Jello Biafra

Jello Biafra is the rare punk who never stopped meaning it. As the frontman of Dead Kennedys he weaponized lyrics against power and hypocrisy, and his resume reads less like a musician's than an activist's: singer, actor, human rights defender, politician, journalist. Plenty of punks burn out into nostalgia, but the Boulder native kept agitating for real, and he is still broadcasting his views on Instagram and X today. I deeply respect that kind of consistency. Biafra treats provocation as a civic duty, and in an age of easy outrage his decades of principled noise feel almost old-fashioned in the best way.

Name (English)

Jello Biafra

Name (Japanese)

ジェロ・ビアフラ

Reading

じぇろ・びあふら

Born

June 17, 1958 (age 68)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Dog

Origin

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Occupation

singer / actor / human rights defender / politician / journalist

High school

Boulder High School

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jello_biafra_gsm/
• Xhttps://x.com/jello_biafra
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jello%20Biafra
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%82%A2%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q334288

Tags

• Colorado
• singer
• actor
• human rights defender

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.