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Moreno may refer to:

• Moreno (surname)
• Moreno (given name)

Places[link]

• Moreno, Pernambuco, city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco
• Perito Moreno Glacier, glacier in Patagonia, Argentina
• Perito Moreno National Park, on the northwest of the Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
• Perito Moreno, Santa Cruz, town in Argentina, near the Cueva de las Manos
• Moreno Partido, division of the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
• Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, capital of the Galápagos Province, Ecuador
• Lagos de Moreno, municipality of the state of Jalisco, Mexico
• Moreno, California (disambiguation)
• Moreno, Buenos Aires, town in Argentina
• Moreno Valley, California, city in the United States
• Moreno Valley Freeway, freeway in the United States
• Moreno Valley Mall, shopping mall in the United States
• Moreno, Rennell Island, Solomon Islands
• Moreno Department, Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina

Other[link]

• ARA Moreno, an earlier battleship in service with Argentine Navy
• Azúcar Moreno, Spanish music duo
• Let the Moreno Play Movement, political party in Colombia
• Moreno (genus), a spider genus in the Prodidomidae family
• Morena or Moréna, another name for the Slavic goddess Marzanna

See also[link]

• Department of Agriculture v. Moreno
• Morena (disambiguation) for the feminine form
• Perito Moreno (disambiguation)

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Alex Moreno

Full name	Alejandro Cristian Moreno
Date of birth	(1973-04-21) April 21, 1973 (age 39)
Place of birth	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	115 kg (18 st 2 lb)
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position	Prop
Amateur clubs
Years	Club / team
	San Fernando
Professional / senior clubs
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2005–2008 2008–2009 2009–	Agen Worcester Warriors Perpignan CA Brive Leicester Tigers Rugby Calvisano Leeds Carnegie	45
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1998 1999–	Argentina  Italy	3 (0) 5 (0)

Alejandro Cristian Moreno (born 21 April 1973 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine rugby union player. He plays as a prop.

He currently plays for Leeds Carnegie in the Guinness Premiership, which he joined in 2009 from Rugby Calvisano.

External links[link]

• Leeds profile
• Leicester Tigers profile

José Luis Moreno Ocampo^{[nb 1]} (born June 4, 1952)^[1] is an Argentine lawyer and the first Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). He previously worked as a prosecutor in Argentina, famously combating corruption and prosecuting human rights abuses by senior military officials in the Trial of the Juntas. He has also lectured in criminal law and practiced law privately.

Career in Argentina[link]

Born in Buenos Aires, Moreno Ocampo graduated from the University of Buenos Aires Law School in 1978, and from 1980 to 1984 worked as a law clerk in the office of the Solicitor General.^[2]

From 1984 to 1992, Moreno Ocampo worked as a prosecutor in Argentina.^[3] He first came to public attention in 1985, as Assistant Prosecutor in the "Trial of the Juntas" with Chief Prosecutor Julio César Strassera. This trial was the first since the Nuremberg Trials that senior military commanders were prosecuted for mass killings.^[3][4] Nine senior commanders, including three former heads of state, were prosecuted and five of them were convicted.^[3] He served as District Attorney for the Federal Circuit of the City of Buenos Aires from 1987 to 1992, during which time he prosecuted the military commanders responsible for the Falklands War, the leaders of two military rebellions, and dozens of high-profile corruption cases.^[3][4] He also successfully argued for the agreement of United States prosecutors to extradite General Guillermo Suárez Mason to Argentina.^[2]

He resigned as a prosecutor in 1992 and established a private law firm, Moreno Ocampo & Wortman Jofre.^[3] He defended several controversial figures, including Diego Maradona, former economics minister Domingo Cavallo, and a priest accused of sexually abusing minors.^[4] He represented the victims in extradition proceedings against Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke, and also in the trial of the murderer of Chilean General Carlos Prats.^[2]

During this time, he was also an Associate Professor of criminal law at the University of Buenos Aires and a visiting professor at Stanford University and Harvard Law School.^[2] He has acted as a consultant to the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the United Nations.^[2] He is a former member of the advisory board of Transparency International and a former president of its Latin America and Caribbean office.^[2]

During the late 1990s, he starred in a reality television programme, Fórum, la corte del pueblo, in which he arbitrated private disputes.^[5][6]

The International Criminal Court[link]

The International Criminal Court's headquarters in The Hague

On 21 April 2003, Moreno Ocampo was elected unopposed as the first Prosecutor of the new International Criminal Court.^[3][4] He was sworn in for a nine-year term on 16 June 2003. As of April 2011, in his capacity as the Prosecutor of the Court he has opened investigations into seven situations in Africa: the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Uganda; the Central African Republic; Darfur, Sudan; the Republic of Kenya; the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire.^[7] Of these seven, three were referred to the Court by the states parties (Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic), two were referred by the United Nations Security Council (Darfur and Libya) and two were begun proprio motu by the Prosecutor (Kenya and Côte d'Ivoire^[8]). The court publicly indicted 28 people, proceedings against 22 of whom are ongoing. The ICC has issued arrest warrants for 19 individuals and summonses to nine others. Five individuals are in custody; one of them has been found guilty (with an appeal possible) while four of them are being tried. Nine individuals remain at large as fugitives (although one is reported to have died). Additionally, two individuals have been arrested by national authorities, but have not yet been transferred to the Court. Proceedings against six individuals have finished following the death of two and the dismissal of charges against the other four.

Moreno Ocampo also led an investigation against leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army, who in 2005 faced arrest warrants by the ICC for crimes against humanity. Moreno Ocampo also directed an investigation against Germain Katanga and Matthieu Ngudjolo Chui,^[9] who received arrest warrants in 2007 and 2008 respectively for crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of Congo.^[10] In March 2008, according to an Argentine online news report, Moreno Ocampo explained the FARC, the largest guerrilla group in Colombia, was plausible for an investigation by the International Criminal Court.^[9] Moreno Ocampo began implementing preliminary tests in Colombia, which involved evaluating prosecutions of paramilitary commanders in Colombia, interviews with victims of the FARC, among others.^[9] Moreno-Ocampo explained the FARC could be investigated for crimes against humanity.^[9] He paid a visit to Colombia in August, after which the ICC launched an investigation on the “support network for FARC rebels outside Colombia.�^[11]

The ICC's first trial, of Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga, was suspended on 13 June 2008 when the court ruled that the Prosecutor's refusal to disclose potentially exculpatory material had breached Lubanga's right to a fair trial.^[12] The Prosecutor had obtained the evidence from the United Nations and other sources on the condition of confidentiality, but the judges ruled that the Prosecutor had incorrectly applied the relevant provision of the Rome Statute and, as a consequence, "the trial process has been ruptured to such a degree that it is now impossible to piece together the constituent elements of a fair trial".^[12] On 2 July 2008, the court ordered Lubanga's release, on the grounds that "a fair trial of the accused is impossible, and the entire justification for his detention has been removed",^[13][14] but an Appeal Chamber agreed to keep him in custody while the Prosecutor appealed.^[15]

Moreno Ocampo agreed on November 18, 2008, to make all the confidential information available to the court, and the Trial Chamber reversed its decision and ordered that the trial could go ahead;^[16][17] but he would be widely criticised for his actions.^{[17][18][19][20]}

He was also criticised for his decision in July 2008 to publicly charge Omar al-Bashir, the President of Sudan, with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Antonio Cassese,^[21] Rony Brauman^[22] and Alex de Waal^[23] argued that there was insufficient evidence to charge al-Bashir with genocide. Cassese, a former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, had chaired the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Darfur, which concluded in 2005 that the government of Sudan had not pursued a policy of genocide in Darfur.^[24]

De Waal argued that "for nineteen years, President Bashir has sat on top of a government that has been responsible for incalculable crimes [...] Two weeks ago, Moreno Ocampo succeeded in accusing Bashir of the crime for which he is not guilty. That is a remarkable feat."^[23] Cassese also argued that if Moreno Ocampo were serious about prosecuting al-Bashir, he should have issued a sealed request and asked the judges to issue a sealed arrest warrant, to be made public only once al-Bashir traveled abroad, instead of publicly requesting the warrant, allowing al-Bashir to avoid arrest simply by remaining in Sudan.^[21]

Moreno Ocampo requested arrest warrants in November 2008 for rebels responsible for the murder of members from an international peacekeeping force in Darfur.^[25] Leaders from three Darfur tribes, said to be the victims of war crimes, sued him for libel, defamation and igniting hatred and tribalism.^[26]

Moreno Ocampo announced the six prime suspects also known as the Ocampo Six in the Kenya post-election violence of 2007 on December 15, 2010. He named suspended Minister of Higher Education William Ruto, Minister for Industrialisation Henry Kosgey, Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, former Commissioner of the Kenya Police Major General Mohammed Hussein Ali, Head of Public Services Francis Muthaura, and journalist Joshua Arap Sang as leading perpetrators of the incidents. His term at the ICC is due to expire in mid-2012.^[27]

Allegations of sexual misconduct[link]

In October 2006 a media spokesman in the prosecutor’s office filed an internal complaint accusing Moreno-Ocampo of sexual misconduct by forcing a journalist in South Africa to have sexual intercourse with him. As evidence the complainant introduced a recording of a telephone conversation made with the journalist two days after the alleged incident.^[28][29] A panel of three ICC judges investigated the complaint and found that because the alleged victim had withdrawn her earlier account of the incident the complaint was "manifestly unfounded"^[30] but Moreno-Ocampo generated a controversy when he summarily dismissed the staff member who made the complaint.

The Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization subsequently awarded the employee more than € 240,000 in moral and material damages, salary and interest^[30] ruling that Moreno-Ocampo had breached due process and seriously infringed the employee's rights.^[28][30] The ILO Tribunal held that the original complaint against Moreno-Ocampo had been made in good faith, and that Moreno-Ocampo should not have participated in the decision to fire the employee as he had a personal interest in the matter. In its judgement the ILO Tribunal noted that "The recorded telephone conversation that occurred two days after the alleged event indicated that the journalist was distressed. And in that conversation, she indicated unambiguously that the Prosecutor 'took [her] keys' and that she had consented to sexual intercourse 'to get out of [the situation]'".^[28]

Libya[link]

On March 3, 2011, Ocampo announced that "there will be no impunity in Libya" as he announced the beginning of an investigation on crimes against humanity committed by either Libyan security forces or the opposition to the Gaddafi government during the 2011 Libyan civil war. On May 16, 2011, he filed a request to the ICC to issue an arrest warrant against Muammar Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam, and Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi, for crimes against Humanity^[31]. On June 27 2011, The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, his son and his intelligence chief for crimes against humanity.

Notes[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• International Criminal Court: Office of the Prosecutor
• Case Closed: A Prosecutor Without Borders, "World Affairs", Spring 2009
• The Controversial Actions of the ICC Prosecutor: a Crisis of Maturity?, "The Hague Justice Portal", 15 September 2008
• "Farmers and Chickens" An interview with Luis Moreno Ocampo by Guernica Magazine's Joel Whitney
• Luis Moreno Ocampo at the Internet Movie Database

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Chino Moreno
Moreno performing with Deftones at Maquinária Festival, São Paulo on November 6, 2009.
Background information
Birth name	Camillo Wong Moreno
Born	(1973-06-20) June 20, 1973 (age 39) Sacramento, California, US
Genres	Alternative metal, nu metal, experimental rock, electronic rock, electronica, dream pop, shoegazing, trip hop
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, musician
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, keyboards
Years active	1988–present
Labels	Warner Bros., Maverick, Reprise
Associated acts	Deftones, Team Sleep, Crosses, Palms

Chino Moreno (born Camillo Wong Moreno; June 20, 1973) is an American musician. He is best known as the lead singer and contributing guitarist of Deftones. He is also a member of the side-project bands Team Sleep and Crosses.

Moreno is well known for his distinctive screams, as well as his soothing tenor voice while singing melodically. In 2007, he was placed at number 51 in Hit Parader's "Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time".^[1]

Biography[link]

Early life[link]

Moreno was born in Sacramento, California to a Mexican father and a Spanish/Chinese mother;^[2] the latter being the origin of his Spanish nickname Chino, which means "Chinese" in Spanish. He is the second of five children. He attended McClatchy High School,^[3] where he met Abe Cunningham and Stephen Carpenter, with whom he founded Deftones in 1988. Before becoming a professional musician, Moreno had a day job at Tower Records' shipping department.^[3]

Musical career[link]

In relation to his often ambiguous yet image-heavy poetic lyrics, Moreno quotes: "[Sometimes] my lyrics don't deal with specific topics. I write down on paper the feelings of the moment, it's not easy to explain the contents of the lyrics or give a logical sense to the words. What I write is also a reaction to the music we make, so the Deftones' sound is not pop, it doesn't communicate happy feelings. Paradoxically my favorite songs of the album talk about love, in a clearly different view."^[2] Despite this, Chino has been known to write songs about social issues such as racism, prostitution, urban violence, and drugs. However, even these songs can be rather vague and cryptic.

Moreno in 1998 on the set of the "Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)" video.

During the making of Deftones' White Pony, Moreno began work on a side project, Team Sleep. Moreno's influences include such bands as The Cure, Bad Brains, The Smiths, My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, Duran Duran, The Smashing Pumpkins, Depeche Mode, Helmet, Jawbox, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Hum, Kool Keith, Tool, Jane's Addiction and Weezer, and claims that Deftones' 2006 album, Saturday Night Wrist, is more of a compromise between all of the members' influences, ranging from their brutal and brooding heavy signature seen on Adrenaline and Around the Fur to the more experimental sound heard on White Pony and Deftones. Chino recently worked with post-hardcore band Norma Jean, on their album The Anti Mother. Moreno has also worked with the band Dance Gavin Dance in the song titled "Caviar". In 2009, Moreno recorded a song with 30 Seconds to Mars to appear on their album This Is War, but was not finished. On May 2, 2010, he performed "The Kill" with 30 Seconds to Mars. He was also featured on Whitechapel's 2010 album, A New Era of Corruption.

From White Pony onwards, Moreno has been credited as contributing guitar in addition to vocals.

In March 2011, he stated to be working on a new side project known as Crosses, featuring Far guitarist Shaun Lopez and Scott Chuck. Moreno described the project as "minimal and soothing, and it's sort of like the stuff I like listening to when I'm not screaming my head off."^[4] Their debut self-titled EP was released on August 2, 2011.

In April 2012 it was announced that Moreno had joined former ISIS members, in a side project by the name of Palms. Their first album is slated for release in 2012.^[5]

Discography[link]

Vocal damage[link]

In 2001 Moreno developed a throat injury due to heavy screaming and was forced to miss at least four shows. He suffered inflammation on his right vocal cord and partial paralysis of the left vocal cord. During the rest of their supporting tour, Chi Cheng took over vocal duties that required screaming while Chino sang the softer melodies of the lyrics, despite recommendations by doctors to hold off from singing to allow time for recovery as well as rumors that the band would be cancelling the remaining stretch of the tour with Godsmack and Puddle of Mudd.^[6]

Equipment[link]

Guitars[link]

• Gibson 1961 SG
• Fender Mustang
• Fender Jaguar
• ESP Viper 301
• Epiphone G-400

Amplifiers & Cabinets[link]

• Orange Music Electronic Company KT88 180watt Amplifier
• Orange Music Electronic Company 4x12 Cabinets
• Marshall 1960B 4x12 Cabinet
• ISP Technologies Vector SL 600 watt 15" Guitar Subwoofer cabinets

Effects[link]

• Boss CE5 Chorus
• Boss DD6 Delay
• Range of other Boss effect pedals.

Microphones[link]

• Shure BETA 58a Microphone for live performances since 2011
• Shure SM58 until 2011

Collaborations[link]

• "Wicked" - Ice Cube cover from Life Is Peachy by Korn (1996)
• "Savory" - Jawbox cover from Soon by Far (1997)
• "Will To Die" - from In This Defiance by Strife (1997)
• "First Commandment" - from Soulfly by Soulfly (1998)
• "Bender" - from Home by Sevendust, credited as "Pony One" (1999)
• "(Rock) Superstar" - from Skull and Bones by Cypress Hill (2000)
• "Danger Girl" - from Tried + True by Tinfed (2000)
• "Pain" - from Primitive by Soulfly (2000)
• "Things!" - from Hesher by Hesher (2001)
• "Ashamed" - Never a Dull Moment by Tommy Lee (2002)
• "Feed the World (Do They Know It's Christmas)" feat. Far - Band Aid cover from A Santa Cause: It's a Punk Rock Christmas by various artists (2003)
• "The Hours" - from White People by Handsome Boy Modeling School (2004)
• "Red Sky" - Thrice (appeared during the band's live set at the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas in 2005)^[7]
• "Paralytic" and "Crashing Down" - from Vices by Dead Poetic (2006)
• "Zombie Eaters" - Faith No More cover from The Undercover Sessions by Ill Niño (2006)
• "Rock for Light" - from Family Compilation Vol. 3 by Bad Brains (2006)
• "A Day In The Life Of A Poolshark (remix)" - from A Day In The Life Of A Poolshark by Idiot Pilot (2006)
• "Fistful of Nothing" - from Runs Astray by Atomic Six (2007)
• "Vengeance is Mine" - from Droid by Droid (2007)
• A few songs - in Astrological Straits by Zach Hill (2008)
• "Wall" - from HAKAI by Wagdug Futuristic Unity (2008)
• "Caviar" - from Dance Gavin Dance by Dance Gavin Dance (2008)
• "Surrender Your Sons..." - from The Anti Mother by Norma Jean (2008)
• "Reprogrammed To Hate" - from A New Era of Corruption by Whitechapel (2010)
• "Only One" - from A Public Disservice Announcement by Methods of Mayhem (2010)
• "If I Could" - from All 6's And 7's by Tech N9ne (2011)
• "Right Outside" - from Beautiful Things by Anthony Green (2012)
• "Razors Out" - from The Raid: Redemption by Mike Shinoda From Linkin Park and Joseph Trapanese (2012)

Moreno also featured in the low-budget video for the song "Carpe Diem" by fellow Sacramento hardcore act Will Haven. In 2007, he produced their album The Hierophant.

Discography[link]

With Deftones[link]

• Adrenaline (1995, Maverick/Warner Bros.)
• Around the Fur (1997, Maverick/Warner Bros.)
• White Pony (2000, Maverick)
• Deftones (2003, Maverick)
• Saturday Night Wrist (2006, Maverick)
• Diamond Eyes (2010, Warner Bros./Reprise)
• Eros (currently unreleased)

With Team Sleep[link]

• Team Sleep (2005, Maverick)

With Crosses[link]

• EP 1 (2011, self-published)
• EP 2 (2012, self-published)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website

Mike Shinoda
Background information
Birth name	Michael Kenji Shinoda
Born	(1977-02-11) February 11, 1977 (age 35)[1] Agoura Hills, California, U.S.
Genres	Nu metal, hip Hop, rap rock, rap metal, alternative rock, alternative metal
Occupations	Rapper, musician, producer, graphic designer, visual artist
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, keyboard, piano, sampler, organ, Percussion
Years active	1994–present
Labels	Machine Shop/Warner Bros.
Associated acts	Linkin Park, Fort Minor, The Raid: Redemption
Website	www.mikeshinoda.com
Notable instruments
PRS Guitars Ibanez Guitars Gibson Guitars Fender Guitars

Michael Kenji "Mike" Shinoda (born February 11, 1977)^[1][2] is a Japanese American musician, record producer, and artist. He is best known as the rapper, principal songwriter, keyboardist, vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Linkin Park. Shinoda is also noted as a solo rapper in his side-project, Fort Minor. He also provides artwork, production, and mixing for both projects.

Life and career[link]

Early life[link]

Shinoda was born and raised in the Los Angeles suburb of Agoura Hills.^[1] His father is Japanese American and his mother is Caucasian.^[3][4] He also has a younger brother, Jason. Shinoda attended Parkman Elementary and Lindero Canyon Middle School.

Following his mother's wishes, Shinoda began his classical piano training with lessons around the age of six. His enthusiasm grew eventually and at the age of thirteen, he expressed the desire to move toward playing jazz, blues, and even hip-hop.^[5] During his middle school and high school years, he added the guitar and, eventually, rap-style vocals to his repertoire.

After his teens, Mike Shinoda's rap interests found a source of encouragement in Brad Delson, with whom he started to write and record songs in a makeshift studio set up in his bedroom. Shinoda attended Agoura High School with Linkin Park bandmates Brad Delson and Rob Bourdon as well as with members of the band Hoobastank. By the end of high school, Bourdon had become involved in their musical ventures. The trio formed the band Xero, and began to make a more serious attempt to pursue a career in the music industry.

After high school, Shinoda enrolled in the Art Center College of Design to study graphic design and illustration.^[1] It was here that he made the acquaintance of DJ and turntablist Joseph Hahn, who, along with Delson's college-mate Dave "Phoenix" Farrell, was soon added to Xero's line-up. It was also here that he experienced a form of identity crisis. Years later, in an interview he said:

"I think it was probably in college that I realized that there was a difference between Japanese and Japanese-American. That's important to realize. It's not the same thing and then eventually with Linkin Park, I toured in Japan. I've been there now I think four times. I remember the first time I went, how familiar it seemed, just getting out of the plane, it smelled like my aunt's house, in the airport, it smelled like Japan. I don't know if anybody else even noticed it but I walked out of the plane and thought this is definitely familiar to me, didn't even see anything yet. And then going to Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, you just recognize things about the way people act, the small things that people do such as how you'll grab a piece of paper. There are things that are more obvious like taking somebody's business card with two hands. You don't do that in the States. When I saw somebody do that I went, "Oh yeah, my uncle always does that," you know. There are little things that culturally come from Japan but they also exist in Japanese American culture and it made me feel like the connection was there and I kind of hadn't realized how much of it was there."^[6]

Shinoda managed to graduate from college with a bachelor's degree in illustration a year in advance, securing himself a job as a graphic designer instantly.^[1] With his background as a graphic artist, Shinoda has taken it upon himself in designing all of Linkin Park's artwork with Hahn, and has even designed the album cover for Styles of Beyond's debut album, 2000 Fold. In later years he would go on to showcase his art skills;^{[citation needed]} he had his debut art showcase (Diamonds Spades Hearts & Clubs) at Gallery 1988^[7] in Los Angeles in the time leading up to Linkin Park's album Minutes to Midnight.

Linkin Park[link]

Shinoda's band brought in second vocalist Chester Bennington, replacing Mark Wakefield. From the onset, Shinoda was closely involved in the technical aspects of the band's recordings, and over the subsequent releases that role continued to expand. Shinoda, with guitarist Brad Delson, engineered and produced the band's Hybrid Theory EP, and performed similar roles in the recording of the Hybrid Theory album. Mike executively organized and oversaw the band's remix album Reanimation (2002), contributing his own production remixes that he made in his home studio for "Crawling" and "Pushing Me Away." In his spare time, he produced and performed on a song by The X-Ecutioners entitled "It's Goin' Down."

On the second Linkin Park Warner Bros. studio release Meteora (2003) Shinoda continued to expand upon his duties as a musician and studio technician/engineer. Additionally, for the backbone of the album artwork, Shinoda collaborated with graffiti artist DELTA, graphic designer Frank Maddocks, and band-mate Joe Hahn.

By the release of the Linkin Park and Jay-Z 'mash-up' album Collision Course in 2004, Shinoda's involvement in the creation of the albums continued to grow. He produced and mixed the album, which won a Grammy Award for "best rap / song collaboration" in 2006.^[8]

The band released their next album, Minutes To Midnight, on May 14, 2007. On this album, Shinoda shared a production credit with producer Rick Rubin, overseeing the musical evolution of the band's sound. This album was also the first time that Shinoda, best known for his rapping, sang a featured vocal. Mike sang in the songs "In Between" and the b-side song, "No Roads Left," as well as rapping and singing in the songs "Bleed It Out" and "Hands Held High." Despite the rarity of Shinoda-fronted singing tracks, music magazine Hit Parader ranked Mike at number 72 of the Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time.^[9] Mike and Rick Rubin again shared a production credit for Linkin Park's next album, A Thousand Suns, released on September 14, 2010, and Linkin Park's upcoming album, Living Things due for release on June 26, 2012.

Fort Minor[link]

Shinoda formed a side project named "Fort Minor" between 2003 and 2004 because he could not demonstrate as much of his hip-hop background in Linkin Park. He explained the name of his project in an interview:^[10]

The debut album from Fort Minor, titled The Rising Tied, was released on November 13, 2005, and includes guest appearances from Styles of Beyond, Lupe Fiasco, Common, Black Thought of The Roots, John Legend, Holly Brook, Jonah Matranga, Celph Titled, and features Jay-Z (Shawn Carter) as an executive producer.

A single was put out by the X-Ecutioners featuring Mike Shinoda, and it was called 'It's Goin Down'.

For the NBA 2006–2007 season, "Remember the Name", the second single from The Rising Tied, became the soundtrack for NBA Overtime on TNT. It was an NBA remix version, and remains the staple song for NBA on TNT to this day.^{[citation needed]} Furthermore the Big East used "Remember the Name" as its theme song for the Big East Basketball Tournament in 2006.^{[citation needed]}

He also scored a Top 10 smash with the surprise hit single "Where'd You Go", which peaked at #4 on Billboard Hot 100 chart.^[11]

Shinoda provided several original score selections to the 2005 MTV VMAs. Lil Jon also provided original music, but not on any of the same tracks^[12]

Fort Minor won an MTV VMA for "Best Ringtone" in 2006, and was featured in the following films and TV programs (2005–2006 and 2010): Entourage, Boston Legal, Gridiron Gang, Freedom Writers, Friday Night Lights (TV), The Karate Kid, and Numbers.

Shinoda has also continued his Fort Minor musical style in an executive producer role on the upcoming Styles Of Beyond album, "Reseda Beach" He is contributing music and vocals to the album, which was slated for release sometime in 2009. However, Styles of Beyond went under hiatus, and the album is only now being released in 2012.

Art and painting[link]

Mike was the youngest of his graduating class from Art Center College of Design of Pasadena in 1998, with a Bachelor of Arts in Illustration. He has had a hand in most artistic facets of Linkin Park's imagery, including album artwork, band merchandise, web design, and on-stage production art.

During time off in 2003, he did a collaborative "remix" shoe for DC Shoes, remixing the "Clientele." He reworked the colors and materials for the shoe, and additionally designed all the packaging and print advertisements.^[13] The following year, he also designed a customizable Kid Robot "Munny" doll for a charity auction.^[14]

In 2004, Shinoda created a series of ten paintings which became the basis of the Fort Minor album The Rising Tied. That series became the backbone for the packaging of the album, and was featured in Shinoda's first public art show "Diamonds Spades Hearts & Clubs."^[15] In addition to the ten Fort Minor pieces, the show also featured thirteen more original works and five collaborative pieces. “Diamonds Spades Hearts & Clubs� opened at Gallery 1988 on Sunday, November 19, 2006.

Additionally in 2004, Shinoda started a college scholarship at Art Center College of Design to benefit future illustration and graphic design students. Named the Michael K. Shinoda Endowed Scholarship, it is awarded based on financial need and merit. The scholarship was awarded for the first time in 2006.^[16] The scholarship fund is made possible through the sale of his original artwork on his website, art shows and his DC Shoes projects.^[15][17]

2008 has proved to be a busy year thus far artistically for Mike. On July 11, Shinoda’s second public art show “Glorious Excess (BORN)� premiered at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. The show included nine new pieces, with an exclusive signing on opening night. The show served as part one of the “Glorious Excess� two-part series, with the second installment “Glorious Excess (DIES)� due at JANM at August 22, 2009.^[18]

Concerning the inspiration behind the Glorious Excess series, Mike stated that it:

"Got to a point where the pervasiveness of “celebrity news� concerned me. It seemed like it has jumped out of its niche into places where it doesn’t belong. I would be watching the news, and thinking, “of all the things going on in the world right now, why are they covering so-and-so’s breakup?� It didn’t make sense to me. Add to that the fact that I’m supposed to somehow “belong� to that celebrity group—and I really don’t feel like I do in a lot of ways—and you can see how the topic started to become really interesting to me. The Glorious Excess (BORN) show was my way of diving into those topics, trying to find answers. It follows a central “celebrity� character, who is filthy rich, slightly violent, and famous without any particular skill or talent."

Also in 2008, Mike partnered up with DC Shoes again on a second DC Remix Series project. The project would feature a "great juxtaposition of Mike's unique influences: accomplished artist versus recording-breaking musician, American upbringing versus Japanese heritage."^[19] The MS/DC limited edition remix has two different versions – Xander and Pride. Roughly 2000 pairs of the limited edition shoes were made available for purchase when the sneaker was released on August 1, 2008.

In an interview with Sneaker Freaker Magazine, Shinoda had this to say about the latest DC Shoe project:

"This remix is a little slimmer than most of DC’s skate shoes; the Xander feels almost like the skate shoes I grew up wearing in the late 80s. But the art brings it up to date—my work is laser-etched into the panels on the side of the shoe, and the sole is a clear gum sole with a koi fish pattern, and four-color artwork beneath. That way, when you’re walking, and your foot lifts up, it’s a little surprise under there. We also took the time to add extra padding and a satin inner lining to make it as comfortable as possible. They come with three pairs of lightly waxed laces instead of two, because I like to flip up the look sometimes. Each pair also comes with a booklet of my art."^[20]

Production[link]

Shinoda produced The Rising Tied, the debut album by his side-project Fort Minor. He has also produced tracks for albums by Lupe Fiasco and Styles of Beyond, as well as producing or co-producing all of Linkin Park's non-studio albums, including Reanimation, Hybrid Theory EP, the collaborative EP with Jay-Z, Collision Course, and for the first time producing a studio album in 2007, the group's third studio release Minutes to Midnight. In 2004 Shinoda, with drumming assistance by band mate Rob Bourdon, remixed "Enjoy the Silence" by Depeche Mode. Shinoda and Bourdon again teamed up in 2008 to create an instrumental piece entitled "Lockjaw" while previewing Digidesign's Pro Tools 8 software. Some other notable production credits include:

• Styles of Beyond – "Marco Polo" (from the album 2000 Fold)
• The X-Ecutioners – "It's Goin' Down" (from the album Built from Scratch)
• Depeche Mode – "Enjoy the Silence 04" (remixed and produced)
• Lupe Fiasco – "The Instrumental" (from the album Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor)
• Styles of Beyond featuring Celph Titled – "You Cannot Fuck With This" (from the Razor Tag mixtape)
• Styles of Beyond – "Hard [MS Remix]" (from the Razor Tag mixtape)
• Styles of Beyond – "Second To None" (from the upcoming album Reseda Beach)
• "My December" – Linkin Park
• "High Voltage" – Linkin Park
• Reanimation – Linkin Park
• "What I've Done (Distorted Remix)" – Linkin Park
• Scored the 2005 MTV VMAs (contributed all original music)
• "Fort Minor: We Major" Mixtape – including S.C.O.M., Bloc Party, Dolla, 100 Degrees, Spraypaint & Inkpens (feat. Lupe Fiasco and Ghostface Killah)
• Busta Rhymes feat. Linkin Park – "We Made It" (co-produced with Cool & Dre)
• "L.O.A.T.R." (M. Shinoda Remix) – Linkin Park
• "Lockjaw" – Linkin Park
• "Death to Analog" (Mike Shinoda Remix) – Julien-K (from the album Death To Digital)
• "New Divide" – Linkin Park
• "Gold Guns Girls" (Mike Shinoda remix) – Metric
• "Shoot First" – Apathy
• "Resurrection" – Lupe Fiasco & Kenna
• "Never Let Me Down" – Kenna
• "Not Alone" – Linkin Park (From Download to Donate for Haiti, an initiative by Music For Relief)
• Cypress Hill – "Carry Me Away" (from the album Rise Up)
• "Linkin Park: 8-Bit Rebellion!" – composed 8-bit soundtrack
• "Issho Ni" for Download To Donate for Japan, a charity contribution for the 2011 Japan earthquake
• "Razors.Out" (with Joe Trapanese and Chino Moreno) from the movie The Raid: Redemption.
• "Suicide Music" (with Joe Trapanese and Get Busy Committee) from the movie The Raid: Redemption - also composed the score for the film with Joe Trapanese.

Other musical activities[link]

• In 2004, Mike Shinoda remixed Depeche Mode's Enjoy the Silence. The remix was the only single from Depeche Mode's album Remixes 81-04. He added Linkin Park's nu metal sound to the original song. A music video was made for the remix.
• In 2005, Mike hosted the Rock Phenomenon Mixtape CD with DJ Vlad and Roc Raida. The CD is the first (and to date, only) in DJ Vlad's Rock Phenomenon series (which itself is a spin-off of Vlad's Rap Phenomenon Mixtape series), and features a Mash-Up of Linkin Park's Papercut, and David Banner's Like a Pimp (Remix). The Mixtape was re-released on July 10, 2007, with new artwork.
• In October 2008 Mike and Mark Wakefield, former vocalist of Linkin Park back when they were named Xero, recorded and released the song "Barack Your World" under the name White Pegacorn.
• For the 2006 Grammy awards, Mike and Brad Delson assembled the mashup track of Numb/Encore and "Yesterday" by The Beatles to be performed live by Jay-Z, Linkin Park and Paul McCartney.
• Mike scored the MTV VMAs in 2005. Lil’ Jon also contributed, but they did not collaborate; The tracks were separate.^[21]
• Mike was an honorary parade marshall in Los Angeles Nisei Week, 2005.^[21]
• Mike was awarded the Japanese American National Museum’s Award of Excellence in 2006.^[21]
• Mike and Joseph Trapanese worked together to create a new score for the American release of the 2011 film The Raid.

Influences[link]

Shinoda's musical influences and favorites include Deuce (of Hollywood Undead), U2, The Police, Eminem, Rio, Boogie Down Productions, Led Zeppelin, Nine Inch Nails, Dr. Dre, and Owen Coughlan.^[22] As a visual artist his influences include Mark Ryden, Corey Sandelius,^[22] and Banksy.^[23]

Personal life[link]

• Mike Shinoda has been married to children's author Anna Hillinger since May 10, 2003. The couple have one child, a son named Otis Akio Shinoda. According to Shinoda, the Fort Minor song "Where'd You Go" was written about Hillinger.^[24]
• In an interview talking about his song "Kenji" from the Rising Tied album, he revealed that his father was born during the Second World War. Shinoda is a third generation Japanese American. His father was born in the United States and was interned during World War II.^[25]
• In 2009, Shinoda received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters (H.D.L) from Art Center College Of Design.^[21]
• EWP honored Shinoda with a Visionary Award and dinner in 2010.^[21]

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Official website
• Mike Shinoda at the Internet Movie Database