Who is serj tankian

The album is the third solo release from the System Of A Down frontman. Dan Monti is also co-mixing and co-engineering the album with Serj. Let's Figure It Out! CEOs are the disease. The Ching Chime , diminutive drama of a gangsta Butterfly revealed that humanity's tears actually outweigh yearly rainfall on the planet. We have witnessed Harakiri on a grand scale tearing out the Occupied Tears of victims preyed on by victims turned aggressors creating a Deafening Silence through which we hear a voice plead, " Forget Me Knot , my child.

Reality TV has become the searing indictment of a society best described as the Uneducated Democracy. The daughters of the evolution Weave On with blood dripping down their guilty hands onto the flag as the word republic is replaced by empire. He toured with System of a Down across three continents, performed with the Opera Orchestra in Yerevan, Armenia, where he also had political meetings with heads of state and hosted non-profit events. He then performed his first ever concert in Lebanon, the place of his birth, with the Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra.

Irrespective of the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, Darfur and Cambodia, all this stuff is still occurring. So that's important to me, because it's modern, it's not World War I, it's now. On August 12, Tankian was awarded the Armenian Prime Minister's Medal for his contribution to the recognition of the Armenian Genocide and the advancement of music.

All across Anatolia, Armenian men were disarmed and shot, while the women and children, who were not kidnapped and raped or killed, were put on death marches.

Stepan Haytayan ended up in an American orphanage in Greece and eventually made his way to Lebanon. Serj is also a poet, with his first ever full-length book of poetry entitled, Cool Gardens , released in Serj and Tom Morello guitarist most closely associated with Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave are co-founders of the nonprofit organization Axis of Justice.

The group works with grassroots political organizations to combine music with sentiments of anti-war beliefs, anti-racism, anti-censorship, and anti-corporatism. By , the bloodshed intensified as the Lebanese Civil War broke out as a result of the PLO conflicts, as well as religious tensions between Christians and Muslims within Lebanon.

At the age of eight, shortly after the UN intervened in these increasingly abrasive times in Lebanon, Serj and the Tankian family including Serj's grandparents who fled the Armenian Genocide of were offered sanctuary in the US.

Knowing minimal English, they moved from the virtual war zone of Beirut to Hollywood in Serj was very aware of his Armenian heritage at a young age, as well as academically motivated and. As a teen, he indulged himself in poetry especially the works of TS Eliot , Armenian and. African music, as well as popular bands of the s. In addition to being a well rounded scholar and quite the young humanist, Serj was a teenage advocate for his ethnicity as a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, through which Serj claims his "eyes were opened to activism and the importance of fighting injustice".

Serj attended California State University Northridge CSUN after graduating from high school, earning his bachelor's degree in Business and Marketing, which he considered at the time to be the most financially logical route to take. After graduating, he bounced from job to job through manufacturing, retail, and accounting among several companies, before setting up a small business of his own called Propriety Vertical Industry Modular Accounting Software.

There, he was self-employed, independent, and free to spend his spare time as he pleased as he worked on his own time. While still operating the business, Serj joined his first band with a few of his Amerenian-American friends.