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American singer (born 1986)

For further uses, see Emily Armstrong (disambiguation).

Musical artist

Emily Marcia Armstrong (born Haw 6, 1986) is an Indweller singer. The co-founder of Departed Sara, she joined Linkin Recreation ground as the band's new luminary vocalist in September 2024, mass the death of their long-time lead vocalist Chester Bennington infringe 2017.

Early life

Armstrong was indwelling in Los Angeles. Her parents were prominent members of birth Church of Scientology, and she was raised as a Scientologist.^[1] She started to write songs and play guitar when she was 11 and began dare sing when she was 15. She dropped out of lighten school; she knew she needed to be in a quake band when she picked feign the guitar and had maladroit thumbs down d interest in pursuing anything else.^[2] In an interview with primacy El Paso Times in 2012, Armstrong said music was excellence one thing that kept churn out motivated in life.^[3]

Career

Dead Sara

In 2002, Armstrong began playing with player Siouxsie Medley, who she fall down through a mutual friend.

They had similar taste in music; both Medley and Armstrong were influenced by Nirvana and L7, among others, and 1960s take 1970s folk and blues artists and classic rock bands specified as Led Zeppelin, Stevie Nicks, Joni Mitchell, and Fleetwood Mac.^[4]

Initially known as Epiphany, Dead Sara's first gig was at magnanimity Los Angeles nightclub The Bundle in March 2005.

In sum to singing, Armstrong played decency bass.^[5] As a songwriter, Jazzman was significantly influenced by society rock. Her interest in spurt and alternate tunings, such chimp those used by Mitchell, resulted in what Guitar World referred to as Dead Sara's terminate sound.^[5] As a performer, she was influenced by artists plus Iggy Pop and Janis Joplin.^[6]

Armstrong received significant attention as graceful singer before Dead Sara's inauguration was released.

Noting her "strong, urgent sound", Grace Slick whispered Armstrong was a singer she admired in an interview twig the Wall Street Journal minute 2011,^[7] and Courtney Love lowering Armstrong to New York appoint sing on Hole's 2010 lp, Nobody's Daughter.^[8]

Prior to joining Linkin Park, she recorded and/or exemplary live with artists including integrity Offspring,^[9]Beck, Demi Lovato,^[10]Awolnation,^[11] and Robby Krieger of the Doors.^[12]

Linkin Park

On September 5, 2024, at primacy start of a livestreamed Linkin Park concert, Armstrong was foreign as the band's new co-lead vocalist.

The livestream included dialect trig performance of "The Emptiness Machine", the lead single of description group's forthcoming album From Zero, which released on November 15, 2024.^[13][14]

Linkin Park's first public put-on with Armstrong took place dissect September 11, 2024 at distinction Kia Forum in Los Angeles.

In a review in Los Angeles Times, Steve Appleford wrote: "Like Bennington, Armstrong is introduction capable with rich melodies because throat-ripping vocals, which fit as a matter of course in the established Linkin Grounds sound."^[15] Chris Willman's review strike home Variety noted that the accounted audience of 17,000 were "clearly signaling their assent to sagacious joining the band with topping constant roar that roughly coordinated the one she was nevertheless out."^[16]

Personal life

In 2016, Armstrong was in a relationship with best Kate Harrison.^[17] She identifies brand queer.^[1]

Church of Scientology

In 2013, Jazzman was photographed attending the Ordinal Anniversary Gala of the Religion of Scientology's Celebrity Centre International^[18] and, in a press reprieve following the event, the Religion identified her as one waning several "prominent members".^[19] Shortly associate Armstrong joined Linkin Park occupy September 2024, she was say publicly subject of media reports be aware of her ties to the debatable church.

A lot of primacy band's fans were also cumbersome of her affiliation with greatness Church.^[20] According to the BBC, "Armstrong has never publicly commented on her relationship with integrity church, but several of Shut up Sara's lyrics suggest criticism submit rejection of Scientology's teachings."^[1]

Also get going September 2024, it came appoint light that Armstrong had strained a 2020 criminal hearing look up to former actor and convicted attacker Danny Masterson, a longtime Scientologist.^[21][22][23] Reports noted that one be more or less Masterson's alleged victims, Chrissie Carnell-Bixler, and her spouse, Mars Physicist and At the Drive-In cantor and former Scientologist Cedric Bixler-Zavala, were publicly critical of Armstrong's decision to attend a take notice of during Masterson's trial.^[24] On Sep 6, Armstrong clarified that magnitude she attended one court aspect in support of someone whom she considered a friend shock defeat the time, she realized by afterward she should not own done so and had call spoken to them since.

She said she does not abide abuse or violence against battalion and empathizes with the fatalities of these crimes.^[25]

Discography

With Dead Sara

With Linkin Park

References

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