Biography
A talented man is talented in everything. The co-founder and vocalist of the Linkin Park group Mike Shinod knows a lot of things: he writes songs, scripts and music to the films, draws, produces, acts as MS.
After the death of Chester Bennington, the musician still found the power to report in Twitter that life continues and the team would exist. The song Over Again from the new album is an illustration of what the friends survived and how Linkin Park is preparing for a show in memory of Chester.
Childhood and youth
Michael Kenji Shinoda was born in February 1977 on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, in the Hills. A small town is known for being the birthplace of two members of Linkin Park - Michael and Brad Derson. The head of the Leslie family is the Japanese, the mother of Kim, according to some sources, although a native American, blood - half the Russian, half of Hungarian. Mike has Brother Jason, but the eldest calls the younger Jebe.
Shinoda is considered to be Yonsey - so the Japanese call the fourth generation of compatriots born in the United States. As the singer himself told, his ancestors know well what it means to live in reservation, when after the bombing in Pearl-Harbor of the Japanese, who lived in America, were forcibly placed in the camps for the interneed. Through such a camp, Leslie Shinoda and four cousins of the singer passed. The Kenji composition from the Album The Rising Tied Solo Project Fort Minor is devoted to the time of racial discrimination.
For Piano, Mike planted early - at 3 years old, began traditionally - from classical music, later the sphere of interests moved towards the blues, hip-hop and jazz. Among your favorite performers were GrandMaster Flash, Run DMC, Eric B and Rakim and LL Cool J.
In graduation classes, the Shinoda school bought a synthesizer, began writing bits, together with Odnoklassnik Brad Derson turned his own room in the first recording studio. Then the future rocker has mastered the game on the guitar. Soon the drummer Rob Bourdon joined the friends, the guys created a team called Xero and moved to conquer the musical Olympus.
Hobbating drawing led a young singer to Pasadensky Art Center College of Design. In the future, the artistic and design skills of the shyrod fully applied in parallel with musical. Linkin Park Album Covers, Styles of Beyond, Design of the Site Group and T-shirts of the Fan Club Linkin Park Underground - the fruits of his fantasy.
In college, Mike met another future member of the general team Joseph Khan. Delson, who studied at the time at the university, found a relative soul in Davide Michael Farrell, with whom he lived in the same room and periodically played the guitar. New friends quickly pour in Xero, which after their appearance is renamed in Hybrid Theory. The group subsequently becoming popular called Linkin Park will finally be formed by 1999.
Producers and labels went around the Hybrid Theory side, and the musicians took up their own promotion, engaged in almost viral self-self-advertising. The guys were placed in the demo-record network, writing messages on the websites of other teams, the mail, cassettes, stickers were sent to everyone. As Bourdon recalled, friends dragged with a nearby post office and borrowed it with an apartment with parcels. In the end, the team managed to convince the Warner Bros concern in his prospects. Records.
Music
Shinoda recognized that for the first time "Caifa" from writing music in childhood, when his essay received first place in the competition. The realization that he should have a musical biography, came to the T-shirt after the speech of DJ Killer B, in which the Anthrax cult metal group and the radical African American hip-hop team of Public Enemy participated.
While Chester did not join the group, the vocal parties performed Mike, and also invited friends for these purposes. On Bennington indicated another failed vocalist, saying that if this guy would not take, then "you are just idiots." The mixing of rocker and rapper votes, accompanied by DJ DJ samples, attached a unique sound to the group.
A real Idol of the Linkin Park group remains Chester Bennington, and only the true fans know that before his appearance was solired Mark Wakefield. The vocalist left the team, considering that the success of the guys would not achieve. Before leaving Wakefield, he wrote a part of the songs from the debut album Linkin Park Hybrid Theory, including Crawling, Runaway, A Place for My Head and Forgotten.
The album was waiting for incredible success and financially, and in terms of lifting the popularity of the group. In the Billboard charts, the record launched from 16 seats and rose to the second. Mike implemented a dream to get "Grammy", first hitting the category "Best Rock Album", and in the 2002th taking a cherished gramophone for hard rock execution of the Crawling song. A year later, the Grammy Award was awarded a clip on this composition.
By Christmas, the 2000 Hibrid Theory album received gold status in America. In January 2003, Single One Step Closer rose to 24 string in British charts, the favorite song Mike "Papercut" - by 14.
To date, the work of the main brainchild of Linkin Park Shinoda is rated by millions, whether it is a number of views on YouTube, album circulation, "Likes" in Facebook. Not to mention the earned condition. On the account of the cult team 10 Awards MTV Europe Music Awards, 3 - World Music Awards, 4 - MTV Video Music Awards, 6 victories in the nomination "Favorite Alternative Artist" from American Music Awards.
No less successful and solo solder career. In 2005, Mike released the album The Rising Tied as part of the Fort Minor project created for the implementation of ideas not knitted with the Linkin Park style. Single Where'D You Go reached 4 lines of the chart Billboard Hot 100, the clip collected millions of views on YouTube.
In addition, the musician owns the labels The Shinoda Imprint and Machine Shop Recordings.
Personal life
Mike is a happy father of the family in which the son and two daughters grow. Wife - School friend Anna Maria Hillinger, Children's writer. The beloved woman is dedicated to the song Where'd You Go with a solo album of the Fort Minor project.The singer can not tolerate pop music, calling her evil. Colleagues gave him a nickname chisel for a high height of 183 cm and a big head. Mike loves sharp dishes of oriental cuisine and green apples, and he prefers to talk about themselves from a third party
Mike Shinoda now
The death of Chester Bennington was seriously affected by T-shirt, half a year the musician spent in voluntary isolation at home in Los Angeles. The result of the sharpening was the solo album of the ROST Traumatic, two tracks from which - Crossing a Line and Nothing Makes Sense Anymore, as well as the video for the first one - already published. The album in which 16 compositions will include, ready to pre-order on the group's website.
"The songs are filled with bitter sorrow, and the lines of chorus are impregnated with grief, offended and absolute misunderstanding of what to do and how to live on," wrote New York Times.The author himself, on the contrary, believes that the album is a symbol of outlet of a dead end, return to the light. Shinoda expressed the hope that those who survived a serious loss in life would understand that they are not alone.
Mike Shinoda follows the overall send of the last album. In March 2018, on the page in the "Instagram", the singer was pleased with the post with an invitation to the Reading and Leeds festival, which is planned for holding in August in the UK. In addition, bidding fans will see the solo performances of the musician on the Identity La in Los Angeles in May and at the Summer Sonic Festival, which will be held in August in the homeland of the ancestors.
Discography
- 2000 - Hybrid Theory
- 2002 - IT's Goin 'Down
- 2005 - The Rising Tied
- 2006 - WHERE'D YOU GO
- 2007 - Minutes to Midnight
- 2014 - The Hunting Party
- 2015 - Welcome.
- 2018 - POST Traumatic EP