Neneh Cherry publishing her memoir later this year
Swedish musician Neneh Cherry is publishing a memoir, which will detail her remarkable childhood, her work with punk icons The Slits and subsequent rise as a celebrated solo artist.
Titled A Thousand Threads: A Memoir, the new work arrives via Simon and Schuster’s Scribner on October 8th. The book follows the musician’s early childhood in Sweden, including her mother’s marriage to American jazz trumpeter Don Cherry, who helped raise her, and her later move to London, where she cut her teeth as a musician.
The description reads: “In A Thousand Threads, 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.”
Continuing: “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 single ‘Buffalo Stance.'”
According to the synopsis, Cherry’s memoir also “celebrates female empowerment and shines a light on the global music scene,” offering “an inside look at her fascinating career and globe-traversing journeys in a life of love and music.”
Neneh Cherry’s last album, The Versions, arrived in 2022. Consisting of reworked versions of tracks from across her career, it featured the likes of ANOHNI, Greentea Peng, Robyn, Sia and more. Before that, Cherry released Broken Politics in 2018, her second album produced by electronic musician Four Tet. It spawned the singles ‘Kong’ and ‘Natural Skin Deep’.
Listen to Cherry’s ‘Buffalo Stance’ below.
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