Mark shinoda biography
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&#;Racism Wasn&#;t a Feeling, It Was a Fact&#;: Mike Shinoda on His Family&#;s WWII Incarceration
&#;Have you ever had mochi ice cream?&#; Mike Shinoda asks with a grin. &#;Did you know it was invented in Los Angeles?&#;
The Linkin Park rapper and multi-instrumentalist, 45, continues: &#;That&#;s a Japanese American creation. This thing people think of as Japanese, but actually is American. People don&#;t know that.&#;
For him, the point is about more than just ice cream. The indistinction he&#;s discussing between Japanese and Japanese American is where the trouble began 80 years ago.
Shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack drew the U.S. into World War II in December , Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order , leading to Japanese American families along the West Coast being rounded up and sent to prison camps under the belief that they could be operating as wartime spies.
Among the tens of thousands of men, women, and children incarcerated for their e
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Mike Shinoda
American musician (born )
Michael Kenji Shinoda (; born February 11, ) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and graphic designer. He co-founded the rock band Linkin Park in and is the band's co-lead vocalist, as well as rhythm guitarist, keyboardist, primary songwriter and producer. Shinoda later created a hip-hop-driven side project, Fort Minor, in He has also served as a producer for tracks and albums by artists such as Lupe Fiasco, Styles of Beyond, and the X-Ecutioners.
Shinoda is also the co-founder of Machine Shop Records, a California-based record label. Outside of music, Shinoda is an artist and graphic designer. He has painted several pieces of artwork, some of which have been featured in the Japanese American National Museum. In , Shinoda released his debut solo album Post Traumatic, which consists of 18 songs about his feelings following the death of Chester Bennington, his Linkin Park bandmate.[7]
Early life
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Mike was born Michael Kenji Shinoda on the 11th February to Muto and Donna Shinoda. A few years later had another son, Jason, whom Mike calls Jay, they were raised in Agoura Hills, California.
From very early on Mike developed his artistic skills, when the family went out for dinner and slang för mikrofon would finish his meal early he would be given napkins to draw on to keep him quiet rather than störa the other diners. His mother also arranged piano lessons for Mike when he was three/four years old, he started with classical music for the first 12 or so years and then moved onto hip hop, learning loops and hooks. After the 12 years of tuition there was nothing else he could learn from his tutor and she advised him to go experiment on his own.
I started piano lessons when inom was really young, around aged four. And I played piano for about 12 years, and then I got into keyboards and samplers, then guitar. inom learned bass a little bit.I can play tunes on most string and wind instruments. inom coul