Neneh Mariann Cherry (born Neneh Mariann Karlsson; 10 March 1964) is a Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper, and occasional DJ and broadcaster. Blending hip hop with other influences, Cherry experienced mainstream success with several of her recordings. Cherry was born in Stockholm to a Sierra Leonean father, drummer Amahdu Jah, and a Swedish mother, painter and textile artist Monica Karlsson, later known as Moki Cherry. Her stepfather Don Cherry, an American top jazz musician, helped raise her since birth and she took his surname
◊ ‘I’ve Got You Under My Skin’ ↓ [Cole Porter]
N C ‘s contribution to the AIDS benefit of the Red Hot + Blue organization. [Video by Jean Baptiste Mondino]
Spreadin’ faster than an eye can blink So I had to sit down and take time to think Of how to spread the word to people all across the land To make sure they putting out a helping hand Neneh Cherry notice hurry so it must be told About a group of people left in the cold Caught by a plague slowly they fade From immune deficiency you see called «AIDS» No knowledge of the facts, kept in the dark Scolds my soul and it hurts my heart The young and elderly just running blind Hurts so bad they denied their own kind Papa turned around and said that ain’t mine It just made it hard for life on the line And it’s a shame to see a little child mature Growing up knowing that there ain’t no cure I’ve got you under my skin – I’ve got you under my skin … Pure pain they give me… I had a friend once by the name of MARY JANE Out with the guys and getting high was her only game And now the tears in her eyes, there she lies It drove her crazy, all the boys say that’s it I told you so but you reached the point of no return Instead of pride you take the hardest way you had to learn Oh mommy dearest, don’t you know that I miss her so That’s why I sing this song Just to let her know I’ve got you under my skin – I’ve got you under my skin I’ve got you deep in the heart of me Down so deep in any part of me I’ve got you, got you, got you under my skin I’ve got you deep in the heart of me Down so deep in any part of me I’ve got you, got you, got you under my skin Use your mentality, wake up to reality I’be got you deep in the heart of me Share your love, don’t share the needle.◊ Neneh Cherry ↓ ‘Buddy X’ (video)
◊ ‘Seven Seconds (away)’ ⇓
A song composed by Youssou N’Dour, Neneh Cherry, Cameron McVey and Jonathan Sharp, released in 1994 as a single performed by Youssou N’Dour and Neneh Cherry. It reached the top three in countries including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Australia, Russia and Poland. The single stayed at #1 for 16 consecutive weeks on the French Singles Chart, which was the record of the most weeks at the top at the time. The song also appeared on N’Dour’s album The Guide (Wommat), released shortly after the single. In 1996, it was included on Neneh Cherry’s album Man.
The song is trilingual: N’Dour sings in Wolof, the Senegalese language, and French (plus singing chorus in English), Cherry sings in English.
| “ | «7 Seconds» tells about first seven seconds in the life of a newborn, arguably unaware of problems in the world. | ” |
| —«Neneh Cherry 12 July 2009. | ||
♦ Neneh Cherry ‘s ↓ ‘Manchild’ . . .
Your girlfriend is on another date with the hero in your dream
Turn around, ask yourself. So, you think you’re gonna win this time Manchild?
Is it the pain of the drinking or the Sunday sinking feeling
The car never seems to work when it’s late your girlfriend’s on a date
And the hero with her in your dream in your sleep it seemed to like you
Turn around and ask yourself
Turn around ask yourself
Manchild, look at the state you’re in
Could you go undercover
And sell your brand new lover (could you)
Be someone else for a night
Maybe someone else will love you
You sell your soul for a tacky song
Like the one you hear on the radio
Turn around ask yourself
Turn around and ask yourself
Manchild, look at the state you’re in
Manchild, he will make you cry
Manchild …
You’re working on another man’s car
Or is it in the factory?
It doesn’t matter where you are
Just turn around and ask yourself is this communication
Accentuate the positive and give some illustration
See Manchild, you’re no one, you turn the microphone on
Control communication when I’m kickin’ it and so on
To the point that I need, the air that I breathe
Into an audience that’s waiting and ecstatic to receive-
For the meantime another mean rhyme, I keep on sayin’ it
I know what the time is the crowd will keep playing it
Through the speaker boxes loud’s my diagnosis
‘Cause I believe in miracles and words in heavy doses.
Enough R-E-S-P-E and C-T
Respect yourself express no stress the mike is easy
Just believe that all you need is the air that you breathe.
Turn around ask yourself
Manchild, look at the state you’re in
Manchild, he will make you cry
Manchild …
Once bitten twice shy, why don’t you bite me again
Just take it in the right and go tell your friend
Are you ready for the words I turn the microphone on
A figure of speech to reach you at the back and so on
The style I’m stimulating dance floors
Raise your body temperature now and
This demands for power in the amp you know loud’s my diagnosis
‘Cause I believe in miracles and words in heavy doses.
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∇ ‘So Here I Come’ ⇓
I can see this picture of myself in a green dress I felt lost – The first time I went to school
I was 4 feet 2, 6 feet scared and so distressed
This dress was green, I was the best dressed
I’d ever been, first day at school
I said teacher teacher I know my ABC’s
I want to read and write, I want to understand
Why the sky never ends and why the sky is blue
And not white – right
But when I spoke my heart broke
‘Cause it was plain to see that school
Would never be the picture for my fantasy
I know where I’m going and where I’m coming from – So here I come, so here I come
I know where I’m going and where I’m coming from – So here I come, so here I come
Slowly I came to discover Time, heals, time feels so young
When you’re having fun
At 13 my kiss was sweet and not deep
Covered in blush kiss ‘n tell
My lips were deep red and shiny as hell
In my stairwell kiss «n» love discovered me
Undercover my fantasy my first kiss hit and miss
He wasn’t impressed ‘cause I wouldn’t get undressed
Wrote my name on the wall – my hair was pressed
He had blue balls
If you want to rock you’ve got to roll it – If you gonna live you’ve got to show it
And if you’re gonna do it, you got to do it right – don’t you know it
I know where I’m going and where I’m coming from – So here I come, so here I come
I know where I’m going and where I’m coming from – So here I come, so here I come
On the rooftops I seen panties drop
And thru the windows behind the screens
In the red light after a fight love was made – Love saved
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 – in hell just to go straight to heaven
I might have been lost but now I’m found
I got my two feet on the ground
I know where I’m going and where I’m coming from – So here I come, so here I come . . .
•→ Interview ←[February 24, 2014]
♦ ‘Blank Project’ ↓ [2014]
I got a man, I love him so much
Sometimes, I hate him just can’t let go
Together we stay, divided we fall
Driving me crazy, I need it all
20-year day he is my victim
He is my saviour, he breaks my bone
The things that we say all stacked in one pack
Stay fresh the good one, our protocol
TOO MANY TIMES YOU CAME CRAWLING SAY SORRY TOO LATE
PAPERCUP REGRETS WILL NOT STICK,
BETTER CHANGE!
Need to be right, right to be wrong
Sometimes I lose, I lost down the hall
Leave me alone, but don’t leave me lonely
And please don’t look now,
Can you see this?
Does my ass look big in these new trousers?!
My ego won’t let me, I forgive
I feel so small, I hate you I hate you
I love you I love you – I love it all !
I love it, I love it all!!
TOO MANY TIMES YOU CAME CRAWLING SAY SORRY TOO LATE
PAPERCUP REGRETS WILL NOT STICK,
BETTER CHANGE!
I LOVE YOU! Yeah
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
Husband & wife leaking perfection
All kinds of fun, oceans of pride
We’re super white, we got protection
We got protection
TOO MANY TIMES YOU CAME CRAWLING SAY SORRY TOO LATE
PAPERCUP REGRETS WILL NOT STICK,
BETTER CHANGE!
I love you – I love you – I hate you . . .
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∞ with Robyn ↓ «Out Of The Black»
I’m skippin’ down the street, just tryin’ to mind my business
I’ve got my blinkers on, so … stop I can win this
I see the wolf packs come, but gadin’ on the corners
Hidin’ their cut backs while attend into the mourners
… Behind our back … Wash your mouth … Face the pack!
Out of the BLACK … Out of the BLUE … I just want YOU to want it too!
I mean it, I’m complete, and all my kids are happy –
I feel what’s gone before will come right back and slap me!
I’m Robyn on the microphone into the speaker
You know I’m not sick like that, but I’ve got a fever!
On out toes
To the BLACK … From the RED … We’ll be back!
Out of the BLACK … Out of the BLUE … I just want YOU to want it too!
These are the facts and here is the news
we just want you to want it too! Oh!
∇ Neneh Cherry & The Thing _ ⇓ «A Tribute to Don Cherry» [2012]
• ‘Dream Baby Dream’ (A. Vega & M. Rev)
Dream baby dream, dream baby dream . . . Forever
Dream baby dream, dream baby dream – Baby dream forever
Keep those dreams burning, forever
Keep those dreams burning …
• ‘Golden Heart’ (D. Cherry)
⇐ ‘Slow Train to Dawn‘ ⇐with Matt Johnson (The The_1986)
I followed that bead of sweat to the small of your back,
from the nape of your neck,Lightin’ it up, with every drag upon my cigarette. It can run, but it can’t hide- Like the unspoken feelings on your mind. I’m too tense to be tender, you’re too weak to be true.
You try to make it easier upon yourself,
By makin’ it hard on you! But it’s the lies in your eyes that make me wanna cry– It’s just sometimes I get so lonesome – I could die. I’m just another western guy, with desires that I can’t satisfy
So all the love I gave to you means nothing at all.
Dear God, God, God, this slow train to dawn. Slow train to dawn So are you lying when you say you love me.
I’m lying when I say I don’t– We’ve opened our hearts to let each other look in,
To have and to hold,
but it’s the words that remain unsaid,
that are the words I wanna hear you speak,
I bet the birds start singing, & the sun comes up before we fall asleep– Oh the tears in your eyes, just make me wanna cry,
It’s just sometimes I get so lonesome — I Could Die!!
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