I remember the first time I went, how familiar it seemed, just getting out of the plane, it smelled like my aunt's house, in the airport, it smelled like Japan. It's not the same thing and then eventually with Linkin Park, I toured in Japan. I think it was probably in college that I realized that there was a difference between Japanese and Japanese-American. While studying at the Art Center College of Design, he experienced a form of identity crisis. He attended classes with DJ and turntablist Joseph Hahn. After graduating high school, Shinoda enrolled in the Art Center College of Design of Pasadena to study graphic design and illustration.

The three formed the band Xero, and began to make a more serious attempt to pursue a career in the music industry. Shinoda attended Agoura High School with Linkin Park bandmates Brad Delson and Rob Bourdon. He later added the guitar and rap-style vocals to his repertoire during his middle school and high school years. By 13, he expressed the desire to move toward playing jazz, blues, and hip hop.

Shinoda's mother encouraged him to take classical piano lessons when he was six. His father is Japanese-American, he has a younger brother named Jason, and he was raised as a liberal Protestant. Shinoda was born on February 11, 1977, in Panorama City, California, and raised in Agoura Hills, California. In 2018, Shinoda released his debut solo album Post Traumatic, which consists of 18 songs about his feelings following the death of his Linkin Park bandmate Bennington. He has painted several pieces of artwork, some of which have been featured in the Japanese American National Museum. Outside of music, Shinoda is an artist and graphic designer. Shinoda is also the co-founder of Machine Shop Records, a California-based record label. The band later signed a record deal with Warner Bros Records.

Chester Bennington joined Linkin Park in 1999, replacing Wakefield as lead vocalist. He has also served as a producer for tracks and albums by Lupe Fiasco, Styles of Beyond and the X-Ecutioners.īorn in Panorama City, Los Angeles, California, and raised in Agoura Hills, Shinoda formed Xero, which later became Linkin Park, with two of his high-school friends: Brad Delson and Rob Bourdon in 1996, later joined by Joe Hahn, Dave Farrell and Mark Wakefield. Shinoda later created a hip-hop-driven side project, Fort Minor, in 2004. He co-founded Linkin Park in 1996 and is the band's lead vocalist, as well as rhythm guitarist, keyboardist, primary songwriter and producer. Shinoda showed off his classic rock-styled plectrum work on “Make It Up As I Go.” The stage splashed a hybrid of burnt autumn lighting alongside the throbbing percussive clanking on “Ghosts” before Shinoda led a flashmob of handclaps on “Crossing a Line” and crooned a mesmerizing Roger Troutman-inspired vocoder solo on “About You.Michael Kenji Shinoda ( / ʃ ɪ ˈ n oʊ d ə/ Japanese: 篠田賢治, romanized: Shinoda Kenji born February 11, 1977) is an American musician, singer, rapper, songwriter and record producer. Songs from Post Traumatic, which was released last June, comprised a very small portion of the set list. The easygoing Agoura, California raised entertainer gave equal airtime to each of his musical identities, brilliantly balancing between spitting hot bars, tapping fluorescent-colored pads on his beat machine and sampler, tickling the keys, shredding riffs on guitar and of course, paying homage to his deceased Linkin Park co-pilot. Rather than break out with a song from his cathartic debut solo LP Post Traumatic or a selection from any of the seven Linkin Park studio releases, Shinoda unexpectedly opened with “Petrified,” one of the cuts from his hip-hop extension, Fort Minor. Dressed comfortably in a black t-shirt with gold captions, a black skater hat donning his signature font, army green cargo pants, sky-colored hi-top Vans and a pearly white smile the entire time, the consummate performer came onstage to the sounds of a throbbing heartbeat and hues from prism-like strobelighting. The relaxing Sunday evening didn’t rely heavily on an influx of props, pyrotechnics or gaudy production values.

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