2 on the Billboard Hot 100 on January 3, 1999-nearly a year and a half after its initial debut. It started gaining radio traction quite quickly in Sweden and the Netherlands, the track moved to British and then American radio, rocketing up the charts. Cherry played every character: a man readying for a date, a butcher on the street, a truck driver, and a busker. The song came out to little fanfare, and they shot a low-budget music video in black-and-white on the streets of Stockholm. “Save Tonight” was the lead single on Cherry’s first album Desireless, released in October 1997 in Sweden, where Cherry was living at the time after a stint in New York City. Some of his best known songs include “Save Tonight”, “Falling in Love Again”, “Are You Still Having Fun”, “Long Way Around”, “Feels So Right”, “Skull Tattoo” and “Don’t Give Up”. Desireless sold four million copies worldwide and was certified platinum in the United States.Ĭherry co-wrote and sang on “Wishing It Was” on Santana’s 1999 album Supernatural, as well as in films such as Wim Wenders’ The Soul of a Man, Y tu mamá también, The Love of the Game, GO, Best Laid Plans, Holes, Billy Elliot and Over Her Dead Body. The album became a commercial success throughout the world. Cherry returned to Stockholm to focus on his music rather than the acting career that had taken precedence in his professional life. He began writing and recording his debut album, Desireless, in his bedroom studio on an acoustic guitar. In 1988, he was credited as “Teenager” in the film Arthur 2: On the Rocks. In 1993 he starred on the short-lived NBC action/adventure television show South Beach. 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 in New York in the same class as Jennifer Aniston and Chaz Bono. At the age of 12, Cherry was sent to school in New York City. Other half-siblings are violinist Jan Cherry, Christian Cherry, and jazz musician David Ornette Cherry. He is the half-brother of singer Neneh Cherry (his mother’s daughter). Of Choctaw descent through his paternal grandmother and African-American through his grandfather, Cherry is the fourth of five siblings. Eagle-Eye Lanoo Cherry was born 7th May 1968, in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of American jazz artist Don Cherry and Swedish painter/textile artist Monika Cherry ( née Karlsson).
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