Jello Biafra

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Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958), known professionally as Jello Biafra, is an American singer, poet and political activist. He is the former lead singer and songwriter for the San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys. Initially active from 1978 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 2000, a San Francisco jury found that Biafra and Alternative Tentacles had underpaid royalties to his former bandmates and awarded nearly $200,000 in actual damages plus $20,000 in punitive damages; the award was upheld by the California Court of Appeal in 2003. Although now focused primarily on spoken word performances, Biafra has continued as a musician in numerous collaborations. From 1979 to...

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