Historical Figure
Mike Shinoda
b. 1977
American musician (born 1977)
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Biography
Michael Kenji Shinoda is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and graphic designer. He co-founded the rock band Linkin Park in 1996 as the band's co-lead vocalist, as well as rhythm guitarist, keyboardist, primary songwriter and producer. He also created the hip-hop-driven side project, Fort Minor, in 2004. He has also served as a producer for tracks and albums by artists such as Lupe Fiasco, Styles of Beyond, and the X-Ecutioners.
Timeline
The story of Mike Shinoda, told in moments.
Linkin Park releases Hybrid Theory. He co-wrote every song, produced it, raps on it, sings on it. The album sells over 30 million copies worldwide. It's the best-selling debut of the 21st century. He's 23.
Meteora drops and sells 800,000 copies in its first week. Linkin Park is now the biggest rock band in the world. Shinoda and Chester Bennington have built something that merges rap, metal, and electronic music into a sound nobody else can replicate.
Chester Bennington dies by suicide. Shinoda loses his creative partner and closest collaborator. He processes the grief publicly, releasing Post Traumatic in 2018, an album that's part eulogy, part survival journal. He keeps Linkin Park going.
Artifacts (9)
the region being dragged into adventurism that does not serve Arab interests,
, including Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. Jordan's King Abdullah II and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned on 14 July of the risk of "the region being dragged into adventurism that does not...
If Syria falls in the hands of America, Israel and the takfiris, the people of o...
the strategic Syrian town of Qusair on the same side as the Syrian army. In the televised address, he said, "If Syria falls in the hands of America, Israel and the takfiris, the people of our region...
If they [the Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going af...
esence on earth is a "disgrace”. Journalist Badih Chayban in a 23 October 2002 article in The Daily Star wrote that Nasrallah said, "If they [the Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the...
This is a lie and a fabrication. It's true that I haven't seen Nasrallah this pa...
that Nasrallah had been poisoned. Lebanese parliament member Al-Hajj Hassan, a member of Hezbollah, said: "This is a lie and a fabrication. It's true that I haven't seen Nasrallah this past week, but...
if research was done on the internet websites posting such unfounded information...
o imply that the party was suffering from internal disputes and assassination plots. Nasrallah also said that "if research was done on the internet websites posting such unfounded information, it...
If you hit Beirut, the Islamic resistance will hit Tel Aviv and is able to do th...
an Nasrallah vowed to strike Tel Aviv in retaliation for Israel's bombardment of Lebanon's capital. "If you hit Beirut, the Islamic resistance will hit Tel Aviv and is able to do that with God's...
At the end of the road, no one can go to war on behalf of the Palestinians, even...
th to America" in his public appearances, Nasrallah said in an interview to The New Yorker in 2003: "At the end of the road, no one can go to war on behalf of the Palestinians, even if that one is not...
We do not think, even one percent, that the capture led to a war at this time an...
d not have ordered the capture of two Israeli soldiers if he had known it would lead to such a war: "We do not think, even one percent, that the capture led to a war at this time and of this...
If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and...
rage Palestinian resistance. Lebanese writer, Amal Saad-Ghorayeb quotes Hassan Nasrallah as saying, "If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche,...
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