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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lydia Spencer-Elliott

Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda says fans don’t like singer Emily Armstrong because she’s a woman

Linkin Park member Mike Shinoda has said fans were “uncomfortable” with the band’s new singer Emily Armstrong because “she wasn’t a guy”.

Armstrong, of rock group Dead Sara, joined the nu-metal band in 2024 alongside original members Shinoda, Brad Delson, Dave “Phoenix” Farrell, and Joe Hahn following the death by suicide of their original frontman Chester Bennington in 2017.

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