Serj Tankian
Serj Tankian
Serj Tankianis a Lebanese-born Armenian-American singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, poet, and political activist. He is best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, keyboardist, and occasional live rhythm guitarist of the rock band System of a Down, formed in 1994 by four Armenian-American friends...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMetal Singer
Date of Birth21 August 1967
CityBeirut, Lebanon
CountryUnited States of America
This will be our first live video per se, ... We've had videos where we've had fans and we played live, but it's never been at a venue that we would actually play.
The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985
I like having songs that go from the personal to the kind of inter-relational, universal, because everything comes back to micro/macro and everything's tied in.
Praise the Lord! Pass the ammunition! God wants you to go to war! (From live performance of 'War?')
The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.
It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.
Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.
This track's pretty mellow in comparison to let's say a 'B.Y.O.B.' or something like that, ... But I'm glad we're going out with this track. It's a beautiful song.
those that have prescribed the solution through the good feeling of the music itself, like the Beatles and Bob Marley and Bob Dylan.
We want to encourage him to do the right thing and bring it to the floor for a vote, ... (Hastert) has had the opportunity to do it twice before and has not for different reasons. It's been five years and everyone is tired of waiting.
Cause we are the ones that want to play,always want to go,but you never want to stay.And we are the ones that want to choose,always want to play, but you never want to lose.
That's been a strength in some ways, but it's also an understanding of the dynamics of music and the different beats and melodies that wouldn't be common to a non-Armenian.
The packaging is designed so that when people buy the second record, they can attach it to the first, making it a double record...
It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.