Marcella Puppini

About me:

My love affair with music started at the age of 5, when I started to play the piano. By the age of 13 I could sing along to the whole of La Boheme and dreamed of becoming the next Maria Callas - or the next Giacomo Puccini.

I never did become the world's best soprano, but these days I do moonlight as an orchestral composer - which gives me more joy than I can express.

My musical career (which for a few years ran alongside my Fashion career) has been varied and interesting: from the cover bands and madrigal choirs of my adolescence I moved on to an all-girl Punk band called Dead Sex Kitten; later on I had a Dance hit called Revolution with DJ Rich B of Gaydar fame, and at the same time I made a name as a saucy Alternative Cabaret singer.

I have worked as Musical Director on several Theatre productions, and for the last couple of years I have also been running a small all-girl orchestra called The Forget-Me-Nots - my little pride and joy.

My next dream is to write an opera and a musical.

I love sci-fi books and classic novels, comic books (NOT the Marvel ones) and horror stories.

I love dancing, especially when there's enough room to really let rip.

I am quite serious and if left alone too long I can get quite morbid, but I also have very camp taste and a silly sense of humour.

I have a passion for languages which started when learned Latin and Ancient Greek at school, and through touring I am beginning to speak pretty decent French. I am also learning the Cyrillic alphabet, although I can't speak any Russian yet.

I love cooking and there is nothing I won't eat. I have a particular fondness for offal and raw meat of any kind. I like to think I have the same eating habits as a tiger, but I'm probably just a disgustinglittle cannibal.

My idols are Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, and ever since childhood my sister and I have been trying to determine who will be whom in our own real life version of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. It's a tough one...

I have a tendency towards melodrama, but I can just as easily fall prey to suffocating laughing fits.

I can sometimes be quite dictatorial.

I earned the nickname of Danger Girl while driving around the streets of London on my Vespa, and later in my beloved car - Colette.

I am really grateful and proud of all the things I've done since leaving a comfortable life in Italy for an uncomfortable and challenging one in London: I've managed to get two degrees (in Fashion and Music) I have sung and played all over the world, I have taught choir singing at a London University, I have worked with Vivienne Westwood and the inspiring people that she surrounds herself with, I have served tequilas from holster-held bottles in every bar and club in Soho, I have been an artist's model for very camp photographer friends, I have squatted in Park Lane, I have waited tables, and I also had a brief stint as a VJ for the now defunct MTV-style channel Videomusic as a London correspondent. ..   I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

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