System of a Downs activist frontman Serj Tankian has used music to change the world. But first, music had to change him. I was an activist before being an artist, he tells us in our new Spring 2021 cover story. Ive never had to compromise my truth for trying to be a grander artist or anything of that sort, because that would mean nothing to me as a human being or as an artist if I cant always be speaking the truth.

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