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Paris, France (1956 – 2004)

Lizzy Mercier Descloux (1956 - 2004) was a French singer born in Paris.

After the modest debuts of her group Rosa Yemen, she recorded five albums under her name between 1979 and 1988. She had her best success in 1984 with the song

Mais Où Sont Passées Les Gazelles (‘But where have the gazelles gone?’), which announced her interest for south African rhythms and the emergence of Johnny Clegg.

She designed for the Paris store Harry Cover, temple of the punk movement, with Michel Esteban. She also distinguished herself with her articles about new wave in the magazine Rock News, contributing to the notoriety of Blondie, Patti Smith, and the Talking Heads. After her musical career, she turned towards painting.

She died in Saint-Florent in the French département of Haute-Corse from complications of cancer on 20 April 2004 at the age of 47.

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DesireeGomez wrote:
October 2009

WAWAAAA

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cutestever wrote:
October 2009

la fantastique

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Anira_Sugar wrote:
October 2009

Yeah!!!!

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mhkey wrote:
August 2009

press color right now. and i'm like, num num num num!

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shinsvark wrote:
July 2009

"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 wrote:
July 2009

No, the album with Chet Baker is 1986's One for the Soul, her fourth LP.

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iosuesou wrote:
July 2009

read that she recorded an album with Chet Baker? Or it might be just some random Wikipedia vandalism :)

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cotton_fever wrote:
June 2009

She was the primary model for the "love interest" Chrissa in the novel Go Now by Richard Hell.

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citybug wrote:
June 2009

Some of the Greatest Music in the World... Love her world-beat, with no wave tinges...

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cotton_fever wrote:
June 2009

i love you

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GREENMANPOP wrote:
April 2009

gimme tumour

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punchinthekiss wrote:
April 2009

I'm her true lover.

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volumeone wrote:
March 2009

shes my new lover.

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nadiejkakh wrote:
February 2009

JOYEUSE NOSTALGIE

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fondafarrow wrote:
January 2009

she looks so much like the post guy in Diva.

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Bullzor wrote:
January 2009

oooooh la la payola la payola :D

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teenagejesus666 wrote:
December 2008

ohh la la!

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PostPunk-Mag wrote:
December 2008

Torso Corso !!!!!!!!

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majorhemisphere wrote:
December 2008

She hurt for us all.

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ferrarabrainpan wrote:
October 2008

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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