FEATURE:
The Lockdown Playlist
PHOTO CREDIT: Sarah Lee/The Guardian
Neneh Cherry’s Greatest Cuts
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I do like a birthday Lockdown Playlist…
and, as Neneh Cherry, celebrates her birthday today (10th March), I want to compile her best songs. I a big fan and have been following her since the 1990s. I think her debut album, Raw Like Sushi of 1989, is one of the best of the decade. If you do not know much about Neneh Cherry, then here is some information:
“Neneh Mariann Karlsson (born 10 March 1964), better known as Neneh Cherry, is a Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper, occasional DJ and broadcaster. Her musical career started in London in the early 1980s, where she performed in a number of punk and post-punk bands in her youth, including The Slits and Rip Rig + Panic.
Cherry has released five studio albums under her own name. Her first, Raw Like Sushi, was released in 1989 and peaked at number three on the UK Album Chart, thanks in large part to the worldwide hit single "Buffalo Stance". Her second studio album was 1992's Homebrew. Four years later she released Man, with her next studio album, Blank Project, coming in 2014. Her most recent album, Broken Politics, was released in 2018.
In addition to releasing these studio albums, she formed the band cirKus in 2006 and has collaborated with The Thing, releasing an album entitled The Cherry Thing in 2012.
Cherry has won two Brit Awards and an MTV Europe Music Award (with Youssou N'Dour). She has also been nominated for a Grammy Award”.
To nod to one of the finest artists and songwriters in the world, this Lockdown Playlist is a collection of Neneh Cherry gold. I may have done a similar playlist before but, as I do not need much of an excuse to talk about Cherry, I wanted to put together a new playlist for her birthday. Sit back and enjoy some…
SERIOUSLY brilliant music.