Personal biography

Joseph "Joe" Hahn was born the youngest of three children (he has two elder sisters) on March 15, 1977 in Dallas, Texas, but he grew up in Glendale, California. Hahn is a second generation Korean American.

Hahn graduated from Herbert Hoover High School in Glendale in 1995. He then studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena but did not graduate. Hahn, along with bandmate Mike Shinoda, is responsible for most of Linkin Park's album artwork.

On February 15, 2005, Hahn married Karen Benedit; the couple divorced in 2009.

On October 21, 2012, Hahn married Heidi Woan, whom he had met about two years prior in 2010.

Career biography

Hahn began deejaying in high school, and he studied illustration at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. In college, he met Mike Shinoda and joined his band Xero, which later became known as Hybrid Theory in 1999 with the EP release of the same name as the band, then was changed again into Linkin Park during the recording sessions of Hybrid Theory. Hahn and Shinoda guested in The X-Ecutioners' hit single "It's Goin' Down". Hahn also guest starred in Shinoda's Fort Minor's debut album The Rising Tied on the song "Slip Out the Back".

Hahn was called Chairman Hahn on the back cover of Linkin Park's first remix album Reanimation that's next to the songs "With You" and "Cure for the Itch", both titled as "Wth>You" and "Kyur4 TH Ich". Hahn has directed several of Linkin Park's music videos, such as those for "Numb", "From the Inside", "What I've Done", "Somewhere I Belong", "Pts.OF.Athrty", "New Divide", "Bleed It Out" and "Iridescent". He has also directed videos for Alkaline Trio, Static-X, Story of the Year, and Xzibit. In a 2003 interview, he told MTV that film-making was his true passion, and that "doing the music more of an extra thing". He is known to add various dramatic effects to the music videos he directs, such as, casting a snake in the video for "Iridescent".

Outside of his work in music, Hahn provided special effects work on The X-Files and the miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune. He also directed a short film called The Seed, and acquired the rights to produce a film adaptation of China Miéville's novel King Rat.

Hahn directed the trailer for the video game Medal of Honor, featuring Linkin Park's single "The Catalyst". Hahn also directed the music video for "The Catalyst", which premiered on August 26, 2010, as well as the music video for Linkin Park's "Waiting for the End" and "Burning in the Skies". On April 13, 2011, Mike Shinoda confirmed on his blog that the music video for "Iridescent" would be directed by Hahn.

Hahn became the first Korean American to receive a Grammy when the band won the 2002 award for Best Hard Rock Performance. In November 2011, Hahn designed a helmet of Formula 1 driver Kamui Kobayashi. As of April 2012, Hahn directed a film adaptation of Eric Bogosian's Mall, based on the novel, which stars and is executive produced by Vincent D'Onofrio. The musical score for the album was handled by Linkin Park and Alec Puro of Deadsy for the film.

Discography

With Linkin Park

Main article: Linkin Park discography

Other appearances

Year	Track	Artist	Album	Notes
2002	"It's Goin' Down"	The X-Ecutioners	Built from Scratch
2005	"Slip Out the Back"	Fort Minor	The Rising Tied
2006	"Where'd You Joe?" (Remix of "Where'd You Go")		Fort Minor Militia EP	Fort Minor Militia exclusive track
	"Move On"
2007	"Bass on the Bottom" (Mr. Hahn and Troublemaker Remix)	Lady Tigra	Bass on the Bottom (Mr. Hahn + Troublemaker Remix)
2008	"The Young & the Hopeless" (Remixed by Mr. Hahn)	Good Charlotte	Greatest Remixes
2009	"Vegas Baby"	Uncle Kracker	Happy Hour (5-track Demo)	Outtake from the album, Happy Hour
2010	"Black Rock Shooter" (Remix by Joe Hahn)	Hatsune Miku	Black Rock Shooter	The Blu-ray release of Black Rock Shooter features a 30-second test short stop motion video as a bonus featuring a remix of "Black Rock Shooter" by Joe Hahn.

Filmography

Music videos

Year	Title	Band	Notes
2001	Papercut	Linkin Park	Co-directed with Nathan "Karma" Cox
	In the End
	Points of Authority
2002	Cold	Static-X
	Symphony in X Major	Xzibit
	It's Goin' Down	The X-Ecutioners	Director and guest musician
	Kyur4 TH Ich	Linkin Park	MTV:Playback and cameo appearance
2003	Somewhere I Belong
	Numb
2004	Anthem of Our Dying Day	Story of the Year
	From the Inside	Linkin Park
	Breaking the Habit		Co-directed with Kazuto Nakazawa
2005	Time to Waste	Alkaline Trio
2007	What I've Done	Linkin Park
	Bleed It Out
2008	Shadow of the Day
	Given Up		Co-directed with Mark Fiore; credited as Linkin Park
	Leave Out All the Rest
2009	New Divide
2010	The Catalyst
	Waiting for the End
2011	Burning in the Skies
	Iridescent
2012	Burn It Down
2013	A Light That Never Comes	Linkin Park x Steve Aoki
2014	Until It's Gone	Linkin Park

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	The Seed	Director	Co-directed with Ken Mercado
2014	Mall	Director	Executive produced by Vincent D'Onofrio

[ Source: Wikipedia ]