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The music industry has been struck with the unexpected loss of one of its veteran singers.
Chester Bennington, 41, was found dead in his private residence in Palos Verdes Estates in L.A. County. His body was discovered by police on Thursday, shortly before 9 AM. He was the lead singer of the band Linkin Park and is survived by his six children from two marriages.
Los Angeles law enforcement tells TMZ that Bennington committed suicide by hanging. The singer had a history of struggling with drugs and alcohol, and admitted in the past that he had considered committing suicide. “I drank myself to the point where I couldn’t leave the house and I couldn’t function,” he told Celebrity Mania in 2009, “I wanted to kill myself. I could very easily not be the person who’s sitting here right now. I could be dead. It was a horrible, horrible existence.”
In an interview with Kerrang, Bennington also revealed that he was molested at seven-years-old: ”If I think back to when I was really young, to when I was being molested, to when all these horrible things were going on around me, I shudder.”
Bennington was also close friends with Chris Cornell of Soundgarden, who also committed suicide by hanging this past May. Today, July 20th, would have been Cornell’s 53rd birthday. Bennington was the godfather of Cornell’s son
Bennington began his career with the grunge band Grey Daze, but it wasn’t until he joined Linkin Park in 1996 that he became a household name in rock music. The band went on to become one of the most successful acts of the 2000s, with the platinum-selling albums Hybrid Theory and Meteora as well as singles like “Numb”, “In the End”, and “New Divide.”
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