Gregory Walter Graffin, born November 6, 1964, in Madison, Wisconsin, is an American singer, songwriter, and evolutionary biologist best known as the lead vocalist and sole constant member of the punk rock band Bad Religion. He co-founded the group in 1980 while attending high school in Southern California. Bad Religion's early releases How Could Hell Be Any Worse? (1982) and Into the Unknown (1983) established their presence in the Los Angeles scene, while their 1988 comeback album Suffer served as a landmark release for melodic hardcore punk. Graffin launched a solo career with American Lesion (1997), later releasing Cold as the Clay (2006) and Millport (2017), the latter two produced alongside Brett Gurewitz. With Bad Religion, Graffin has recorded studio albums including The Process of Belief (2002), New Maps of Hell (2007), and Age of Unreason (2019).
