For a long time it looked as if Neneh Cherry didn’t have much interest in keeping her glory days alive – that period in the late Eighties when the Swedish musician was proving women could sing and rap in the same song, and mixing hip hop, dance and pop in a way that would foreshadow everything from Lauryn Hill’s hip hop soul to the melting pot sounds of Massive Attack. She prioritised raising a family over hanging in a buffalo stance, leaving an 18 year gap between her third solo album in 1996 and her fourth in 2014.
In between she occasionally worked with jazz groups such as The Thing and RocketNumberNine and since her return, her concerts have focused mainly on the darker, more cerebral material she has been recording with electronica producer Four Tet. The pop star of the family is now her daughter Mabel, 2020’s winner of the Brit Award for British Female Solo Artist.
