Musician
Vocalist for Grammy Award winning American rock band System of a Down whose members are of Armenian heritage and their songs often have political lyrics like the P.L.U.C.K. about the 1915 Armenian Genocide and the Prison Song which criticizes the prison systems; former song is featured in Ararat by Canadian-Armenian Atom Egoyan, who admired the genius Soviet-Armenian Sergei Parajanov whose political imprisonment is condemned in Mikhail Vartanov s Parajanov: The Last Spring
Was a CEO for a computer software company before joining System of a Down
He is a vegetarian.
Serj has also sung in other bands for certain songs such as Mushroom Cult by Dog Fashion Disco, and lent his vocals to the song Mein by Deftones. He produced "Enter The Chicken" by Buckethead, and provided vocals to the Buckethead songs We are One, Coma and Waiting Here.
Serj owns his own record label which is called Serjical Strike Records.
He wrote the lyrics and music for the System of a Down song Shimmy.
(November 2010) System of a Down went on hiatus in 2006, but are back together and will tour next year.
Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in,love and peace.
We first fought. . . in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in,the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination,always change.
As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always,want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.
I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what,they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.
The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since,1985.
I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be,it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that,make the system turn in on itself.
We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism,and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global,domination always change.
Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.
I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would,as a politician.
Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique,expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records,co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way,to another.
When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you,know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was,listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.
I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.
We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
We first fought. . . in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.
My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization.
Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.
When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk. .
