Neneh Cherry

4 weeks ago | thehyphen.substack.com | Neneh Cherry |Chloe Dalton |Helen Scales |Emma Gannon

I follow the Women’s Prize with great interest and enthusiasm every year, setting my alarm for the announcements across fiction and non-fiction, and then filling up my Bookshop.org shopping basket with some fantastic new reads. So when Claire, the brilliant executive director of the Women’s Prize Trust, invited me to be a judge for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 2025, I felt like pinching myself. “I am so excited,” I said.

Nov 8, 2024 | libraryjournal.com | Neneh Cherry

. Oct. 2024. 304p. ISBN 9781982161040. $28.99. MEMOIR COPY ISBN Swedish singer-songwriter Cherry shares stories of her life and career. She was born in Stockholm in 1964 to textile artist and painter Monika “Moki” Karlsson and West African musician Ahmadu Jah, who separated six months after her birth. Moki then married American jazz trumpeter Don Cherry.

Nov 1, 2024 | ocregister.com | Erik Pedersen |Neneh Cherry

There’s a voice whispering in my ear, telling me a story. What more could I want? “Tell me a story” is what we beg for as kids to comfort us when we’re scared or bored or unwilling to give in to sleep. And Al Pacino’s just-published memoir “Sonny Boy” has serious storytelling magic. The Oscar-winning actor has had a life: a hardscrabble upbringing in the Bronx with a loving but troubled single mom, a largely absent father and a gang of friends who mostly never made it out of the neighborhood alive.

Oct 18, 2024 | louderthanwar.com | Natalie A. Royle |Neneh Cherry

Alice Cooper | Primal Scream | The MeffsAO Arena, Manchester17th October 2024Fresh from the success of his latest album Road, rock icon, pioneer and rock and roll Hall of Fame inductee Alice Cooper is back in the UK for the first time since 2022 on his Too Close For Comfort arena tour. Louder Than War’s Natalie Royle caught him at Manchester’s AO Arena.

Oct 15, 2024 | booklistonline.com | Neneh Cherry

Oct. 2024. 304p. illus. Scribner, $28.99 (9781982161040); e-book (9781982161095). 782.42. REVIEW. First published October 15, 2024 (). Neneh Cherry was never under the radar. Born in Sweden in 1964, she was raised by her Swedish mother, Moki, a daringly creative young textile artist, and her father, Don Cherry, the renowned African American jazz musician, in a highly conspicuous mixed-race family who turned an old schoolhouse into a home and arts center.