Celebrated Name: | Serj Tankian |
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Real Name/Full Name: | Serj Tankian |
Gender: | Male |
Age: | 57 years old |
Birth Date: | 21 August 1967 |
Birth Place: | Beirut, Lebanon |
Nationality: | American, New Zealand, Lebanese |
Height: | 1.79 m |
Weight: | 72 kg |
Sexual Orientation: | Straight |
Marital Status: | Married |
Wife/Spouse (Name): | Angela Madatyan (m. 2012) |
Children: | Yes (Rumi Tankian Madatyan) |
Dating/Girlfriend (Name): |
N/A |
Profession: | Armenian-American musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, poet, and political activist |
Net Worth in 2024: | $25 million |
Last Updated: | October 2024 |
Serj Tankian is the vocalist and songwriter of the 90’s famous metal band “System of a down.” With one of a powerful and unique voice, he is ranked at #26 in Top 100 heavy metal vocalists as listed by Hit Parader.
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Early Life
Serj Tankian was born on the 21st of August, 1967 to Armenian parents in Beirut Lebanon. At the age of seven, he moved along with his parents to Los Angeles, California.
Tankian did his schooling in the Rose and Alex Pilibos Armenian School. After that, he was accepted to California State University, Northridge. It was during his college days that he began to learn musical instruments and write songs.
Tankian, on the 9th of June 2012 at a private ceremony, married his long-time Armenian girlfriend, Angela Madatayan. On the 24th of October 2014, he became a proud father with the arrival of their son Rumi.
He now resides in Warkworth, Auckland, New Zealand with his family. He is a strict Pescetarian.
Tankian has been an active participant and had helped organize many protests related to Armenian Genocide Recognition, Axis of Justice, PETA, etc. His songs, too address those burning topics and create awareness among people. They are, therefore, trying hard for the causes to be heard.
Age, Height, and Weight
Being born on 21 August 1967, Serj Tankian is 57 years old as of today’s date 31st October 2024. His height is 1.79 m tall, and his weight is 72 kg.
Career
Tankian’s first entry into the music was through the forming of the band “Soil” along with his classmates from school. Later on, Soil was changed to System of a Down, after a poem one of the bandmates, Malakian wrote called Victims of a Down.
Tankian’s first solo debut was with his record album “Elect the Dead” in the year 2007. The album has been released in three different versions under the label of Reprise Records. The albums that followed are “Imperfect Harmonies,” “Harakiri,” “Orca Symphony No. 1,” and “Jazz is Christ.”
His latest project Fuktronic is yet to be released. It is an electronic music collaboration with Jimmy Urine. And has collaborated with a handful of artists for various projects.
Other than his contributions to music, he acted in a few movies. These movies include “My Little Prince,” “The Last Inhabitant,” “1915” and “Furious,” a Russian historical fantasy film.
Awards & achievements
System of Dawn has been nominated for four Grammy awards, in 2002, “Chopsuey,” in 2003 “Aerials,” in 2006, “B.Y.O.B” and in 2007 “Lonely Day.” Of which they won the Grammy Award for the Best Hard rock Performance for “B.Y.O.B” in the year 2006.
Other awards include Europe Music Awards for Best Alternative Act by System of a Down in 2005. In 2006, System of down won Goodie Woodie Award, and the song “Toxicity” was #14 on the VH1 Top 40 Metal Songs.
Net Worth & Salary of Serj Tankian in 2024
As of October 2024, The estimated net worth as has been reported for Serj Tankian is about $25 million. His cumulative riches are the products of his music production and singing since 1992. The genres that he has contributed are not limited only to alternative metal but expands to nu-metal, progressive rock, art rock, jazz fusion, and classical.
The record labels with whom he was associated with in the long run are Serjical Strike, Reprise, American, Columbia, Axis of Justice, and the latest record label is Woah Dad!
The riches of Serj Tankian were not obtained in a day but are the results of his utmost dedication and hard work in the music industry. He is one of the names if it were not for him. An era of Alternative Metal Rock would have disappeared into thin air.
And the social work that he has been dedicating himself to is noteworthy and displays the kind of person he is. We, at the end of it, wish him the best and hope he goes on contributing to society through his music.