2. • Serj Tankian is an American:
– singer-songwriter
– composer
– multi-instrumentalist
– record producer
– poet
– political activist.
3. • He is best known as the lead vocalist,
songwriter, keyboardist and occasional live
rhythm guitarist of the metal band System
of a Down, formed in 1994 by
four Armenian-Americanfriends.
4. • Tankian was born
to Armenian parents in Beirut,
Lebanon on August 21, 1967.
• At age five, Serj Tankian
moved with his parents to Los
Angeles, California.
• The early beginnings of System
of a Down lie in a band named
Soil with Tankian on vocals &
keyboards
5. • During his musical career, Tankian has
released five albums with System of a Down
• as well as five solo albums Elect the
Dead, Imperfect Harmonies, Harakiri, Orca,
and Jazz-Iz-Christ.
6. • In the 2008 Democratic Party
primaries Tankian originally supported
Rep. Dennis Kucinich from Ohio, and
subsequently stated that Barack
Obama "presents the best possible scenario
for a hopeful future, but I don't personally
put my trust in any political office
7. • Tankian has stated that he has "the same religion as
that tree over there. It's a mix of Native
American, Buddhist andtranscendental ideas.
• “I like to think of earth as mother. I like to think of
sky as grandfather. God has been used for ulterior
motives.”
• "I believe very firmly that indigenous populations
had a really good, intuitive understanding of why
we're here. And we're trying to gain that same
understanding through psychology and intellect in
modern civilization.”
