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Neneh Cherry Net Worth, Age, Height, Bio, Birthday, Wiki!

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Updated on January 08, 2026

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Neneh Cherry Biography

Neneh Cherry is one of the most popular and richest Rapper who was born on March 10, 1964 in Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden. Songwriter, singer, rapper and songwriter, whose song “Buffalo Stance”, reached #3 on the U.K. Singles chart.

A hit duet she released with Michael Steipe, “Trout”, became a staple on college radio stations.

Neneh Mariann Karlsson (born 10 March 1964), better known as Neneh Cherry, is a Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper, occasional DJ and broadcaster. Her musical career started in London in the early 1980s, where she performed in a number of punk and post-punk bands in her youth, including The Slits and Rip Rig + Panic.

Cherry’s parents, Moki and Don Cherry, bought and converted an old schoolhouse in the countryside outside the small town of Hässleholm in Sweden in 1970. In the early 1970s, the family moved to the United States, when Don Cherry taught at Dartmouth College. Cherry dropped out of school at 14 and moved to London.

Born in Stockholm, Sweden, she was raised by Don Cherry, an American jazz musician and her mother, who is a painter and visual artist. She is the mother of She was born in Stockholm, Sweden, raised by her adoptive father Don Cherry, an American jazz musician, and her mother, a painter and visual artist. She has three children who all became musicians in their own right, Mabel, Naima and Tyson. and Naima, who each became musicians.

NameNeneh Cherry
First NameNeneh
Last NameCherry
OccupationRapper
BirthdayMarch 10
Birth Year1964
Place of BirthStockholm
Home TownStockholm County
Birth CountrySweden
Birth SignPisces
Full/Birth Name
FatherNot Available
MotherNot Available
SiblingsEagle-Eye Cherry, Titiyo, David Ornette Cherry, Christian Jon Cherry, Cherno Jah, Jan Cherry
SpouseCameron McVey , Bruce Smith
Children(s)Mabel, Naima Karlsson, Tyson McVey

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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Cherry began a solo career in 1982 with “Stop the War”, a protest song about the Falklands War. She worked with Jonny Dollar, The The and Cameron McVey (aka Booga Bear), who co-wrote most of her 1989 debut album Raw Like Sushi, and whom she later married. She was intimately involved in the Bristol Urban Culture scene, working as an arranger on Massive Attack’s Blue Lines album, through which she met Dollar. Both Robert Del Naja and Andrew Vowles of Massive Attack contributed to Raw Like Sushi.

Neneh Cherry Net Worth

Neneh Cherry is one of the richest Rapper from Sweden. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Neneh Cherry's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In her early years, she was involved in punk and soul music. Later, she began rapping solo in London nightclubs.

Milli Vanilli was Milli Vanilli’s nominee for the Grammy Award in 1990 for Best New Artist. Due to lip-syncing scandals, the award was withdrawn from the winning duo.

Cherry was born as Neneh Mariann Karlsson in Stockholm, Sweden, the daughter of Monika “Moki” Karlsson (1943–2009), a Swedish painter and textile artist, and the musician Ahmadu Jah (1936–2018). Jah was born in Sierra Leone, West Africa, the son of a tribal chief, and went to Stockholm to study engineering at university.

Net Worth$5 Million
SalaryUnder Review
Source of IncomeRapper
CarsNot Available
HouseLiving in own house.

In 1983, Cherry married drummer Bruce Smith and had a daughter, Naima. They divorced in 1984. Naima is a London-based photographer, who had a son named Louis Clyde Flynn Love (who goes by Flynn) in 2004.

In 1986, Cherry met producer Cameron “Booga Bear” McVey at Heathrow Airport. Cherry and McVey were en route to Japan as fashion models as part of London designer Ray Petri’s Buffalo Posse. Cherry proposed, and the couple married in 1990. Cherry and McVey have two daughters: Tyson, born in 1989, and singer Mabel, born in 1996. Cherry and McVey have a collaborative work relationship: McVey produced and co-wrote Raw Like Sushi. Together they have supported a variety of British acts and they were in the group cirKus together. Cherry has a stepson, Marlon Roudette (former frontman of Mattafix), via McVey’s prior relationship with Vonnie Roudette.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Neneh Cherry height 5 ft 8 in Neneh weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Height5 ft 8 in
WeightNot Known
Body MeasurementsUnder Review
Eye ColorNot Available
Hair ColorNot Available
Feet/Shoe SizeNot Available

Since the late 1980s, Cherry has frequently worked with the stylist and jewelry designer Judy Blame.

To date, Cherry has released five studio albums under her own name. Her first, Raw Like Sushi, was released 1989 and peaked at number three on the UK Album Chart, thanks in large part to the worldwide hit single “Buffalo Stance”. Her second studio album was 1992’s Homebrew. Four years later she released Man, with her next studio album, Blank Project, coming in 2014. Her most recent album, Broken Politics, was released in 2018.

Who is Neneh Cherry Dating?

According to our records, Neneh Cherry married to Cameron McVey , Bruce Smith . As of December 1, 2023, Neneh Cherry’s is not dating anyone.

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The single “Buffalo Stance” eventually peaked at number 3 in the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100, and number 1 on the US Dance chart. More singles released between 1988 and 1990 included “Manchild”, “Kisses on the Wind”, “Heart”, and “Inna City Mama”. She also found success with “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”, a reworking of the Cole Porter song, which appeared on the Red Hot + Blue AIDS fundraising album. The single reached number 25 in the UK. Cherry was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1990 in the Best New Artist Category; she lost out to Milli Vanilli, who later had their Grammy revoked when it was discovered that they had not performed on their recording. She won a Brit Award in 1990 for Raw Like Sushi.

Facts & Trivia

Neneh Ranked on the list of most popular Rapper. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Sweden. Neneh Cherry celebrates birthday on March 10 of every year.

Cherry’s second album was 1992’s Homebrew. Homebrew was not as commercially successful as its predecessor. The album had some success on various Billboard charts with songs “Buddy X” and “Trout”.

Where is Neneh Cherry today?

The family has a country house near Birmingham and Wolverhampton, apartments in London and Stockholm, plus the family home in the old schoolhouse in Skåne County that she and her half-brother inherited when their mother died in 2009. As of 2014, Cherry says she commutes between London and Stockholm.

Is Neneh Cherry related to Eagle-Eye Cherry?

Eagle-Eye Cherry, the singer best known for his hit single Save Tonight, comes from a musical family: his father was jazz musician Don Cherry, his sister is singer-songwriter Neneh Cherry and his niece, Mabel, is also a pop star.

What ethnicity is Neneh Cherry?

Cherry was born in Stockholm. A biracial woman, Cherry’s father is from the Sierra Leone in West Africa and her mother, Moki, is from Sweden. However, she was raised by the African American jazz musician Don Cherry (1936-1995), whom her mother married early in her life.

Who is Neneh Cherry related to?

Cherry has not talked much about her father before. Her stepfather Don Cherry, the jazz musician, has always played a more prominent role both in her life and her musical narrative. But she says she met her biological father, Ahmadu Jah, when she was around eight years old and that he had a major impact.

How old is Neneh Cherry now?

58 years (March 10, 1964)

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