Neneh Cherry

Neneh Cherry (2013)

Neneh Cherry (* 10. March 1964 in Stockholm as Neneh Marianne Karlsson ) is a Swedish hip-hop -Künstlerin, jazz - singer and songwriter . She is the stepdaughter of Don Cherry . Her biggest commercial hits include Buffalo Stance (1988), Manchild (1989), I've Got You Under My Skin (1990), 7 Seconds (1994, with Youssou N'Dour ) and Woman (1996).

Her hip-hop is repeatedly influenced by other styles, for example soul ( Inna City Mamma , 1989), rock ( Trout , 1992, with Michael Stipe from REM ) or world music (7 Seconds) .

life and career

Neneh Cherry grew up with her four years younger half-brother Eagle-Eye Cherry with her mother, the Swedish painter Monika Karlsson (also Moki Cherry), and her stepfather, the jazz musician Don Cherry . The contact with her father, the musician Amahdu Jah from Sierra Leone , never completely broke off. On her father's side she has a half-sister, the singer Titiyo . She spent the first two years of her life in Hässleholm in Sweden. Then the whole family traveled with Don, who was mostly on tour, around the world - mostly through the USA and Europe . One of the few places where the family stayed regularly was New York , where Neneh also went to school sporadically. Through her stepfather, who himself had been one of the most important innovators of jazz, especially free jazz , since the 1960s , she got to know a number of musicians at an early age. Among them were celebrities like Ornette Coleman , with whom Don Cherry worked closely, and Miles Davis .

In the early 1980s she dropped out of school, moved to London and began her own musical career. The first group she performed with was the punk rock band The Cherries. Before she started her solo career with Stop the War , a protest song against the Falklands War (1982), she worked with The Slits and Rip Rig + Panic . In 1986 she recorded the track Slow Train to Dawn with The The .

With her husband Cameron McVey (also producer of Massive Attacks debut album Blue Lines , Portishead's Dummy and later albums by All Saints and Sugababes ), she recorded her debut album Raw Like Sushi in 1988 . The single Buffalo Stance became their first big hit. Shortly afterwards she fell ill with Lyme disease , which temporarily hindered her work as a musician.

In 1990 she had her second great success with I've Got You Under My Skin , her contribution to the AIDS benefit compilation Red Hot + Blue .

In 1992 she released her second album, Homebrew , on which Michael Stipe ( REM ) and Guru ( Gang Starr ) can also be heard. The following year she moved to New York for a short time, in 1995 she rented a house near Málaga ( Spain ), where she lived with her family until 1999.

Neneh Cherry ( Arena, Vienna , 1996)

Her third album Man was released in 1996. The album was also created under the impression of her third pregnancy and the death of her stepfather Don Cherry, who had spent the last eight months of his life in her home in Spain. She called it "an album of life and death" . The music on it was more oriented towards rock and soul , elements from drum and bass and hip-hop faded into the background. With the song 7 Seconds , a duet with Youssou N'Dour , which was released for the first time in 1994, you can find their biggest hit on Man . The song reached the top of the charts in four countries. The album was received ambiguously by German music critics. It is "an over-produced downbeat album in which Cherry's hip-hop skills disappeared under a layer of excessive piano and string sounds," said z. B. Christian Werthschulte. Frank Sawatzki thought it was a "tired radio production".

In 2010 she worked for the first time with the free jazz band The Thing ( Mats Gustafsson , Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Paal Nilssen-Love ), with whom she released the album The Cherry Thing in 2012 and also gave concerts.

In February 2014, Cherry's first solo album in 18 years was released with Blank Project . The London musician Kieran Hebden, alias Four Tet, is responsible for the production, and the young British duo RocketNumberNine, consisting of the brothers Ben and Tom Page, is responsible for the music. On keyboards and drums, the two deliver a spartan sound in which electronic music, hip-hop, pop and, in some cases, rock flow into one another.

On August 1, 2018, Cherry released a new single called Kong . The song was produced by Four Tet and Robert "3D" Del Naja , one of the founding members of the British trip-hop band Massive Attack . The radio station ByteFM called Kong "hypnotic night music in downtempo".

Neneh Cherry is the mother of three daughters, Naima, Tyson and Mabel . She is married to the British music producer Cameron McVey, the father of Marlon Roudette (founder of the former music duo Mattafix and successful solo artist), whose stepmother she is. The family now lives partly in London and partly in Sweden.

Awards

Some of the more significant awards Neneh Cherry has received so far:

• BRIT Award (1996) - "Best Video" (Woman)
• World Music Award (1995) - "Best African Single" (7 Seconds)
• MTV Europe Music Award (1994) - (7 Seconds)
• BRIT Award (1990) - "Best Single" and "Best Female Vocalist"

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	SE
1989	Raw like sushi	DE10 (26 weeks) DE	AT7 (16 weeks) AT	CH6th gold (18 weeks)CH	UK2 platinum (43 weeks)UK	US40 (35 weeks) US	SE3 gold (9 weeks)SE	First published: May 2, 1989
1992	Homebrew	-	-	CH16 (12 weeks) CH	UK27 (2 weeks) UK	-	SE29 (2 weeks) SE	First published: October 26, 1992
1996	Man	DE20 (14 weeks) DE	AT5 (11 weeks) AT	CH5 gold (16 weeks)CH	UK16 silver (4 weeks)UK	-	SE22 (5 weeks) SE	First published: September 2, 1996
2014	Blank Project	DE39 (2 weeks) DE	AT38 (2 weeks) AT	CH28 (3 weeks) CH	UK41 (1 week) UK	-	SE40 (1 week) SE	First published: February 25, 2014
2018	Broken Politics	DE55 (1 week) DE	AT46 (1 week) AT	CH52 (1 week) CH	UK76 (1 week) UK	-	-	First published: October 19, 2018

Collaborations

year	title	Remarks
2006	Laylow	First publication: 2006; with CirKus
2009	Medicine	First published: March 9, 2009; with CirKus
2012	The Cherry Thing	First published: June 21, 2012; with The Thing

Remix albums

year	title	Remarks
1997	Remixes	First published: 1997
2007	Laylower	First publication: 2007; with CirKus

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	SE
1988	Buffalo Stance Raw Like Sushi	DE2 (20 weeks) DE	AT7 (14 weeks) AT	CH2 (12 weeks) CH	UK3 silver (13 weeks)UK	US3 gold (24 weeks)US	SE1 gold (7 weeks)SE	First published: November 1988
1989	Manchild Raw Like Sushi	DE2 (19 weeks) DE	AT6 (14 weeks) AT	CH4 (17 weeks) CH	UK5 (10 weeks) UK	-	SE7 (4 weeks) SE	First published: May 1989
	Kisses on the Wind Raw Like Sushi	DE23 (13 weeks) DE	-	CH9 (9 weeks) CH	UK20 (6 weeks) UK	US8 (14 weeks) US	-	First published: July 1989
	Heart Raw Like Sushi	-	-	-	-	US73 (8 weeks) US	-	First published: November 1989
	Inna City Mama Raw Like Sushi	-	-	CH17 (7 weeks) CH	UK31 (8 weeks) UK	-	-	First published: December 1989
1990	I've Got You Under My Skin Red Hot + Blue	DE23 (16 weeks) DE	-	CH25 (4 weeks) CH	UK25 (5 weeks) UK	-	SE16 (1 week) SE	First published: September 1990
1992	Money Love Homebrew	-	-	-	UK23 (4 weeks) UK	-	SE17 (6 weeks) SE	First published: September 1992
1993	Buddy X homebrew	-	-	-	UK15 (8 weeks) UK	US43 (12 weeks) US	-	First published: March 1993
1994	7 Seconds Man / The Guide (Wommat)	DE3 gold (34 weeks)DE	AT3 gold (17 weeks)AT	CH1 gold (31 weeks)CH	UK3 gold (25 weeks)UK	US98 (4 weeks) US	SE3 (21 weeks) SE	First published: June 7, 1994 with Youssou N'Dour
1996	Woman Man	DE52 (18 weeks) DE	AT21 (8 weeks) AT	CH12 (19 weeks) CH	UK9 (7 weeks) UK	-	SE20 (10 weeks) SE	First published: July 19, 1996
	Kootchi Man	-	-	-	UK38 (2 weeks) UK	-	-	First published: December 1996
1997	Feel It Man	-	-	-	UK68 (1 week) UK	-	-	First published: February 1997

more publishments

• 1992: Move with Me
• 1995: Trouble Man

As a guest musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	SE
1987	Slow Train to Dawn Infected	-	-	-	UK64 (3 weeks) UK	-	-	First published: January 1987 The The featuring Neneh Cherry
1995	Love Can Build a Bridge	DE62 (10 weeks) DE	AT18 (8 weeks) AT	CH21 (10 weeks) CH	UK1 silver (8 weeks)UK	-	-	First published: March 6, 1995 with Cher , Chrissie Hynde & Eric Clapton
1999	Buddy X 99	-	-	-	UK15 (9 weeks) UK	-	-	First published: 1999 with Dreem Teem
2000	Long Way Around Living in the Present Future	DE85 (3 weeks) DE	-	CH45 (10 weeks) CH	UK48 (2 weeks) UK	-	-	First release: October 2000 Eagle-Eye Cherry featuring Neneh Cherry
2002	Braided Hair 1 Giant Leap	-	-	-	UK78 (1 week) UK	-	-	First published: April 9, 2002 1 Giant Leap featuring Neneh Cherry & Speech
2006	Kids with Guns / El Mañana Demon Days	DE94 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK27 (2 weeks) UK	-	-	First release: April 10, 2006 Gorillaz featuring Neneh Cherry
2008	Forever Kleerup	-	-	-	-	-	SE56 (1 week) SE	First release: 2008 Kleerup featuring Neneh Cherry

Further guest contributions

• 1981: God (Rip Rig + Panic)
• 1982: I am cold (Rip Rig + Panic)
• 1983: Attitude (Rip Rig + Panic)
• 1990: Knee deep in hits (Rip Rig + Panic)
• 2011: Bells (CirKus featuring Neneh Cherry)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  France 1994: for the single 7 Seconds 1996: for the album Woman 1996: for the single woman  Canada 1989: for the single Buffalo Stance 1989: for the album Raw Like Sushi  Netherlands 1990: for the album Raw Like Sushi 1994: for the single 7 Seconds

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI)	-	gold1	-	250,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	-	3 × gold3	-	600,000	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
Canada (MC)	-	2 × gold2	-	100,000	musiccanada.com
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	2 × gold2	-	100,000	nvpi.nl
Austria (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	25,000	ifpi.at
Sweden (IFPI)	-	2 × gold2	-	75,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	3 × gold3	-	75,000	hitparade.ch
United States (RIAA)	-	gold1	-	500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	3 × silver3	gold1	platinum1	1,160,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	3 × silver3	16 × gold16	platinum1

swell

1. ↑ Martina Wimmer / Rolling Stone (German edition, No. 9, Sept. 1996): Three daughters and one death
2. ↑ ^{a b} Christian Werthschulte: The new album by Neneh Cherry: Emotions guess. In: taz.de . February 28, 2014, accessed January 5, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Die Zeit No. 11, March 6, 2014, p. 61.
4. ^ Neneh Cherry Teams With Jazz Group the Thing
5. ↑ Andreas Busche: AL`Arme! -Festival in Berlin: The Cherry Thing: Perfect Unit. In: fr-online.de . July 20, 2012, accessed January 5, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Tim Caspar Boehme: New album "Blank Project": Stay relaxed with Neneh Cherry. In: Spiegel Online . March 5, 2014, accessed January 5, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Neneh Cherry releases new video "Kong" - ByteFM Blog. Retrieved on August 20, 2018 (German). 
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US

Web links

Commons : Neneh Cherry  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Neneh Cherry at SoundCloud
• Neneh Cherry at Discogs (English)
• Neneh Cherry at laut.de
• Neneh Cherry in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Jude Rodgers: Neneh Cherry: Jazz can be the way you make love (2012) in The Guardian