Serj Tankian

Serj Tankian fascinates me because he refuses to separate the artist from the citizen. As the voice of System of a Down he could swing from operatic croon to feral shriek within a single bar, a range almost no metal vocalist can touch. But what elevates him, in my view, is how he spends the credibility that voice earned him — speaking out on Armenian history and human rights even when it costs him commercially. Born in Lebanon and shaped by diaspora, he turned displacement into art. That is the kind of career I find genuinely admirable, far beyond any Grammy.

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Name (English)

Serj Tankian

Name (Japanese)

サージ・タンキアン

Reading

さーじ・たんきあん

Born

August 21, 1967 (age 59)

Origin

Beirut, Lebanon

Occupation

singer / songwriter / activist / guitarist / record producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Goat

Awards & achievements

• Grammy Awards

• Official sitehttps://serjtankian.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/serjtankian/
• Xhttps://x.com/serjtankian
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serj%20Tankian
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AD%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q486063

Tags

• singer
• songwriter
• activist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.