Jeffrey Lee Pierce (June 27, 1958 - March 31, 1996) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He was one of the founding members of the 1980s punk band The Gun Club. He also released several solo albums and was a founding member of The Red Lights before forming The Gun Club. As a teenager, Pierce moved from El Monte, a working-class industrial suburb East of Los Angeles, to Granada Hills, at the time a white working- and middle-class suburb in the San Fernando Valley. Pierce attended Granada Hills High School, where he participated in the drama program, acting in plays and writing several of his own brief experimental pieces. He was a brilliant and creative but highly unconventional student, managing to graduate despite turning in one term paper to an English class that consisted of the title "Ernest Hemingway" along with ten blank pages.