Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington committed suicide

Vocalist of the group Linkin Park Chester Bennington is found dead in his home in California, he was 41 year.

About the death of the singer, the first reported tabloid TMZAccording to information which bennington hanged himself.

Later, the police confirmed the information about the death of the artist, but did not give a reason for it.

The singer for many years struggled with drug and alcohol addiction. In an interview, he repeatedly said that in childhood he thought about committing suicide, because he had been harassed by an adult man as a child.

Bennington was a close friend of the vocalist Soundgarden Chris Cornell, who committed suicide in May 2017; 20 July, the day of Bennington's suicide, Cornell would have turned 53 of the year.

Chester Bennington was born March 20 1976 years in Phoenix, Arizona. Chester's father was a local police detective, and his mother a nurse. AT 1987 year Bennington's parents divorced. Mother took her older brother Brian and one of the sisters with her, leaving Chester and the second sister to her father. Chester’s first musical instrument was a piano. In his youth, he participated in a variety of musical groups and played different instruments, but in most cases he was a vocalist. Thanks to brother Chester was influenced by groups such as Loverboy, Foreigner и Rush. He did not participate in large projects until 1992 yearsin which joined Gray daze. The group broke up in 1997 yearand Chester moved to Linkin Park .

Until 16 years he tried all possible types of alcohol and drugs. In 17 years he moved to his mother, who was so shocked by his appearance of an emaciated drug addict, that he forbade him to leave the house. He continued to "break up", he continued to drink. Soon, as he himself admits, he turned into an “absolutely chronic alcoholic”. In subsequent years, alcoholism will still remind of itself.

At the beginning of his career with Linkin Park Chester often suffered from health problems and was hospitalized several times. He also suffered from vision problems, was forced to wear glasses, without which he could not see anything. In 2004, he had a correction operation. lens. For a while, due to problems with alcohol addiction, Chester traveled separately from the entire group of buses.

The artist was married twice, has six children.

Chester is a tattoo fan and co-owner of tattoo parlors. Club tattoo. On his body are tattooed: a soldier Hybrid theory on the right calf; green dragon - on the left, red-blue flames on both forearms; Japanese carp on the right shoulder; Pisces - his zodiac sign - on his left shoulder; black creature on the back; green and yellow dragon on right collarbone; wedding tattoo on right little finger; dragon on the back; pirate skull on left elbow; fancy flower on right elbow; inscription "CB * TB" (Chester Bennington * Talinda Bentley - the artist’s second wife) on the chest; just below are the initials of all his children, united in one drawing; and inscription Linkin Park on the lower back.

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