Phranc

Phranc (born Susan Gottlieb in 1957, Los Angeles, California) is an influential singer-songwriter from California whose career has spanned several decades.

She first gained public attention in the late 1970s and ea

Phranc (born Susan Gottlieb in 1957, Los Angeles, California) is an influential singer-songwriter from California whose career has spanned several decades.

She first gained public attention in the late 1970s and early 1980s punk scene in Los Angeles. With her bleach blond crewcut and male attire she was an androgynous enigma, well suited to perform in her first band Nervous Gender, which formed in 1978. The writer V/D wrote of her for the punk fanzine Slash, "On stage, Phranc looks like a 14-year-old runaway from a boys' reform school." The band was influential in the development of what later came to be known as 'Synthpunk'. In 1980 she left Nervous Gender to join Catholic Discipline, in which Claude Bessey, a journalist for Slash zine was the lead singer. She was also in Castration Squad, an all-girl punk band.