Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, better known by her stage name Poly Styrene born on 3 July 1957, was an English singer-songwriter, musician, and lead vocalist for the punk rock group X-Ray Spex.
Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, better known as Poly Styrene, was born in Brixton, London, in 1957, and raised in Bromley, Kent. Her mother was a Scottish-Irish legal secretary who reared her alone.
Despite Poly Styrene’s claims to the press that he was a dispossessed Somali aristocrat, her father was a Somali-born dock laborer. Read More...