THEN: As lead singer of Elastica, she embodied Britpop at its most punk-rock and released the fastest-selling debut album in British history. Prior to forming Elastica, she co-founded Suede with then-boyfriend Brett Anderson but left Anderson for Blur’s Damon Albarn in 1991. Her romance with Albarn helped spark Blur’s early rivalry with Suede; her breakup with Albarn inspired many heartrending songs on Blur’s 1999 opus 13.

NOW: After Elastica’s breakup in 2001, Frischmann has lived a renaissance life. She moved in with M.I.A. and helped write songs for Arular. She co-hosted a series about architecture called Dreamspaces for the BBC and was a judge from the 2003 RIBA Stirling Prize For Architecture. She moved to Boulder, Colorado in 2005 to study visual arts at the Buddhist liberal arts college Naropa University and began showing her paintings. In 2008, she married Ian Faloona, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of California-Davis. In 2012, her paintings were shortlisted for the UK’s Marmite Prize. She and Faloona live in the Bay Area.