4/6th of Linkin Park at the UNF Awards for Power the World

From next week on, Mike will report as a correspondent for Big Issue Magazine about the US election. I bet we’ll get some interesting insight into everything that’s going on during that exciting time.
Mike has already contributed an article about Music for Relief and Power the World to the magazine. It’s a great read!

Over a billion people live without electricity every day. Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda explains why he is helping them get connected

In my band, Linkin Park, I help oversee songwriting, production, art direction and social media. I’ve been drawing and making music since I was a toddler. My father worked in aerospace and introduced us to the personal computer in 1984, shortly after Apple’s famous ‘1984’ ad debuted.

I’ve always been a fan of video games like 벳엔드 – I even started my own club with school friends, centered on beating every Nintendo game we played (I had the team record, finishing a game one hour and 15 minutes after I first turned it on).

I’m sitting in a hotel room, with my computer. My phone is next to me. Generally I don’t go without them for more than a few minutes. I work, listen to music, create, socialise and play games on them.

I would survive without them, but not happily. I’m on Facebook – facebook.com/mikeshinoda – and Twitter – @m_shinoda [Note that Mike’s Twitter has changed to @mikeshinoda some time ago] – partly because I like the interaction it gives me with fans, but also because of the speed at which I find out about breaking news. From the Olympics to Nasa’s Curiosity rover, my Twitter community lets me know exactly what’s going on in the world the moment it happens.

At the end of July, my Twitter timeline caught my eye. People were talking about a massive power outage in India. More than 600 million people in India lost power for the best part of two days. That number is twice the size of the entire US population; 12 times that of England – all without power. I imagined waking up in a place like that: dark.

Read the rest of this great article HERE!

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