In 2017, Serj composed music for Emmy-nominated "Intent To Destroy", a gripping film directed by award winning documentarian Joe Berlinger.
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Most recently, Tankian composed the full musical score for award-winning documentary "I Am Not Alone" directed by Garin Hovannisian and the upcoming Live Nation Productions film "Truth To Power", which chronicles Serj's own journey through the crossroads of music and activism. Serj was also brought on by Survival Pictures, the producers of the film, to serve as an executive music consultant. He also recorded a modern version of the Armenian folk song "Sari Siroun Yar" along with the Authentic Light Orchestra for the film "The Promise", directed by Terry George and starring Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac. Serj recently lent his vocals to a modern-day cover of BLUE ÖYSTER CULT's rock classic "Godzilla" for the blockbuster Michael Dougherty film "Godzilla: King Of The Monsters". Over the past few years, his time spent in the recording studio has been focused on creating musical scores and compositions for film and video game projects. 1", released in June of that year, followed up with the very unique "Jazz-Iz Christ" one month later. 2013 saw two distinct releases from Serj, the first being the critically acclaimed "Orca Symphony No. His sophomore solo album, "Imperfect Harmonies", was released in 2010, followed by "Harakiri" in 2012. He has released five albums of solo material, beginning with 2007's chart-topping hard rock album "Elect The Dead". Despite this success, Serj has never grown complacent with his art, always striving to open up new channels of sound and arrangement to articulate his artistic expressions. As the lead singer and songwriter for SYSTEM OF A DOWN, Serj has released five studio albums, winning a Grammy Award in 2006 for "B.Y.O.B." and selling over 40 million albums worldwide. The principles learned from this integration and adaptation have led to his understanding of the oneness of all things and have since maneuvered and transfigured into the music and art that he lives to create. An Armenian born in Lebanon and re-rooted in Los Angeles, Tankian was introduced to the melding of cultures, ideas, and ideals from a very young age. And if they're not, that's their problem."Ī singer, poet, songwriter, visual artist, film producer, activist, and composer, Tankian has always created music as an outlet to express his thoughts and feelings with a level of passion and consciousness that few in today's world of music can rival. We're dynamic, sentient beings on this planet.
"To tell an artist that he should only play music and not talk about politics is like telling a journalist that they should only do interviews and not fix the - I don't know - toilet, or whatever," he explained. So when I write something that I intentionally feel and feel stongly about, no one can tell me what to say and what not to say, because that's in the song, and those thoughts come from that song that I'm telling you. And when I write something, the song could be a love song, it could be a political song - there's many different types of music I deal with. I work with a lot of different types of music, as well as rock. And I do different types of music - I do classical music, which has no vocals, I do jazz music, I do scores for films. The SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman, who is currently promoting a new documentary about his life and activist work, discussed his decision to publicly express his political views in a new interview with Brazil's G1.Īsked how he responds to criticism from SYSTEM OF A DOWN fans who want him to just sing their favorite songs and not get involved in politics, Serj said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I was an activist before becoming an artist. Serj Tankian has defended his right to speak out on political issues.
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