Can you still remember this line? hehehe, it's from song In The End. And i'm going to talk about the vocalist of the band who made this song and it's Chester Bennington.
Chester Charles Bennington (born March 20, 1976) is an American musician, best known for being the frontman and lead vocalist in the successful nu metal band Linkin Park.
Chester Bennington was born in Phoenix, Arizona. His first instrument was the piano. While Bennington was growing up he was in a number of bands and played various instruments, but mainly was a vocalist. He never settled in a full time band until 1993, when he joined Grey Daze. The band disbanded in 1998 and he moved on to Linkin Park one year later.
His parents divorced in 1987, leaving him with his three half siblings, two sisters and a brother. Bennington was the youngest of four children at eleven years old, and stayed with his father, who was a police officer and detective. His brother introduced him to bands like Loverboy, Foreigner and Rush, as well as The Doors which he claims as his influences.
Before his parents parted, the family frequently moved around Arizona, from cities such as Scottsdale, Tolleson, Tempe, and others. "I was an athletic kid but I just stopped caring about it, and I stopped doing well in school," Bennington states in a Kerrang! article. "I started smoking weed and going to parties. I think I was 11 when I started smoking pot." [1] Bennington attended Centennial High School, Greenway High School, and later graduated from Washington High School. Bennington said that while he was in high school he was bullied and he described himself as a geek. When Bennington was younger he had a day job working as a coffee barista. He said working at Bean Tree Coffee House was what kept him going, and that coffee houses are very understanding and this was the base of his inspiration.
His parents divorced in 1987, leaving him with his three half siblings, two sisters and a brother. Bennington was the youngest of four children at eleven years old, and stayed with his father, who was a police officer and detective. His brother introduced him to bands like Loverboy, Foreigner and Rush, as well as The Doors which he claims as his influences.
Before his parents parted, the family frequently moved around Arizona, from cities such as Scottsdale, Tolleson, Tempe, and others. "I was an athletic kid but I just stopped caring about it, and I stopped doing well in school," Bennington states in a Kerrang! article. "I started smoking weed and going to parties. I think I was 11 when I started smoking pot." [1] Bennington attended Centennial High School, Greenway High School, and later graduated from Washington High School. Bennington said that while he was in high school he was bullied and he described himself as a geek. When Bennington was younger he had a day job working as a coffee barista. He said working at Bean Tree Coffee House was what kept him going, and that coffee houses are very understanding and this was the base of his inspiration.
Bennington became the lead vocalist of a band called Grey Daze from 1993 to 1998. Chester thought he was not getting enough credit for his writing and had mutual disagreements with other band members, causing him to leave the band. While with Grey Daze, Chester recorded two albums, "Wake Me" in 1994 and "...no sun today" in 1997 along with one demo tape "Sean Dowdell and his Friends?" in 1993 while the band was under the same name. After Chester left, they split up and guitarist, Sean Dowdell joined a new band with a new female singer, Jodi Wendt, called Waterface and have recorded one album, "Seven Days".
While Chester was still a member in Grey Daze, he was working part time at Burger King so he could practice with the band in the evenings. At this point, he was so poor he couldn't afford a car or even a bike so he used a skateboard as his form of transportation.
While at Burger King, Chester met his first wife, Samantha. They got married on October 31, 1996, when Chester was 20, and because he was too poor to afford actual wedding or engagement rings, the two of them have rings tattooed on their ring fingers. The couple were in the local real estate market, and to learn more about the business world, Chester would sneak into classes at Arizona State University without paying the required tuition fees (unlike the rest of Linkin Park, Bennington does not have a college diploma). [2] Chester and Samantha had one child, a boy named Draven Sebastian Bennington, born April 19, 2002 at 1 p.m. Their website states: "He's happy, healthy, and cute as can be. The baby and parents are doing great. They thank you for being so interested and they love you guys! The whole family will be on the road during the next Linkin tour!". Draven is supposedly named after the lead character in the movie "The Crow". On May 2, 2005 the couple divorced after nine years of marriage. Samantha had been granted full custody rights of their child, but Chester, after months of battling, obtained joint custody.
On December 31, 2005, Chester married his 29-year-old girlfriend Talinda Bently who had posed for Playboy during her college years in California Institute of Technology. Bennington's wife, Talinda, gave birth in Los Angeles on Thursday March 16, 2006, to a 9-pound, 3-ounce boy named Tyler Lee, according to a statement from their publicist. This statement also alleged that Chester has a ten year old son named Jaime, though there is speculation as to whether he is Chester's biological son or stepson. In a recent interview on the Kevin and Bean show, Chester revealed that he has also adopted Jaime's brother: "I do have three sons, and I adopted my oldest son, his brother, I adopted him as my own, so I guess I have four."
Chester was going to reunite with Grey Daze for one last performance in hopes of raising money to help former Grey Daze bandmate Bobby Benish who had a brain tumor. They were scheduled to play at the Dodge Theatre in Arizona along with bands Phunk Junkeez, Pokerface and Gift. Unfortunately, Chester had to postpone the performance due to Linkin Park's strict recording schedule to finish their sophomore album Meteora. Since then Bobby Benish has died due to his brain tumor.
In 1995, Bennington and former Grey Daze member Sean Dowdell founded Club Tattoo, a tattoo parlor, in Phoenix, Arizona. They now have full partnership and 3 chain locations in Arizona. Many celebrities, such as Hoobastank, David Boston from the Arizona Cardinals, and Chester himself have gotten their tattoos done there.
While Chester was still a member in Grey Daze, he was working part time at Burger King so he could practice with the band in the evenings. At this point, he was so poor he couldn't afford a car or even a bike so he used a skateboard as his form of transportation.
While at Burger King, Chester met his first wife, Samantha. They got married on October 31, 1996, when Chester was 20, and because he was too poor to afford actual wedding or engagement rings, the two of them have rings tattooed on their ring fingers. The couple were in the local real estate market, and to learn more about the business world, Chester would sneak into classes at Arizona State University without paying the required tuition fees (unlike the rest of Linkin Park, Bennington does not have a college diploma). [2] Chester and Samantha had one child, a boy named Draven Sebastian Bennington, born April 19, 2002 at 1 p.m. Their website states: "He's happy, healthy, and cute as can be. The baby and parents are doing great. They thank you for being so interested and they love you guys! The whole family will be on the road during the next Linkin tour!". Draven is supposedly named after the lead character in the movie "The Crow". On May 2, 2005 the couple divorced after nine years of marriage. Samantha had been granted full custody rights of their child, but Chester, after months of battling, obtained joint custody.
On December 31, 2005, Chester married his 29-year-old girlfriend Talinda Bently who had posed for Playboy during her college years in California Institute of Technology. Bennington's wife, Talinda, gave birth in Los Angeles on Thursday March 16, 2006, to a 9-pound, 3-ounce boy named Tyler Lee, according to a statement from their publicist. This statement also alleged that Chester has a ten year old son named Jaime, though there is speculation as to whether he is Chester's biological son or stepson. In a recent interview on the Kevin and Bean show, Chester revealed that he has also adopted Jaime's brother: "I do have three sons, and I adopted my oldest son, his brother, I adopted him as my own, so I guess I have four."
Chester was going to reunite with Grey Daze for one last performance in hopes of raising money to help former Grey Daze bandmate Bobby Benish who had a brain tumor. They were scheduled to play at the Dodge Theatre in Arizona along with bands Phunk Junkeez, Pokerface and Gift. Unfortunately, Chester had to postpone the performance due to Linkin Park's strict recording schedule to finish their sophomore album Meteora. Since then Bobby Benish has died due to his brain tumor.
In 1995, Bennington and former Grey Daze member Sean Dowdell founded Club Tattoo, a tattoo parlor, in Phoenix, Arizona. They now have full partnership and 3 chain locations in Arizona. Many celebrities, such as Hoobastank, David Boston from the Arizona Cardinals, and Chester himself have gotten their tattoos done there.
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