Politically-minded throughout his years in grade school. Serj was very aware of his Armenian heritage at a young age, as well as academically motivated and To us, that’s a massacre - one and a half million people! When I pointed out that something like five people had died in the Boston Massacre, the whole class laughed." ―Serj Tankian This is an Armenian school, where we all know about history and the Genocide. " We were discussing the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre. In their new home, the Tankians enrolled Serj and his brother Sevag at the Rose & Alex Pilibos School, a small, two-story, K-12 private school that catered to Armenian-Americans in " Little Armenia" in East Hollywood. Knowing minimal English, they moved from the virtual war zone of Beirut to Hollywood in 1975. At the age of eight, shortly after the UN intervened in these increasingly abrasive times in Lebanon, Serj and the Tankian family (including Serj's grandparents who fled the Armenian Genocide of 1915) were offered sanctuary in the US. By 1975, the bloodshed intensified as the Lebanese Civil War broke out as a result of the PLO conflicts, as well as religious tensions between Christians and Muslims within Lebanon. Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) fought Israel on Lebanese soil, using Palestinian refugees in Lebanon to fight who had previously fled Israel during the Arab-Israeli War. Serj was born into the heat of the ceaseless Israeli-Lebanese Conflict in 1967 as the If you've ever heard bombs fall in a city, you will have a different sensitivity to dropping bombs on a city." ―Serj Tankian
In 2003, Serj and Turkish-Armenian musician Arto Tunçboyacıyan pursued an experimental System of a Down side-project album, Serart, that was released on Serj's own record label, Serjical Strike.Ĭhildhood ". The group works with grassroots political organizations to combine music with sentiments of anti-war beliefs, anti-racism, anti-censorship, and anti-corporatism. Serj and Tom Morello (guitarist most closely associated with Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave) are co-founders of the nonprofit organization Axis of Justice. Serj is also a poet, with his first ever full-length book of poetry entitled, Cool Gardens, released in 2002.
Serj is also a record producer, and a activist for such causes as anti-globalism anti-militarism, and the recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Serj Tankian ( Armenian: Սերժ Թանգեան) is the Armenian-American lead vocalist for System of a Down, as well as a keyboardist, guitarist, and songwriter for the band. Madison County Attractions include the Madison County Fair held in early July of each year, Madison Lake State Park, the nationally historic Red Brick Tavern, miles of Rails to Trails, the Jonathan Alder Cabin, and Big Darby Creek, a State and National Scenic River.Serjical Strike Records, Axis of Justice, Serart, Screamers, Elect the Dead, īachelor's Degree in Business and Marketing Madison County is also home to the Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy (OPOTA), the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification & Investigation (BCI), London Correctional Institution and Madison Correctional Institution. Annually in September the Ohio State University hosts the Farm Science Review, one of the largest farm exhibitions in the world, at the Molly Caren Agricultural Center near London, Ohio. Madison County ranks fourth in both soybean and corn production throughout the state of Ohio. Primarily an agricultural area, 88% of the land consists of farms. Named after James Madison, 4th President of the United States, Madison County is located in central Ohio between Columbus and Springfield. Your source for Official Madison County Government Information.