Neneh Cherry performing live in Vienna (ca. 1996–97)

Neneh Marianne Karlsson Cherry (born March 10, 1964 in Stockholm) is a musician. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (880x588, 182 KB) Neneh Cherry performing live in Vienna, Austria, ca. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (880x588, 182 KB) Neneh Cherry performing live in Vienna, Austria, ca. ... Inhabitants according to official census figures: 1800 to 2005 Vienna in 1858 Vienna (German: Wien ) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (70th in leap years). ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ...   (IPA: ; UN/LOCODE: SE STO) is the capital of Sweden, and consequently the site of its Government and Parliament as well as the residence of the Swedish head of state, King Carl XVI Gustaf. ...

Cherry blended hip hop with other influences, and experienced some mainstream success with several of her recordings. She is attributed as being the founder of trip-hop music which is a slow rythmic form of hip hop. Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ...

Family life

Born as Neneh Mariann Karlsson, 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 settled into a small flat on East 9th Street in New York City in the early 1970's. Moki Cherry currently resides in Garden City New York and works in New York City. Hässleholm is a municipality and town in Scania in southernmost Sweden. ...

Many members of her family are musicians or artists.

• Her mother is noted painter and textile artist Moki Cherry.
• Her father is the African-Swedish musician Amahdu Jah.
• Her stepfather, Don Cherry, was an influential jazz musician.
• Her half-brother Eagle Eye Cherry is also a musician of some international fame.
• Her half-sister Titiyo is a succesful Swedish singer.
• Her brother David Ornette Cherry is a Jazz musician based in the US. David has recorded several albums and tours regularly.
• Half brother Cherno Jah is a music producer and dj based in Stockholm.
• Her Step-Son Marlon Roudette fronts the British duo Mattafix
• Her niece Miquita Oliver is a popular television and radio personality in London.

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Career

Cherry 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 later Float Up CP. London (pronounced ) is the capital city of the United Kingdom and the largest city of England (strangely, England has no constitutional existence within the United Kingdom, and therefore cannot be said to have a capital). ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Rip Rig & Panic was a post-punk band, founded in 1981. ...

She began a solo career with "Stop the War" (a protest song about the Falkland Islands). She also worked with The The and musician Cameron McVey (a.k.a. Booga Bear), who co-wrote most of her debut album Raw Like Sushi, and whom she would eventually marry. 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. Robert Del Naja and Andrew Vowles of Massive Attack had in turn contributed to Raw Like Sushi. A protest song is a song intended to protest perceived problems in society such as injustice, racial discrimination, war, globalization, inflation, social inequalities. ... Matt Johnson The The is an English musical and multimedia group that has been around since 1979 in various forms, with Matt Johnson being the only constant band member. ... The city of Bristol in the UK has spawned various musicians and artists, and is typified by its Urban Culture. ... Massive Attack are a successful and critically acclaimed band from Bristol, England. ... Blue Lines is the debut album by British electronica group Massive Attack, released on August 6, 1991 (see 1991 in music) by Virgin Records. ... Shara Nelson (born in London, England) is a singer and musician. ... Robert Del Naja (born January 21, 1966 in Brighton, England), also known as 3D, is an English artist and musician. ... Andrew Vowles (born 1968 in Knowle West, Bristol, England, also known as Mushroom, is a founding member of British trip-hop collective Massive Attack. ...

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. Choreography (literally dance-writing, also known as dance composition), is the art of making structures in which movement occurs, the term composition may also refer to the navigation or connection of these movement structures. ... Top of the Pops was a long-running British music chart television programme, and indeed the longest-running music show in the world, shown each week on BBC and now licensed for national versions around the world. ... A pregnant woman near the end of her term Pregnancy is the carrying of one or more embryos or fetuses by female mammals, including humans, inside their bodies. ...

More singles released between 1988 and 1990 included the slower "Manchild," "Kisses On The Wind," "Heart," and "Inna City Mama." She also found success 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 away from the limelight until 1992. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter from Indiana. ... Red Hot + Blue was the first in the series of compilation albums from the Red Hot Organization. ... Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections in humans resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). ... This article is becoming very long. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...

Her second solo outing was Homebrew. Led by the single "Money Love", it was not as commercially successful as its predecessor, but received great critical acclaim. The album met with some 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. Homebrew is an album by Paul Lansky. ... John Michael Stipe (born January 4, 1960 in Decatur, Georgia) is the lead singer of the American rock band R.E.M. Stipe has become well-known (and occasionally parodied) for the mumbling style of his early career and for his complex, surreal lyrics, as well as his social and... Gang Starr is an influential American hip hop duo composed of MC Guru and DJ Premier based in Brooklyn, New York. ...

Her most recent albums are 1996's Man, and Neneh Chérie Remixes, a remix album of Man songs released in 1997. 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Man is the third solo album by Swedish singer Neneh Cherry, released in 1996 (see 1996 in music). ...

CirKus

In 2006, Cherry announced the formation of a new band, cirKus. In addition to Cherry, CirKus members are : 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... CirKus is a trip-hop band formed by Burt Ford, Karmil, Lolita Moon and Neneh Cherry. ...

• Burt Ford a.k.a. Cameron McVey and boogabear (Neneh's husband)^{[citation needed]}
• Lolita Moon (sometimes called Lola Moon)
• Karmil a.k.a. Matt Kent

The band's first album, Laylow was released in France in 2006.

Other collaborations

Although Cherry has only released a handful of albums, she has frequently collaborated with other artists.

• Seven Seconds, a collaboration with Youssou N'Dour, was a huge international hit in 1994, remaining on the charts for nearly half a year.
• Cherry also contributed guest vocals on Pulp's UK #1 album This Is Hardcore, singing on the track Seductive Barry.
• In 1999 she Contributed to Christian Falk's debut Quel Bordel.
• In the 2005 release of Gorillaz's Demon Days, she contributed vocals to the tracks Kids With Guns.
• In 2006 she collaborated with Swedish rapper Petter on his album P and Stockholm electro-dub punks The Teddybears international release Soft Machine.
• She also contributed vocals to the Groove Armada track, Think Twice. The track is featured on the band's greatest hits collection.
• In 2006 she was featured in the song 'Yours to Keep' by Teddybears.

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Awards and other recognition

Due to the impressive performance of "Buffalo Stance," Cherry was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1990 in the Best New Artist Category; she lost out to Milli Vanilli, who later had their Grammy revoked when it was discovered that they had not performed on their recording. Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music... Milli Vanilli (milli is a word meaning national in Turkish, picked up by the artists while visiting Turkey on one of its national days) was a duo, Fabrice Morvan and Rob Pilatus, formed in Germany in the mid-1980s. ...

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Trivia

• In 2004, Cherry became a grandmother.

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• Presented "Neneh Cherry's World of music" a six part series on BBC Radio 2 in Spring 2004
• Working on a pilot of a cookery television programme with Andrea Oliver (2006)

Discography

Singles

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Albums

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See also

• Swedish hip hop
• List of number-one dance hits (United States)
• List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart

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External links

• acoustic session of Cirkus feat. Neneh Cherry
• http://www.3ammagazine.com/musicarchives/2003/nov/interview_tessa_pollitt.html The Slits remember Neneh And Don Cherry
• nenehcherry.de Unofficial web site with biography and photos
• http://www.geocities.com/miamaya_1999 Neneh Cherry Homepage - Outre Risque News, Photos and More
• http://www.cirkustent.com Official Neneh and cirKus music site