Jello Biafra

About Jello Biafra

Former lead singer of the punk rock band The Dead Kennedys, as well as a solo musician and spoken word poet. In 1979, he co-founded the Alternative Tentacle label.

Eric Reed Boucher, better known by his professional name Jello Biafra, is an American singer and spoken word artist. He is the former lead singer and songwriter for the San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys. Initially active from 1979 to 1986, Dead Kennedys were known for rapid-fire music topped with Biafra's sardonic lyrics and biting social commentary, delivered in his "unique quiver of a voice". When the band broke up in 1986, he took over the influential independent record label Alternative Tentacles, which he had founded in 1979 with Dead Kennedys bandmate East Bay Ray. In a 2000 lawsuit, upheld on appeal in 2003 by the California Supreme Court, Biafra was found liable for breach of contract, fraud and malice in withholding a decade's worth of royalties from his former bandmates and ordered to pay over $200,000 in compensation and punitive damages; the band subsequently reformed without Biafra.

Labels	Alternative Tentacles
Associated acts	Dead Kennedys, The Witch Trials, Melvins, No WTO Combo, Lard, Revolting Cocks, Mojo Nixon, 1000 Homo DJs, Tumor Circus, Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine
Born	June 17, 1958, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.
Birth name	Eric Reed Boucher
Genres	Punk rock, spoken word, hardcore punk
Years active	1976–present
Also known as	Occupant, Count Ringworm, Osama McDonald, J Lo
Occupation(s)	Singer, speaker, politician

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Trivia

He ran for president during the 2000 presidential election as a member of the Green Party.

Jello Biafra before fame

At the University of Santa Cruz, he studied acting and history. The Healers was his first punk band, which he joined in the late 1970s.

Achievement of Jello Biafra

He stood for president as a member of the Green Party in the 2000 presidential election.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$500 Thousand

Jello Biafra family life

Therese Soder was his first wife, but they divorced in 1986.

Associations of Jello Biafra

Biafra and Bryan Dexter Holland of The Offspring collaborated on the album Ixnay on the Hombre.

Jello Biafra Height, Weight & Physique Measurements

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Height	175 cm
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