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Lizzy Mercier Descloux (b. Martine-Elisabeth Mercier Descloux, 16 December 1956, Paris – d. 20 April 2004, Saint-Florent, Corsica) was a French singer and musician, a pioneer in the worldbeat genre, as well as a writer and painter.
She grew up in Lyon, but returned to Paris in her teens to attend art school. With her partner, Michel Esteban, she helped establish the store Harry Cover, temple of the punk movement in France, and the new wave magazine Rock News. She struck up friendships with Patti Smith and Richard Hell when visiting New York in 1975, and both contributed material to her first book, Desiderata. She and Esteban moved to New York in 1977, meeting Michael Zilkha with whom Esteban formed ZE Records.
With guitarist D.J. Barnes, Mercier Descloux formed the performance art duo Rosa Yemen, and recorded an eponymous mini-album for ZE in 1978. The following year, ZE released her solo debut LP, «Press Color». Self-taught as a guitarist, she revealed herself as a supreme minimalist within the No Wave genre, concentrating on spindly, single-note lines combined with wrong-note harmonies and funky rhythms. Although the record had poor sales, she toured in the USA and Europe.
Island Records boss Chris Blackwell bankrolled the sessions in the Bahamas for her second album, «Mambo Nassau», with keyboardist Wally Badarou co-writing and producing. The album was heavily influenced by African music as well as art rock, funk and soul. Although again unsuccessful in the USA, it won her a contract with CBS in France.
She grew up in Lyon, but returned to Paris in her teens to attend art school. With her partner, Michel Esteban, she helped establish the store Harry Cover, temple of the punk movement in France, and the new wave magazine Rock News. She struck up friendships with Patti Smith and Richard Hell when visiting New York in 1975, and both contributed material to her first book, Desiderata. She and Esteban moved to New York in 1977, meeting Michael Zilkha with whom Esteban formed ZE Records.
With guitarist D.J. Barnes, Mercier Descloux formed the performance art duo Rosa Yemen, and recorded an eponymous mini-album for ZE in 1978. The following year, ZE released her solo debut LP, «Press Color». Self-taught as a guitarist, she revealed herself as a supreme minimalist within the No Wave genre, concentrating on spindly, single-note lines combined with wrong-note harmonies and funky rhythms. Although the record had poor sales, she toured in the USA and Europe.
Island Records boss Chris Blackwell bankrolled the sessions in the Bahamas for her second album, «Mambo Nassau», with keyboardist Wally Badarou co-writing and producing. The album was heavily influenced by African music as well as art rock, funk and soul. Although again unsuccessful in the USA, it won her a contract with CBS in France.
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DesireeGomez escribió:
WAWAAAA
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cutestever escribió:
la fantastique
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Anira_Sugar escribió:
Yeah!!!!
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mhkey escribió:
press color right now. and i'm like, num num num num!
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shinsvark escribió:
"At 17 she was more sophisticated than anyone I'd known, while also seeming utterly unaffected. Or at least her affectations came from such a stubborn confidence and will to defy convention that they were irresistible."
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Eurocoup escribió:
No, the album with Chet Baker is 1986's One for the Soul, her fourth LP.
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iosuesou escribió:
read that she recorded an album with Chet Baker? Or it might be just some random Wikipedia vandalism :)
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cotton_fever escribió:
She was the primary model for the "love interest" Chrissa in the novel Go Now by Richard Hell.
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citybug escribió:
Some of the Greatest Music in the World... Love her world-beat, with no wave tinges...
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cotton_fever escribió:
i love you
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GREENMANPOP escribió:
gimme tumour
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punchinthekiss escribió:
I'm her true lover.
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volumeone escribió:
shes my new lover.
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nadiejkakh escribió:
JOYEUSE NOSTALGIE
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fondafarrow escribió:
she looks so much like the post guy in Diva.
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Bullzor escribió:
oooooh la la payola la payola :D
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teenagejesus666 escribió:
ohh la la!
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PostPunk-Mag escribió:
Torso Corso !!!!!!!!
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majorhemisphere escribió:
She hurt for us all.
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ferrarabrainpan escribió:
Rosa Yemen was one of the best No Wave bands of the era: disorienting, hysterical, and convulsive. Lizzy had a great sense of style in her subsequent solo work, and her Euro-Caribbean-Afro pop was groundbreaking. Too bad she never got the credit and recognition that was her due.
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