Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, better known by her stage name Poly Styrene, was an English singer-songwriter, musician, and the main vocalist for the punk rock band X-Ray Spex. Marianne Joan Elliott-Said was born on July 3, 1957.
Poly Styrene, real name Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, was raised in Bromley, Kent, but was born in Brixton, London, in 1957. She was raised solely by her Scottish-Irish legal secretary mother.
Her father was a Somali-born dock worker, notwithstanding Poly Styrene’s statements to the media that he was a dispossessed Somali aristocrat. When Styrene was a teenager, she was a hippy.
She ran away from home at age 15 and hitchhiked to music festivals while staying in hippy crash pads with just £3 in her pocket.
She saw this as a survival test, but when she stepped on a rusty nail while having a bath in a creek and needed to be treated for sepsis, her adventure came to an end.
What happened Poly Styrene?
At the age of 53, she passed away from metastatic breast cancer on April 25, 2011.
Styrene joined the Hare Krishna movement in 1983 and recorded at their studios while residing at Bhaktivedanta Manor as a devotee.
From 1983 until 1988, she lived as a Hare Krishna convert in Hertfordshire and London. Styrene followed a vegan diet.
Styrene’s solo endeavors were put on hiatus in 1995 after she was struck by a fire truck and fractured her pelvis.
Styrene participated in the inaugural Instigate Debate Night in March 2009. Modern consumerism served as the theme for the evening.
There was also a discussion on other current issues. She resided alone in St Leonards, East Sussex, and had a daughter named Celeste Bell-Dos Santos.
