The rock world lost an amazing talent when Chris Cornell died suddenly on Wednesday.

And Miami lost a semi local.

The Soundgarden front man maintained a place in Miami Beach, which he loved.

Last June, he told the Tampa Bay Times why he liked spending time in Florida.

It naturally had a lot to do with the geography — and weather.

“If you look at the continental U.S., it’s as far away as you could possibly get,” Cornell told the paper. “It’s not something I would have guessed I would have liked, in terms of the heat and the humidity, and it turns out that I really do. After being here for a couple of weeks, I thought, I could really get used to it.”

The Seattle native actually wrote and recorded part of his 2015 album “Higher Truth” while in the Sunshine State and kicked off his Higher Truth World Tour last summer at Ruth Eckerd Hall.

Seems Florida was good for getting the creative juices flowing.

“I’d come down here enough times to where I sort of had a feel for it, but it wasn’t until working here that I felt like it was a place I understood a little better, and really started to grow to like a lot,” the grunge rocker added. “It might actually lend itself to the creative process a little bit.”

He also enjoyed the beach, as evidenced by his social media account, and doing fun stuff with his two kids Toni, 12, and Christopher, 11, and his wife Vicky Karayiannis. Cornell even posted a pic on Instagram of him feeding a tiger with his kids, a Jungle Island attraction.

Cornell’s death in Detroit while on tour was ruled a suicide by hanging.