Lizzy Mercier Descloux (born 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.

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  • Lizzy Mercier Descloux (born 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 Compass Point All Stars engineer Steven Stanley and 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. Returning to France, she released two singles before travelling through Africa, drawing on the music of Soweto for the infectious "Mais où Sont Passées les Gazelles ?" ('But where have the gazelles gone?'), a hit in France in 1984, and the award-winning album of the same title, with producer Adam Kidron, with whom she then recorded "One for the Soul" (1986) in Brazil with the jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, and "Suspense" (1988) in London with the British musician Mark Cunningham of Mars. She also acted, composed film scores, and wrote poetry. In the mid 1990s, she moved to Corsica and devoted herself to painting and to writing an unpublished novel. In 2003, she was diagnosed with cancer, from which she died the following year.
  • Lizzy Mercier Descloux war eine Singer-Songwriterin, Musikerin, Schauspielerin, Schriftstellerin und Malerin.
  • Lizzy Mercier Descloux est une chanteuse française. Après les débuts discrets de son groupe Rosa Yémen, elle enregistra sous son nom cinq albums entre 1979 et 1988. Elle obtint son meilleur succès en 1984 avec le titre Mais où sont passées les gazelles ? qui annonçait l'intérêt pour les rythmes sud-africains et l'émergence de Johnny Clegg. Née à Paris, créatrice avec Michel Esteban du magasin parisien Harry Cover, temple du mouvement punk, elle se signala aussi par ses articles sur la new wave dans la revue Rock News, contribuant à faire connaître Blondie, Patti Smith et les Talking Heads. Après sa carrière musicale, elle se tourna vers la peinture. Elle est décédée des suites d'un cancer le 20 avril 2004 à l'âge de 47 ans, à Saint-Florent en Haute-Corse
  • Lizzy Mercier-Descloux, artystka francuska, wokalistka punk-rockowa, poetka, malarka, aktorka. Wyjechała w 1975 do Nowego Jorku, gdzie współtworzyła z Michelem Estebanem magazyn francuskojęzyczny "Rock News". W 1976 wydała w Nowym Jorku zbiór poezji i fotografii Desiderata; występowała w filmach krótkometrażowych. Pierwszych nagrań muzycznych dokonała pod pseudonimem Rosa Yemen. W 1979 wydała pierwszą płytę Press Color, kolejną - Mambo Nassau - w 1982. Status wielkiego przeboju zyskała we Francji jej piosenka Gazelles. Do 1986 wydała jeszcze Mister Soweto (singel), Maita (singel, jej pierwsze nagranie w języku francuskim), Bus d'acier 84 (uznana przez francuskich krytyków muzycznych za płytę roku 1984), One for The Soul, Suspense. Po 1986 zajmowała się głównie malarstwem. Wśród jej inspiracji artystycznych był malarz Jean Michael Basquiat, utwór poetycki poświęciła także m. in. niemieckiemu terroryście Baaderowi. Od początku lat 80. zafascynowała się kulturą i muzyką Afryki; chętnie tam koncertowała. Tournée odbyła także po krajach azjatyckich. Zmarła po kilkuletniej walce z chorobą nowotworową.
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  • Lizzy Mercier Descloux (born 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.
  • Lizzy Mercier Descloux war eine Singer-Songwriterin, Musikerin, Schauspielerin, Schriftstellerin und Malerin.
  • Lizzy Mercier Descloux est une chanteuse française. Après les débuts discrets de son groupe Rosa Yémen, elle enregistra sous son nom cinq albums entre 1979 et 1988. Elle obtint son meilleur succès en 1984 avec le titre Mais où sont passées les gazelles ? qui annonçait l'intérêt pour les rythmes sud-africains et l'émergence de Johnny Clegg.
  • Lizzy Mercier-Descloux, artystka francuska, wokalistka punk-rockowa, poetka, malarka, aktorka. Wyjechała w 1975 do Nowego Jorku, gdzie współtworzyła z Michelem Estebanem magazyn francuskojęzyczny "Rock News". W 1976 wydała w Nowym Jorku zbiór poezji i fotografii Desiderata; występowała w filmach krótkometrażowych. Pierwszych nagrań muzycznych dokonała pod pseudonimem Rosa Yemen. W 1979 wydała pierwszą płytę Press Color, kolejną - Mambo Nassau - w 1982.
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