This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Casper Libero chapter.

Picture from Linkin Park’s Official Facebook Page

Chester Bennington was an American singer and songwriter. He was different because he had priceless skills: he could sing and scream like nobody else. He is best known as Linkin Park’s lead singer. Life always surprises us and unfortunately, on July 20 th of 2017, Bennington was found dead in his home in California. He died from suicide by hanging, he was 41 years old.

Hybrid Theory, Linkin Park’s first album, was a best-selling of the decade. Bennington’s career only exploded after that and he became famous worldwide.

He also formed his own band, Dead by Sunrise, as a side project in 2005. The band’s debut album, Out of Ashes, was released on October 13th, 2009. Besides that, he was Stone Temple Pilots’ lead singer in 2013.

Chester and Linkin Park captivated a legion of fans and permanently changed the world of music. Therefore, Her Campus made a list of their top 10 songs to remember him by:

Crawling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd9OhYroLN0

Numb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXYiU_JCYtU

In the end

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVTXPUF4Oz4

Burn It Down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxytyRy-O1k

Castle Of glass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScNNfyq3d_w

Faint

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYU-8IFcDPw