新金属乐队Linkin Park的主音 ，1976年3月20日 他出生在亚利桑纳州的凤凰城（Phoenix,Arizona)。特别值得注意的是他的大嗓门和高嗓音。Linkin Park的大部分歌曲都需要他的嘶吼。有时他会戴上黑色有角架的EMO眼镜，外表看起来矮矮瘦瘦的。他会频繁地变换发型和头发的颜色，这一点很有趣。Chester的青年时期有一段很不愉快的经历。小的时候，他被人性虐待，并不是他的家庭所为，而是周遭的一些人干的。当他进入少年时期之后，他开始沉溺于街头贩卖的药物——可卡因。不过，现在Chester早已摆脱了这种药物。他的乐队好友，也是作词人之一Mike Shinoda，写了一首歌曲，关于Chester的过去，直到最近乐队做了这首歌的现场表演。就是“Breaking the Habit”，使记忆又回到过去，很多时候这首歌都减少了Chester的感伤。Chester过去是Grey Daze乐队的主唱，这支乐队在亚利桑那州以及整个美国都很有名，但是在国际上鲜为人知。在Chester离开乐队之后，Grey Daze启用了一位女歌手来代替Chester，这支乐队现在叫Waterface。梦想是成为比肩Robert Plant的音乐家。大他13岁的哥哥基本上是他的良师益友，在Chester还很小的时候，就把Loverboy, Foreigner和Rush等朋克乐队介绍给他，这对他产生了深远影响在Chester两岁的时候，哥哥就教会了他唱'Hot blooded'，并把小Chester的演唱录制下来了。当然，Chester现在说这盘磁带已经不知去向了。在他20岁的时候，他和妻子Samantha于万圣节那天结婚。当时的他很穷，付不起实际婚礼的费用，也没有婚戒，他们俩就在各自的手指上纹上戒指的图案(在Pamela Anderson和 Tommy Lee这样做以前，他们已经这样做了)。他们有一个男孩，叫Draven Sebastian Bennington，2002年4月19日中午一点出生。Born on March 20, 1976, in Phoenix, AZ, Chester Bennington is most recognized as the lead singer of Linkin Park, his higher-pitched, emotional vocals balancing out those of main rapper Mike Shinoda. A victim of sexual abuse, Bennington had a childhood that was far from picture perfect, and when his parents divorced at age 11, he turned to drugs to deal with his pain. By the time he was a teenager, Bennington had gotten heavily into cocaine and methamphetamines, supporting his drug habit with a gig working at Burger King. Despite his drug problems, however, Bennington never forgot his childhood dream of becoming a rock star — he was a huge fan of Depeche Mode and Stone Temple Pilots — and in 1993, he joined up as the lead singer of the local band Grey Daze. The band built a sizable following around the Phoenix area, but Bennington ultimately grew unhappy with the group and decided to leave in the late '90s over creative differences. He then moved to Los Angeles and became the final piece of burgeoning rap-metal act Linkin Park in 1999. (Bennington came up with the name, changing their then-moniker from Hybrid Theory.) After multiple label rejections and gaining a notable local fan base, Linkin Park signed to Warner Bros. and released their debut album, Hybrid Theory, in 2000, which went on to attain multi-platinum-selling status. The band's visceral mix of rock, rap, and electronics resulted in a slew of hit singles and turned Linkin Park into one of the most popular mainstream rock groups in the early part of new millennium. Likewise, Bennington's oft-tortured vocals became one of the most distinctive in the alternative rock scene. He had married his first wife Samantha on Halloween 1996, and in April 2002 they welcomed son Draven, their first child together, into the world. (The couple later divorced in 2005.) Outside of Linkin Park, Bennington enjoyed working on a side solo project with producers Amir Derakh and Ryan Shuck, both of Orgy, entitled Dead by Sunrise. The project is rumored to feature Bennington handling not just singing on the album, but also guitar, keyboard, and programming. Originally slated for a 2006 release, his Linkin Park commitments pushed the release of Dead by Sunrise's as yet untitled record back to late 2007 or 2008.