Jello Biafra
Actor
- Born
- June 17, 1958 (age 68) · Boulder, Colorado, USA
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Jello Biafra (born Eric Reed Boucher; June 17, 1958) is an American musician, spoken word artist and leading figure of the Green Party of the United States. Biafra first gained attention as the lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys. After his time with the band concluded, he took over the influential independent record label Alternative Tentacles, which he had co-founded in 1979 with Dead Kennedys bandmate East Bay Ray. Although now focused primarily on spoken word art, he has continued as a musician in numerous collaborations.
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Politically, Biafra is a member of the Green Party of the United States and actively supports various political causes. He ran for the party's Presidential nomination in 2000, finishing second to Ralph Nader. He is an anarchist who advocates direct action and pranksterism in the name of political causes. Biafra is known to use absurdist media tactics, in the leftist tradition of the Yippies, to highlight issues of civil rights and social justice.
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Known for
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
June 7, 2019
Tapeheads
October 21, 1988
Punk: Attitude
July 4, 2005
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
November 5, 2010
Bathtubs Over Broadway
November 30, 2018
Punk's Not Dead
July 27, 2007
American Drug War: The Last White Hope
January 1, 2007
Highway 61
September 5, 1991
Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore
March 22, 1998
Urgh! A Music War
November 7, 1981
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
February 25, 2005
Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records
August 16, 2018
Acting87
- 2026Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt as Self
- 2026Hell Nation - The Story of Dead Kennedys
- 2024Something Better Change as Self
- 2024Solvent as Nazi (voice)
- 2024Born to Be Wild: The Story of Steppenwolf as Self
- 2024Hacking at Leaves as Self
- 2023Cover Your Ears as Self
- 2022Sound of the Surf as Self
- 2022The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon as Self
- 2022All You Can Eat