Mike Shinoda
Mike Shinoda
Michael Kenji "Mike" Shinodais an American musician, rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, graphic designer, manager and film composer. He co-founded Linkin Park in 1996 and is the band's rhythm guitarist, songwriter, keyboardist, and co-vocalist. Shinoda later created a hip hop-driven side project, Fort Minor, in 2004. He served as a producer for tracks and albums by Lupe Fiasco, Styles of Beyond, and The X-Ecutioners...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth11 February 1977
CityAgora Hills, CA
CountryUnited States of America
A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.
Id rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.
Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?
This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name
My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.
I have a toothbrush, my toothbrush is sexy
I feel really lucky to be in a band where the guys, for all the opportunities to do things that potentially would be good for them but detrimental to the group, that everybody stayed loyal to the whole.
The casual listener won't be around forever.
I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.
I'm excited to doing more scoring work in the future.
I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.
I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.
If I weren't making music, I'd be the kid who writes into the magazines and says, "why don't you guys ever cover anything that's different? Hip hop is so much of the same thing over and over again." I love hip hop, so I wanted to make an album from that standpoint, 'cause that's who I am.
I was a producer and rapper before Linkin Park. Once the band took off, it was the center of my focus. A couple of years ago, I started missing doing straight-up hip hop, and that's when Fort Minor began.