Career
Ara is of Armenian descent, and is named after Ara, an Armenian king. Together with Dunia Best, Jay Nugent and Alec Baillie he started the third wave ska band Agent 99 in the early nineties. In 1998 they released the compilation album Little Pieces 1993-1995.
In April 2000, Babajian joined Baillie to play drums in Leftöver Crack under the pseudonym "Ara Crack" until 2002.
In early 2003 Ara joined The Slackers. He is an endorser of Pro-Mark Drumsticks.
He was also the original drummer of the Star Fucking Hipsters. During the 80"s, Ara also played drums in the funky-style band Das Booty with Brian Pitts on bass, Matthew Moreno on Horns (for a short time), Michael Cardenas on guitar and others
Demos of this band were to later circulate on YouTube mistakenly as lost Red Hot Chili Peppers recordings.
lieutenant was eventually cleared up and cr has been given to Das Booty.
