Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, known by the stage name Poly Styrene, was an English musician, singer-songwriter, and frontwoman for the punk rock band X-Ray Spex.
Whilst growing up, Styrene was a hippie and 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. She loved an adventure but it ended when she stepped on a rusty nail while bathing in a stream and had to be treated for sepsis.
What was Poly Styrene cause of death?
Poly Styrene was a brilliant singer whose talent was extraordinary, her death came as a shock to all her fans. Though her cause of death was not revealed immediately, her daughter Celeste revealed it in an interview in February 2011, which was published in The Sunday Times magazine.
She revealed that her mother had been treated for breast cancer and that it had spread to her spine and lungs. She died of metastatic breast cancer on 25 April 2011, at the age of 53.
