Chester Charles Bennington Johnson, always called Chester Bennington, was an American singer, songwriter, and actor, known for being the vocalist of bands like Linkin Park and Dead by Sunrise. He was born on March 20, 1976, in Phoenix, Arizona, and was the son of Lee Russell Bennington and Susan Elaine Johnson.
Chester Bennington became interested in music from an early age, having as inspiration Depeche Mode and Stone Temple Pilots. He always dreamed of becoming a member of the Stone Temple Pilots. His parents separated when he was 9 years old, so he went into the custody of his father. The separation of his parents affected him so much that he fell into the use of marijuana, alcohol, cocaine, and LSD. Fortunately, after a while, he managed to overcome those addictions.
In 1993, he joined as a vocalist the local rock band called Gray Daze, where he managed to get more musical recognition; However, he left the band in 1998 due to creative differences with the members of the group. Sometime later, Chester Bennington met Jeff Blue, vice president of Zomba Music; who told the young man about the auditions to be a member of the band, Linkin Park.
For the year 1999, he moved to Los Angeles, to try to enter Xero (Name of the band at that time). At his audition, Chester quickly attracted the attention of the band for his vocal quality, so he was accepted as a vocalist.
After his arrival to the band, this changed name to Hybrid Theory and later of the independent way the first work that realized was Hybrid Theory (EP), of which only one thousand copies were made. Later, the band changed its name to Lincoln Park, a name suggested by Chester, but due to an Internet domain that already had the name, they were renamed, Linkin Park.
In 1999, Chester Bennington and the band signed with the label Warner Bros. Records and in 2000 they released their first studio album entitled “Hybrid Theory” which until now is their most impactful album, since that time, Chester and the band published the recordings: Meteora (2003), Minutes to Midnight (2007), A Thousand Suns (2010), Living Things (2012), The Hunting Party (2014), and One More Light (2017) ), also worked on the Collision Course album with Jay-Z.
In 2002, they started their Projekt Revolution tour taking it to different stages in different years throughout his career.
For the year 2007, Chester Bennington was put in the position number 46 of the list of the 100 better metal vocalists of all the times of the magazine Hit Parader.
For the year 2005, Chester Bennington began an alternate project with the band Dead By Sunrise created by the singer and which also included Ryan Shuck, Amir Derakh, Brandon Belsky and Elias Andra.
The band was influenced in groups like Linkin Park, Julien-K, and Orgy in addition to other groups and suburban styles like Punk or Alternative Rock. With the band, Chester recorded the singles “Crawl Back In” published on August 18, 2009, and “Let Down” whose video clip was broadcast on the Internet between November 5 and 6, 2009. They released their first album under the name of Out of Ashes, on October 13 of that same year.
For the month of May 2013, in the Weenie Roast Concert of Kroq, Chester Bennington took the stage next to Stone Temple Pilots, becoming the new vocalist of this group. Together they played traditional songs by the San Diego band, and they also sang a new song called “Out of Time” which was the first single from the band’s record work. In the year 2015 Chester announced his retirement from the band because he was sacrificing time with Linkin Park.
Chester Bennington made collaborations with Slash, Joe Satriani, Duff McKagan and Camp Freddy cover of various artists recognized as Highway to Hell of AC / DC, Paradise City of Guns N ‘Roses and Whole Lotta Love of Led Zeppelin. In addition, he was part of a cover of the song Head Like a Hole by Nine Inch Nails for the album Korn Kovers; he also worked independently with Korn vocalist Jonathan Davis on Linkin Park’s album Reanimation on the 1stp Klosr song.
Chester Bennington died on July 20, 2017, at his home in Palos Verdes Estates, California, because of a hanging. The singer had fallen again in problems of drug addiction and alcoholism, which added to personal problems of his past may have influenced suicide. In an interview, Bennington revealed that he was sexually abused by a friend of his when he was seven years old.
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