Horace Panter (born Stephen Graham Panter, 30 August 1953 in Croydon, England) also known as Sir Horace Gentleman, is the bassist for the Coventry 2 Tone, ska revival band The Specials.
After spending most of his formative years in Kettering, Northamptonshire, Panter started a one-year art course at Northampton School in 1971, where he met many influential musicians. In 1972 he started studying fine art at Coventry's Lanchester Polytechnic, now k...
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Horace Panter (born Stephen Graham Panter, 30 August 1953 in Croydon, England) also known as Sir Horace Gentleman, is the bassist for the Coventry 2 Tone, ska revival band The Specials.
After spending most of his formative years in Kettering, Northamptonshire, Panter started a one-year art course at Northampton School in 1971, where he met many influential musicians. In 1972 he started studying fine art at Coventry's Lanchester Polytechnic, now known as Coventry University. In his second year there, he met Jerry Dammers, and soon they formed The Specials. The band started playing in Coventry bars and pubs and by 1980 were arguably the UK's biggest band. Following the break-up of The Specials in 1981, Panter went on to play with General Public, and then with the reformed Specials in the 1990s. Since then, Panter has been playing in the blues bands Box of Blues and Blues To Go, and he leads the Coventry Ska-Jazz Orchestra. He is now teaching art to special needs children in Corley...
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