Hermine

Sounding a bit like a Gallic version of Nico with a strong undercurrent of tongue-in-cheek self-parody, actress, writer, and performance artist Hermine enjoyed a career as a singer in the late '70s through the mid-'80s. Born Hermine Demoriane in Paris in 1942, she traveled to London in 1964 and soon settled in the U.K. after meeting poet Hugo Williams, who would become her husband. Hermine began writing articles for British magazines, and in 1969 published her first book, Lifestar, about her experiences while pregnant with her first child. In 1971, Hermine was inspired to take...