Poly Styrene

Quick Facts

Full Name	Poly Styrene
Occupation	Punk Singer
Date Of Birth	Jul 3, 1957(1957-07-03)
Age	67
Date Of Death	2011-04-25
Birthplace	Bromley
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Cancer

Poly Styrene Biography

Poly Styrene is one of the most popular and richest Punk Singer who was born on July 3, 1957 in Bromley, England, United Kingdom. Frontwoman of the British punk rock group X-Ray Spex. The group is best known for songs such as “Oh Bondage Up Yours!”

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Marianne Joan Elliott-Said (3 July 1957 – 25 April 2011), known by the stage name Poly Styrene, was a British musician, singer-songwriter, and frontwoman for the punk rock band X-Ray Spex.

After watching a very early gig by the Sex Pistols in an empty hall on Hastings Pier, playing a set of cover songs, she was inspired to put an ad in the paper for ‘young punx who want to stick it together’ to form a band. So it was from that, she went as singer with X-Ray Spex, Poly Styrene, a name she chose from the ‘Yellow Pages’ when she was ‘looking for a name of the time, something plastic.’ She was described by Billboard as the “archetype for the modern-day feminist punk”; because she wore dental braces, stood against the typical sex object female of 1970s rock star, sported a gaudy Dayglo wardrobe, and was of mixed race. She was “one of the least conventional front-persons in rock history, male or female”. They launched their debut single in 1977.

Celeste Bell Dos Santos was her daughter. She created Debutant Disco.

Poly Styrene Net Worth

Poly Styrene is one of the richest Punk Singer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Poly Styrene 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was nineteen when she first saw the Sex Pistols in action and decided that she could make a better group.

She was an avid advocate for women’s rights.

Styrene was born Marianne Joan Elliott-Said in 1957 in Bromley, Kent, England, and raised in Brixton, London. Her mother, who raised her alone, was a Scottish-Irish legal secretary. Her father was a Somali-born dock worker, although Poly Styrene used to tell the press that he was a dispossessed Somali aristocrat.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Poly Styrene Dating?

According to our records, Poly Styrene is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of December 1, 2023, Poly Styrene’s is not dating anyone.

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After the original line-up of X-Ray Spex broke up, Poly Styrene recorded a solo album, Translucence, in 1980. The album abandoned X-Ray Spex’s loud guitar work for a quieter and more jazzy sound that has since been described as anticipating later work by Everything but the Girl. In 1986, she released the EP God’s & Godesses [sic] on the Awesome record label. A New Age solo album, Flower Aeroplane, followed in 2004.

Facts & Trivia

Poly Ranked on the list of most popular Punk Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Poly Styrene celebrates birthday on July 3 of every year.

She made a guest appearance at the 2008 30th anniversary concert of Rock Against Racism in Victoria Park, London, performing “Oh Bondage Up Yours!” with guest musicians Drew McConnell (of Babyshambles and Helsinki) and ‘Flash’ David Wright playing saxophone. That same year, she dueted with Goldblade’s John Robb on a remix of Goldblade’s “City of Christmas Ghosts”.

Top Facts about Poly Styrene

1. Poly Styrene was born Marianne Joan Elliott-Said in 1957 in Bromley, Kent, and brought up in Brixton, London.
2. She was of mixed race and described as the “archetype for the modern-day feminist punk”.
3. She formed the punk band X-Ray Spex after watching a gig by the Sex Pistols in an empty hall on her 19th birthday, 3 July 1976.
4. Styrene was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and sectioned, and told she would never work again when she was taken to hospital after a gig in 1978.
5.She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1991.
6. She released her first solo album in 1975 when she was 18.
7. She released her first single under her real name, Mari Elliott, titled “Silly Billy”.
8. She released her first album with X-Ray Spex in 1977.
9. She released her solo album Translucence in 1980.
10. She released a New Age solo album, Flower Aeroplane, in 2004.
11. She released Generation Indigo, her solo album produced by Martin Glover, in 2011.
12. U2 paid tribute to her in 2017, during the 30th anniversary of The Joshua Tree.
13. She was initiated into the Hare Krishna movement in 1983.
14. She took part in the inaugural Instigate Debate night in 2009.
15. The documentary Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché was released in 2021 to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the release of the first X-Ray Spex album, Germfree Adolescents.

What happened Poly Styrene?

She died of metastatic breast cancer on 25 April 2011, at the age of 53.

What age was Poly Styrene when she died?

53 years (1957–2011)

Is Celeste Poly Styrene daughter?

In 2016, five years after the death of Poly Styrene—the punk legend and trailblazing frontwoman of the short-lived but fiercely beloved band X-Ray Spex— her daughter , Celeste Bell, finally received the stacks of boxes from Styrene’s former manager that made up her archive.

Where is Poly Styrene from?

Bromley, United Kingdom

Is Poly Styrene still alive?

April 25, 2011