Song of the Day
Neneh Cherry: She's a germ free adolescent.
Germ Free Adolescents- Neneh Cherry
When Neneh Cherry was 16 years she moved from her parent's home in Stockholm to London and became immersed in the local London punk scene. Early on Neneh brief stint with one of the ground breaking bands punk rock, the Slits but she rarely stayed in a group longer than a few months. In addition to the Slits, Neneh sang for the Cherries, the Nails, Rip Rig + Panic and Float Up before reinventing herself in 1986 as a hip-hop artist.
This is a 1997 performance by Neneh Cherry performing the X-Ray Spex punk anthem is at a party for a film premier at the Cannes Festival. Neneh's rendition is notable because she sings the song with as much conviction as Poly Styrene the original X-Ray Spex vocalist, and does so in a $15,000 haute couture dress lent to her by French fashion design icon Jean Paul Gaultier for the event. Punk had come a long way from ripped t-shirts, saftey pins and leather jackets by 1997.
Nenah has been recording on and off with Massive Attack and is the featured singer in her husband Cameron McVey's electronica group Cirkus. Cameron was the first manger of Massive Attack and had a lot to do with the production of their debut album
Blue Lines in 1991.