Neneh Cherry
A Thousand Threads: A Memoir
“Neneh is cool, Neneh is wise, Neneh is a legend. Her memoir is a treasure. I loved it.”
Penguin Books, 2024
A deeply personal and powerful memoir from beloved music icon Neneh Cherry
Top of the Pops, December 1988. The world sat up as a young woman made her debut: gold bra, gold bomber jacket, and proudly, gloriously, seven months pregnant. This was no ordinary artist. This was Neneh Cherry.
But navigating fame and family wasn't always simple. In this beautiful and deeply personal memoir, Cherry remembers the collaborations, the highs and lows, the friendships and loves, and the addictions and traumas that have shaped her as a woman and an artist. At the heart of it, always, is family: the extraordinary three generations of artists and musicians that are her inheritance and her legacy.
Musician. Songwriter. Collaborator. Activist. Mother. Daughter. Lover. Friend. Icon. This is her story.
About the Author
Grammy Award–nominated artist Neneh Cherry was born in Sweden. Her musical career started in London in the early 1980s, where she performed in a number of bands including The Slits. Her first album, Raw Like Sushi, was released in 1989 and hit #3 on the charts, with a worldwide hit single “Buffalo Stance.” She has three children and divides her time between London and Stockholm.