Eagle Eye Cherry

* First Video: "Are you still having fun"




* Second Video: "Save Tonight"




* Third Video: "Falling In Love Again"




Poised at the brink of innumerable seemingly incompatible contradictions, musician and songwriter Eagle-Eye Cherry not only reconciles them all -– he harnesses the friction and fashions from it a powerful, personal sound that is both accessible and provocative. For instance, Cherry calls Sweden home, although he was born to an iconic American father and has spent a great deal of time in the US. His music is contemplative and intimate, yet has resonated widely and achieved international popular success, most notably via the propulsively seductive single "Save Tonight" and a string of subsequent hit singles in Europe, Australia, South Africa, and Brazil. His newest music seeks to fuse his homespun, handmade roots with a widescreen sense of scope. "I'd hesitate to say there's been a master plan," he reflects on his career and recordings. "But, at the same time, you can definitely trace a journey through my music."

Eagle-Eye's wide-ranging sensibilities and ability to incorporate seemingly contrasting impulses can be at least partially credited to his upbringing and heritage. He is the son of musician Don Cherry, who is often quickly defined as a jazz artist but whose art is in fact much more expansive, incorporating an array of international concepts into a complex tapestry that is only just now beginning to be fully appreciated. "He will probably be the most fascinating person I will have met in my life," Eagle-Eye reflects, still in awe. "Don Cherry wasn't only my father: he was also a great friend who had an amazing perspective on life, very much about living in the now. He will always be a major inspiration in all that I do."

Raised in bucolic, rural southern Sweden – "An unbelievable place; dirt roads and lakes and stuff," Cherry remembers – Cherry left to attend school in Manhattan, where his outgoing personality and quick wit lead him to embrace drama. While he also played drums in a few fly-by-night outfits, acting was his chief concern as he entered his twenties. "After a while," he explains, "I started getting a lot of work, and in New York, the money was really good. It wasn't like I was consciously forgoing the family business, it's just that I was the class clown, and loved acting." Through the triumphs and trials of his sister (and occasional collaborator), trip-hop pioneer Neneh Cherry, Eagle-Eye was privy to both strange mechanizations of the music industry and approached with caution, on his own terms.

As Cherry's sense of self developed, he decided to pursue songwriting more seriously. At the relatively late age of 26, he returned to Sweden and began composing in earnest. "Sweden felt like a safe environment to start in. The apartment I had rented in Stockholm happened to have an acoustic guitar in it," he recalls. "I'd never really played before. I had played drums, and had bought some equipment to help me learn about sampling and programming, but the guitar gave me an outlet of expression and forced me to simplify my ideas."

The eventual result was 1998's debut album Desireless, which began as a European release and slowly extended its reach into an eventual worldwide smash. "It didn't feel like I exploded," he says. "For me, taking every step into consideration, it was a slow build." The irony of the album's humble beginnings did not escape Cherry. "I had made a mellow album, thinking I could tour clubs with an acoustic trio," he says, with a trace of awe still tangible. "I had no idea I would be playing huge radio shows or venues with over 20,000 in attendance." ..



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