How old is neneh cherry

For 's The Cherry Thing , she fronted the Thing , the experimental Scandinavian jazz trio whose founding mission was to play her stepfather's music. The album mixed originals with imaginative reworkings of songs initially recorded by the likes of Ornette Coleman , the Stooges , Suicide , and indeed, Don Cherry. Another set with Hebden on production, the meditative and undaunted Broken Politics , followed in , and preceded a 30th anniversary expanded reissue of Raw Like Sushi.

AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Cherry's wholehearted commitment to ancestry seems so exotic and non-English. Yet to most of us, she is a major part of British pop history, at the centre of the 90s trip-hop underground, virtually inventing the weed-infused west London sound that eventually produced Lily Allen.

When she started out, the press was more concerned with the fact she went on Top of the Pops seven months pregnant. On the kitchen wall, there's a collage a wedding present from McVey showing the same baby Tyson pasted on a blue sky, her nappy manipulated to form angel's wings.

I was aware of all the entrapments, being suddenly on my own in the spotlight, not working as part of the collective any more. But I remember standing there pregnant, and feeling charged by it — and proud, and very feminine, very woman. I thought, I'm not going to go away. I'm not going to go away. It still seems revolutionary, somehow. Talk to female pop stars the same age as Cherry was then and they continue to see motherhood as a separate life — a dream in the future, a house in the country, a huge brood and an indefinite career break.

Last year, the video to Lily Allen's tricksy comeback single, Hard Out Here, showed her under the scrutiny of a plastic surgeon, protesting: "I've had two babies! In modern motherhood syndrome, there's this pressure of high-level performance: you've got to have a great pregnancy, you've got to go to the gym, go jogging, have an amazing labour.

You must have this whole magnificent, natural childbirth — I mean, thank God you can have an epidural, d'you know what I mean? Then you're supposed to recover really quickly, start training, look great, go to work and juggle all of those things seamlessly. After the success of her album Man , which featured the worldwide hit 7 Seconds with Youssou N'Dour, Cherry stopped making solo albums, but she is frustrated at the idea that she "disappeared".

I knew my kids were growing up fast and I decided to catch those years. That's an option, isn't it — if you want to become more authentic in your life and less of a parody.

Cherry has not talked much about her father before. Her stepfather Don Cherry , the jazz musician, has always played a more prominent role both in her life and her musical narrative. But she says she met her biological father, Ahmadu Jah, when she was around eight years old and that he had a major impact.

In the beginning, perhaps I was a bit confused by how much he loved me and the bond between us. That relationship with her father forms just one part of a childhood unlike any other. In the early s, mother Monica and stepfather Don bought a 19th-century schoolhouse in southern Sweden.

However, that kind of unconventional upbringing brought with it some unsettling moments. Did she ever think that a normal life would have been preferable? By her early 20s, she was regularly being touted as the new Madonna. She had been signed to Virgin as a solo artist and produced one of the great musical crossover albums, Raw Like Sushi, a melding of punk, hip-hop and pop that was light years ahead of its time and from which TV shows and films are still nicking tracks, such is its perennial coolness.

Cherry wrote much of the record with McVey, who would become her husband. In between its release and her winning best international breakthrough and best international solo artist at the Brit awards, she gave birth to her second daughter Tyson, famously performing on Top of the Pops while heavily pregnant. They recorded the album live in Woodstock, New York, with Vortex. The 10 tracks were recorded in five days. Cherry calls it fearless and hardcore.

During a 1 June interview with Kirsty Lang , broadcast as part of the BBC Radio 4's Front Row daily podcast, Cherry discussed the jazz-inspired album, saying that The Thing were inspired by Cherry's stepfather's work, but that the band makes this inspiration their own. I think that's really important," Cherry said.

As of , Cherry says she commutes between London and Stockholm. In addition to releasing these studio albums, she formed the band cirKus in and has collaborated with The Thing, releasing an album entitled The Cherry Thing in The band's first album, Laylow, was released in France in Another track, "Together Now", featured Tricky.

In France, "7 Seconds" made number one for a record 16 weeks in Remixes, a French remix album of Man songs, was released in Additional recognition was attributed to remixes of track "Buddy X". First was the remix by The Notorious BIG, which is considered by some to be "one of the great Biggie rarities in the world.

The song was completed in one take. The Cherry-McVeys have lived throughout Europe. In , they briefly lived in New York City. Soon after moving in, the couple was held up at gunpoint and robbed by a teenage hoodlum.