Horace Panter is 69 years old as of 2022.
Panter celebrates his birthday every August 30. He was born on August 30, 1953 in Croydon, Surrey, England.
The bassist for the British 2 Tone ska band The Specials, Panter spent most of his childhood in Kettering, Northamptonshire beginning a one-year art course at Northampton College in 1971.
Horace Panter graduated with a degree in Fine Art from Coventry’s Lanchester Polytechnic in 1975. During his second year at Lanchester Polytechnic, he met Jerry Dammers and together they formed The Specials. They subsequently emerged as one of the greatest British bands of the 1980s.
Following the dispersal of The Specials in 1981, Panter proceeded to play with General Public with Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger from the original Beat and then with the reformed Specials in the 1990s. He then joined forces with Neol Davies of The Selecter to form a Blues band, Box of Blues.
From 1998 to 2008, Panter taught art to special needs children at Corley Special School in North Warwickshire.
Panter is a full-time member of the reformed Specials and is also in a blues combo, called ‘Blues 2 Go’.
As an artist, Horace Panter has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom. His work is based on traditional forms of iconography fused with the sensibilities of British pop art.