Cher (born May 20, 1946) as Cherilyn Sarkisian , Armenia: ???????? ???????? ) is an American singer and actress. Sometimes called the Goddess of Pop, she has been described as embodying female autonomy in a male-dominated industry. He is known for his distinctive voice kontralanya and has worked in various fields of entertainment, as well as adopt various styles and appearances during his career for six decades.
Cher gained popularity in 1965 as half of the couple's duet Sonny & amp; Cher after their song "I Got You Babe" reached number one on the American and British charts. By the end of 1967, they had sold 40 million records worldwide and had become, according to Time magazine, the "rock" mate. She began her solo career simultaneously, releasing in 1966 with her first millions of songs, "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)". He became a television character in the 1970s with his show The Sonny & amp; Cher Comedy Hour , watched by over 30 million viewers every week for three years running, and Cher . She emerged as a fashion trendsetter by wearing elaborate outfits on her television show.
While working on television, Cher established himself as a solo artist with the U.S. Billboard Hot chart-topping single "Gypsys, Tramps & Thief", "Half-Breed", and "Dark Lady". After his divorce from Sonny Bono in 1975, he launched his comeback in 1979 with the disco album Take Me Home and earned $ 300,000 a week for the 1980-82 residency concert in Las Vegas.
In 1982, Cher made his Broadway debut in Jimmy Dean's Come Back to the Five and Dime drama, Jimmy Dean and starred in the movie adaptation. He then received critical acclaim for his performances in films such as Silkwood (1983), Mask (1985), and Moonstruck (1987), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actress. He then revived his musical career by recording rock-inflected albums Cher (1987), Heart of Stone (1989), and Love Hurts (1991 ), all of which resulted in several successful singles.
Cher reached a new commercial peak in 1998 with the album Believe , the title of the song being the best-selling single of all time by female artists in the UK. It features the pioneering use of Auto-Tune, also known as the "Cher effect". Evidence of Life 2002-2005: The Farewell Tour became one of the best-selling concert tours of all time, earning $ 250 million. In 2008, he signed a $ 180 million deal to head Colosseum's headline at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for three years. Cher's first studio album in 12 years, Closer to the Truth (2013), became the highest solo charting album in the US when it debuted at number three on Billboard 200 In 2018, Cher will return to the film for her first role on screen since 2010 Burlesque , starring in the romantic romantic comedy movie Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again . She will also embark on a tour of Australia-only Here We Go Again, which is her first tour in the country in 13 years.
Cher has won a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and a CFDA Fashion Award, among several other awards. He has sold 100 million records worldwide to date, becoming one of the best-selling music artists in history. He is the only artist to date number one on the Billboard chart in every decade from the 1960s to the 2010s. Outside of his music and acting, he is known for his political views, philanthropic efforts, and social activism, including LGBT rights and HIV/AIDS prevention.
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Cher was born Cherilyn Sarkisian in El Centro, California, on May 20, 1946. His father, John Sarkisian, was an Armenian-American truck driver with drugs and gambling problems; His mother, Georgia Holt (born Jackie Jean Crouch), is an occasional middle-aged model and actress who claims Irish, English, German, and Cherokee descendants. Choe's father rarely came home when he was a baby, and his parents divorced when Cher was ten months old. His mother later married actor John Southall, by whom he had another daughter, Georganne, Kie's stepbrother.
Now living in Los Angeles, Cher's mother started acting while working as a waitress. He changed his name to Georgia Holt and played a small role in movies and on television. Holt also secured acting parts for his daughter as extras on television shows such as The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet . His mother's relationship with Southall ended when Cher was nine years old, but he considered him his father and remembered him as "a kind man who turns aggressively when he drinks too much". Holt remarried and divorced several more times, and he moved his family across the country (including New York, Texas, and California). They often had little money, and Cher told them that they had to use rubber bands to put their shoes together. At one point, her mother left Cher at the orphanage for several weeks. Though they meet each day, both find a traumatic experience.
When Cher is in fifth grade, he produces an Oklahoma musical! for teachers and class. She organizes a group of girls, directs and choreographs their dance routines. Unable to convince a boy to participate, he acts male roles and sings their songs. At the age of nine, he has developed an incredibly low voice. Fascinated by the movie star, Cher's role model is Audrey Hepburn, largely because of her role in the 1961 Breakfast at Tiffany's movie. Cher began to accept the clothing and unconventional behavior of the Hepburn character. He is disappointed with the absence of a black-haired Hollywood actress he can imitate. She wanted to be famous since childhood but felt unattractive and not talented, then commented, "I can not think of anything I can do... I do not think I'll be a singer or a dancer.I just think," I'll be famous. That's my goal. "
In 1961, Holt married bank manager Gilbert LaPiere, who adopted Cher (by the name Cheryl LaPiere) and Georganne, and enrolled them at Montclair College Preparatory School, a private school in Encino, most of whose students come from affluent families. The upscale neighborhood of the school challenges Cher; biographer Connie Berman writes, "[he] stands out from the rest in his flashy appearance and friendly personality." The former classmate commented, "I'll never forget seeing Cher for the first time... He's so special... He's like a movie star, then and there... He says he'll be a movie star and we know he'll do it. "Although not a very good student, Cher is smart and creative, according to Berman. He scores high, excels in French and English classes. As an adult, he finds that he is suffering from dyslexia. Cher achieved fame for his unusual behavior: he performed songs for the students during the lunch hour and surprised friends when he was wearing a bruised top. He then remembered, "I was never really in school, I always thought about when I was raised and famous."
1962-1965: Solo career breakout
At age 16, Cher dropped out of school, left his mother's home, and moved to Los Angeles with a friend. She takes acting classes and works to support herself, dancing in small clubs along Hollywood Sunset Strip and introducing herself to players, managers, and agents. According to Berman, "[Cher] did not hesitate to approach anyone he thought could help him get a pause, make a new contact, or get an audition." Cher met son Son Bono in November 1962 when he worked for record producer Phil Spector. Friends moved in, and Cher accepts Sonny's offer to become her housekeeper. Sonny introduced Cher to Spector, who used him as a backup singer on many recordings, including Ronettes "Be My Baby" and a Fair Brotherhood "" You're Losing That Lovin 'Feelin'. "Spector produced his first single," Ringo, I Love You "which commercially unsuccessful, recorded by Cher by the name of Bonnie Jo Mason.
Cher and Sonny became close friends, finally lovers, and performed their own unofficial wedding ceremony in a hotel room in Tijuana, Mexico, on October 27, 1964. Although Sonny wanted to launch Cher as a solo artist, he encouraged her to perform with her because she had stage fright , and he started joining her on stage, singing harmony. Cher disguises his nervousness by seeing Sonny; she later commented that she was singing to people through her. In late 1964, they appeared as a duo called Caesar & amp; Cleo, released badly received singles "Do You Want Dance?", "Love Is Strange", and "Let the Good Times Roll".
Cher was signed with Imperial Imperial Records at the end of 1964, and Sonny became his producer. The single "Dream Baby", released under the name "Cherilyn", received a screening in Los Angeles. Encouraged by Imperial, Cher worked with Sonny on his second solo single on the label, a cover version of Bob Dylan's "All I Really Want to Do", which peaked at number 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1965. Meanwhile, Byrds has released their own version of the same song. When the competition on the singles chart begins between Cher and Byrds, the group record label begins promoting the B side of the single Byrds. Roger McGuinn of Byrds commented, "We liked Cher's version... We did not want to be a hassle, so we changed our notes." Cher's debut album, All I Really Want to Do (1965), reached number 16 on Billboards 200; it was later described by Sendra AllMusic Team as "one of the stronger folk-pop recordings of that era". 1965-1967: _Sonny_and_Cher's_rise_to_pop_stardom "> 1965-1967: Increase Sonny and Cher into pop stars
In early 1965, Caesar and Cleo began calling themselves Sonny & amp; Cher. After the recording of "I Got You Babe", they traveled to England in July 1965 on the advice of the Rolling Stones; Cher remembers, "[they] have told us... that Americans do not get us and that if we want to be great, we have to go to England." According to author Cintra Wilson, "British newspaper photographers showed up when S & C was expelled from Hilton London [due to their clothes] the night they arrived - really overnight, they were stars.Genese gaga for the before-the-moment visible Display S & amp; C, which is not a mod or a rocker. "
"I Got You Babe" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and became, according to AllMusic's Bruce Eder, "one of my best-selling and beloved pop/rock hits in mid-" 60s "; Rolling Stone included it among the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2003. As the song beat the Beatles from the UK charts, British teenagers began to imitate the styles of Sonny and Cher, such as bel-bottoms, striped pants , disheveled shirts, industrial zippers and fur vests.After they returned to the US, the duo made several appearances on the Hullabaloo teen pop show and Shindig and completed the tour of several the largest arena in the US shows a similar Cher attraction - "the girls who iron their hair straight and color it black, to go with their vests and bell-butts." Cher extends his creative reach by designing a clothing line.
The first album Sonny and Cher, Look at Us (1965), released for Atco Records division Atlantic Records, spent eight weeks at number two on Billboard 200 behind Beatles < i> Please! . Their material became popular, and the duo managed to compete with the dominant British and Motown Invasion of the era. Sonny and Cher charted the top ten top singles between 1965 and 1972, including five top ten singles: "I Got You Babe", "Baby Do not Go", "The Beat Goes On", " All I Need Is You ", and" A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done ". At one point, they had five songs in the top 50 at the same time, a feat just equivalent to The Beatles and Elvis Presley. By the end of 1967, they had sold 40 million records worldwide and became, according to Time magazine Ginia Bellafante, the "it" rock couple.
Cher's release follows his solo career very competitive with his work with Sonny. The Sonny Side of Chà r © r (1966) featured "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)", which reached number two in America and became his first solo single that was worth millions of dollars. ChÃÆ'  © r , also released in 1966, contains the compositions of Burt Bacharach and Hal David "Alfie", which added to the American version credit of the 1966 film of the same name and became the first version of the stateside of the song popular. With Love, ChÃÆ' © r (1967) included songs described by biographer Mark Bego as "small soap opera stories tuned to rock music" like the US top Ten "You Better Sit Down Kids ".
1967-1970: Reaction from the younger generation, first marriage
In the late 1960s, Sonny and Cher music had stopped. According to Berman, "loud and loud noises from groups such as Jefferson Airplane and Cream make the folk-rock music of Sonny and Cher seem too bland." Cher later commented, "I love the new sound of Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, electric guitar-oriented band.Let on myself I will change over time because the music really changes me.But Son [ny] does not like - and that's that. "Their monogamous lifestyle during the period of the sexual revolution and the anti-drug position they adopted at the height of the drug culture eventually made the duo lose their popular appeal among American youth. According to Bego, "despite their revolutionary unisex outfit, Sonny and Cher are quite 'square' when it comes to sex and drugs." In an effort to reclaim their young audiences, the duo was produced and starred in the film Good Times (1967), which was commercially unsuccessful.
Cher's next album, Backstage (1968), where he runs in various musical directions, including Brazilian jazz and anti-war protest arrangements, is not commercially successful. In 1969, he was expelled from Imperial Records. Sonny and Cher have been dropped from Atco; However, the label wanted to sign Cher for a solo album. 3614 Jackson Highway (1969) recorded without Sonny's guidance and combining experiments in soul music; AllMusic's Mark Deming proclaimed it "the best album of his career". Unsatisfied with the 3614 Jackson Highway album, Sonny prevents Cher from releasing more recordings for Atco.
Meanwhile, Sonny was dating another one, and by the end of the 1960s their relationship began to unravel. According to the People magazine, "[Sonny] is trying desperately to win his back, telling him he wants to get married and start a family." They married officially after giving birth on March 4, 1969 to Chastity Bono (later Chaz Bono).
That year, the duo spent $ 500,000 and mortgaged their home to make a movie Chastity . Written and directed by Sonny, who does not appear in the film, he tells the story of a young woman, played by Cher, searching for the meaning of life. Film art fails commercially, putting a $ 190,000 pair in debt with tax returns. However, some critics noted that Cher showed signs of potential acts; The Cue Magazine wrote, "Cher has an amazing quality that often makes you forget the line you hear."
At the lowest point of their career, the duo organize nightclub routines that rely on a more mature approach to sound and style. According to author Cintra Wilson, "Their match is so sad, people start jeering at them, and Cher starts screaming again, Sonny... scolds him, then he'll play Sonny". Heckling is in the spotlight of acting and attracts the attention of viewers. Television executives noted, and the couple began to make guest appearances on prime-time shows, where they presented "new, sophisticated and mature" images. Cher adopted low-cut dresses that became his typical outfit.
1971-1974: Television career breakthrough, first music comeback
CBS program chief Fred Silverman offered Sonny and Cher their own television program after he saw them as the host at The Merv Griffin Show in 1971. The Sonny & amp; Cher Comedy Hour aired as a summer replacement series on August 1, 1971, and had six episodes. Because it was a ranking success, the couple returned in December with a full-time show.
Watched by more than 30 million viewers every week for three years running, The Sonny & amp; Cher Comedy Hour was praised for comedic timings, and ageless Cher taunted Sonny about his looks and his short stature. According to Berman, they "radiate a warm, playful, caring aura that only increases their attractiveness." The audience is increasingly fascinated when the young Holiness also appears on the show, they look like the perfect family. " Cher honed his acting skills in sketches comedy roles such as brash housekeeper Laverne, Rosa's sharp waitress, and historical vampire, including Cleopatra and Miss Sadie Thompson. Bob Mackie's clothing-worn clothes worn by Cher were part of the attraction of the show, and his style influenced fashion trends in the 1970s.
In 1971, Sonny and Cher signed with Kapp Records Division of MCA Records, and Cher released the single "Classified 1A", where he sang from the point of view of a bloody soldier in Vietnam. Written by Sonny, who felt that his first solo single on the label had to be touching and topical, the song was rejected by radio station programmers as non commercial.
Because Sonny's first attempt at reviving their record career as a duo was also unsuccessful, Kapp Records recruited Snuff Garrett to work with them. He produced Singer's first solo number first single, "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves", which "proves that... Garrett knows more about Choe's voice and persona as a singer than Sonny," Bego wrote. Billboard called it "one of the greatest songs of the 20th century". It was featured on the 1971 album ChÃÆ' Â © r (finally re-published under the title Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves ), certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). His second single, "The Way of Love", reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and formed a more confident image as a recording artist.
In 1972, Cher released the all-ballad set of Foxy Lady , showing the evolution of his vocal abilities, according to Bego. After the release of the album, Garrett quit as a producer after disagreeing with Sonny about the kind of material Cher should record. At Sonny's insistence, in 1973 Cher released a standard album called Bittersweet White Light , which was commercially unsuccessful. That year, lyricist Mary Dean brought Garrett "Half-Breed", a song about the daughter of a Cherokee mother and a white father, whom she wrote specifically for Cher. Although Garrett did not have Cher as a client at the time, he was convinced that "it was a blow to Cher and for others", so he held the song for months until he got Cher back. "Half-Breed" is featured on an album of the same name and becomes the sole US solo serial number. Both album and single are certified gold by RIAA.
Single number one single single U.S. was "Dark Lady", in 1974, from her namesake album. Later that year, he released the album Greatest Hits which, according to Billboard magazine, proved that he was "one of the most consistent killers of the past five years", as well as " proven superstar who always sells recordings ".
Between 1971 and 1973, recording career of Sonny and Cher was revived with four albums released under Kapp Records and MCA Records: Sonny & Cher Live (1971), All I Need is You (1972), Mama Is a Rock and Roll Singer, Papa Used to Write All His Songs 1973), and Living in Las Vegas Vol. 2 (1973). Cher then commented on this period: "I can do an entire album... in three days... We are on the way... and we do Sonny & Cher Show". 1973-1979: _Divorce_from_Sonny_Bono, _second_marriage, _decline_of_popularity "> 1974-1979: Divorce from Sonny Bono, second marriage, decreased popularity
Cher and Sonny had marital problems since late 1972, but the appearance was maintained until 1974. "The public still thinks we are married," Sonny wrote in his diary at the time, "[and] so it should be." In February 1974, Sonny proposed a separation, citing "irreconcilable differences." A week later, Cher responds with a divorce lawsuit and accuses Sonny of "unconscious slavery", claiming that he withholds money from him and deprives him of their income. The couple fought in court over Chastity's finances and custody, which was eventually awarded to Cher. Their divorce was completed on June 26, 1975.
In 1974, Cher won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Musical or Comedy Television Series for The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour . That same year, Sonny aired a solo show on ABC, The Sonny Comedy Revue, which brought the creative team behind Sonny and Cher's performances. It was canceled after 13 weeks.
During the divorce process, Cher has a two-year romantic relationship with record executive David Geffen, who freed him from his business arrangements with Sonny, where he is required to work exclusively for Cher Enterprises, the company he runs. Geffen gets a $ 2.5 million deal for Cher with Warner Bros. Records, and he began working on his first album under that label in 1975. According to Bego, "it is their intention that [this album] will make millions of fans around the world take it seriously as a rock star, and not just a pop singer."
Despite Cher's attempts to expand his music by listening to artists like Stevie Wonder, Elton John, James Taylor, Simon Carly, Joni Mitchell, and Bob Dylan, the resulting album Stars commercially and critically unsuccessful. Janet Maslin from The Village Voice wrote, "Cher no rock and roller... Pictures, not music, are the main ingredients of Cher Bono for recording and TV." This album has become a cult classic and is generally regarded as his best work.
On February 16, 1975, Cher returned to television with a solo show on CBS. Called Cher , it started as a special guest with guests Flip Wilson, Elton John, and Bette Midler. The show is produced by Geffen and is centered on songs, monologues, comedy shows, and a variety of outfits, which is the largest weekly TV show. Preliminary critical handling is advantageous; The Los Angeles Times cried out that "Sonny without Cher is a disaster, Cher without Sonny, on the other hand, could be the best thing that happens on the weekly television this season." Cher lasts less than a year, replaced by a new show where she is professionally reunited with her ex-husband Sonny; he said, "do the show yourself more than I can handle."
On June 30, 1975, four days after completing his divorce from Sonny, Cher married rock musician Gregg Allman, co-founder of The Allman Brothers Band. He filed for divorce nine days later because of heroin and alcoholic problems, but they reconciled within a month. They had one son, Elijah Blue, on July 10, 1976. Sonny and Cher's TV reunion, The Sonny and Cher Show, debuted on CBS in February 1976 - the first show ever to star in a divorced couple. Although the show was a success in the premiere rankings, Cher and Sonny insulted the screen banter about their divorce, his reportedly wasteful lifestyle, and his troubled relationship with Allman caused a public reaction that ultimately contributed to the cancellation of the event in August 1977.
Subsequent albums from Cher, I Rather Believe in You (1976) and 1979-1982: Return of second music, shifted from disco music to rock
A single mother with two children, Cher realizes that she has to make choices about the direction of her singing career. Deciding to temporarily abandon his desire to become a rock singer, he signed with Casablanca Records and launched his comeback with single "Take Me Home" and an album of the same name, both of which took advantage of the craze disco. Both album and singles became instant successes, remaining the bestsellers for more than half of 1979, and certified gold by the RIAA. The album's sales may have been driven by Cher's poorly dressed imagery in Viking clothes on the cover. Although initially he was less enthusiastic for disco music, he changed his mind after success, remarking, "I never thought I wanted to do a disco... [but] it's great! It's good music to dance, I think it can dance music is what that everyone wants. "
Driven by the popularity of Take Me Home , Cher plans to return to rock music on his next album, Prisoner (1979). The cover of this album features Cher wrapped in chains as "prisoners of the press", which causes controversy among feminist groups because he is considered a sex slave. He included rock songs, which made the disco release seem unfocused and led to commercial failure. Prisoner produces the single "Hell on Wheels", featured on the Roller Boogie movie soundtrack . The song utilized a roller-skating mode of the late 1970s and contributed to its popularity.
In 1980, along with Italian record producer Giorgio Moroder, Cher wrote his latest Casablanca disco record, "Bad Love", for the Foxes film. He formed the Black Rose rock band that year with his girlfriend, guitarist Les Dudek. Although Cher is the lead singer, he does not receive the top bills because he wants to create the impression that all the band members are the same. Because he is easily recognizable when he performs with the band, he develops a punk appearance with his distinctive long haircut. Despite appearing on television, the band failed to get a concert date. Their album Black Rose received an unfavorable review; Cher told Rolling Stone, "Critics shoot on us, and they do not attack records, they attack me, it's like, 'How dare Cher sing rock & roll?'"
During the active period of Black Rose, Cher simultaneously performs a concert residency in Las Vegas, earning $ 300,000 a week. The television specialist Cherua,... A Celebration at Caesars aired on Lifetime in April 1983. Black Rose broke up in 1981. That year, he released a duet with musician Meat Loaf called "Dead Ringer for Love "which reached number five on the UK Singles Chart and was later described by AllMusic Donald A. Guarisco as" one of the more inspired duets of the 1980s ". In 1982, Columbia Records released the album I Paralyze, which Bego later described as "the strongest and consistent solo album" of recent years "despite the low sales.
1982-1987: breakthrough movie career, musical hiatus
With the decline in album sales and the lack of commercially successful singles, Cher decided to further develop his acting career. While he had previously aspired to explore the movie, he only had films that were critically and commercially unsuccessful Good Times and Chastity for his credit, and the Hollywood company did not consider it serious. as an actress. He moved to New York in 1982 to take acting lessons with Lee Strasberg, founder of Actors Studio, but was never listed after his plans changed. She auditioned and was signed by director Robert Altman for Jimmy Dean's Broadway Cover Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, playing a member of the James Dean fan club that holds a 20-year reunion. That year, Altman threw it again in a movie adaptation of the same title. Cher credits Altman to launch his acting career: "Without Bob [Robert Altman] I will never have a film career Everyone told him not to throw me... I'm sure that Bob is the only one who is brave enough to do me t. "
Director Mike Nichols, who has seen Cher on stage at Jimmy Dean, offered him a portion of Dolly Pelliker, a factory co-worker and lesbian roommate Meryl Streep in the movie Silkwood . When aired in 1983, the audience questioned Cher's ability as an actress. She remembered ever attending a movie preview during the audience laughing when they saw her name on credit. For her performance, Cher won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture.
In 1985, Cher formed the Isis film production company. The next film, Mask (1985), reached number two at the box office and Cher's first critical and commercial success as a leading actress. For his role as a drug addict biker with a young man who suffered severe physical deformity, he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. However, during the filming, he clashed with director Peter Bogdanovich. She attended the 58th Academy Awards in tarantula-like costumes "to show her scorn for 'system'", according to authors James Parish and Michael Pitts. The incident garnered a lot of publicity.
In 1987, Cher received attention for his controversial lifestyle, including tattoos, plastic surgery, fashion sense exhibits, and affairs with younger men. He has romantic relationships with actors Val Kilmer, Eric Stoltz and Tom Cruise, hockey player Ron Duguay, film producer Josh Donen, Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora, and Rob Camilletti, an 18 year old bagel baker he dated from 1986 to 1989. 1983-1992: _Film_stardom, _third_musical_comeback "> 1987-1992: Film fame, third musical comeback >
Cher starred in three films in 1987. In Suspect , he plays as a public defender who was helped and loved by one of the jurors in the murder case he handled. Together with Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer, she starred as one of three divorces involved with the mysterious and wealthy visitor from hell who came to the small town of New England in the comedy horror of The Witches of Eastwick. In the romantic comedy Norman Jewison Moonstruck , he plays an Italian widow who falls in love with his fiancee's younger brother. These last two films were among the top ten most successful films in 1987, each numbered ten and five.
For her performance at Moonstruck, Cher won an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. In 1988, Cher has been one of the most bankable actresses of the decade, for a fee of $ 1 million per film. That year, he released the Unimpeded scent, which earned about $ 15 million in first-year sales.
In 1987, Cher signed with Geffen Records and reinvigorated his musical career with what music critic Johnny Danza and Dean Ferguson have said as "his most impressive hit series to date", establishing him as a "serious rock and roller...... he worked hard and long to perpetuate it ". Michael Bolton, Jon Bon Jovi, Desmond Child, and Richie Sambora produced their first Geffen album, Cher , which was certified platinum by the RIAA. It features ballad rock "I Found Someone", the first single in the US ten in over eight years.
The 19th studio album Michael Heart of Stone (1989) was certified triple platinum by the RIAA. The music video for his second single, "If I Could Turn Back Time", caused controversy because Cher's appearance on a Navy warship, straddling a cannon, and wearing a leather thong that revealed tattooed buttocks. The song topped the Australian charts for seven weeks, reaching number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and became one of Cher's's most successful singles. Other songs from Heart of Stone to reach the top ten are "After All", duets with Peter Cetera, and "Just Like Jesse James". At the 1989 People's Choice Awards, Cher won the Favorite All-Around Women's Stars Award. He started the Stone Heart Tour in 1990. Most critics love the nostalgic nature of the tour and admire the skills of the drama performances. Her special television show Cher in Mirage (1991) was filmed during a concert in Las Vegas.
In his first film in three years, Mermaids (1990), Cher honors his own mother in this story about a woman who moves her two daughters from city to city at the end of a love affair. He was in conflict with the first two film directors, Lasse HallstrÃÆ'¶m and Frank Oz, who was replaced by Richard Benjamin. Believe Cher will be the star attraction, the producers let his creative control for the film. Mermaid is a moderate box office success and receives mixed reviews. One of Cher's two songs was recorded for the movie soundtrack, "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)", topping the UK singles chart for five weeks.
The last studio album for Geffen Records, Love Hurts (1991), remained number one in the UK for six weeks and produced 10 English "Love and Understanding" songs. The album is certified gold by the RIAA. In the years that followed, Cher commented that his Geffen label "hit years" was very important to him, "because I started making songs that I love... songs that really represent me, and they are so popular!" He released the exercise book Forever Fit in 1991, followed by the 1992 fitness video Cherfitness: A New Attitude and CherFitness: Body Confidence . She started Love Hurts Tour during 1992. That year, the only British compilation album Greatest Hits: 1965-1992 peaked at number one in the country for seven weeks. It featured three new songs: "Oh No No My Baby", "Whenever You Are Close", and "Many Rivers to Cross".
1992-1997: Health and professional struggle, directed debut
Partly because of his filming experience of Mermaids, Cher has rejected major roles in films such as The War of the Roses and Thelma & amp; Louise . According to Berman, "After the success of Moonstruck , he was very worried about his next career move so he was too cautious." In the early 1990s, he contracted the Epstein-Barr virus and developed chronic fatigue syndrome, which made him too tired to maintain his music and film career. Because he needed to earn money and was not well enough to work on other projects, he starred in ads that launched health, beauty and diet products, which earned him $ 10 million. The drama was parodied on Saturday Night Live and critics thought they were in demand, many of whom suggested his film career was over. He told Ladies' Home Journal, "I suddenly became an Infomercial Queen and it did not occur to me that people would focus on it and disarm everything I had."
Cher made a cameo appearance in the films Robert Altman The Player (1992) and PrÃÆ'ªt-ÃÆ' -Porter (1994). In 1994, he started a mail order catalog business, Sanctuary, sold Gothic-themed products, and contributed a rock version of "I Got You Babe" to the animated MTV series Beavis and Butt-head >. Together with Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry, and Eric Clapton, she occupied the UK Singel Stairs in 1995 with the charity single "Love Can Build a Bridge". Later that year, he signed a contract with Warner Music UK WEA label and released the album It's Man's World (1995), which came out of his idea to include male songs from a woman's perspective. In general, critics love the album and the influence of R & amp; B, some say his voice has improved. Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote that "From an artistic point of view, this collection of pop songs today... is the highest point of his recording career." This Human World reached number 10 on the UK Albums Chart and spawned the top 10 British singles "One by One". Remixes for the release of an American album, abandoning the original rock sound that supports a more accessible style on US radio; it reached number 64 on Billboard 200.
In 1996, Cher played the wife of an entrepreneur who hired a hit man to kill him in the darkened comedy Chazz Palminteri that read Setia . Although the film received negative reviews from critics, Cher was praised for his role; The New York Times ' Janet Maslin writes that she "did her best game to discover the potential of comics in the role of the victim." Cher refused to promote the film, claiming the movie was "horrible". He made his debut directing segment in the anthology of The If Walls Could Talk (1996), where he starred as a doctor who was murdered by an anti-abortion fanatic. It drew the highest rating for the original HBO movie to date, registering a rating of 18.7 with 25 shares on HBO and attracting 6.9 million viewers. His music played a major role in the episode of The Post-Modern Prometheus, which aired in November 1997. Written for him, he tells the story of a strange creature of a scientist. who worships Cher for his role in Mask , in which his character cares for his flawed son.
1998-2000: Death of Sonny Bono, fourth music comeback
Following Sonny Bono's death in a skiing accident in 1998, Cher delivered a tearful speech at his funeral, calling him "the most unforgettable character" he encountered. He paid homage to him with special hosting CBS Sonny & amp; Me: Cher Remembers , which aired on May 20, 1998. That month, Sonny and Cher received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television. Later that year, Cher published The First Time , a collection of autobiographical essays from the "first time" event in his life, which critics praised for revealing the singer down to earth and original. Although the manuscript was almost complete when Sonny died, he could not decide whether to include his death in the book; he was afraid of being criticized for using the event. He then told Rolling Stone, "I can not ignore it, can I? I might have if I care more about what people think than I know is right for me."
The studio album 22 Cher Believe (1998) marked the departure of music for her, consisting of dance-pop songs, many of which captured the "essence of the disco era"; Cher said, "Not that I think this is a 70s album... but there is a thread, a consistency that flows through it that I love. '" Believe platinum certified four times by the RIAA and then got certified gold or platinum in 39 countries, selling 10 million copies worldwide. The album's title track reached number one in more than 23 countries and sold over 10 million copies worldwide. It became the best-selling record of 1998 and 1999, respectively, in the UK and US, and the most successful single from Peter to date. "Believe" topped UK Singles chart for seven weeks and became the highest selling single of all time by female artists in the UK, selling over 1.7 million copies in the country in November 2013. It also occupied the Billboard Hot Chart 100 for four weeks, sold more than 1.8 million units in the US in December 1999. The song produced Cher the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording.
On January 31, 1999, Cher performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" on Super Bowl XXXIII. Two months later, she sang on television special VH1 Divas Live 2 , which attracted 19.4 million viewers. According to VH1, it is the most popular, and most watched program in the history of television networks, because Cher's presence is "a big part to make it exactly that." Leveraging the success of "Believe", former record company Chers Geffen Records released a compilation album If I Can Play Back Time: Cher's Greatest Hits (1999), featuring previously unreleased "Do not Cryin ' Me ". It's certified gold by the RIAA. The Do You Believe? the tour lasted from 1999 to 2000 and sold out in every booked city in the city, gathering a global audience of more than 1.5 million. Particularly the companion television, Cher: Live in Concert - From the MGM Grand in Las Vegas (1999), was the original HBO program with the highest rating in 1998-99, registering a rating of 9.0 among adults 18 to 49 year and a 13.0 ranking in the HBO universe of about 33 million homes. In November 1999, Cher released the compilation album The Greatest Hits, which sold three million copies outside the US in January 2000.
Cher was named the number one dance artist of 1999 by Billboard . At the 1999 World Music Awards, he received the Legend Award for "lifetime contribution to the music industry". The next film, Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini (1999), received mixed reviews, but he received critical acclaim for his performance as a rich and flamboyant American socialite whose visit to Italy was not accepted among British women; one reviewer of Film Comment wrote, "Only after he appeared did you realize how much he had escaped the movie screen because Cher is a star, meaning he manages the movie star tricks into characters and at the same time the same never lets you forget: that's Cher. "
Not.com.mercial (2000) was written mostly by Cher after he attended the songwriter conference in 1994; it marked his first attempt at writing most of the songs for an album. Since the album was rejected by the record label because it was not commercial, he chose to sell it only on his website. In the song "Sisters of Mercy", he was criticized as "cruel, heartless and evil" the nuns who prevented his mother from taking it from a Catholic orphanage. The Catholic Church condemned the song.
2001-2013: Successful tourist, Vegas residency , back to movie
The highly anticipated dance-orientated dance to follow Believe , Proof of Life (2001), entered the Billboard 200 at number nine and got the gold certificate by RIAA. The album included the UK's top singles "The Music's No Good Without You" and "Song for the Lonely", the last song dedicated to "the brave people of New York" after the September 11 attacks. In May 2002, he performed during the charity concert VH1 Divas Las Vegas . In the 2002 Billboard Music Awards, he won the Dance/Club Play Artist of the Year Award and was awarded Artist Achievement Award by Steven Tyler for "helping to redefine popular music with great success on the Billboard chart ". That year, his fortune is estimated at $ 600 million.
In June 2002, Cher started the Proof of Life: The Farewell Tour, which was announced as a live concert tour of his career, though he vowed to continue making recordings and movies. The event highlights her success in music, television and film, featuring video clips from the 1960s onwards and a complex background and stage.
Originally scheduled for 49 gigs, the world tour was extended several times. In October 2003, it became the most successful tour ever made by a woman, earning $ 145 million from 200 performances and playing for 2.2 million fans. Live song collection taken from the tour was released in 2003 as the album Live! The Farewell Tour . Special NBC Cher - The Farewell Tour (2003) attracted 17 million viewers. This was the tallest TV-network conference event of 2003 and was awarded the Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Variety, Music, or Special Comedy.
After leaving Warner UK in 2002, Cher signed a worldwide agreement with the Warner Bros. Records US Division in September 2003. The Best Best of Cher (2003), the greatest-hits collection that surveyed his entire career, peaked at number four on Billboards 200 and was certified double platinum by the RIAA. She played in the Farrelly Brothers comedy Stuck on You (2003), mocking her public image as she appeared in bed with a much younger boyfriend.
326-date Farewell Tour of CH ended in 2005 as one of the best-selling concert tours of all time, seen by more than 3.5 million fans and generating $ 250 million. In 2008, he initiated a three-year, 200-performance residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, where he earned $ 60 million reported annually. Titled Cher, the production features advanced video and special effects, intricate designs, 14 dancers, four aerialists and over 20 costume changes.
Cher returns to the movie in 2010 music Burlesque , playing a nightclub impresario hoping young Hollywood want to impress. One of the two songs he recorded for the movie soundtrack, the power ballad "You Have not Seen Last of Me", reached number one on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart in January 2011, making Cher one- the only artist to date number one on the Billboard chart in every decade from the 1960s to the 2010s. In November 2010, he received the honor of placing his hand prints and footprints on the cement on the front page of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. The following year, he lent his voice to Janet the Lioness in the Zookeeper comedy. Dear Mom, Love Cher , a documentary she produced about her mother Georgia Holt, airs on Lifetime in May 2013.
2013-present: Back to music and touring, the Broadway project
Closer to Truth , Cher's 25th studio album and first since 2001's Living Proof , entered Billboard at number three in October 2013, he's the highest position on the chart to date. Michael Andor Brodeur of The Boston Globe commented that Cher's "Cher's Luck of Pop" remained in the slightest danger of undue abduction; at 67, he sounded more convincing than J-Lo or Madonna reported from the 'club'. "Prime premier leads" Woman's World "in the fourth season of the talent show The Voice, his first live TV appearance in more from a decade.He then joins the season of five performances as a judge team advisor to Blake Shelton.
On June 30, 2013, Cher aired an annual Dance on the Pier allowance, celebrating Gay Pride day. It became the first launch in five years. In November 2013, he appeared as a guest star and judged on the seventeenth season of ABC Dancing with the Stars , during the eighth week, dedicated to him. He started the Dressed to Kill Tour in March 2014, nearly a decade after announcing his "farewell tour". He quipped about the fact during the show, saying this would actually be his last farewell tour when crossing a finger. The first leg of the tour, which included 49 sold-out shows in North America, earned $ 54.9 million. In November 2014, he canceled all remaining dates due to an infection that affects kidney function.
Cher first mentions plans for Broadway musicals based on his life and music in June 2012. At the time, he revealed that the show will feature three actresses who play themselves during the various stages of his life. In 2015, he is still working on the project, asking author Rick Elice to develop the script. At the end of 2016, it was announced that Jason Moore had signed a contract, while Flody Suarez and Jeffrey Seller would act as producers. Billed as The Cher Show , staged performances are solved in New York City from 2-14 January 2017.
On May 7, 2014, Cher confirmed a collaboration with the American hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan on their album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. Credited as Bonnie Jo Mason, he used his alias originating from 1964. Only one copy of the album has been produced, and it was sold by an online auction in November 2015. After appearing as Marc Jacobs guest at Gala Met 2015, Cher posed for the campaign its autumn/winter ads. The fashion designer stated, "This has been my dream for a very, very long time."
Classic Cher, a series of events in collaboration with AEG Live, will see him perform 87 live concerts at the newly built Park Theater at Monte Carlo Resort and Casino and The Theater at MGM National Harbor. The opening night takes place on February 8, 2017. On the Billboard Music Awards 2017, Cher displays "Believe" and "If I Could Turn Back Time", his first award showing performance in over 15 years, and presented with Awards Gwen Stefani's Icons Billboard icon, which calls her "role model to show us how to be strong and faithful to ourselves [and] the definition of the word Icon."
On October 16, 2017, it was revealed that Cher has joined the cast of romantic music comedy film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again , in his first role on screen film since 2010. The film will be released on July 20, 2018. Cher Star as Ruby Sheridan, who is Sophie's grandmother, played by Amanda Seyfried, and mother of Donna, described by Meryl Streep. He later confirmed in an interview that he will sing two ABBA songs: "Super Trouper" and "Fernando", with the latter already featured in the trailer aired during the 60th Annual Grammy Awards.
On March 4, 2018, Cher became leader of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras 40th. Tickets were sold out within three hours after he hinted his appearance on his Twitter account. On May 7, 2018, Cher announced that he will embark on Just Here Tour in Australia, which will start on September 26, 2018 and finish on October 20, 2018. He stated, "My visit to Sydney's Mardi Gras reminds me of how unique and beautiful Australia is It's been 13 years since I toured there so I thought 'let's do it one more time.' "
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Arts
Music and sound
Cher has used a variety of musical styles, including folk rock, pop rock, power ballads, discos, new wave music, rock music, punk rock, rock arena, and hip hop; he says that he has done this to "stay relevant and do the job accordingly". His music mainly deals with the theme of heartbreak, freedom, and self-empowerment for women; by doing so, he became "a heartbroken symbol of a strong but very single woman", according to Judy Wieder magazine Out Out . Goldmine magazine , Phill Marder praised Cher's "almost perfect" selection of songs as what made him a famous rock singer; while some of the songs were originally written or sung with Sonny Bono, most of his solo success, which surpassed the success of Sonny and Cher, was composed by independent songwriters, chosen by Cher. Not iMmercial (2000), singer's first album mostly written by herself, presents "singer-songwriter 1970 feel" which proves "Cher is proficient in storytelling role," according to Jose AllMusic F. Promise.
Robert Hilburn of Los Angeles Times wrote, "There are many great records by female singers in the early days of rock... Nothing, however, reflects the authority and command we associate with rock 'N' roll today as many key hits [Cher's] ". Some of Cher's earliest songs speak of a subject rarely discussed in American popular music such as divorce, prostitution, unplanned and underage pregnancies, and racism. According to AllMusic Joe Viglione, the 1972 single "The Way of Love" is "either about a woman expressing her love for another woman, or a woman saying au revoir to a gay man she loves" ("What would you do/When she made you free/Just the way you say goodbye to me "). His ability to bring a range of men and women allowed him to sing solos in androgynous and gender neutral songs.
Cher has a contralto singing voice, described by writer Nicholas E. Laughter as "brave, deep, and with wide vibrato". The power of Ann from The New York Times calls it "classical rock sound: impure, unique, a great vehicle for projecting personality." AllMusic's Bruce Eder writes that "the extraordinary intensity and passion" of Cher's vocals coupled with "his ability to blend that projection with his acting skills" can provide "a very powerful experience for listeners." Paul Simpson, in his book The Rough Guide to Cult Pop (2003), argues that "Cher is the owner of one of the most huskiest voices, most typically in pop... who can create miracles with the right material directed by the right producer ". She further addresses her beloved vocal performances: "she spills out words... with such conviction you will think she is conveying eternal truths about the human condition".
Writing about Cher's musical output during the 1960s, Robert Hilburn of Los Angeles Times stated that "Rock was later blessed with the shocking blues of Janis Joplin in the late 60s and the raw poetic power of Patti. in the mid-70s, but nothing matched the pristine and seductive Cher's walls. " In contrast, his vocal appearance during the 1970s was described by Eder as "dramatic, very intense... [and] almost as much 'acting' as it is sung". First heard in 1980, Black Rose, Cher uses sharper and more aggressive vocals in his hard rock-oriented albums, building on his confident sexual image. For the 1995 album This is the Human World, he held his vocals, sang in the higher registers and without the vibrato.
The 1998 song "Believe" has an electronic vocal effect proposed by Cher, and is the first commercial recording featuring Auto-Tune - an audio processor originally intended to disguise or correct key inaccuracies in vocal music recording - as an intentional creative effect. After the success of the song, this technique is known as the "Cher effect" and has since been widely used in popular music. Cher continues to use Auto-Tune on the album Living Proof (2001) and Closer to the Truth (2013).
In an interview in 2013, Cher reflects on how his voice has evolved throughout his career, finally getting stronger and more flexible over the years. Although he initially did not like it, working with vocal trainers has made a significant difference; he stated in Toronto Sun : "It's very strange because people of my age should lose records and I get a record, so that's pretty shocking."
Movies, music videos and shows
The author of Yvonne Tasker, in his book Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema (2002), notes that Cher's film role often reflects his public image as a rebel woman, sexually autonomous, and self-made. In his films he repeatedly serves as a social intermediary for the character of a man who has lost his rights, such as Craniodiaphyseal Eric Stoltz dysplasia victims at Mask (1985), homeless veteran Liam Neeson at Suspects (1987), and Nicolas Cage's socially isolated baker with wooden hand at Moonstruck (1987). Film critic Kathleen Rowe writes of Moonstruck that the depiction of Cher's character as "a woman above" [perfected] by the naughty star persona Cher brought to the part. "Jeff Yarbrough of The Advocate wrote that Cher is "one of the first superstars to 'play gay' with compassion and without a bit of stereotyping," as he described a lesbian in the 1983 film Silkwood.
Cher's public image is also reflected in his music video and live performances, where he "repeatedly commented on his own construction, on his quest for perfection and on the performance of a woman's body", writes Tasker. Unlike other music videos and stage shows that often feature supporters of women who mimic the singers' appearance, Cher uses male dancers dressed as he did in a 1992 concert video of Cher in Mirage; Author Diane Negra commented, "In validating his own quote, Cher acknowledges himself as a fictional producer, and offers his audience a pleasant plurality." James Sullivan of the San Francisco Chronicle writes that "Cher is well aware that his chameleon's glamor is setting the stage for the stadium's era-a fascinating size right now, comfortable enough to see imitation like flattery, not theft."
Cher was ranked 17th on VH1's list of "50 Largest Women in the Video Age". The 1980 video for "Hell on Wheels" involves cinematic techniques and is one of the first ever music videos. Considered "controversial" for its appearance on a Navy warship, straddling a cannon, and wearing leather pants that reveal tattooed buttocks, the 1989 music video for "If I Could Turn Back Time" was first banned by MTV.
Public image
Time Cady Lang magazine describes Cher as "a cultural phenomenon that has forever changed the way we look at celebrity fashion." Cher emerged as a fashion trendsetter in the 1960s, popularizing "hippie fashion with bell-bottoms, bandana, and Cherokee-inspired tunics". He began working as a model in 1967 for photographer Richard Avedon after the then-magazine editor Diana Vreeland found him at a party for Jacqueline Kennedy that year. Avedon took a controversial photo of Cher in a nude and hairless dress for the cover of Time magazine in 1975. Through a 1970s television show, he became an inventive sex symbol and revealed Bob Mackie-designed outfits, and against network sensor to open the pusa
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