Mike Shinoda
Mike Shinoda (real name: Michael Kenji Shinoda) is a talented musician and rapper who is the co-founder of the nu metal band Linkin Park, as well the rap-rock band Fort Minor. Aside from his talent in music, he is an artist in every sense of the term, having graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts in Illustration. His art has even been featured in the Japanese American National Museum.
Shinoda founded the band Linkin Park with a couple of his friends in college as the lead rapper, eventually expanding to bring in Chester Bennington, who would become the lead singer of the band. Linkin Park quickly exploded in popularity after signing on with Warner Bros studio, and released
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Shinoda has stated that he played every instrument on their first (and currently only) album, The Rising Tied.
One song in particular from the album was titled Kenji, after his own middle name. The song was about Shinoda’s grandfather, a Japanese immigrant during the time of World War II, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It tells how Kenji and his family was taken to an internment camp, and used audio clips from Shinoda’s own family members: his father and aunt.
After the release of The Rising Tied, Shinoda went back to work with Linkin Park, leaving Fort Minor on an extended decade-long hiatus. Most recently, however, Shinoda has teased the return of Fort Minor on a new Twitter page. During the late summer of 2015, Fort Minor released a new single, their first in over a decade. The single was titled “Welcome”, and is described as “an underdog song, an outsider’s song”. The music video even depicts a mural showcasing people from all walks of life. Just as Shinoda played all of the instruments on The Rising Tied, he also played each instrument, wrote and sang each line, produced and mixed the song, as well having created all of the artwork on the murals in the music
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Because of the tragedy, Mike Shinoda produced a digital album titled Download to Donate for Haiti, a compilation of multiple artists and bands. Linkin Park also devoted a song to the album, titled “Not Alone”. The music video for the song showcased footage of the aftermath of the earthquake and the subsequent relief effort. Hikaru Utada
Hikaru Utada was born in Manhattan to Teruzane Utada and his wife, Junko Utada. Her father was a Japanese record producer, and her mother an enka singer, who performed under the stage name Keiko Fuji. Hikaru entered the music industry with her mother under the band U3, also known as Utada 3. Hikaru was named as “the most influential artists of the decade” by The Japan Times
In 1996, Hikaru began her solo career with the song “I’ll Be Stronger”, released under the artist name Cubic U, a reference to her being the third Utada ‘power’. She then debuted in Japan as Cubic U with her first album, Close To You and was very well received by the Japanese audience. She went on to release three more albums in the Japanese market, before returning to the US in 2004, during which time she contributed to the soundtrack of Square Enix and Disney’s collaboration video game series Kingdom Hearts, Simple and Clean and
The band was formed in 1965 in Sans Francisco with a mix of sounds from several different genres of music such as Folk, Bluegrass, Jazz, Country, Blues, and Physicadellic Rock. The original members were as follows: Jerry Garcia doing lead guitar and vocals, Bob Weir was the youngest member of the band playing rhythm guitar and vocals. Ron "Pigpin" McKernan played keyboards, Phill Lesh has always been the basist. Bill Kreutzmann played drums at first but was followed by Micky Heart in 1967 as a seccond drummer. When Pigpin died at the tender age of 27 of liver failure, Keith Godchaux joined on as the new keyboardist, with him he brought his wife Donna Jean to help with backup vocals. When the couple left the band in 1979 they were replaced by Brent Mayland. Mayland played with the band until
1997,the album was released and went on to sell four million copies. Third Eye Blind's debut
Jhene Aiko Efuru Chilombo was born on the 16th March 1988 in Los Angeles, California USA. Her blood is mixed with various nations, having Spanish, American, African and Japanese descent. Her name is represented in the music industry. Her first endeavors were with the R&B group ?B2K?; however, recently she has embarked on a solo career as a singer and songwriter. Her first album titled ?Sailing Soul(s)? was released in 2011, and upon its release had a major critical success.
violin, piano, cornet, alto horn, flute, baritone. Like his father, who played the trombone in the U.S. Marines Band, John, too, learned to play the trombone. John also spent time studying voice.
was born May 8, 1972 in Brisbane, he is both the lead and back up singers.
The band consisted of many different members with different musical backgrounds. Ron McKernan was an organist who loved the blues, where Phil Lesh had very formal training in classical music. Bill Kreutzmann, the drummer for the Dead, has a history of playing R&B and jazz. Though the band continues to influence artists to this day, other bands helped shape and inspire their sound. The Grateful Dead first decided to go electric and create a rawer sound after seeing the Lovin’ Spoonful live in New York.
A couple of other songs they played were “Bothered,” “Cruel and Pretty” and “Changes Come.” If you had never heard the band before tonight, this is where you would probably think all the songs sounded very similar. Slow, piano and sad. The variety lies in the songwriting, if you start paying attention to the lyrics now, you’d have a different opinion. I almost think what they say is so poignant sometimes it should be in a book or poem by itself. But on the other hand, if you took away the way Barquist sings it, or the accompanying instrumentation, I doubt you would get the same idea. They can even make an acoustic guitar sound like it’s in pain and crying.
Koichi Shimizu was born in a small town in where he never mentioned the name only said that “nothing there”. When he was in twenties something he went to American and had an experience of New York’s underground music scene where he used to stay and studied there. In the late of 1990s, Koichi came to Bangkok when the first wave of Thai alternative movement was faded out, and then, he found that it was extremely difficult to invent new music space in Bangkok. As a music producer, Koichi worked as a freelancer for may advertisement companies and got an opportunity to meet Pen-Ek Ratanaruang; a Thai advertising director who turned to be one of Thai “new wave” film director, and arranged many music scores
Another founding member of the band was Bev Bevan. He was born Beverly Bevan in Birmingham, U.K. on November 25, 1945. He formed his first professional band, called Denny Lain and the Diplomats, in 1963.He retired from music to become a furniture salesman, but then joined Carl Wayne and the Vikings. He then later joined The Move and helped create ELO. (Petersdorff 4)
Farrokh Bulsara joined up with the band Queen back in the 70s when the band’s name was originally, Smile. The name of the band was changed to Queen when Freddie thought the name sounded more prestigious and the rest of the band agreed. In all his years of touring he managed to touch and inspire other people into following his footsteps to become a performer. One of the most known for Freddie Mercury inspiring them is the late lead singer of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain. Cobain stated in an interview of how Mercury inspired him. “I used to take naps in the van and listen to Queen. Over and over again and drain the battery on the van, Then we’d be stuck. That happened a few times. We’d be stuck with a dead battery because I’d listen to Freddie Mercury too
Four young partners Michael Lang, the manager of a rock band, Artie Kornfeld, and executive of Capital Records, and two venture capitalists, John Roberts and Joel Rosenman, created Woodstock. Their original plan had been to build a recording studio in Woodstock, a small town in the Catskill Mountains, which had become a rock center. To promote the idea of the studio, the four partners decided to stage a concert, which they called Woodstock. Naming it after the town in which it was originally going to take place in.
Bobby Flay is one the world’s most famous chef,but just like everyone else he started out as a normal child just trying to make it in life. Born on December 10. 1964. Robert William Flay was raised in New york city by his Irish American separated parents who passed down the red hair and freckles to their son Bill and Dorothy Flay as a young child bobby use to organize his mom grocery list, made his own after school snack with a unique twist each time. He even ask for his own easy bake oven as a child, But he was not very interested in school. He went to a few catholic schools before dropping out at age 17 in tenth grade. After dropping out of school he managed to get his first professional job in 1982. Flay’s father was the manager of the
Linkin Park is a new metal band from Los Angeles, California. It has been an active band since 1996. Their labels are Warner Brothers Records and Machine Shop Recordings. The six members are Chester Bennington, Mike Shinoda, Joseph Hahn, Brad Delson, Rob Bourdon, and Dave Farrell. Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson recorded the band's first material in 1996. The two had attended high school together, where they met the band's drummer, Rob Bourdon. Mike Shinoda hooked up with DJ Joseph Hahn while studying illustration at Art Center College in Pasadena. Meanwhile, attending UCLA, Brad Delson shared an apartment with bassist Dave Farrell, who left the band after college and returned a year later. At this point, they named themselves Xero and recorded several demo tracks. They never got signed. Then Mike Shinoda decided to hire a vocalist, and put out an ad. They got Chester Bennington, an Arizona native who started making records when he was 16. Once he joined the band, they changed their name to Hybrid Theory.
The band was officially formed in 1962, having six original members. Mick Jagger was lead vocals and also played the harmonica. Jagger’s signature look has always been his lips, but they were often criticized. Keith Richards played the guitar and also sang. Charlie Watts was on drums, and Brian Jones played the guitar, harmonica, sitar, and sang. Two less popular members were I...