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Uploaded by on May 16, 2011

From 1992 Album: "Homebrew".....

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Neneh Mariann Karlsson (born 10 March 1964), known as Neneh Cherry is a Swedish singer-songwriter and rapper of mixed Black African-European descent. Cherry is also an occasional DJ and broadcaster. Cherry blends hip hop with other influences, and experienced some moderate mainstream success with several of her recordings.

Cherry was born to a Sierra Leonean father, drummer Amahdu Jah and a Swedish painter/textile artist mother, Monica Karlsson, known as Moki Cherry. She is the sister of singer Titiyo Jah and half-sister of musician Eagle-Eye Cherry. Her step-father Don Cherry helped raise her since birth and Neneh took his surname. Cherry lived the first years of her life in the in a Hippie Commune just outside the small Swedish town of Hässleholm and later moved to Pudsey, England. At the Commune outside Hässleholm she lived side by side with siblings Shanti Roney (well known Swedish actor) and Marimba Roney (TV-journalist). Regarding her childhood, Cherry said: "My mother is Swedish and she's an artist. She's an amazing lady. When I was a baby and she was going to design school, she used to take me along in a basket!"

In the early 1970s the Cherry family lived in an apartment on East 9th Street in New York. Moki Cherry died in 2009 in Sweden.

Cherry married The Bank drummer Bruce Smith in 1983 and their daughter Naima was also born that year. They divorced in 1984. In 1987 she met producer Cameron McVey at Heathrow Airport. Cherry and McVey were en route to Japan, as fashion models as part of London designer Ray Petri's Buffalo Posse. Cherry proposed, and the two married in 1990. Together they have daughters Tyson, born in 1989, and Mabel, born in 1996. Their relationship is also work-related, as McVey produced and co-wrote Raw Like Sushi; together they have supported a variety of British acts; and they are in the group cirKus together.

In 2004, Cherry became a grandmother when her 19-year-old daughter Naima had son Louis Clyde Flynn Love.

The Cherry-McVeys have lived throughout Europe. In 1993 they moved to Spain. In 1992, they briefly attempted to live in New York. They bought a home in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, New York. Soon after moving in, the couple was held up at gunpoint and robbed by a teenage bandit. The entire family packed up again and headed back to London's Primrose Hill. They next returned to Cherry's childhood home in Sweden; living in the same schoolhouse turned home (featured in Homebrew album artwork) that Cherry studied in as a child. For many years they split their time between the UK and Sweden, but made Sweden their permanent base around 2003. They have country house near Birmingham and Wolverhampton, apartments in London and Stockholm plus the old schoolhouse in Skåne County.

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  • Gang Starr 4 ever, RIP Guru

  • I miss the nineties. NY was golden back then.

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  • RIP guru

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  • dope shit !! ..  real mothafukin jazz old school funk hiphop !

  • what hapened to hip-hop ? so much wack shit coming out nowadays

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  • Is this really a Prem beat? Is he credited?

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