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
I'm 50. And I'm not ever really worried about being trendy.
frank respect
Frank Ocean is our modern-day Marvin Gaye. In our house, we have nothing but respect for him.
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.
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.
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.
found images strong
I always found very strong images for my songwriting in New York.
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.
amazing bits dragon fresh harmless lovely pressed side tour vibe voice
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.
absorb america black buy consume everybody hair pull sheen watch weird
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.
anywhere belonged belonging dreamt growing grown kids maybe mixed playing street suppose time
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.
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.
sit
To me, a song is a song when you can sit in a room and just sing it from end to end.
good
I've never been very good at fitting into boxes.
amazingly trained
I'm not an amazingly trained soul singer, so with me it's about feeling and energy and spontaneity - that's a really big part of who I am.