1. Neneh Cherry has won two Brit Awards and an MTV Europe Music Award.
39 Facts About Neneh Cherry
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Neneh Cherry's parents separated soon after her birth and her mother married the American jazz musician Don Cherry, who helped raise Neneh.
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Neneh Cherry's half-brother, musician Eagle-Eye Cherry, was born when she was four.
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Neneh Cherry dropped out of school at the age of 14 and moved to London, England.
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Neneh Cherry moved to the United Kingdom when she was 15, in the midst of the punk era, and she remembers finding "her people" there.
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Neneh Cherry felt at home, after ending up there because The Slits invited Don Cherry to go on tour with them with Prince Hammer and Creation Rebel.
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In London, Neneh Cherry joined the punk rock band The Cherries.
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Neneh Cherry moved through several bands, including the Slits, New Age Steppers, Rip Rig + Panic, and Float Up CP.
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Neneh Cherry DJ'd, playing early rap music on the reggae pirate Dread Broadcasting Corporation.
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Neneh Cherry has stated that she found her voice singing along with Poly Styrene from X-Ray Spex.
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Neneh Cherry grew up in a musical family; she remembers singing with her father at the piano.
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Neneh Cherry began a solo career in 1982 with "Stop the War", a protest song about the Falklands War.
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Neneh Cherry worked with Jonny Dollar, the The and Cameron McVey, who co-wrote most of her 1989 debut album Raw Like Sushi, and whom she later married.
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Neneh Cherry was intimately involved in the Bristol Urban Culture scene, working as an arranger on Massive Attack's Blue Lines album, through which she met Dollar.
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Neneh Cherry found success with "I've Got You Under My Skin", a reworking of the Cole Porter song, which appeared on the Red Hot + Blue AIDS fundraising album.
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Neneh Cherry was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1990 in the Best New Artist category.
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Neneh Cherry won a Brit Award in 1990 for Raw Like Sushi.
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Neneh Cherry caused a press furore when she performed "Buffalo Stance" on Top of the Pops while pregnant.
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In January 2015, Neneh Cherry performed as a solo artist in New York City.
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Neneh Cherry is very connected to New York, as she has visited or lived there off and on since 1966.
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On June 10,2022, Neneh Cherry released her next studio album, The Versions.
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The Neneh Cherry Bear Collective, Neneh Cherry's former company with McVey, is called Nomad Productions and is based in west London.
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In 2006, Cherry formed a new band, cirKus, with Cameron McVey, Lolita Moon and Karmil.
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In March 2011, Neneh Cherry collaborated with the experimental jazz group The Thing, to release the record The Neneh Cherry Thing.
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The album The Neneh Cherry Thing was released in June 2012 and was recorded at Harder Sound Studios in London, England and Atlantis Studios in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Neneh Cherry joined them to perform the entire album live at the Manchester International Festival in July 2013.
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The record is an album of 10 tracks that Neneh Cherry wrote with McVey, which they took with only vocals to RocketNumberNine, who then did their musical interpretation to all the tracks.
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Neneh Cherry said she has never really thought of herself as a rapper.
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Neneh Cherry said that while "Buffalo Stance" gave her a mainstream crossover moment in the US, she found the American music industry stiflingly attached to labels and genre identities.
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Neneh Cherry appeared in a non-singing capacity in Big Audio Dynamite's videos for "Medicine Show", and "C'mon Every Beatbox", dancing onstage with others during the band's performance.
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Cherry, a short documentary about Neneh Cherry, was released by The Face magazine on YouTube on 23 March 2022.
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In 1983, Neneh Cherry married drummer Bruce Smith and had a daughter, Naima.
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In 1986, Neneh Cherry met producer and Morgan-McVey member Cameron "Booga Bear" McVey at Heathrow Airport.
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Neneh Cherry and McVey have two daughters: singers Tyson, born in 1989, and Mabel, born in 1996.
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The former was the daughter whom Neneh Cherry was pregnant with on Top of the Pops in 1988 and is featured in the "Manchild" video, while the latter is the singer who has collaborated on singles with Clean Bandit, Tiesto and Joel Corry.
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Neneh Cherry has a stepson, Marlon Roudette, via McVey's prior relationship with Vonnie Roudette.
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In 2014, Neneh Cherry said she was commuting between London and Stockholm.
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Since the late 1980s, Neneh Cherry has frequently worked with the stylist and jewelry designer Judy Blame.
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On her street style, Neneh Cherry cites LL Cool J as an influence, as well as the photographer Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Judy Blame, and designer Ray Petri.