Date of Birth

21 August 1967, Beirut, Lebanon

Height

6' 1" (1.85 m)

Trade Mark

Vandyke looking beard

Trivia

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 (2002) 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 (1992)

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'.