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Poly Styrene
Punk musician
For the synthetic material, see Polystyrene.
Musical artist
Marianne Joan Elliott-Said (3 July 1957 – 25 April 2011),[1][2] known by the stage name Poly Styrene, was an English musician, singer-songwriter, and frontwoman for the punk rock band X-Ray Spex.
Early life
Poly Styrene was born Marianne Joan Elliott-Said[3] in 1957 in Bromley, Kent, and brought up in Brixton, London.[4] Her mother, who raised her alone, was a Scottish-Irish legal secretary.[5] Her father was a Somali-born dock worker,[6][7] although Poly Styrene used to tell the press that he was a dispossessed Somaliaristocrat.[8][9]
As a teenager, Styrene was a hippie.
When she was 15 she ran away from home with £3 in her pocket, and hitchhiked from one music festival to another, staying at hippie crash pads. Thinking of this as a challenge to survive, her adventure ended when she stepped o