Mike shinoda wiki

He co-founded the rock band Linkin Park in and is the band's co-lead vocalist, as well as rhythm guitarist, keyboardist, primary songwriter and producer. Shinoda later created a hip-hop-driven side project, Fort Minor , in He has also served as a producer for tracks and albums by artists such as Lupe Fiasco , Styles of Beyond , and the X-Ecutioners.

Shinoda is also the co-founder of Machine Shop Records , a California-based record label. Outside of music, Shinoda is an artist and graphic designer. He has painted several pieces of artwork, some of which have been featured in the Japanese American National Museum. In , Shinoda released his debut solo album Post Traumatic , which consists of 18 songs about his feelings following the death of Chester Bennington , his Linkin Park bandmate.

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By 13, he expressed the desire to move toward playing jazz , blues , and hip hop. The three formed the band Xero and began to make a more serious attempt to pursue a career in the music industry. After graduating high school, Shinoda enrolled in the Art Center College of Design of Pasadena to study graphic design and illustration. Years later, he told an interviewer:.

I think it was probably in college that I realized that there was a difference between Japanese and Japanese-American.