Poly Styrene
Poly Styrene was born in London Borough of Bromley, England, United Kingdom on July 3rd, 1957 and is the Punk Singer. At the age of 53, Poly Styrene biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Marianne Joan Elliott-Said (3 July 1957 – May 25, 2011), better known by the stage name Poly Styrene, was a British singer, guitarist, and frontwoman for the punk rock band X-Ray Spex.
Early life
Poly Styrene was born in Bromley, Kent, and grew up in Brixton, London. Her mother, who raised her alone, was a Scottish-Irish legal secretary. Her father was a Somali-born dock worker, but Poly Styrene used to tell the world that he was a dispossessed Somali aristocrat.
Styrene was a hippie as a youth. She ran away from home with £3 in her pocket and hopped from one music festival to another, avoiding hippie crash pads. Thinking of it as a challenge, her adventure came to an end when she stepped on a rusty nail while bathing in a canal and had to be treated for sepsis.
On her nineteenth birthday, she discovered the Sex Pistols perform at the Pier Pavilion Hastings, as a 'itinerant traveller, alternative fashion designer, and a failed pop-reggae singer,' and formed the punk band X-Ray Spex.
Personal life
While living as a devotee at Bhaktivedanta Manor, Styrene was welcomed into the Hare Krishna movement and recorded in their recording studios. She lived in Hertfordshire and London from 1983 to 1988 as a Hare Krishna convert. Styrene was a vegetarian.
Styrene's solo work was suspended in 1995 after she was struck by a fire engine, causing a fractured pelvis.
Styrene appeared at the inaugural Instigate Debate Night in March 2009. The night's theme was modern day consumerism. Other current topics were also discussed.
Celeste Bell-Dos Santos Santos, her daughter, was born in St Leonards, East Sussex, and she lived alone.
Music career
In 1975, Styrene released her first demo album, when she was 18 years old. Ted Bunting was sent by her boss to produce the song.
Styrene's first single under her real name, Mari Elliott, was released in 1976. It was titled "Silly Billy" in the reggae style at the time, with some traces of the old ska style. Celeste's daughter says it's'similar to Althea and Donna, which she adored.' Falcon Stuart, the record's producer, co-wrote the B-side "What A Way" with her co-writer. The single was found in a GTO Records sleeve.
After attending a Sex Pistols' gig in an empty hall on Hastings Pier performing a series of cover songs, she was inspired to place an advert in the music papers for 'young punx who want to stick it together' to form a band. She then became the singer with X-Ray Spex, Poly Styrene, a name she picked from the 'Yellow Pages' when she was 'looking for a time capsule, something plastic.' Billboard characterized her as the "archetype of the modern-day feminist punk" because she wore dental braces, protested against the 1970s' archetypal female sex object, sported a gaudy Dayglo outfit, and was of mixed race. "She was one of the least conventional frontpersons in rock history, male or female." In 1977, the band appeared on their debut single.
After a gig in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, Styrene had a glimpse of a pink light in the sky and heard objects crackling as she approached them. Marianne was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia, sectioned, and told she she would never return to work again, despite the fact that she was hallucinating. In 1991, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Poly Styrene released Translucence, a solo album that appeared in 1980 after the initial line-up of X-Ray Spex broke up in 1979. The album canceled X-Ray Spex's tumultuous guitar work for a more subtle and more jazzy sound that has since been described as foreshadowing Everything but the Girl's later work. On the Epic record label, she first appeared on EP God's & Godesses [sic] in 1986. Flower Aeroplane, a New Age solo album, was released in 2004.
"An observer, not a suffering artist writing from tortured experiences," she wrote. I was playing with words and concepts. Having a joking about it all, you're sending it up."
In 2007, Styrene was invited by her colleague Goldblade's John Robb to the Concrete Jungle festival in Camber Sands, where she and the gathering's organiser, Symond Lawes, decided to begin a 30-year anniversary of X-Ray Spex's debut album, Germfree Adolescents. The Camden Roundhouse, which was a sell-out performance on September 6, 2008, decided to stage a live show. Future Noise Music's Live At The Roundhouse London 2008, a live album/DVD of this performance, was released in November 2009.
"Oh Bondage Up Yourself" was a guest appearance at Rock Against Racism's 30th anniversary concert in Victoria Park, London, where she appeared in "Oh Bondage Up Your Sons!" Drew McConnell (of Babyshambles and Helsinki) and 'Flash' David Wright playing saxophone are among the guest performers on this episode. She appeared on a remix of Goldblade's "City of Christmas Ghosts" the previous year.
Styrene joined other members of PRS for Music in protesting Google for reportedly not paying a fair amount of royalties to musicians. Following Google's removal of millions of videos from YouTube as a result of a royalties dispute with the company, the group was unable to comply.
Poly Styrene, produced by Martin Glover (aka Youth from Killing Joke), would be released on October 29, 2010 by NME.com. In November 2010, she launched "Black Christmas" as a free download. "Black Christmas" was written in collaboration with her daughter, Celeste, inspired by a man disguised as Santa Clause in Los Angeles.
Styrene also introduced "Virtual Boyfriend" as the first single from the new album Generation Indigo via Spinner Music, as well as the unveiling of her new website. On March 21, 2011, Ben Wheele's animated promotional video "Virtual Boyfriend" was released. Generation Indigo was first announced on March 28, 2011 by Future Noise Music. The album received critical acclaim, with a perfect 10 out of ten in Artrocker magazine and eight out of ten in The Daily Telegraph newspaper. On UK radio station BBC 6 Music, Generation Indigo was also selected as Album of the Day. It was released in the United States on April 24, 2011, the day before her death.
"Ghoulish" was the first posthumous single to be released from Generation Indigo, and it was backed by a remix from Hercules and Love Affair.
Nitsuh Abebe, a music journalist for New York, described her performing style with X-Ray Spex as "a vibrant, ardent yelp" and "strongly feminine" in X-Ray Spex.
During a performance of "Ultraviolet (Light My Way) from the band's 1991 album Achtung Baby, the band paid tribute to Styrene during the "HerStory" video tribute to prominent people in 2017.