The alternative rock band Lush rocked the airwaves between 1988 and 1996, with Miki Berenyi’s vocals taking centre stage. With songs including ‘Ladykillers’ and ‘Single Girl’, the band were one of the first to fall into the ‘shoegazing’ category.
Following the suicide of drummer Chris Acland, the band split, but Berenyi continued to play bass and lend her voice to other musical projects before landing a job at a magazine. She’s famously quoted responding to the ‘Bring back Miki Berenyi’ campaign stating that she’s a grey-haired office worker now, who still hasn’t shifted her post-pregnancy weight. Still a rockstar at heart then…
As the name suggests, Berenyi is of an exotic mixed origin, being part Hungarian and part Japanese. Her mother was a minor Japanese film actress. With her striking looks, quirky dress sense and dyed hair, she was a major icon of the Brit pop alt-rock scene in the early 90s. And by the sounds of it, she’s still pretty cool now. — Rebecca Cope. More pictures after the jump.
