NENEH CHERRY – New Memoir ‘A THOUSAND THREADS’ Out Now
Born in Sweden in 1964, NENEH CHERRY‘s father was a musician
from Sierra Leone. Her mother was a twenty-one-year-old Swedish
textile artist.
Her parents split up just after Neneh was born, and not long afterwards her mother
met and fell in love with acclaimed jazz musician Don Cherry. Eventually, the strong pull New York City in the 1970s drew him them there, but they made a home wherever they traveled. Neneh and her brother Eagle-Eye experienced a life of creativity, freedom, and,
of course, music.
In A Thousand Threats, Neneh takes readers from the charming old schoolhouse in
the woods of Sweden where she grew up, to the village in Sierra Leone that was birthplace of her biological father, to the early punk scene in London and New York, to finding her identity with her stepfather’s family in Watts, California.
Neneh has lived an extraordinary life of connectivity and creativity and she recounts in intimate detail how she burst onto the scene as a teenager in the punk band The Slits,
and went on to release her first album in 1989 with a worldwide hit Buffalo Stance.
Neneh‘s inspiring and deeply compelling memoir both celebrates female empowerment and shines a light on the global music scene–and is perfect for anyone interested in the artistic life in all its forms.
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