He is a supporter of a free society and utilizes shock value and advocates direct action and pranksterism in the name of political causes. In 1979 he ran for mayor of San Francisco, California. He ran for the party's presidential nomination in the 2000 presidential election, finishing a distant second to Ralph Nader. Politically, Biafra is a member of the Green Party of the United States and supports various political causes. He has also occasionally appeared in cameo roles in films. Although now focused primarily on spoken word performances, Biafra has continued as a musician in numerous collaborations. 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. 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. 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". ![]() ![]() ![]() He is the former lead singer and songwriter for the San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys. Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958), known professionally as Jello Biafra, is an American singer, spoken word artist and political activist.
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