Raw Like Sushi (CD)

Daughter of jazz trumpeter Don and older sister of singer/songwriter Eagle Eye, Swedish-born singer Neneh Cherry first recorded as part of Rip, Rig and Panic, a challenging British avant-jazz-funk band of the early '80s. When that group dissolved, Cherry and several other members reorganized as Float Up CP, releasing one album in 1985. Three years later, Cherry reinvented herself with the far more commercial, yet still adventurous, solo debut RAW LIKE SUSHI. Her fearless combination of rap, pop, jazz and sexual forthrightness was a critical and commercial success, but after one more album, 1992's HOMEBREW, Cherry apparently retired from music.

• Category:  Music  »  R&B  »  Contemporary R&B
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• Release Date: June 1, 1989
• Label: Virgin Records (USA)
• UPC: 077778611622
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106716544
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #46839 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #2436 in R&B (See Top 100 R&B Bestsellers)
• #347 in Contemporary R&B (See Top 100 Contemporary R&B Bestsellers)

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Personnel: Neneh Cherry (vocals); Mushroom, Tim Simenon (DJ); Eagle-Eye Cherry (MC); Jeffrey L. Scantelbury (congas); Booga Bear, Wil Malone, Phil Chill (programming, background vocals); Alvin Moody, Mark Saunders, John Sharpe, The Dynamik Duo, Nick Plytas (programming); Claudia Fontain, Sarah Erde, Gordon Dukes, Chandra Armstead, Jock, Sandy McLelland (background vocals).

Although the Swedish-born Nenah Cherry-daughter of jazz trumpeter Don, older sister of singer/songwriter Eagle Eye-had spent the early '80s as the singer in the UK avant-jazz-funk outfit Rip Rig and Panic and its offshoot Float Up CP, almost nobody had heard of her in the US before this 1988 solo debut. This made the album's impact all the more impressive, as the powerful mix of hip-hop, jazz and pop seemed to come out of nowhere. The inescapable hit "Buffalo Stance," built on samples from Malcolm McLaren's "Buffalo Gals," a solid bass groove and Cherry's tough-girl vocals, is one of the finest pop singles of the late '80s. The rest of the album ranges from the dreamy "Kisses on the Wind" to hard-edged funk. RAW LIKE SUSHI foreshadows the polyglot influences of Soul II Soul and, later, Massive Attack.

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