Cher ( born Cherilyn Sarkisian; May 20, 1946)
is an American singer and actress. Described as embodying female autonomy in a
male-dominated industry, she is known for her distinctive contralto singing
voice and for having worked in numerous areas of entertainment, as well as
adopting a variety of styles and appearances during her five-decade-long
career, which has led to her being nicknamed the Goddess of Pop.
Cher gained
popularity in 1965 as one-half of the folk rock husband-wife duo Sonny & Cher after their song "I Got You Babe" reached number one on the American and British
charts. She began her solo career simultaneously, releasing in 1966 her first
million-seller song, "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)". She became
a television personality in the 1970s with her shows The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, watched by over
30 million viewers weekly during its three-year run, and Cher. She emerged as a
fashion trendsetter by wearing elaborate outfits on her television shows. While
working on television, she established herself as a solo artist with the U.S. Billboard Hot 100chart-topping
singles "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves", "Half-Breed", and "Dark Lady". After her
divorce from Sonny Bono in 1975, Cher
launched a comeback in 1979 with the disco-oriented album Take Me Home and earned $300,000 a week for her 1980–82 residency show in Las Vegas.
In 1982, Cher made
her Broadway debut in the play Come Back to the
Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean and starred in the film adaptation of the same title. She subsequently earned
critical acclaim for her performances in films such as Silk wood (1983), Mask (1985), and Moonstruck (1987), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She then revived
her musical career by recording the rock-inflected albums Cher (1987), Heart of Stone (1989), and Love Hurts (1991), all of which yielded several successful
singles. She reached a new commercial peak in 1998 with the album Believe, whose title track became the biggest-selling single of all time
by a female artist in the UK; it features the pioneering use of Auto-Tune, also known as the
"Cher effect". Her 2002–05 Living Proof: The Farewell Tour became one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time, earning $250 million. In 2008, she
signed a $180 million deal to headline the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for three years. After seven years
of absence, she returned to film in the 2010 musical Burlesque. Cher's first studio album in
12 years, Closer to the Truth (2013), became her highest-charting solo album
in the U.S. to date at number three.
Cher has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, a special CFDA Fashion Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Cannes Film Festival Award, among several
other honors. Throughout her career, she has sold 200 million records
worldwide. She is the only artist to date to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in each decade from the 1960s to the
2010s. Outside of her music and acting, she is noted for her political views,
philanthropic endeavors and social activism, including LGBT rights and HIV/AIDS prevention.
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