Rabu, 26 Oktober 2011

Michael ''Mike" Kenji Shinoda's Biography

Michael Kenji Shinoda, atau lebih dikenal sebagai Mike Shinoda atau Mike (lahir tanggal 11 Februari 1977 di Agoura, California) adalah seorang pentolan grup musik rock Amerika, Linkin Park. Di Linkin Park, Mike berperan sebagai emcee (rapper), kadang kibordis dan kadang gitaris.
Ayah Mike Shinoda seorang keturunan Jepang, dan ibunya berdarah Amerika Asli (Indian)—bukan keturunan Rusia seperti disebutkan di beberapa media. Mike mempunyai seorang kakak laki-laki bernama Jason.

Perkenalan dengan musik
Mike Shinoda menghabiskan masa kecilnya di Agoura. Perkenalan pertamanya dengan musik yaitu lewat musik klasik. Mike belajar piano klasik selama 10 tahun. Karena bosan, kemudian dia beralih ke Jazz. Setelah dari jazz, Mike beralih ke hip-hop. Perkenalannya dengan hip-hop yaitu melalui teman-temannya. Setelah menonton konser Anthrax dan Public Enemy, Mike memutuskan dirinya untuk hidup sebagai musisi. Kemudian dia belajar rapping dan membuat lirik lagu saat umur 14 tahun.


Peran Mike dalam Linkin Park
* Mike sangat berperan dalam unsur hip-hop Linkin Park. Mike menulis lirik lagu bersama Chester, dan juga sebagai kibordis dan gitaris. Mike juga mengarahkan teman-temannya, dan dapat menyatukan sesama anggota Linkin Park, sehingga disebut ‘The Glue’.
* Mike mendisain cover album Linkin Park yang pertama, Hybrid Theory.
* Mike memproduseri semua album, kecuali Hybrid Theory dan Meteora. Album-album yang diproduseri Mike yaitu, Reanimation, Linkin Park Live In Texas, dan Collision Course, yaitu kolaborasi antara Linkin Park dengan Jay Z. Sedangkan, Hybrid Theory dan Meteora diproduseri oleh Don Gilmore.
* Mike sering mengurusi website Linkin Park dan menjawab pertanyaan-pertanyaan dari fans.
* Mike salah satu yang mempelopori Projekt Revolution (tur bersama Static X, dll di Amerika Serikat) dan juga Collision Course.


Fakta-Fakta Lain Mengenai Mike Shinoda
* Mike ahli dalam ilustrasi tapi belajar banyak disain grafik.
* Mike mempunyai istri bernama Anna Lovejoy.
* Mike harus mengerjakan tugas akhirnya di Pasadena Art College dalam minggu yang sama dengan waktu Linkin Park musti melakukan pertunjukan untuk 6 label rekaman.
* Mike mendapat pekerjaan sebagai disainer grafik setelah lulus dari universitas.
* Pertama kali Mike mendengar ‘One Step Closer’ di radio yaitu ketika di Arizona.
* Mike mendisain logo untuk album Styles Of Beyond, 2000 Fold CD.
* Mike menggunakan gitar Paul Reed Smith CE-22.
* Mike fans berat Dido. Mike juga memfavoritkan segudang penyanyi wanita seperti, Kittie, Madonna, dan Sneaker.
* Mike sering membantu Brad Delson dalam mengadakan makan malam bagi para gelandangan setiap natal.
* Mike juga mengerjakan beats dan sample untuk Linkin Park


Fort Minor
Ketika Linkin Park sedang vakum, Mike memutuskan untuk membuat solo projek hip-hopnya bernama Fort Minor. Fort bermakna kuat, sedangkan minor bermakna lemah, mengutip dari Mike, “Minor dalam musik biasanya lebih ‘gelap’ daripada kunci mayor”. Di solo projek ini, Mike tidak sendirian. Dia ditemani Styles of Beyond, yaitu Ryu, Tak, dan DJ Cheapshot. Fort Minor lalu merilis album pertama mereka yaitu The Rising Tied. Banyak artis yang mereka undang dalam album ini, seperti Holly Brook dan Jonah Matranga dalam singel “Where’d You Go?”, Black Thought dalam “Right Now”, Common dalam “Back Home”, dan dengan John Legend dalam “High Road”. Album ini diproduseri oleh Jay Z. “Believe Me” menceritakan sebuah persahabatan yang hancur dengan bebunyian perkusi Latin oleh Bobo. Mike menyimpulkan kesuksesan ala formulanya sendiri dalam “Remember The Name” dengan ungkapan ‘10 persen keberuntungan, 20 persen keahlian, 15 persen konsentrasi dan kekuatan dari keinginan, 5 persen kesenangan, 50 persen beban, dan 100 persen alasan untuk mengingat namanya.’ Lagu “Right Now” diadaptasi dari film Short Cuts oleh Robert Altman. Mike menulis lagu “Where’d You Go?” yang terinspirasi dari istrinya yang sering ia tinggalkan karena pekerjaannya. Mike berkata, setiap kali istrinya mendengar lagu itu, ia selalu menangis. Setelah mengunjungi Museum Nasional Jepang-Amerika Serikat, Mike lalu menulis lagu ‘Kenji’ yang bercerita tentang keluarganya ketika Perang Dunia II, yang diasingkan ke sebuah tempat karena mereka adalah orang Jepang.


Jiwa sosial
Mike juga sering mengikuti bakti sosial atau amal. Dia memberikan beasiswa bagi murid di sekolahnya terdahulu. Mike juga mengikuti organisasi sosial, seperti United Way, AIDS Project L.A., Densho, Japanese American National Museum, Arthritis Foundation, dan Make-A-Wish Foundation. Tahun 2004, Mike mendirikan organisasi untuk membangun kembali Asia Tenggara karena tsunami, bernama Musis For Relief, Linkin Park mengadakan konser di Los Angeles yang langsung terjual habis untuk korban tsunami, dan menghasilkan lebih dari 2 juta dolar Amerika.

The Catalyst-Linkin Park

God bless us everyone
We're a broken people living under loaded gun
And it can't be outfought
It can't be outdone
It can't be outmatched
It can't be outrun
[x3]

No

And when I close my eyes tonight
To symphonies of blinding light

God bless us everyone

We're a broken people living under loaded gun

Like memories in cold decay

Transmissions echoing away
Far from the world of you and I
Where oceans bleed into the sky
[x2]

God save us everyone
Will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns
For the sins of our hands
The sins of our tongues
The sins of our fathers
The sins of our young
No

And when I close my eyes tonight

To symphonies of blinding light

God save us everyone

Will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns

Ooh


Like memories in cold decay

Transmissions echoing away
Far from the world of you and I
Where oceans bleed into the sky

Lift me up

Let me go
[x16]

God bless us everyone

We're a broken people living under loaded gun
And it can't be outfought
It can't be outdone
It can't be outmatched
It can't be outrun
No
God bless us everyone
We're a broken people living under loaded gun
And it can't be outfought
It can't be outdone
It can't be outmatched
It can't be outrun

Selasa, 25 Oktober 2011

Waiting for the End-Linkin Park

[Mike:]
This is not the end, this is not the beginning
Just a voice like a riot rocking every revision
But you listen to the tone and the violent rhythm
Though the words sound steady something empty's within them
We say yeah with fists flying up in the air
Like we're holding onto something that's invisible there
Cause we're living at the mercy of the pain and the fear
Until we dead it, forget it, let it all disappear

[Chester:]
Waiting for the end to come
Wishing I had strength to stand
This is not what I had planned
It's out of my control
Flying at the speed of light
Thoughts were spinning in my head
So many things were left unsaid
It's hard to let you go

I know what it takes to move on
I know how it feels to lie
All I want to do
Is trade this life for something new
Holding on to what I haven't got

Sitting in an empty room
Trying to forget the past
This was never meant to last
I wish it wasn't so

I know what it takes to move on
I know how it feels to lie
All I want to do
Is trade this life for something new
Holding on to what I haven't got

[Mike:]
What was left when that fire was gone
I thought it felt right but that right was wrong
All caught up in the eye of the storm
And trying to figure out what it's like moving on
And I don't even know what kind of things I said
My mouth kept moving and my mind went dead
So I'm picking up the pieces, now where to begin
The hardest part of ending is starting again

[Chester(till end):]
All I want to do
Is trade this life for something new
Holding on to what I haven't got
I'm holding on to what I haven't got
I'm holding on to what I haven't got

[Mike:]
This is not the end, this is not the beginning
Just a voice like a riot rocking every revision
But you listen to the tone and the violent rhythm
Though the words sound steady something empty's within them
We say yeah with fists flying up in the air
Like we're holding onto something that's invisible there
Cause we're living at the mercy of the pain and the fear
Until we dead it, forget it let it all disappear 

Senin, 24 Oktober 2011

Iridescent-Linkin Park

When you were standing in the wake of devastation
when you were waiting on the edge of the unknown
with the cataclysm raining down, insides crying save me now
you were there and possibly alone.

Do you feel cold and lost in desperation
you build up all the failiures all you've known
remember all the sadness and frustration
and let it go, let it go.

And in the burst of light that blinded every angel
as if the sky had blown the heavens into stars
you felt the gravity of temper grace falling into empty space
no one there to catch you in there arms


Do you feel cold and lost in desperation
you build up all the failiures all you've known
remember all the sadness and frustration
and let it go, let it go.

(Multiple Voices)
Do you feel cold and lost in desperation
you build up all the failiures all you've known
remember all the sadness and frustration
and let it go,

let it go
let it go
let it go
let it go

Do you feel cold and lost in desperation
you build up all the failiures all you've known
remember all the sadness and frustration
and let it go, let it go.