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    News

  • Linkin Park Giving the Gift of Light This Holiday Season 12/06/2011
  • Linkin Park Relaunching LPU11 11/18/2011
  • Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park Talks Scoring "The Raid", Action Movies, "Music For Relief" and Writing Music 10/24/2011
  • iTunes Festival Covers: Adele Sings Bonnie Raitt; Linkin Park Sings Adele 07/08/2011
  • Linkin Park Announce L.A. Concert For Japan Relief Fundraisers 07/06/2011
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    Photos

    • Mike Shinoda - PARK CITY, UT - JANUARY 22: (L-R) Director Gareth Evans, Sony Pictures Classics Co-Presidents Tom Bernard and Michael Barker and musician Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park attend 'The Raid' Cocktail Party at Grey Goose Blue Door on January 22, 2012 in Park City, Utah.
    • Mike Shinoda - PARK CITY, UT - JANUARY 22: (L-R) Composer Joseph Trapanese, director Gareth Evans and musician Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park attend 'The Raid' Cocktail Party at Grey Goose Blue Door on January 22, 2012 in Park City, Utah.
    • Mike Shinoda - PARK CITY, UT - JANUARY 22: Musician Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park attends 'The Raid' Cocktail Party at Grey Goose Blue Door on January 22, 2012 in Park City, Utah.
    • Mike Shinoda - PARK CITY, UT - JANUARY 22: Musician Mike Shinoda, director Gareth Evans and musician Joseph Trapanese pose for a portrait during the 2012 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at T-Mobile Village at the Lift on January 22, 2012 in Park City, Utah.
    • Mike Shinoda - NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 08: (L-R) Rob Bourdon, Mike Shinoda, Joe Hanhn and Brad Delson of Linkin Park attend the United Nations Foundation's global leadership dinner at The Pierre Hotel on November 8, 2011 in New York City.
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    Biography

    As co-vocalist of rap-metal outfit Linkin Park -- owning the rapping skills to balance out Chester Bennington's tortured, emotional wail -- Mike Shinoda became one of the more recognizable faces of the nu metal scene in the early 2000s. Shinoda was born on February 11, 1977, as Michael Kenji Shinoda, and raised with his younger brother Jason in the Los Angeles suburb of Agoura Hills, CA. He loved ...more
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