Neneh Cherry



Neneh Cherry Mariann ( Stockholm, March 10, 1964) is a Swedish singer, who since the late eighties to mid nineties scored several major international hits with a mix of hip hop and other styles.



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[ hide ]  *1 Personal life  ==Personal life [ edit] == Neneh Cherry was born in Stockholm, daughter of Amadu Jah, a Sierra Leon Tibetan drum percussionist, and Monika "Moki" Karlsson, a Swedish painter. Her American stepfather Don Cherry was an influential jazz musician . She has a half brother, the singer Eagle-Eye Cherry, and a half-sister, the singer Titiyo . After she dropped out of school, Cherry moved at sixteen to London, where she started the music.
 * 2 Career
 * 3 Discography
 * 3.1 Albums
 * 3.2 Singles
 * 4 Radio 2 Top 2000

From 1983 to 1984, Cherry was married to the British drummer Bruce Smith, with whom she had daughter Naima. Since 1990 Cherry married the British musician-producer Cameron McVey (aka "Booga Bear"), with whom she had daughters Tyson and Mabel. Her stepson Marlon Roudette is the frontman of the British duo Mattafix . The family lives in Sweden. ==Career [ edit] == Cherry initially played in several bands, but in the early eighties she began a solo career with the song Stop the war, a protest song against the Falklands War . Her big break came a few years later when she with Buffalo Stance a number 1 hit scored as the Netherlands. The song is taken from her debut album Raw Like Sushi 1989.

The years that followed several hits, including from her second studio album, Homebrew, 1992. That same year, she was temporarily disabled by Lyme disease . In 1994 she came back and she scored a big hit with seven seconds, a collaboration with the Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour . In 1996 its preliminary latest album, Man . She is after that time still as a guest vocalist heard on albums Speech, Gorillaz, Pulp and cirKus. ==Discography [ edit] == ===Albums [ edit] === ===Singles [ edit] === ==Radio 2 Top 2000 [ edit] ==