Cherilyn Sarkisian, better known by her stage name Cher, is an actress and singer from the United States. She is known as the “Goddess of Pop.” In 1965, she rose to fame as one half of the folk-rock husband-and-wife duet Sonny & Cher. She is noted for her unusual contralto singing voice and for working in a variety of entertainment fields over the course of her six-decade career. In 1966, she pursued a solo career at the same time. She is one of the best-selling musicians of all time, with over 100 million albums sold worldwide. In the 1970s, she became a television personality and a fashion innovator. She first appeared on Broadway in 1982 and has since acted in a number of critically praised films. She has received multiple awards, including a Grammy, an Emmy, an Academy Award, and three Golden Globes. Her political beliefs, humanitarian initiatives, and social engagement, particularly LGBT rights and HIV/AIDS prevention, are also well-known. Her Instagram account has almost 1.1 million followers.

What is Cher’s Net Worth?

Cher has been a spokesperson for a number of companies and has been in commercials for health, beauty, and diet goods. She has also dabbled in the fashion sector as a fashion trendsetter. Her 2005 Farewell Tour, which grossed $250 million, is one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time.

What is Cher Famous For?

• Referred to as the Goddess of Pop.
• One of the best-selling music artists of all time.
• Only the artist to have a number-one single on Billboard chart in six consecutive decades from the 1960s to the 2010s.

Where was Cher Born?

Cher was born on May 20, 1946, in New York City. Cherilyn Sarkisian is her given name. She has a mother, Georgia Holt, and a father, John Sarkisian. Her hometown is El Centro, California in the United States, where she was born. She is an American citizen. Taurus is her zodiac sign. Her father was of Armenian origin, and her mother was of Irish, English, German, and Cherokee descent. When she was ten months old, her parents split. Her mother later married John Southhall, an actor. Georganne, her mother’s half-sister, is the result of her mother’s second marriage. Her mother was a part-time model and actress who got her girls acting roles as extras on television shows. When she was nine years old, her mother and Southall split up.

Gilbert LaPierre, a bank manager, married her mother. Cher and Georganne were adopted by LaPierre and enrolled at Montclair College Preparatory School in Encino. In school, she was bright and inventive. She did exceptionally well in both French and English studies. Cher dropped out of high school when she was sixteen years old. She moved to Los Angeles with a friend after leaving her mother’s house.

Career Start:

She began taking acting classes after relocating to Los Angeles. She worked as a dancer in small bars to make ends meet.

In November 1962, she met musician Sonny Bono. Sonny was employed by Phil Spector, a record producer. “Ringo, I Love You,” her first hit, was produced by Spector. Her first single was a commercial failure. Bonnie Jo Mason was the name she used for her first song.

Cher pushed Sonny to perform with her because she had stage fright and he wanted to promote her as a solo artist.

In late 1964, they formed the Caesar and Cleo duo.

“The Letter” is the duo’s first single.

“Do You Wanna Dance?” “Love is Strange,” and “Let the Good Times Roll” were all badly received singles.

In early 1965, the pair adopted the moniker Sonny & Cher.

In 1965, the duo’s hit “I Got You Babe” achieved number one on the American and British charts, catapulting them to fame.

solo career

In 1964, she pursued her solo career at the same time.

Look at Us, Sonny and Cher’s debut album, was released in 1965.

All I Really Want to Do, her debut album, was released in 1965 and peaked at number 16 on the Billboard 200.

Between 1965 and 1972, Sonny and Cher had ten Billboard top 40 songs, including five top ten hits: “I Got You Babe,” “Baby Don’t Go,” “The Beat Goes On,” “All I Ever Need Is You,” and “A Cowboy’s Work Is Never Done.”

In the early 1980s, she created the “Black Rose” band. Black Rose was the band’s first and only self-titled album.

Around 1982, she took a break from music to concentrate on her acting career.

In 1987, she returned to music.

To date, she has sold more than 100 million records worldwide.

Sonny and Cher have recorded five studio albums, four compilation albums, one soundtrack album, two live albums, and twenty-one singles as a pair.

They’d sold 40 million records all over the world.

She has 26 studio albums, 9 compilation albums, 4 soundtrack albums, and 3 live albums to her credit as a solo artist.

As a solo artist, she has four number one hits, 12 Top 10 songs, 22 Top 40 singles, and a total of 33 charting singles.

Sonny & Cher have five number one hits, 17 Top 10 singles, 32 Top 40 singles, and 51 singles that have peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 as a pair.

Her 2005 Farewell Tour, which grossed $250 million, is one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time.

Film Career:

In the 1967 television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., she made her acting debut.

In the 1965 picture Wild on the Beach, she made her cinematic debut in a little role.

She moved to New York in 1982 with the intention of taking acting lessons from Lee Strasberg, but her intentions changed and she never enrolled.

In 1982, she made her Broadway debut as Jimmy Dean in Robert Altman’s Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean.

Chastity, Silkwood, Mask, Suspect, The Witches of Eastwick, Moonstruck, Mermaids, Faithful, Tea with Mussolini, Stuck on You, Burlesque, Mamma Mia!, Mamma Mia!, Ma Among other things, there’s Here We Go Again.

Awards and Achievements:

She is one of the few performers who have won three of the four major entertainment awards in the United States (EGOT – Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony).

Cher has received numerous awards, including a Grammy, an Emmy, an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Cannes Film Festival Award.

Her honorary awards include the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Society’s Woman of the Year Award in 1985, the Vanguard Award at the 1998 GLAAD Media Awards, the Legend Award at the 1999 World Music Awards, a special award for influence on fashion at the 1999 CFDA Fashion Awards, the Artist Achievement Award at the 2002 Billboard Music Awards, and the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2003 Billboard Music Awards.

In 2010, she was honored with the opportunity to have her handprints and footprints etched in cement in the courtyard in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

As half of the duo Sonny & Cher, she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Who is Cher Married to?

Sonny Bono, an American singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and politician, was Cher’s first husband. They met for the first time in November 1962. In October 1964, they held their own unauthorized wedding ceremony in a hotel room in Tijuana, Mexico. In 1969, they married. Chaz Bono was the couple’s only child. Chaz came out as a lesbian when she was 17 years old. Since late 1972, the pair has had marital issues. In 1974, Sonny filed for divorce, and their divorce was formalized in June 1975.

She had a two-year love engagement with record executive David Geffen during her divorce procedures. On June 30, 1975, she married rock singer Gregg Allman, four days after finalizing her divorce from Sonny. After only nine days of marriage, she filed for divorce from Allman. Because of his heroin and alcoholism, she sought for divorce. They did, however, reconcile within a month. Elijah Blue, the couple’s son, was born in 1976. Later, in 1979, the couple divorced.

Sonny Bono, her first husband, died in a skiing accident in 1998.

Her tattoos, plastic surgeries, exhibitionist dress sense, and affairs with younger men, such as Val Kilmer, Eric Stoltz, Tom Cruise, Ron Duguay, Josh Donen, Richie Sambora, and Rob Camilletti, have all sparked controversy.

What are Cher’s Body Measurements?

Cher is 1.74 m tall, which is 5 feet and 8 and a half inches tall. Her body weight is 134.5 pounds, or 61 kilograms. She has a slender physique. 36026036 inches is her physical measurement. Her eyes are hazel, and her hair is black. She is dressed in an 8-inch outfit and 8-inch shoes (US). She has a total of six tattoos on her body.

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