Marianne Faithfull, a pop star who has become survivor, died at 78

Marianne Faithfull, who went from a fresh pop star and with the voice of the feathers, as well as the muse and the girlfriend of Mick Jagger, to a drug addict of homeless heroin, only to reappear radically modified at the start of the Thirty as a cabaret acclaimed by critical criticism The interpreter singing Dark Honnanty songs, died Thursday in London. She was 78 years old.

His death was confirmed by a spokesperson, who did not quote.

The rotary dramas in the life of Mrs. Faithfull, as well as the starry circles that she moved in the 60s swing and the unless we eyeshadow of her later music, transformed it into an almost mythical figure – a symbol of survival and transformation. It was a role that she first reduced, but later came to flavor.

“What I tried to do, and I think I did it pretty well, is to bring the character together – or what was a false character at the beginning – and me together,” she declared to the British newspaper The Independent in 2008.

But the road to get there was long and perilous. This implied a miscarriage, the temporary loss of his only child in a guard battle, a suicide attempt, several relays of detoxification treatment and a drug arrest of 1967 – also involving the rolls – whose centers and sometimes erroneous have generated heated titles rale in Great Britain.

However, when Ms. Faithfull finally found a new daring path for her music, from 1979 with the album influenced by the new wave “Broken English”, she won the kind of wide respect she had never appreciated Previously, inspired by the brutal truth of his material and the marked gravity of his voice.

“I have the right voice for myself,” she told The Independent of her new sound. “It gives an advantage to everything.