Shavo Odadjian

Born

1974-04-22

Birthplace

Yerevan, Armenia

Biography

Shavarsh "Shavo" Odadjian is an Armenian-American musician, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music video director, and painter. He is best known as the bassist, backing vocalist and occasional songwriter of the Grammy Award-winning metal band System of a Down. During the band's hiatus from 2006 to 2010, Odadjian collaborated with Wu-Tang Clan founder RZA on a project called AcHoZeN, which contributed a number of songs to the motion picture Babylon A.D. A compilation album was released in 2015. Odadjian is also credited with the musical scoring of the film, alongside The Rza and Hans Zimmer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shavo Odadjian, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.