The Armenian-American hard rock band System of a Down (SOAD) marked the centennial of the Armenian genocide late on Thursday with a first-ever concert in Yerevan that attracted tens of thousands of people.
The free concert in the city's central Republic Square closed SOAD's latest "Wake Up the Souls" tour dedicated to the memory of some 1.5 million Armenians massacred by the Ottoman Turks during the First World War.
Despite nonstop rain, the world-famous California band led by Serj Tankian kept the mostly young crowd electrified for almost two and a half hours with its hits popular in Armenia. Tankian and the three other SOAD musicians are Americans of Armenian descent who have used their worldwide fame to raise international awareness of the 1915 genocide.
Armenian News
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