She was born in England in 1950. She was a transgender singer, poet, performance artist, and writer. From an early age she developed an interest in the occult, avant-garde art, and music. After dropping out of college, he formed COUM Transmissions, a Dada- and psychedelic-inspired musical improvisational and experimental collective that operated from 1969 to 1976. In 1976, along with his friends from that artistic collective, Cossie Fani Tutti, Chris Carter and Peter Christopherson, founded the experimental musical group Throbbing Gristle, pioneers of what is known as industrial music. She would later form Psychic TV, a video art and performance music group. She coined the concept of pandrogyny to describe her life project / her performance through which, through a series of cosmetic surgeries, she intended to merge with her partner in a being that transcended gender-sex differentiations. She died in March 2020 after more than two years of battling leukemia.