in the socialist republic of Castro's Cuba.

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