Neneh Cherry

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Born as Neneh Mariann Karlsson, Neneh Cherry lived the first years of her life in the small Swedish town Hässleholm, before the family started following her stepfather on his tours. The Cherry family nestled into a small apartment on East 9th Street in New York City in the early 1970s. Moki Cherry currently resides in Garden City New York and works in New York City. The Cherry McVey clan settled into the North London suburb Primrose Hill several years ago and split their time between the UK and Sweden.

Cherry began performing after dropping out of school at 14 and moving to London, where she joined the punk rock band The Cherries. Cherry moved through several bands, including New Age Steppers, The Slits and Rip Rig & Panic later Float Up CP. She was close friends with Ari-Up and was married to Bruce Smith.



She began a solo career with "Stop the War" (a protest song about the Falkland Islands). She also worked with The The and musician Cameron McVey (a.k.a. Booga Bear), who co-wrote most of her debut album Raw Like Sushi, and whom she would eventually marry. She was intimately involved in the Bristol Urban Culture scene, working as an arranger on Massive Attack's Blue Lines album and helping out in various other ways in the scene. Famously, she gave birth while Shara Nelson was recording the vocals for the album in the same house. Robert Del Naja and Andrew Vowles of Massive Attack had in turn contributed to Raw Like Sushi.



Her single "Buffalo Stance" was an international blockbuster and she caused controversy when she performed the song - complete with gyrating choreography - on UK television show Top Of The Pops while very heavily pregnant. Buffalo Stance eventually peaked at number 3 on the UK pop charts and number 1 on the American Dance charts, becoming one of 1988's biggest club anthems.



More singles released between 1988 and 1990 included the slower "Manchild," "Kisses On The Wind," "Heart," and "Inna City Mama." She also found success with "I've Got U Under My Skin," a dramatic reworking of the Cole Porter song, which appeared on the Red Hot + Blue AIDS fundraising album. Lyme disease kept her away from the limelight until 1992.



Her second solo outing was Homebrew. Led by the single "Money Love", it was not as commercially successful as its predecessor, but received great critical acclaim. The album met with some success on the dance charts (with "Buddy X," which would become an even bigger hit years later in a remix by Dreem Teem) and on college radio (with "Trout," a duet with Michael Stipe). The album also included a contribution from Gang Starr.



Her most recent albums are 1996's Man, and Neneh Chérie Remixes, a remix album of Man songs released in 1997.

In 2006, Cherry announced the formation of a new band, cirKus. In addition to Cherry, CirKus members are :



* Burt Ford a.k.a. Cameron McVey and boogabear (Neneh's husband)

* Lolita Moon (sometimes called Lola Moon)

* Karmil a.k.a. Matt Kent



The band's first album, Laylow was released in France in 2006.



Cirkus feat. Neneh Cherry will tour through the summer and autumn of 2007 appearing in Canada, France, Belgium and Germany.