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Her father was from Sierra Leone and her mother from Sweden, but probably the greatest influence on Neneh Cherry's career as an eclectic and distinctively individual singer was her stepfather, the Afro-American jazz trumpeter Don Cherry. Neneh dropped out of school to move to London at the age of 14, joining punk rock band The Cherries. She gained further experience with bands like Rip Rig and Panic, New Age Steppers and Float Up CP as well as DJing on a pirate reggae radio station. She launched her solo career with the protest single 'Stop the War' and made her debut album ...