At age 13, Lili-Marlene Premilovich moved with her mother to England. She attended art school in late ‘60s London and dabbled in many creative activities but became known worldwide a decade later for music. As Lene Lovich, she emerged from Britain’s new wave scene but with an idiosyncratic, unmistakably unique aesthetic. She didn’t look punk, new wave or goth; her long plaited hair and mod-folkloric garb was less Siouxsie Sioux than Sergei Diaghilev's Ballet Russes.

Her distinction was on full display throughout her debut album, whose title magnified the Balkan mystery of her persona, Stateless (1978). Singing in a vaguely unplaceable accent, often with the panache of Marlene Dietrich and occasionally the birdcalls of a more melodious Yoko Ono, Lovich brought erotic tension to several s

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