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Chester Bennington

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Chester Bennington

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Also known as Chester Charles Bennington

American singer, songwriter and musician (1976–2017)

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Chester Bennington (1976–2017) was an American male singer, rock musician, lyricist, composer, and songwriter. His musical career spanned from 1992 to 2017, encompassing genres such as alternative metal, alternative rock, hard rock, and nu metal. He was also credited as an author with one work, the *Croods Coloring Book*, and held the pseudonyms "Chazy Chaz" and "The Chemist."

Bennington was a father of six children. His music attracted 319,004 listeners and 1,683,284 plays on Last.fm, where he was tagged with terms including rock, metal, and alternative. He had 872,271 social media followers. Artists similar to his work included Jay Gordon, David Draiman, Wayne Static, Dead by Sunrise, and Linkin Park.

Synthesized by Vinony from 31 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Crossref, VIAF, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
1

Top works

  • Croods Coloring Book

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1976-03-20
Active to
2017-07-20
alternative metalalternative rockalternative-rockhard rocknu metalrock

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
319,414
Total plays
1,686,313

Tags

alternative rockNu Metalrockalternativemetal

Similar artists

Jay GordonDavid DraimanWayne StaticDead by SunriseLinkin Park

Chester Charles Bennington (March 20, 1976 – July 20, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He was best known as the lead vocalist for Linkin Park and was also lead vocalist for the bands Grey Daze, Dead by Sunrise and, between 2013 and 2015, Stone Temple Pilots. Bennington has been credited by several publications as one of the greatest rock vocalists of his generation. Bennington first gained prominence as a vocalist following the release of Linkin Park's debut album Hybrid Theory (2000) <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Chester+Bennington">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)

    · 2006 · cited 10,535x

  2. A Scale of Grade and Class Terms for Clastic Sediments

    · 1922 · cited 4,823x

  3. Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK

    · 2021 · cited 4,163x

  4. Imaging brain amyloid in Alzheimer's disease with Pittsburgh Compound‐B

    · 2004 · cited 3,719x

  5. The<i>Swift</i>Gamma‐Ray Burst Mission

    · 2004 · cited 3,613x

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Authority record · VIAF

Lifespan
1976–2017
Nationality
US
Role / Field
Singers, Rock musicians, Lyricists, Composers, Songwriter, Rock music
Language
eng
Gender
Male

Recorded by 12 libraries

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Encyclopedic overview

Chester Charles Bennington (March 20, 1976 – July 20, 2017) was an American singer and songwriter who was the lead vocalist of the rock band Linkin Park. He was also the lead vocalist of Grey Daze, Dead by Sunrise, and Stone Temple Pilots at various points in his career.

Bennington first gained prominence as a vocalist following the release of Linkin Park's debut album, Hybrid Theory (2000), which was a worldwide commercial success. The album was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2005, making it the bestselling debut album of the decade. He continued as the band's lead vocalist for their next six studio albums, from Meteora (2003) to One More Light (2017), with each charting within the top three spots of the Billboard 200.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chester Bennington” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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