Neneh Cherry
Neneh Cherry
Neneh Mariann Karlsson, better known as Neneh Cherry, is a Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper, and occasional DJ and broadcaster...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionRapper
Date of Birth10 March 1964
CityStockholm, Sweden
CountrySweden
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Some people might be groomed for success; I've just always thought I've got a hell of a lot of things to learn and places to go. Creatively, I couldn't stay on the same treadmill. I chose to be off-centre and do collaborative work.
mixed
The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.
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I've never really thought of my real life - you know, the one I wake up to and fall asleep to at night - as being a pop star's life.
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I was on tour with Little Dragon with the Gorillaz. She's got an amazing voice and is a lovely girl. Her vibe is fresh pressed and harmless fun with a tinge of the dark side if you look in the right bits of the tunes.
hitting life loved
When me and my brother Eagle-Eye were kids, life was about hitting the road, getting on the bus. We loved it.
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I think I've grown up in a mixed environment, and maybe a lot of the time I haven't really belonged anywhere in the way I've dreamt of belonging to, you know, living on the street and playing to all the kids on the street, growing up together. I suppose 'Raw Like Sushi' was a place where all of those things could come together.
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When I was going to school, I just wanted to be like everybody else. I would pull at my hair to try and get it to lie straight. America was where I would consume and absorb black culture, buy Ultra Sheen and watch 'Soul Train,' but I still had that weird in-between thing.
life reconnect time
You come to these thresholds in your life where you need to remember why you do what you do, to reconnect with yourself. When I look back at something like 'Raw Like Sushi,' I think I was very much in the right place at the right time.
found images strong
I always found very strong images for my songwriting in New York.
life nor theirs
I don't live my life through my kids, nor do I expect them to live theirs through mine. But of course, they're everything.
love worked
I love Robyn, not just because we've worked together. I mean, that's why we've worked together - because I love her.
both dreams reflect
Both my parents were working-class and had dreams of making the world a better place. It's pretty powerful, being able to reflect back their beliefs.
frank respect
Frank Ocean is our modern-day Marvin Gaye. In our house, we have nothing but respect for him.
I'm 50. And I'm not ever really worried about being trendy.