Neneh Cherry

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Image:Neneh Cherry-live.jpg Neneh Cherry (born March 10, 1964 in Stockholm) is a musician who blended hip hop with other influences to some mainstream success. Her mother is the painter and textile artist Moki Cherry, and her father is the African-Swedish musician Amahdu Jah. Her stepfather, Don Cherry, was an influential jazz musician, and her stepbrother Eagle Eye Cherry is also a musician of some international fame while her half-sister Titiyo has had a career as a singer in Sweden.

1 Biography
2 Discography
3 See also
4 External links

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Biography

Born as Neneh Mariann Karlsson from a Swedish Mother Moki Karlsson that was an artist and Her biological father Ahmadu Jah, a jazz musician from Sierra Leone. Neneh Cherry lived the first years of her life in the small Swedish town Hässleholm, before the family started following her stepfather on his tours. The Cherry family eventually settled into a small flat on East 9th Street in New York City. Neneh began performing after dropping out of school at 14 and moving to London, where she joined the punk rock band The Cherries.

Cherry moved through several bands, including New Age Steppers and Rip Rig & Panic (which included a guest spot on BBC sitcom The Young Ones in 1982) before beginning a solo career with "Stop the War" (a protest song about the Falkland Islands). She also worked with The The and her husband, Cameron McVey, who co-wrote most of her debut album Raw Like Sushi.

Her single "Buffalo Stance" was an international blockbuster and she caused controversy when she performed the song - complete with gyrating choreography - on UK television show Top Of The Pops while very heavily pregnant. Buffalo Stance eventually peaked at number 3 on the UK pop charts and number 1 on the American Dance charts, becoming one of 1988's biggest club anthems.

More singles released between 1988 and 1990 included the slower "Manchild," "Kisses On The Wind," and "Inna City Mama", all of which made the top 20 in Britain. She also found a hit with "I've Got U Under My Skin," a dramatic reworking of the Cole Porter song, which appeared on the [[Red Hot + Blue]] AIDS fundraising album. Lyme disease kept her from much activity until 1992.

Led by the single "Money Love," her second solo outing was Homebrew, and while not as commercially successful as its predecessor, it did find success on the dance charts (with "Buddy X," which would become an even bigger hit years later in a remix by Dreem Teem) and on college radio (with "Trout," a duet with Michael Stipe). The album also included a contribution from Gang Starr.

She was intimately involved in the Bristol Urban Culture scene, working as an arranger on Massive Attack's Blue Lines album, and helping out in various other ways in the scene. Famously, she gave birth while Shara Nelson was recording the vocals for the album in the same house.

"Seven Seconds", a huge international hit in 1994, was a collaboration with Youssou N'Dour, remaining on the charts for nearly half a year. Her most recent albums are 1996's Man, and Neneh Chérie Remixes, a remix album of Man songs released in 1997.

Due to the impressive performance of Buffalo Stance, Neneh was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1990 in the Best New Artist Category; she lost out to Milli Vanilli. She received her 2nd Grammy nomination in 1994 for the Youssou N'Dour duet, 7 Seconds. The single received world wide acclaim but failed to garner a Grammy Award.

In 2004, Neneh became a grandmother.

In the 2005 release of Gorillaz's Demon Days, she contributed vocals to the track Kids With Guns.

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