Eagle-Eye Lanoo Cherry
(born 7 May 1968) is a Swedish singer and stage performer. His 1997 single "
Save Tonight
"Save Tonight" is a song by Swedish rock musician Eagle-Eye Cherry, released on 7 October 1997 as the lead single from his debut album, ''Desireless'' (1997). It is the album's opening track and gained substantial radio success, reaching number ...
" achieved commercial success in Ireland, the United States and the United Kingdom, and was voted song of the year in New Zealand. Cherry is the son of American jazz artist
Don Cherry
Donald Stewart Cherry (born February 5, 1934) is a Canadian former ice hockey player, coach, and television commentator. Cherry played one game in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Boston Bruins, and later coached the team for five se ...
and Swedish artist and designer
Moki Cherry
Moki Cherry (born Monika Marianne Karlsson; 8 February 1943 – 29 August 2009) was a Swedish interdisciplinary artist and designer who worked in textiles, fashion design, woodworks, painting, collage, ceramics and set design. Her practice traver ...
.
He pursued acting during high school, though Cherry's acting career was eventually set aside as his musical career took precedence in his life with his debut album ''
Desireless
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'' (1997). He has released several other albums since his debut, and has co-written for other artists and films, and has guest-starred on reality television. Cherry's music is of the
acoustic,
rock
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,
post-grunge
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and
alternative rock
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genres.
He is fluent in both English and
Swedish
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.
Early life
Cherry was born on 7 May 1968, in
Stockholm
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, Sweden,
[ the son of American ]jazz
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artist Don Cherry
Donald Stewart Cherry (born February 5, 1934) is a Canadian former ice hockey player, coach, and television commentator. Cherry played one game in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Boston Bruins, and later coached the team for five se ...
and Swedish
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painter/textile artist Monika Cherry (''née'' Karlsson). Of Choctaw
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descent through his paternal grandmother and African-American through his grandfather, Cherry is the fourth of five siblings. He is the half-brother of singer Neneh Cherry
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 roc ...
(his mother's daughter with Ahmadu Jah). Other half-siblings are violinist Jan Cherry, Christian Cherry, and jazz musician David Ornette Cherry. At the age of 12, Cherry was sent to school in New York City. He remained there to work as an actor and a drummer in various bands. At 16, he enrolled in the High School of Performing Arts
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in New York in the same class as Jennifer Aniston
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and Chaz Bono.
Career
In 1988, Cherry was credited as "Teenager" in the film '' Arthur 2: On the Rocks''. In 1989 he was credited as "Vet #1" in Born on the Fourth of July. In 1993 he starred on the short-lived NBC
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action/adventure television show ''South Beach
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''.
Cherry's father died in 1995. He returned to Stockholm to focus on his music rather than an acting career. He began writing and recording his debut album, ''Desireless
Claudie Fritsch-Mentrop (born 25 December 1952), known by her stage name Desireless (), is a French singer. Between 1986 and 1988, her hit single " Voyage, voyage" made it to number one on many European and Asian single charts.
According to ...
'', in his bedroom studio on an acoustic guitar. According to manager Tommy Manzi, Cherry's perfectionism made him keep the recordings under wraps until the album was virtually complete. The album became a commercial success throughout the world. ''Desireless'' sold four million copies worldwide and was certified platinum
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in the United States.
Cherry co-wrote and sang on "Wishing It Was" on Santana
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's 1999 album ''Supernatural
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'', as well as in films such as Wim Wenders
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' '' The Soul of a Man'', ''Y tu mamá también
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'', ''The Love of the Game'', ''GO'', '' Best Laid Plans'', ''Holes
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'', ''Billy Elliot
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'' and ''Over Her Dead Body
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''. Some of his best-known songs include "Save Tonight
"Save Tonight" is a song by Swedish rock musician Eagle-Eye Cherry, released on 7 October 1997 as the lead single from his debut album, ''Desireless'' (1997). It is the album's opening track and gained substantial radio success, reaching number ...
", " Falling in Love Again", " Are You Still Having Fun?", "Long Way Around", "Feels So Right", "Skull Tattoo" and "Don't Give Up".
On 27 November 2012, he appeared as musical guest on ''The Voice of Romania
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''. His fifth album, ''Streets of You'', was released on 26 October 2018.
Discography
Studio albums
Live albums
Singles
Featured singles
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
Official website
archived at the Wayback Machine
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(last updated January 2014)
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1968 births
Living people
English-language singers from Sweden
MTV Europe Music Award winners
People of Choctaw descent
Singers from Stockholm
Swedish male singers
Swedish people of African-American descent