Celeste Bell, the daughter of X-Ray Spex singer Poly Styrene, opens her documentary “Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliche” with a simple question: Was her punk rock icon mother a good parent? It comes as no ...

LONDON (AP) — Poly Styrene, energetic singer with 1970s punk band X-Ray Spex, has died at 53. Styrene, whose real name was Marion Elliott-Said, had been suffering from cancer. A statement on her ...

New documentary Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché looks and the life of the late singer of iconic UK punk band X-Ray Spex. Here’s the synopsis: Poly Styrene was the first woman of colour in the UK to front ...

Poly Styrene, the ungainly, vivacious British singer whose band X-ray Spex mocked both society’s conventions and punk rock’s excesses, died April 25 in England. She was 53. In February, Styrene ...

American Songbook: Singer Outsiders is a new series at Lincoln Center that “uplifts women and nonbinary musicians who have shaped the modern landscape of music and continue to drive conversations on ...

Although the face of punk rock is often represented by white males and their rage and nihilistic attitudes, it was actually a black woman at the forefront of shaping punk’s political consciousness—and ...