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Serj won two grammys for his tracks "Lonely Day" and "BYOB", ECHO rock group of the year for Mesmerize, and an MTV Europe music award for the same album. While they got all these awards his band was nominated repeatedly during the 2000s for best albums, artists, etc.

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Ever since I was a kid I've always thought that people don't really have the ability to become something in society. Kids dreaming to be guitar players with big points grow into small office workers and menial jobs. Serj is the exact antithesis of this. His political commentary from high school and college continued to a sustainable career that expresses himself for millions of people. Even regular opinionated music artists are shoved to the underground scene because of the predictability and financial domination of mainstream celebrities.

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One of the more important views of Serj is to make light of the Armenian Genocide done in WWI by the Ottoman Empire now replaced by Turkey. The Turkish government bans and tightly sensors any acknowledgement of the deaths of 500,000 Armenians. Songs like P.L.U.C.K, The Holy Mountains, or X directly comment on this topic as the U.S doesn't do anything thanks to threats of the cut off of trade with Turkey.

"Soon after its founding, the Turkish Nationalist government adopted a policy of denying the Armenian Genocide and in increasingly more strident steps sought to suppress discussion of the Armenian Genocide in international and public forums. In the 1930s it prevented the making of the film version of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, and successfully stamped out all mention of the Armenian atrocities in any government setting until the 1960s. Since the 1970s Turkey has waged a vociferous campaign to prevent official recognition of the Armenian Genocide or the adoption of commemorative legislation in countries such as the United States and Canada by threatening to cancel business contracts and reduce levels of military cooperation. In view of Turkey's NATO membership in the context of the Cold War, the threats were taken seriously."

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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1413742/bio
http://www.armenian-genocide.org/turkey.html
http://soad.wikia.com/wiki/Serj_Tankian
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/celebrity/system_of_a_down/awards.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_of_a_Down_discography

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SOAD was made during a time of conservative uprising led by televangelism and corporate news that lightheartedly supports it. Heavy metal as a genre was viewed as satanic and uncouth to listen to. Songs like "The Prison Song" or "She's like heroin." force discussions of the drug war and the inefficient prison system dividing and militarizing civilian life. Even before SOAD Serj struggled with finding band members at first with his first band Forever Young neighboring another Armenian band Soil. After discovering his talent Soil hired Serj as a member only to collapse soon after due to creative differences.

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1988 - Anti Heavy Metal News - Kansas City

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A Kansas City church protests the coming of Iron Maiden's Somewhere in Time Tour during the Satanic Panic of 1988.

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People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.

The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

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Serj was born on August 21st 1967 in Lebanon.
He was raised in California.
System of a Down was formed in 1995 by him and his friends dedicated to speak out their minds while experimenting with their sound and style to make their points more noticeable.

Their main albums are their self titled debut, Toxicity, Mesmerize , Steal this Album, and Hypnotize