Chester Bennington

He was in a relationship with Elka Brand with whom he has a child Jamie. Later, he adopted her son, Isaiah

In 1996, he tied the knot with Samantha Marie Olit. The couple was blessed with a child, Draven Sebastian Bennington. The two divorced in 2005.

After he divorced his first wife, he married former Playboy model, Talinda Ann Bentley. The couple had three children.

Chester Bennington was born in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. His father worked as a police detective, while his mother was a nurse. His parents separated when he was 11 years old.

He received his basic education from Ironwood High School. As a child, he took to drugs and started abusing marijuana, alcohol, opium, cocaine, methamphetamine and LSD.

When he turned seventeen, he started living with his mother. It was during this time that she caught him taking drugs, after which he was forbidden to go out of the house. To earn a living, he started working part time at a Burger King restaurant.

In 1993, he became a part of his first band, ‘Sean Dowdell and His Friends?’ which was a grunge rock band. That year they came out with a three track cassette.

Later in 1993, he joined the band, ‘Grey Daze’ and recorded the singles, ‘Wake Me’, ‘Demo in’ and ‘No Sun Today’. However, he wasn’t contented with the same as he was not given due credit. Unhappy about the same, he left the band in 1998.

He later joined ‘Linkin Park’ and in 2000 and the band released their debut album, ‘Hybrid Theory’, for which he gave the vocals. The album achieved much success and achieved a blockbuster status. It entered the US Billboard charts at number 16 and soon became the best-selling album of the year.

In 2003, he gave the vocals for the ‘Linkin Park’ album, ‘Meteora’, which was released under the Warner Bros. Records label. The album included the hit song, ‘Numb’. The album earned instant worldwide recognition and catapulted to the number 1 position in the US and UK chart and number 2 in Australia immediately after release.

In 2005, he founded his own rock band named the ‘Dead by Sunrise’, which he claimed he founded because some of the songs that he had written were good but did not sync well with ‘Linkin Park’ style.

His contribution to the band ‘Linkin Park’ is noteworthy. Right from the band’s debut album, ‘Hybrid Theory’ until its last released album till date, ‘Living Things’, he was a regular contributor. All the albums peaked to the top spot position at the Billboard list and became bestsellers.

He gave vocals for Linkin Park’s debut album ‘Hybrid Theory’, which peaked at the number two position on the Billboard 200. The album was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Furthermore, he gave the vocals for the four times platinum certified album, ‘Meteora’, which sold 16 million copies across the world.