Mark Wakefield

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Mark Wakefield is the manager for the band Taproot, and is the former singer of Linkin Park, before Chester Bennington joined, when they were still called Xero. He met Mike Shinoda in high school and joined the band, who were at that point called SuperXero. They revised the name to Xero and recorded the self-titled Xero sampler tape featuring the songs, "Fuse", "Reading My Eyes", "Stick N' Move" and "Rhinestone". Before quitting the band Mark and the rest of Xero are known to have played at least on concert as an opening act for Cypress Hill. Then Mark realized that the other members wanted to actually go big. He didn't want the commitment, and so dropped out. Wakefield has since recorded a song named "Ground Xero".

He is also responsible for the cover art for System of a Down's album Toxicity.

Linkin Park
Chester Bennington - Rob Bourdon - Brad Delson - Dave Farrell - Joe Hahn - Mike Shinoda
Mark Wakefield - Kyle Christener (stand-in) - Scott Koziol (stand-in)
Discography
Studio Releases: Hybrid Theory EP (1999) - Hybrid Theory (2000) - Meteora (2003) - Minutes to Midnight (2007)
Modified Releases: In The End: Live & Rare (2002) - Reanimation (2002) - Live in Texas (2003) - Collision Course (2004)
Singles: 2001: "One Step Closer" | "Crawling" | "Papercut" | "In the End" 2002: "It's Goin' Down" | "Pts.of.Athrty" | "Frgt/10" 2003: "Somewhere I Belong" | "Faint" | "Numb" 2004: "From the Inside" | "Lying from You" | "Breaking the Habit" | "Numb / Encore" 2005: "Dirt off Your Shoulder / Lying from You" 2007: "What I've Done"
Videography
DVDs: Frat Party at the Pankake Festival - Live in Texas - Breaking the Habit
Related articles
Artists: Relative Degree - Xero - Tasty Snax - Grey Daze - Fort Minor - Snow White Tan
Other: Linkin Park Underground - Machine Shop Recordings (Mixtape) - Projekt Revolution - Music for Relief - Morning After