EASTER HOLIDAYS: A SONG

EASTER HOLIDAYS: A SONG

EAGLE-EYE CHERRY: SAVE TONIGHT

A song from 1997:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxTnqJGS8Os

lyrics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnEdUVBjZfo

A BIT ABOUT EAGLE-EYE CHERRY:

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."

Cherry was christened Eagle-Eye because the first time he looked at his father, he did so with only one eye open. As children, Eagle-Eye and his older sister Neneh spent months on the road with their father, the trumpeter Don Cherry. At the age of 12, Cherry was sent to school in New York, where he stayed on to work as an actor, and a drummer in various bands. 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.
His father died in 1995, and in 1996 he returned to Sweden to begin writing and making his debut album, Desireless, which became a commercial success throughout the world during 1998 and 1999. Desireless went platinum in the United States, selling a total of four million copies worldwide.