On the band's second studio album Meteora in 2003, Shinoda continued to expand upon his duties as a musician and studio technician/engineer. In his spare time, he produced and performed on a song by The X-Ecutioners, entitled "It's Goin' Down". His home studio for "Crawling" and "Pushing Me Away". Mike has contributed to the writing and performance of the guitar on most songs of every Linkin Park record since the beginning, i.e., from Hybrid Theory Brad Delson and Mike haveīoth contributed to most songs that have guitar.Mike executively organized and oversaw the band's first remix album Reanimation in 2002, contributing his own production of remixes that he made in Shinoda, with guitarist Brad Delson, engineered and produced the band's Hybrid Theory EP, and performed similar roles in the recording of
The subsequent releases that role continued to expand. From the onset, Shinoda was closely involved in the technical aspects of the band's recordings, and over Shinoda's band brought in second vocalist Chester Bennington, replacing Mark Wakefield. Skills in his debut art showcase (Diamonds Spades Hearts & Clubs) at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles in the time leading up to Linkin Park's album Minutes to Midnight. Taken it upon himself in designing all of Linkin Park's artwork with Hahn, and has even designed the album cover for Styles of Beyond's debut album, 2000 Fold. Shinoda graduated from college, a year in advance, with a bachelor's degree in illustration and secured himself a job as a graphic designer.With his background as a graphic artist, Shinoda has There are little things that culturally come from Japan but they also exist in Japanese American culture and it made me feel like the connection was there and I kind of hadn't realized how much When I saw somebody do that I went, "Oh yeah, my uncle always does that," you know. That are more obvious like taking somebody's business card with two hands. And then going to Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, you just recognize things about the way people act, the small things that people do such as how you'll grab a piece of paper. I don't know if anybody else even noticed it but I walked out of the plane and thought this is definitely familiar to me, didn't even see anything House, in the airport, it smelled like Japan.
I remember the first time I went, how familiar it seemed, just getting out of the plane, it smelled like my aunt's It's not the same thing and then eventually “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. After graduating high school, Shinoda enrolled in the Art Center College of Design to study graphic design and illustration.He attended classes with DJ and turntablist Joseph Hahn. The trio formed the band Xero, and began to make a more serious attempt to pursue a career in the music Shinoda attended Agoura High School with Linkin Park bandmates Brad Delson and Rob Bourdon. By thirteen, he expressed the desire to move toward playing jazz, blues, and even hip-hop.HeĪdded the guitar and rap-style vocals to his repertoire during his middle school and high school years, eventually. He was raised as a liberal Protestant.įollowing his mother's wishes, Shinoda began classical piano training lessons around the age of six. Shinoda was born and raised in the Los Angeles suburb of Agoura Hills.His father is Japanese-American, descendant of the Kumaichiro Shinoda floral company family, and his mother is white.He has a Was ranked number 72 in the list of "Top 100 Heavy Metal Vocalists" by Hit Parader. He also provides artwork, production, and mixing for both projects. Shinoda is also a solo rapper in his side-project Fort Minor. One of the two vocalists of the rock band Linkin Park. He is best known as the rapper, principal songwriter, keyboardist, rhythm guitarist and Michael Kenji "Mike" Shinoda (born February 11, 1977) is an American musician, record producer, and artist.
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