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Chester Charles Bennington was an American singer and songwriter who was the lead vocalist of the rock band Linkin Park. He was also the lead vocalist of Grey Daze, Dead by Sunrise, and Stone Temple Pilots at various points in his career.
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entertainment · American singer (1976–2017) · singer · actor · musician · songwriter · rock singer · composer · also Chester Bennington, Chester Charles Bennington, Bennington
Born 20 March 1976 · Died 20 July 2017 · Q19198
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We were volatile personalities, and even though we helped each other, we were not good for each other, and that brought up other feelings.
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“t help build bonds with the rest of the band – who were more into pot and booze, and had no idea their frontman would be sitting on the tour bus tripping. He says he knew what their response would be:”
“We were volatile personalities, and even though we helped each other, we were not good for each other, and that brought up other feelings.”
“Ninety-nine percent of fans are great. We”
“It was fear in their neighbourhood and everything, for years. My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn”
“No one wants that to happen to you and honestly, I don”
Stephen Andrew Galiher of Vice included him in his list of "4 Metal Vocalists Who Mastered Both Screaming and Singing"
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Linkin Park announced they would reunite after a seven-year hiatus to release a new album, From Zero, which was released November 15, 2024
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Bennington's successor in Linkin Park, Emily Armstrong, called the band's debut album Hybrid Theory her favorite album and specifically cited Bennington's performance in the song "One Step Closer" as her inspiration to b
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Avicii, Chester Bennington, Chris Cornell And Anthony Bourdain Killed For Work on The Silent Children Documentary” No Connection.
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USA Today rated the claim “Avicii, Chester Bennington, Anthony Bourdain and Chris Cornell all died by suicide while working on the film 'Silent Children'” False.
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During a Twitch live-stream, Mike Shinoda confirmed the existence of an unreleased Linkin Park song, titled "Friendly Fire", which features vocal tracks Bennington recorded during the One More Light sessions
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The Guardian: Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda on life after Chester Bennington: 'I cope by staying in motion'
The Guardian: Mike Shinoda: Post Traumatic review – grief for Chester Bennington
Released ep “Demos”.
The Guardian: Chester Bennington's wife pays tribute to Linkin Park singer
The Guardian: Linkin Park launch suicide prevention site after Chester Bennington death
The Guardian: Chester Bennington obituary
Snopes rated the claim “Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell were murdered because they were about to reveal a ring of pedophiles.” False.
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The Guardian: Chester Bennington, Linkin Park lead singer, dies of suspected suicide aged 41
The Guardian: Chester Bennington: five of his best Linkin Park performances
The Guardian: Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington soothed the angst of millions
The Guardian: Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington dies aged 41 – video obituary
At the age of 41, Bennington was found dead at his home in Palos Verdes Estates, California
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Died 2017-07-20.
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Was found dead at his home in Palos Verdes Estates, California
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A week after his Kimmel performance, Bennington sang Leonard Cohen's song "Hallelujah" at Cornell's funeral in Los Angeles with Brad Delson on guitar
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Tweeted that Trump was "a greater threat to the USA than terrorism"
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“Opis: fragment listu pożegnalnego do Benningtona opublikowanego przez zespół.”
During which the band did not tour or work on new music
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“Opis: oświadczenie zespołu, którego lider, Corey Taylor, był bliskim przyjacielem Benningtona.”
And was replaced two years later by Jeff Gutt
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Released album “MALL: Music From the Motion Picture”.
Released ep “High Rise”.
Bennington took the stage at KROQ's Weenie Roast with the band
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To release the extended play record High Rise on October 8, 2013, via their own record label, Play Pen, but left in 2015 to focus solely on Linkin Park
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The band was voted as the greatest artist of the 2000s in a Bracket Madness poll on VH1
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Bennington fell ill again, and Linkin Park was forced to cancel three shows and reschedule two from the A Thousand Suns World Tour
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In a January 2011 interview, in response to the 2011 Tucson shooting, Bennington said, "There's a non-violent way to express yourself and get your point across – regardless of what you're saying or what your point is.
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Of tampering with the couple's email and other personal information, as well as sending threatening messages, and was sentenced to two years in prison
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Was featured on Young Buck's song "Slow Ya Roll" from his Buck The World album
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Adopted Brand's other son who was born in 1997
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Bennington appeared on "Walking Dead", the lead single from turntablist Z-Trip's debut album Shifting Gears
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Married Talinda Ann Bentley, a former Playboy model with whom he had three children, the first born in 2006, and then twins, born in 2011
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Bennington co-founded Dead by Sunrise, an electronic rock band from Los Angeles, California, with Orgy and Julien-K members Amir Derakh and Ryan Shuck
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Making it the bestselling debut album of the decade
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MTV2 named Linkin Park the sixth-greatest band of the music video era and the third-best of the new millennium
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Who later came out as transgender in 2024
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Linkin Park released their debut album, Hybrid Theory, through Warner Records
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At the age of 17, Bennington moved in with his mother
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To a mother who worked as a nurse and a father who investigated child sexual abuse cases as a police detective
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Born 1976-03-20.
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