Neneh Cherry on Buffalo Stance, family ties and `coke´ for radio plays
(The Guardian Sweden)

The counter-cultural icon contemplates everything from growing up in a commune to walking away from the 80s spotlight and her new album Broken PoliticsOn the train to speak with Neneh Cherry about her fifth album, Broken Politics, I get an email from her publicist. `Just to let you know,` it says, `Neneh´s dad died yesterday.`It is hard to imagine anyone would be in the mood to talk to a journalist after hearing such news. The death of her mother Monica in 2009 floored the musician, something she wrote about on her 2014 album Blank Project (`Since our mother´s gone, it always seems to rain,` she sang on Across the Water); and earlier this year she also lost Judy Blame, the stylist and close friend who was instrumental in her image and helped to create 1989´s iconic Raw Like Sushi cover. Continue reading...