Chester Bennington
American singer, songwriter and musician (1976-2017) · United States · On the map · Musicians · Died at 41
The voice that carried Linkin Park from a 2000 debut album to Diamond certification and six more top-three records, each one landing inside the Billboard 200's upper tier.
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Mike Shinoda Bandmate in Linkin Park
Joe Hahn Bandmate in Linkin Park
Dave Farrell Bandmate in Linkin Park
Brad Delson Bandmate in Linkin Park
Rob Bourdon Bandmate in Linkin Park
Emily Armstrong Bandmate in Linkin Park
Scott Weiland Bandmate in Stone Temple Pilots
Matt Sorum Bandmate in Kings of Chaos
Colin Brittain Bandmate in Linkin Park
Frank Zummo Bandmate in Dead by Sunrise- Mark Wakefield Bandmate in Linkin Park
Dean DeLeo Bandmate in Stone Temple Pilots- Scott Koziol Bandmate in Linkin Park
Amir Derakh Bandmate in Dead by Sunrise
Robert DeLeo Bandmate in Stone Temple Pilots
Eric Kretz Bandmate in Stone Temple Pilots
Jeff Gutt Bandmate in Stone Temple Pilots
Mark Neveldine Directed Crank and Crank: High Voltage- Brian Taylor Directed Crank and Crank: High Voltage
Tom Rosenberg Produced Crank and Crank: High Voltage
Gary Lucchesi Produced Crank and Crank: High Voltage
Jason Statham Also in Crank and Crank: High Voltage
Jared Leto Produced Artifact (2013)
Jose Pablo Cantillo Also in Crank and Crank: High Voltage
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Chester Charles Bennington was born March 20, 1976, and spent most of his life contending with depression and substance abuse that began in childhood. He broke through as Linkin Park's lead vocalist with Hybrid Theory in 2000, an album that became the bestselling debut of its decade and earned Diamond certification by 2005. Six more studio albums followed between Meteora in 2003 and One More Light in 2017, each charting in the Billboard 200's top three. He launched Dead by Sunrise as a side project in 2005, releasing Out of Ashes in 2009, and spent 2013 to 2015 fronting Stone Temple Pilots before returning his focus to Linkin Park. On July 20, 2017, he was found dead at his home in Palos Verdes Estates, California - the Los Angeles County Coroner ruled it suicide by hanging. Hit Parader later placed him at number 46 on their list of the top 100 metal vocalists of all time, and Billboard's Dan Weiss wrote that Bennington "turned nu-metal universal".
