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Cher
$\"Cher,$ Cher in 2020
Born	Cheryl Sarkisian^[a] (1946-05-20) May 20, 1946 (age 78) El Centro, California, US
Other names	Cherilyn Sarkisian^[a] Cheryl LaPiere^[1] Bonnie Jo Mason Ch\u00e9r Cher Bono Cher Allman
Occupations	Singer actress television personality
Years active	1963\u2013present
Works	Albums singles songs duo discography videography filmography concerts
Spouses	\n Sonny Bono \n (m. 1964; div. 1975) \n Gregg Allman \n (m. 1975; div. 1979)
Partner	Alexander Edwards
Children	Chaz Bono Elijah Blue Allman
Mother	Georgia Holt
Awards	Full list
Musical career
Genres	Pop rock folk disco dance
Instrument	Vocals
Labels	Atco Casablanca Columbia Geffen Imperial Kapp MCA Reprise United Artists Warner
Formerly of	Sonny & Cher
Website	cher.com

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Cher (/\u0283\u025b\u0259r/ SHAIR; born Cheryl Sarkisian;^[a] May 20, 1946) is an American singer, actress and television personality. Dubbed the \"Goddess of Pop\", she is known for her androgynous contralto voice, multifaceted career and bold visual presentation, while cultivating a screen persona that mirrors her public image by often portraying strong-willed, independent and outspoken women. Her adaptability has fueled multiple comebacks, cementing her status as a cultural icon. She is the only solo artist with Billboard number-one singles in seven consecutive decades, from the 1960s to the 2020s. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, the Billboard Icon Award, the Kennedy Center Honor and an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Cher is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with estimated sales of over 100 million records worldwide.\n

Cher gained fame in 1965 as part of the folk rock husband-wife duo Sonny & Cher, while also achieving solo success with top-ten singles including \"All I Really Want to Do\" and \"Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)\". In the 1970s, she divorced from Sonny Bono and topped the US Billboard Hot 100 with \"Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves\", \"Half-Breed\" and \"Dark Lady\", becoming the female solo artist with the most number-one singles in US history at the time. Following a hiatus to focus on acting, she returned to music with the rock-inflected albums Cher (1987), Heart of Stone (1989) and Love Hurts (1991), earning international number-one singles with \"If I Could Turn Back Time\" and \"The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)\".\n

Cher reached a commercial peak with the dance-pop album Believe (1998), which introduced the \"Cher effect\", an extreme, stylistic use of Auto-Tune to distort vocals. The title track became 1999's number-one song in the US and the UK's best-selling single by a female artist. 21st-century releases include Closer to the Truth (2013) and Dancing Queen (2018), both debuting at number three on the Billboard 200 and becoming her highest-charting solo albums in the US. Her 2002\u20132005 Living Proof: The Farewell Tour was the highest-grossing concert tour by a female artist at the time, earning $250 million (about $390 million in 2025).\n

Cher became a television star in the 1970s with The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour and her solo show Cher, both on CBS, attracting over 30 million weekly viewers. She earned critical acclaim after debuting on Broadway and starring in the film adaptation of Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982). Transitioning to film, Cher received two Academy Award nominations for Silkwood (1983) and Moonstruck (1987), winning Best Actress for the latter, and won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Mask (1985). Her other starring roles include The Witches of Eastwick (1987), Mermaids (1990), If These Walls Could Talk (1996, her directorial debut), Tea with Mussolini (1999), Burlesque (2010) and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018). Her life and career inspired the 2018 jukebox musical The Cher Show. Cher is vocal about her progressive political views, and has advocated and fundraised for causes including LGBTQ rights and HIV/AIDS prevention.\n

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Life and career

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1946\u20131961: Early life

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Cheryl Sarkisian^[a] was born in El Centro, California, on May 20, 1946. Her father, John Sarkisian, an Armenian-American truck driver with drug and gambling problems, was rarely present during her early life.^[3] Her mother, Georgia Holt (born Jackie Jean Crouch), was a model and actress of Irish, English, German and Cherokee descent.^[4] Cher's paternal grandparents were survivors of the Armenian Genocide.^[5] Her parents divorced when she was ten months old,^[6] and Holt later married actor John Southall, with whom she had Cher's half-sister, Georganne.^[7] Holt's marriage to Southall ended when Cher was nine. Cher later described Southall as her \"real father\", calling him a \"good-natured man who turned belligerent when he drank too much\".^[8]\n

Holt remarried and divorced several times, frequently moving the family across states, including New York, Texas and California.^[9] They often struggled financially, and Cher recalled using rubber bands to hold her shoes together.^[8] At one point, Holt left Cher at an orphanage for several weeks;^[10] although they met every day, both found the experience traumatic.^[8] While living in Los Angeles, Holt pursued acting while working as a waitress, occasionally securing minor television roles for her daughters in shows such as The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.^[9]\n

By fifth grade, Cher organized a class performance of the musical Oklahoma!, taking on male roles when boys refused to participate. Even at age nine, her voice was unusually low.^[11] Fascinated by film stars, Cher idolized Audrey Hepburn, particularly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), emulating Hepburn's character's unconventional outfits and demeanor.^[12] She also admired Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis and Katharine Hepburn,^[13] but felt discouraged by the lack of dark-haired actresses in Hollywood.^[12] As a child, she dreamed of fame but struggled with feelings of inadequacy, describing herself as \"unattractive\" and \"untalented\".^[14] Reflecting on her ambitions, she later said, \"I couldn't think of anything that I could do ... I just thought, 'I'll be famous'. That was my goal.\"^[14]\n

In 1961, Holt married bank manager Gilbert LaPiere, who adopted Cher (under the name Cheryl LaPiere)^[1] and Georganne and enrolled them at Montclair College Preparatory School, a private school in Encino. Coming from a modest background, Cher faced challenges in the upper-class environment, where, as biographer Connie Berman wrote, her \"striking appearance\" and \"outgoing personality\" set her apart.^[14] A former classmate recalled, \"I'll never forget seeing Cher for the first time. She was so special ... like a movie star, right then and there ... She said she was going to be a movie star and we knew she would.\"^[14] Known for her creativity and wit, Cher excelled in French and English but struggled with other subjects, later discovering she has dyslexia. Her unconventional behavior also stood out: she performed songs for students during lunch and surprised peers when she wore a midriff-baring top.^[12] Cher later reflected, \"I was never really in school. I was always thinking about when I was grown up and famous.\"^[9]\n

1962\u20131967: Solo musical breakthrough and Sonny & Cher

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At 16, Cher left school and moved out of her mother's house to live with a friend. She took acting classes and supported herself by dancing in nightclubs along Hollywood's Sunset Strip, where she introduced herself to performers, managers and agents.^[15] According to Berman, \"[Cher] did not hesitate to approach anyone she thought could help her get a break\".^[16] Cher met performer Sonny Bono in November 1962 when he was working for record producer Phil Spector.^[16] Cher's friend moved out and Cher accepted Sonny's offer to be his housekeeper.^[17] Sonny introduced Cher to Spector, who used her as a backup singer on many recordings, including the Ronettes' \"Be My Baby\" and the Righteous Brothers' \"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'\".^[18] Spector produced her first single, \"Ringo, I Love You\", which Cher recorded under the name Bonnie Jo Mason.^[19] Many radio programmers rejected the song, mistaking Cher's deep contralto for a man's voice and assuming it was a male homosexual singing a love song to the Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.^[20]\n

Cher and Sonny became close friends, eventual lovers and performed their own unofficial wedding ceremony in a hotel room in Tijuana, Mexico, on October 27, 1964.^[18]^[21] Although Sonny had wanted to launch Cher as a solo artist, she encouraged him to perform with her because she suffered from stage fright and he began joining her onstage, singing the harmonies. Cher disguised her nervousness by looking at Sonny; she later commented that she sang to the people through him.^[22] In late 1964, they emerged as a duo called Caesar & Cleo, releasing the poorly received singles \"Do You Wanna Dance?\", \"Love Is Strange\" and \"Let the Good Times Roll\".^[23]\n

Cher signed with Liberty Records' Imperial imprint in the end of 1964 and Sonny became her producer. The single \"Dream Baby\", released under the name \"Cherilyn\", received airplay in Los Angeles.^[19] Imperial encouraged Cher to work with Sonny on her second solo single for the label, a cover of Bob Dylan's \"All I Really Want to Do\".^[19] It peaked at number 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number nine on the UK Singles Chart in 1965.^[24]^[25] Meanwhile, the Byrds had released their own version of the same song. When competition on the singles charts started between Cher and the Byrds, the group's record label began to promote the B-side of the Byrds' single. Roger McGuinn of the Byrds commented, \"We loved the Cher version ... We didn't want to hassle. So we just turned our record over.\"^[26] Cher's debut album, All I Really Want to Do (1965), reached number 16 on the Billboard 200;^[27] it was later described by AllMusic's Tim Sendra as \"one of the stronger folk-pop records of the era\".^[28]\n

\nIn early 1965, Caesar and Cleo began calling themselves Sonny & Cher.^[29] Following the recording of \"I Got You Babe\", they traveled to England in July 1965 at the Rolling Stones' advice; Cher recalled, \"[they] had told us ... that Americans just didn't get us and that if we were going to make it big, we were going to have to go to England.\"^[30] According to writer Cintra Wilson,

English newspaper photographers showed up when S&C were thrown out of the London Hilton [because of their outfits] the night they arrived\u2014literally overnight, they were stars. London went gaga for the heretofore-unseen S&C look, which was neither mod nor rocker.^[31]

\"I Got You Babe\" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart^[32] and became, according to AllMusic's Bruce Eder, \"one of the biggest-selling and most beloved pop/rock hits of the mid-'60s\";^[19] Rolling Stone listed it among \"The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time\" in 2003.^[33] As the song knocked the Beatles off the top of the British charts, English teenagers began to emulate Sonny and Cher's fashion style, such as bell-bottoms, striped pants and fur vests.^[34] Upon their return to the US, the duo made several appearances on the teen-pop showcases Hullabaloo and Shindig!^[35] and completed a tour of some of the largest arenas in the US.^[36] Their shows attracted Cher look-alikes, with girls straightening and dyeing their hair black to emulate her style, often pairing it with vests and bell-bottoms.^[37]\n

Sonny and Cher's first album, Look at Us (1965), released for the Atco Records division of Atlantic Records,^[19] spent eight weeks at number two on the Billboard 200, behind the Beatles' Help!.^[38] The duo successfully competed with the dominant British Invasion and Motown sounds of the era.^[39] Author Joseph Murrells described Sonny and Cher as \"leading exponents of the rock-folk-message type of song\", blending rock instrumentation with folk themes and protest lyrics.^[40] They charted ten Billboard top 40 singles between 1965 and 1972, including five top-ten singles: \"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\".^[41] At one point, they had five songs in the top 50 at the same time, a feat equaled only by the Beatles and Elvis Presley.^[42] Together they had become, according to Time magazine's Ginia Bellafante, rock's \"it\" couple.^[43]\n

Cher's subsequent releases kept her solo career competitive with her work with Sonny.^[19] The Sonny Side of Ch\u00e9r (1966) features \"Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)\", which reached number two in the US and number three in the UK and became her first million-seller solo single. Ch\u00e9r, also released in 1966, contains the Burt Bacharach and Hal David composition \"Alfie\", which was added to the credits of the American version of the 1966 film of the same name and became the first stateside version of the popular song. With Love, Ch\u00e9r (1967) includes songs described by biographer Mark Bego as \"little soap-opera stories set to rock music\" such as the US top-ten single \"You Better Sit Down Kids\".^[44]\n

1967\u20131970: From counterculture icon to lounge act

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By the late 1960s, Sonny and Cher's music stopped charting. Berman observed that the \"heavy, loud sound\" of bands such as Jefferson Airplane and Cream made their folk-rock feel \"too bland.\"^[45] Cher later said she \"loved\" the new electric-guitar-driven sound of Led Zeppelin and Eric Clapton and wanted to adapt, but Sonny refused.^[46] Their monogamous lifestyle during the sexual revolution^[47] and anti-drug stance at the height of widespread drug use alienated American youths.^[48] According to Bego, \"in spite of their revolutionary unisex clothes, Sonny and Cher were quite 'square' when it came to sex and drugs.\"^[48] In an attempt to recapture their young audience, the duo produced and starred in the film Good Times (1967), which was commercially unsuccessful.^[45]\n

Cher's album Backstage (1968), in which she explores diverse musical genres including Brazilian jazz and anti-war protest settings, was not a commercial success.^[49] In 1969, Cher was dropped from Imperial Records, while Sonny and Cher were dropped from Atco. However, Atco offered her a solo album deal.^[50] 3614 Jackson Highway (1969) was recorded without the guidance of Sonny and incorporates experiments in R&B and soul music. AllMusic's Mark Deming proclaimed it \"arguably the finest album of her career\" and still \"a revelation\" decades later.^[51] Displeased with the album, Sonny prevented Cher from releasing more recordings for Atco.^[50]\n

Meanwhile, Sonny dated others and by the end of the 1960s their relationship had begun to unravel. According to People magazine, \"[Sonny] tried desperately to win her back, telling her he wanted to marry and start a family.\"^[52] They officially married after she gave birth to Chaz Bono on March 4, 1969.^[52] The duo spent $500,000 and mortgaged their home to make the film Chastity (1969). Written and produced by Sonny, it tells the story of a young woman, played by Cher, searching for the meaning of life.^[53] The art film failed commercially, putting the couple $190,000 in debt with back taxes. However, some critics noted that Cher showed acting potential;^[36] Cue magazine wrote, \"Cher has a marvelous quality that often makes you forget the lines you are hearing.\"^[45]\n

At the lowest point of their career, the duo put together a nightclub routine that relied on a more adult approach to sound and style.^[54] According to writer Cintra Wilson, \"Their lounge act was so depressing, people started heckling them. Then Cher started heckling back. Sonny ... reprimanded her; then she'd heckle Sonny\".^[31] The heckling became a highlight of the act and attracted viewers.^[31] Television executives took note and the couple began making guest appearances on prime-time shows, in which they presented a \"new, sophisticated and mature\" image.^[55] Cher adopted alluring, low-cut gowns that became her signature outfits.^[55]\n

1971\u20131974: Television stardom and first musical comeback

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CBS head of programming Fred Silverman offered Sonny and Cher their own television program after he noticed them as guest-hosts on The Merv Griffin Show in 1971.^[56] The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour premiered as a summer replacement series on August 1, 1971 and had six episodes. Because it was a ratings success, the couple returned that December with a full-time show.^[36]\n

Watched by more than 30 million viewers weekly during its three-year run,^[54] The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour was praised for the comedic timing, as a deadpan Cher mocked Sonny about his looks and short stature. According to Berman, they \"exuded an aura of warmth, playfulness and caring that only enhanced their appeal. Viewers were further enchanted when a young [Chaz] appeared on the show. They seemed like a perfect family.\"^[57] Cher honed her acting skills through comedy sketches,^[58] including her original character Laverne, a brash and over-the-top housewife,^[59] while her Bob Mackie-designed outfits set 1970s fashion trends.^[60]\n

In 1971, Sonny and Cher signed with the Kapp Records division of MCA Records and Cher released the single \"Classified 1A\", in which she sings from the point of view of a soldier who bleeds to death in Vietnam. Written by Sonny, who felt that her first solo single on the label had to be poignant and topical, the song was rejected by radio station programmers as uncommercial.^[61]\n

Since Sonny's first attempts at reviving their recording career as a duo had also been unsuccessful, Kapp Records recruited Snuff Garrett to work with them. He produced Cher's second US number-one single, \"Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves\", which \"proved that ... Garrett knew more about Cher's voice and her persona as a singer than Sonny did\", writes Bego.^[61] \"Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves\" was the first single by a solo artist to rank number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart at the same time as on the Canadian Singles Chart.^[62] Billboard called it \"one of the 20th century's greatest songs\".^[63] It was featured on the 1971 album Ch\u00e9r (eventually reissued under the title Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves), which was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).^[64] Its second single, \"The Way of Love\", reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 chart^[65] and established Cher's more confident image as a recording artist.^[19]\n

In 1972, Cher released the all-ballad set Foxy Lady, demonstrating the evolution of her vocal abilities, according to Bego.^[66] Following the release, Garrett quit as producer after disagreeing with Sonny about the kind of material Cher should record.^[67] At Sonny's insistence, in 1973 Cher released an album of standards called Bittersweet White Light, which was commercially unsuccessful.^[68] That year, lyricist Mary Dean brought Garrett \"Half-Breed\", a song about the daughter of a Cherokee mother and a white father, which she had written especially for Cher. Although Garrett did not have Cher as a client at the time, he was convinced that \"it's a smash for Cher and for nobody else\", so he held the song for months until he got Cher back.^[67] \"Half-Breed\" was featured on the album of the same name and became Cher's third US number-one single.^[69] Both the album and the single were certified gold by the RIAA.^[70]\n

In 1974, Cher released the song \"Dark Lady\" as the lead single from the namesake album.^[69] It reached the top position on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Cher's fourth number-one single and making her the female artist with the most number-one singles in United States history at the time.^[71] Later that year, she released a Greatest Hits album that, according to Billboard magazine, proved her to be \"one of the most consistent hitmakers of the past five years\", as well as a \"proven superstar who always sells records\".^[72] Between 1971 and 1973, Sonny and Cher's recording career was revived with four albums released under Kapp Records and MCA Records: Sonny & Cher Live (1971), All I Ever Need Is You (1972), Mama Was a Rock and Roll Singer, Papa Used to Write All Her Songs (1973) and Live in Las Vegas Vol. 2 (1973).^[73] Cher later commented that her tight schedule during this period required her to record entire albums in just a few days while also touring and filming The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour.^[74]\n

1974\u20131979: Divorce from Sonny Bono, marriage to Gregg Allman and decline in popularity

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Cher and Sonny had had marital problems since late 1972, but appearances were maintained until 1974. \"The public still thinks we are married,\" Sonny wrote in his diary at the time, \"[and] that's the way it has to be.\"^[76] In February 1974, Sonny filed for separation, citing \"irreconcilable differences\".^[77] A week later, Cher countered with a divorce suit and charged Sonny with \"involuntary servitude\", claiming that he withheld her rightful share of their earnings.^[77] The couple battled in court over finances and the custody of Chaz, which was eventually granted to Cher.^[77] Their divorce was finalized on June 26, 1975.^[78]\n

During the divorce proceedings, Cher had a two-year romantic relationship with record executive David Geffen, who helped free her from a restrictive business arrangement with Sonny.^[79] Under the terms of this arrangement, Cher was required to work exclusively for Cher Enterprises, a company 95% owned by Sonny and 5% by his lawyer. She was considered an employee of the company, with no control over her career and finances.^[80] Cher won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress \u2013 Television Series Musical or Comedy for The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour in 1974.^[81] That year, Sonny premiered a solo show, The Sonny Comedy Revue, which carried the creative team behind the Sonny and Cher show. It was canceled after 13 weeks.^[82]\n

In 1975, Cher signed a $2.5 million deal with Warner Bros. Records and began work on her first album with the label.^[83] According to Bego, \"it was their intention that [this album] was going to make millions of fans around the world take her seriously as a rock star and not just a pop singer.\"^[84] Despite Cher's efforts to expand her musical range by drawing inspiration from artists such as Stevie Wonder, Elton John, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan, the resulting album, Stars, was commercially and critically unsuccessful.^[84] Janet Maslin of The Village Voice wrote, \"Cher is just no rock and roller ... Image, not music, is Cher Bono's main ingredient for both records and TV.\"^[85] Despite its initial failure, the album later gained cult status and is considered among her best work.^[86]\n

On February 16, 1975, Cher debuted her solo CBS show, Cher. It began as a highly rated special with guests Bette Midler, Elton John and Flip Wilson.^[87] Produced by Geffen, the show showcased Cher's music, comedy, monologues, and an extensive wardrobe\u2014the largest for a weekly TV series.^[88]^[89] Critics praised it, with the Los Angeles Times stating, \"Sonny without Cher was a disaster. Cher without Sonny, on the other hand, could be the best thing that's happened to weekly television this season.\"^[89] Despite high ratings, the show ended within a year, replaced by a new show reuniting her with ex-husband Sonny.^[90] The Ringer's Lindsay Zoladz commented that network censors were stricter with Cher as a single woman, viewing her as more provocative alone than as Sonny's wife.^[91] Reflecting later, Cher said, \"Doing a show alone was more than I could handle.\"^[90]\n

On June 30, 1975, four days after finalizing her divorce from Sonny, Cher married rock musician Gregg Allman, co-founder of the Allman Brothers Band.^[92] She filed for divorce nine days later because of his heroin and liquor problems, but they reconciled within a month.^[93] They had one son, Elijah Blue, on July 10, 1976.^[94] Sonny and Cher's TV reunion, The Sonny and Cher Show, debuted on CBS in February 1976\u2014the first show ever to star a divorced couple. Although the show was a ratings success on its premiere,^[95] Cher and Sonny's insulting onscreen banter about their divorce,^[90] her reportedly extravagant lifestyle and her troubled relationship with Allman caused a public backlash^[96] that contributed to the show's cancellation in August 1977.^[95]\n

In 1976, Mego Toys released a line of Sonny & Cher dolls. The Cher doll became the year's best-selling doll, surpassing Barbie.^[97] Cher's next albums, I'd Rather Believe in You (1976) and Cherished (1977)\u2014the latter marking a return to her earlier pop storyteller style at Warner's producers' insistence\u2014were commercial failures.^[98] Orange Coast magazine's Keith Tuber commented that Cher's weekly TV shows may have hurt her record sales, as audiences could see and hear her without needing to buy her music.^[99]\n

In 1977, under the rubric \"Allman and Woman\", Cher and Allman recorded the duet album Two the Hard Way.^[93] The couple toured Europe to support the album,^[100] though audience reception was mixed.^[101] With a combination of Cher fans and Allman Brothers fans in attendance, fights frequently broke out at venues, prompting Cher to cancel the tour.^[102] Their relationship ended soon after the tour's cancellation,^[103] and their divorce was finalized in 1979.^[104] In 1978, Cher began a two-year live-in relationship with Kiss member Gene Simmons.^[105]^[106]^[107] She briefly returned to prime time television with the specials Cher... Special (1978)\u2014featuring a segment in which she performs all of the roles in her version of West Side Story\u2014^[108] and Cher... and Other Fantasies (1979).^[109]\n

1979\u20131982: Second musical comeback, from disco success to leading a rock band

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In 1979, Cher legally adopted her mononym.^[110] Facing financial pressures as a single mother of two, she decided to steer her singing career toward greater commercial success. Temporarily setting aside her desire to be a rock singer, she signed with Casablanca Records and launched a comeback with the single \"Take Me Home\" and the album of the same name, both of which capitalized on the disco craze.^[111] The album and single became instant successes, remained bestsellers for more than half of 1979 and were certified gold by the RIAA.^[111]^[70] The album's sales were likely enhanced by the image of a scantily clad Cher in a Viking outfit on its cover.^[111]^[112] Although initially reluctant to embrace disco music, she changed her mind after the success, saying, \"I never thought I would want to do disco ... [but] it's terrific! It's great music to dance to. I think that danceable music is what everybody wants.\"^[111]\n

Encouraged by the popularity of Take Me Home, Cher sought a return to rock with Prisoner (1979).^[113] The album cover, showing her naked and draped in chains, symbolized her struggle as a \"prisoner of the press\" amid intense tabloid scrutiny.^[114] The imagery drew criticism from feminist groups for her perceived portrayal of a sex slave, while critics found the album's mix of rock and disco tracks inconsistent, contributing to its commercial failure.^[114] The single \"Hell on Wheels\", featured on the soundtrack of the film Roller Boogie, reflected Cher's personal embrace of the late 1970s roller-skating craze, which she had helped popularize.^[86] Cher collaborated with Giorgio Moroder to write \"Bad Love\", her final Casablanca disco track, for the film Foxes (1980).^[115]\n

In 1980, Cher formed the rock band Black Rose with guitarist and then-partner Les Dudek. To blend in and avoid overshadowing the group with her celebrity status, she adopted a punk-inspired look, cutting her signature long hair. Although she was the lead singer, she chose not to take top billing to present the band as equal. Despite television appearances, the band struggled to book concerts.^[116] Their album, Black Rose, received poor reviews; Cher told Rolling Stone, \"[Critics] didn't attack the record, they attacked me. It was like, 'How dare Cher sing rock & roll?'\"^[54] Black Rose disbanded in 1981.^[117]\n

During Black Rose's run, Cher was also performing a residency at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, with two shows nightly, seven days a week,^[118] earning $300,000 weekly.^[119] Beginning in June 1979 and running until 1982, the residency evolved into Cher's first solo tour, the Take Me Home Tour, with dates in North America, Europe, South Africa and Australia.^[b] Described by The Press of Atlantic City as \"the biggest cabaret act ever seen on any stage\",^[128] the concert series yielded two television specials: Standing Room Only: Cher in Concert (1981)^[129] and Cher... A Celebration at Caesars (1983),^[130] the latter earning her the CableACE Award for Best Actress in a Variety Program.^[131] In 1981, Cher collaborated with Meat Loaf on the duet \"Dead Ringer for Love\", which peaked at number five on the UK Singles Chart and was praised by AllMusic's Donald A. Guarisco as \"one of the more inspired rock duets of the 1980s\".^[132] The following year, Cher released the new wave album I Paralyze, a commercial failure and her only album under Columbia Records.^[133]\n

1982\u20131987: Broadway debut, acting breakthrough and musical hiatus

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With declining record sales and radio airplay, Cher shifted her focus to acting.^[134] Despite earlier aspirations, her only film credits, Good Times and Chastity, were critical and commercial failures, and Hollywood did not take her seriously as an actress.^[134] Reflecting on this period, Cher said, \"I was dropped by my [label] and couldn't get a job ... [so] I went to Las Vegas\", which she likened to an \"elephant's graveyard\" for fading stars.^[127] Despite her success performing there, she felt unfulfilled: \"I was making a fortune ... but I was dying inside.\"^[135] In 1982, she moved to New York to study acting with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, but never enrolled.^[31] She auditioned for and was cast by Robert Altman in the Broadway production Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. She played a James Dean fan club member at a 20-year reunion. That year, Altman cast her again in the film adaptation of the same title.^[136]\n

Director Mike Nichols, who had seen Cher onstage in Jimmy Dean, offered her the part of Dolly Pelliker, Meryl Streep's lesbian roommate in the film Silkwood.^[136] When it premiered in 1983, audiences questioned Cher's ability as an actress. She recalls attending a film preview during which the audience laughed when they saw her name in the credits.^[137] For her performance, Cher was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress \u2013 Motion Picture.^[136]\n

Cher's next film, Mask (1985), reached number two at the box office^[138] and was Cher's first critical and commercial success as a leading actress.^[136] For her role as a drug addict biker with a disfigured teenage son, she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress.^[136] During the making of the film, however, she clashed with director Peter Bogdanovich and was ultimately omitted from the Oscar nomination list. She attended the 58th Academy Awards in a tarantula-like costume, later deemed by Vanity Fair's Esther Zuckerman as Cher's \"Oscar revenge dress\".^[139] \"As you can see, I did receive my Academy booklet on how to dress like a serious actress,\" Cher declared before presenting the nominees for Best Supporting Actor.^[140] The incident garnered her much publicity.^[141]\n

Cher's May 1986 guest appearance on talk show Late Night with David Letterman, during which she called Letterman \"an asshole\", attracted much media coverage; Letterman later recalled, \"It did hurt my feelings. Cher was one of the few people I've really wanted to have on the show ... I felt like a total fool, especially since I say all kinds of things to people.\"^[142] She returned to the show in 1987, reuniting with Sonny for the last time before his death to sing an impromptu version of \"I Got You Babe\". According to Rolling Stone's Andy Greene, \"they weren't exactly the best of friends at this point, but both of them knew it would make for unforgettable television. Had YouTube existed back then, this would have gone insanely viral the next morning.\"^[143]\n

1987\u20131992: Hollywood stardom and third musical comeback

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Cher starred in three films in 1987.^[136] In Suspect, she portrayed a public defender aided and romanced by a juror (Dennis Quaid) in a homicide case. In George Miller's comedy horror The Witches of Eastwick, she was one of three small-town divorcees, alongside Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon, who become involved with a mysterious and wealthy visitor (Jack Nicholson). In Norman Jewison's romantic comedy Moonstruck, she played an Italian widow who falls for her fianc\u00e9's younger brother (Nicolas Cage).^[136] The latter two films ranked among 1987's top ten highest-grossing movies.^[144]\n

The New York Times' Janet Maslin wrote Moonstruck \"offers further proof that Cher has evolved into the kind of larger-than-life movie star who's worth watching whatever she does.\"^[145] For that film, Cher won the Academy Award for Best Actress^[146] and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture \u2013 Musical or Comedy.^[81] By 1988, Cher had become one of the most bankable actresses of the decade, commanding $1 million per film.^[136] That year, she released the fragrance Uninhibited, which earned about $15 million in its first year sales.^[147]\n

In 1987, Cher signed with Geffen Records and revived her musical career with what music critics Johnny Danza and Dean Ferguson describe as \"her most impressive string of hits to date\", establishing her as a \"serious rock and roller ... a crown that she'd worked long and hard to capture\".^[86] Michael Bolton, Jon Bon Jovi, Desmond Child and Richie Sambora produced her first Geffen album, Cher.^[86] Despite facing strong retail and radio airplay resistance upon its release,^[148] the album proved to be a commercial success, certified platinum by the RIAA.^[70] Cher features the rock ballad \"I Found Someone\", Cher's first US top-ten single in more than eight years.^[86]\n

By the late 1980s, Cher had gained a reputation for her exhibitionist fashion sense, plastic surgeries and affairs with younger men.^[149] She had 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, a bagel baker 18 years her junior whom she dated from 1986 to 1989.^[150]\n

Cher's 19th studio album Heart of Stone (1989) was certified triple platinum by the RIAA.^[70] Its second single, \"If I Could Turn Back Time\",^[151] became one of her most successful songs, topping the Australian charts for seven weeks and reaching number three on the Billboard Hot 100.^[24]^[151] The track's music video, filmed aboard the battleship USS Missouri, generated controversy for its provocative imagery.^[152]^[153] Other US top-ten singles from Heart of Stone were \"After All\", a duet with Peter Cetera and \"Just Like Jesse James\".^[154] Cher won the Favorite All-Around Female Star Award at the 1989 People's Choice Awards and launched the Heart of Stone Tour the same year.^[155]^[156] Critics praised the tour's nostalgia and Cher's showmanship.^[157] A television special, Cher... at the Mirage (1991), was filmed during a Las Vegas concert.^[156]\n

In Mermaids (1990), her first film in three years, Cher drew inspiration from her mother to portray a woman who moves her daughters (Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci) from town to town after failed relationships.^[158] She clashed with the film's first two directors, Lasse Hallstr\u00f6m and Frank Oz, who were replaced by Richard Benjamin.^[159] Producers, seeing Cher as the star attraction, granted her creative control.^[160] The film was a box office success and received positive reviews.^[161]^[162] One of the two songs Cher recorded for the film's soundtrack, a cover of Betty Everett's \"The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)\", topped the UK Singles Chart for five weeks.^[163]^[25]\n

Cher's final studio album with Geffen Records, Love Hurts (1991),^[164] spent six weeks at number one in the UK and produced the UK top-ten single \"Love and Understanding\".^[25] The album was certified gold by the RIAA.^[70] In later years, Cher commented that her Geffen label \"hit years\" had been especially significant to her, \"because I was getting to do songs that I really loved ... songs that really represented me and they were popular!\"^[86] In 1991, she published the exercise book Forever Fit,^[165] followed by the fitness videos CherFitness: A New Attitude and CherFitness: Body Confidence in 1992.^[83] That same year, she embarked on the Love Hurts Tour^[166] and released the UK-only^[167] compilation album Greatest Hits: 1965\u20131992, which topped the UK Albums Chart for seven weeks.^[25]\n

1992\u20131998: From A-list actress to infomercial queen, death of Sonny Bono

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According to Berman, the unexpected acclaim for Moonstruck (1987) made Cher \"overly cautious\" about future roles, mindful of the high expectations.^[168] Partly due to her difficult experience filming Mermaids, she turned down leading roles in Thelma & Louise and The War of the Roses.^[159] In the early 1990s, she contracted the Epstein\u2013Barr virus and developed chronic fatigue syndrome, leaving her too exhausted for music or film projects.^[159]^[169] To generate income, she appeared in infomercials for health, beauty and diet products, earning nearly $10 million.^[170]^[171] These skits were parodied on Saturday Night Live^[172] and critics viewed them as a sellout,^[171] speculating her film career was over.^[173] The 1995 film Clueless references this period, with protagonist Cher Horowitz joking she was named after a \"great [singer] of the past who now does infomercials\". Cher later remarked, \"Suddenly I became the Infomercial Queen ... people stripped me of all my other things.\"^[170]\n

Cher made cameo appearances in the Robert Altman films The Player (1992) and Pr\u00eat-\u00e0-Porter (1994).^[166] In 1994, she launched a Gothic-themed mail-order catalog, Sanctuary,^[174] and contributed a rock version of \"I Got You Babe\" to MTV's animated sitcom Beavis and Butt-Head.^[175] In 1995, she topped the UK Singles Chart with the charity single \"Love Can Build a Bridge\", alongside Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry and Eric Clapton.^[176] That year, she signed with Warner Music UK's WEA label and released It's a Man's World (1995), an album of songs originally performed by men.^[164] Critics praised its R&B influences and Cher's vocal growth,^[177] with Stephen Holden of The New York Times calling it a \"soulful collection of grown-up pop songs\" and the highlight of her recording career.^[178] The album features \"Walking in Memphis\", certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), and the UK top-ten single \"One by One\".^[25] It reached number 10 on the UK Albums Chart.^[25] A remixed US version, shifting from rock to a more radio-friendly sound, was less successful, peaking at number 64 on the Billboard 200.^[179]^[180]\n

In 1996, Cher starred alongside Demi Moore and Sissy Spacek in If These Walls Could Talk (1996), a three-part anthology television film about abortion. This project marked Cher's directorial debut, as she was both the director and star of the film's final segment, playing a doctor targeted by an anti-abortion group.^[177] It became the highest-rated original HBO movie to date, attracting 6.9 million viewers.^[181]^[182] That same year, Cher appeared in Paul Mazursky's dark comedy Faithful, playing the wife of a businessman who hires a hitman (Chazz Palminteri) to kill her. While the film received negative reviews, Cher was praised for her role,^[183] with The New York Times' Janet Maslin noting she \"does her game best to find comic potential in a victim's role.\"^[184] Cher refused to promote the film, claiming it was \"horrible.\"^[159] Her music played a large role in the American TV series The X-Files episode \"The Post-Modern Prometheus\" (1997).^[185] Written with her in mind,^[186] it tells the story of a scientist's grotesque creature who idolizes Cher because of her role in Mask, where her character cares for her disfigured son.^[187]\n

Following Sonny Bono's death in a skiing accident in 1998, Cher delivered a tearful eulogy at his funeral, calling him \"the most unforgettable character\" she had met.^[188] She paid tribute to him by hosting the CBS special Sonny & Me: Cher Remembers, which aired on May 20, 1998.^[189] That month, Sonny and Cher received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television.^[190] Later that year, Cher published The First Time, a collection of autobiographical essays of \"first-time\" events in her life, which critics praised as down-to-earth and genuine.^[191] Although the manuscript was almost finished when Sonny died, she could not decide whether to include his death in the book; she feared being criticized for capitalizing on the event. She told Rolling Stone, \"I couldn't ignore it, could I? I might have if I cared more about what people think than what I know is right for me.\"^[192]\n

1998\u20132002: Fourth musical comeback and songwriting debut

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Cher's 22nd studio album, Believe (1998), marked a departure from her previous rock sound to 1970s disco-inspired dance-pop.^[86] It sold 10 million copies worldwide,^[193] achieving quadruple platinum status in the US and gold or platinum certifications in 39 countries.^[70]^[194] Entertainment Weekly described the album as \"the most dramatic comeback Hollywood has seen since ... the last time Cher raised her career from the dead\", emphasizing its role in introducing her to a new generation of fans who \"hadn't yet been born when 'I Got You Babe' ruled the charts in 1965.\"^[195]\n

Believe's title track reached number one in 23 countries and sold over 10 million copies globally.^[196]^[197]^[198] It was the best-selling single of 1998 in the UK and of 1999 in the US.^[196]^[199] \"Believe\" debuted at number one in the UK, held the position for seven weeks and became the UK's best-selling single by a female artist.^[200] In the US, it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks,^[201] making Cher, at 52, the oldest female artist to top the chart.^[202] \"Believe\" earned Cher the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording and the 1999 Billboard Music Award for Hot 100 Single of the Year.^[203]^[204] Rolling Stone listed it among \"The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time\" in 2021.^[205]\n

On January 31, 1999, Cher sang \"The Star-Spangled Banner\", the US national anthem, at the Super Bowl XXXIII.^[206] She co-headlined the television special VH1 Divas Live '99, which drew 19.4 million viewers,^[207] becoming the highest-rated program in VH1's history at the time.^[208] Her Do You Believe? Tour (1999\u20132000) sold out in every American city it visited,^[209] drawing a global audience of over 1.5 million.^[210] Its companion television special, Cher: Live in Concert \u2013 From the MGM Grand in Las Vegas (1999), achieved a 13.0 rating, making it HBO's highest-rated original program of 1998\u20131999.^[211]^[212]\n

Billboard named Cher the top dance artist of 1999.^[199] Her former label, Geffen, capitalized on her success with the US-only compilation If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher's Greatest Hits (1999),^[213] certified gold by the RIAA,^[70] while Cher oversaw The Greatest Hits (1999) for international markets, selling three million copies outside the US by January 2000.^[210] Cher starred in Franco Zeffirelli's critically acclaimed war film Tea with Mussolini (1999),^[214] earning praise for her portrayal of a flamboyant American socialite unwelcome among Englishwomen in Italy.^[215] Film Comment remarked, \"She manages the movie star trick of being at once a character and at the same time never allowing you to forget: that's Cher\", adding that her performance proved \"how sorely she's been missed from movie screens.\"^[216]\n

In 2000, Cher released Not Commercial, an album she wrote after attending a songwriting conference in 1994; it marked her first attempt at writing most of the tracks for an album. Rejected by her label for being uncommercial, she sold it exclusively on her website. The song \"Sisters of Mercy\", which criticizes as \"cruel, heartless and wicked\" the nuns who had prevented her mother from retrieving her from a Catholic orphanage, drew condemnation from the Catholic Church.^[217]^[218] Her dance-focused follow-up to Believe,^[219] Living Proof (2001), debuted at number nine on the Billboard 200^[220] and was certified gold by the RIAA.^[70] It features the UK top-ten single \"The Music's No Good Without You\"^[25] and \"Song for the Lonely\", a tribute to \"the courageous people of New York\" following the September 11 attacks.^[219] Named Billboard's top dance artist of 2002, Cher received the Artist Achievement Award from Steven Tyler at the 2002 Billboard Music Awards for having \"helped redefine popular music with massive success on the Billboard charts.\"^[221]^[222] That year, her wealth was estimated at $600 million.^[223]\n

2002\u20132018: Farewell tours, concert residencies and return to acting and recording

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In June 2002, Cher launched the Living Proof: The Farewell Tour,^[224] promoted as her final concert tour, though she planned to keep recording and acting.^[225] Jon Pareles of The New York Times praised it as a celebration of Cher's resilience, highlighting her ability to \"triumph over restraint, aging and gravity\" and calling her \"a hit machine immune to sagging flesh\".^[226] Initially set for 49 shows, the tour was repeatedly extended.^[227] By October 2003, it had become the most successful tour by a female artist, grossing $145 million from 200 shows with 2.2 million attendees.^[228] The NBC special Cher: The Farewell Tour drew 17 million viewers,^[229] becoming the highest-rated network concert special of 2003 and earning Cher the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded).^[230]^[231]\n

After leaving Warner UK in 2002, Cher signed a global deal with Warner Bros. Records in September 2003.^[232] Forbes named her the highest-paid female musician of 2003, earning $33.1 million.^[233] The compilation album The Very Best of Cher (2003) peaked at number four on the Billboard 200^[234] and was certified double platinum by the RIAA.^[70] In the Farrelly brothers' comedy Stuck on You (2003), Cher played a satirical version of herself in a relationship with a high schooler (Frankie Muniz), referencing media scrutiny of her relationships with younger men.^[235] Cher's Farewell Tour concluded in April 2005 after 325 shows, drawing over 3.5 million attendees and grossing $250 million, ranking among the top-ten highest-grossing tours of the 2000s.^[236]^[237]\n

After three years of retirement,^[238] Cher began a three-year, 200-show residency in 2008 at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, earning a reported $60 million.^[239] Titled Cher, the production featured advanced stage effects and over 20 costume changes.^[240]^[241] In Burlesque (2010), her first musical film since Good Times (1967), she played a nightclub owner mentoring a Hollywood hopeful (Christina Aguilera). Her song \"You Haven't Seen the Last of Me\", from the film's soundtrack,^[242] topped the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart in January 2011, making Cher the only artist with Billboard number-one singles in six consecutive decades (1960s\u20132010s).^[243]\n

In 2011, Cher lent her voice to Janet the Lioness in the comedy Zookeeper.^[244] Dear Mom, Love Cher, a documentary she produced about her mother Georgia Holt, aired on Lifetime in May 2013.^[245] Closer to the Truth (2013), Cher's 25th studio album and the first since 2001's Living Proof, entered the Billboard 200 at number three, her highest position on that chart to date.^[38] The Boston Globe's Michael Andor Brodeur commented that \"Cher's 'Goddess of Pop' sash remains in little danger of undue snatching; at 67, she sounds more convincing than J-Lo or Madonna reporting from 'the club'\".^[246] Cher premiered the lead single \"Woman's World\" on the season four finale of the talent show The Voice, her first live TV performance in over a decade.^[245] She later joined the show's season five as judge Blake Shelton's team adviser.^[247]\n

In June 2013, Cher headlined the annual Dance on the Pier benefit, celebrating LGBTQ Pride Day, achieving the event's first full-capacity crowd in five years.^[248] She embarked on the Dressed to Kill Tour in March 2014, nearly a decade after announcing her \"farewell tour\",^[249] joking during shows that this would actually be her last farewell tour while crossing fingers.^[250] The tour's first leg, comprising 49 sold-out shows in North America, grossed $54.9 million.^[249] Later that year, she canceled all remaining dates due to a kidney infection.^[251] Cher collaborated with American hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan on their 2015 album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, credited under her 1964 alias, Bonnie Jo Mason.^[252] The album, produced as a single copy and sold via online auction,^[253] became the most expensive album ever sold.^[254]\n

After attending the 2015 Met Gala as Marc Jacobs's guest, Cher became the face of his Fall/Winter campaign.^[255] In February 2017, she launched Classic Cher, a three-year concert residency at the Park Theater in Las Vegas and The Theater at MGM National Harbor in Washington, D.C.^[256] At the 2017 Billboard Music Awards, Cher performed \"Believe\" and \"If I Could Turn Back Time\", her first awards show performance in over 15 years. Gwen Stefani presented Cher with the Billboard Icon Award, calling her the \"definition of the word Icon\" and a role model of strength and authenticity.^[257] In March 2018, Cher headlined the 40th Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, with tickets selling out in three hours after she hinted at her involvement on Twitter.^[258]\n

2018\u20132022: ABBA-related projects and ventures in fashion

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Cher returned to film after nearly a decade in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018), a jukebox musical romantic comedy based on the songs of ABBA. The film serves as both a prequel and a sequel to the 2008 film Mamma Mia! and features Cher as Ruby Sheridan, the mother of Donna (Meryl Streep) and grandmother of Sophie (Amanda Seyfried).^[259] Critics praised Cher's performance as a highlight of the movie, with New York magazine commenting, \"Every single movie\u2014no matter how flawless\u2014would be infinitely better if it included Cher.\"^[260] For the film's soundtrack, she recorded two ABBA songs, \"Fernando\" and \"Super Trouper\".^[261] Bj\u00f6rn Ulvaeus of ABBA stated, \"She makes 'Fernando' her own. It's her song now.\"^[262]\n

While promoting Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Cher announced she was working on an album of ABBA covers.^[263] Released in September 2018, Dancing Queen debuted at number three on the Billboard 200, tying with 2013's Closer to the Truth as Cher's highest-charting solo album in the US.^[264] With first-week sales of 153,000 units, it achieved the year's biggest sales week for a pop album by a female artist and marked Cher's largest sales week since 1991.^[264] The album also topped Billboard's Top Album Sales chart.^[264] Dancing Queen received widespread critical acclaim; Rolling Stone commented that Cher makes the ABBA songs sound as if they were written for her,^[265] while Entertainment Weekly praised it as her \"most significant release since 1998's Believe.\"^[266]\n

Cher embarked on the Here We Go Again Tour in 2018,^[267] which continued until 2020, when it was indefinitely postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.^[268] The Cher Show, a biographical jukebox musical based on Cher's life and music, premiered in Chicago in June 2018.^[269] Featuring three actresses portraying Cher at different stages of her life,^[270] it ran on Broadway from December 2018 to August 2019.^[271] Subsequent productions toured the UK, Ireland and the US.^[272]^[273] On December 2, 2018, Cher received the Kennedy Center Honor in recognition of her \"extraordinary contributions to culture\",^[274] with tribute performances of her songs by Adam Lambert, Cyndi Lauper and Little Big Town.^[275] The following year, Cher launched Cher Eau de Couture, her second fragrance, which she described as a \"genderless\" follow-up to 1987's Uninhibited.^[276]\n

During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Cher focused on projects that could be completed from home. In May 2020, she released her first Spanish-language song, a cover of ABBA's \"Chiquitita\", with proceeds donated to UNICEF.^[277] Later that year, she joined the charity supergroup BBC Radio 2 Allstars for a cover of Oasis's \"Stop Crying Your Heart Out\". The recording, made in support of the Children in Need charity,^[278] became a UK top-ten single.^[279] Cher voiced a bobblehead version of herself in the animated film Bobbleheads: The Movie (2020).^[280] She was featured in The New York Times Magazine's annual \"Best Actors\" list for 2020,^[281] becoming the first actor included without appearing in a theatrical release that year;^[282] her performance in Moonstruck (1987) was praised as \"radiant\" and a source of comfort during quarantine.^[281]\n

In the early 2020s, Cher collaborated with major fashion brands. She starred in Dsquared2's Spring/Summer 2020 campaign,^[283] MAC Cosmetics' \"Challenge Accepted\" campaign in January 2022 and UGG's \"Feel\" campaign the same month.^[284]^[285] For Pride Month in June 2022, Cher partnered with Versace to launch the \"Chersace\" capsule collection, with proceeds benefiting the LGBTQIA+ charity Gender Spectrum.^[286] In September 2022, she walked the runway at Paris Fashion Week, closing Balmain's Spring/Summer 2023 show, and in November, she starred in the brand's \"Balmain Blaze\" campaign.^[287]^[288] That month, Cher began dating music executive Alexander Edwards, 40 years her junior. Their age gap sparked criticism online, which she addressed by tweeting, \"Love doesn't know math.\"^[289]\n

2023\u2013present: Christmas, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction and memoirs

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Cher's first holiday album, Christmas (2023),^[290] features duets with Stevie Wonder, Darlene Love, Michael Bubl\u00e9, Tyga and Cyndi Lauper. Its lead single, \"DJ Play a Christmas Song\", topped the Billboard Adult Contemporary and Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales charts in December 2023, extending Cher's record as the only solo artist with Billboard number-one singles in seven consecutive decades (1960s\u20132020s).^[291]^[292]\n

In December 2023, Cher criticized the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for excluding her since becoming eligible in 1990, saying, \"I wouldn't be in it now if they gave me a million dollars,\" and suggesting the institution \"can just you-know-what themselves.\"^[293] Two months later, she received her first nomination and was inducted on October 19, 2024, becoming the first musician-actor to win an Academy Award for acting and join the Hall of Fame.^[294]^[295]^[296] Cher decided to accept the honor out of admiration for her fellow inductees.^[295] At the ceremony, she performed \"If I Could Turn Back Time\" and \"Believe\", the latter as a duet with Dua Lipa.^[295]\n

In November 2024, Cher published Cher: The Memoir, Part One, the first of a two-part autobiography covering her childhood, early career and marriages to Sonny Bono and Gregg Allman.^[297] Written over seven years,^[297] it debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list, holding the position for three weeks.^[298]^[299]^[300] The second part is set for release in 2025.^[301] To celebrate 60 years in music, Cher released the greatest hits album Forever (2024), available as a 21-track standard edition and a 40-track digital edition, Forever Fan, featuring Sonny & Cher songs and lesser-known tracks curated by Cher.^[302] Rolling Stone noted the absence of \"Half-Breed\", her third Billboard Hot 100 number-one, linking it to a trend of artists reevaluating their catalogs in light of changing cultural sensitivities.^[302]\n

Artistry

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Music and voice

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Cher has explored diverse musical styles, including rock (folk, punk, arena and pop subgenres), soul, jazz, disco, new wave, power ballads, hip hop and electronic dance music,^[296]^[303] aiming to \"remain relevant and do work that strikes a chord\".^[304] Music historian Annie Zaleski wrote in Cher's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction essay that she sings \"nearly every style of music\" effortlessly.^[296] Cher's music often centers on heartbreak, independence and women's empowerment, making her a \"brokenhearted symbol of a strong but decidedly single woman\", according to Out magazine's Judy Wieder.^[305] Goldmine's Phill Marder credits Cher's musical success to her \"nearly flawless\" song selection, noting that while Sonny Bono contributed to early hits, most of her solo successes came from independent songwriters she chose.^[306] Her 2000 album Not Commercial, largely self-written, has a \"1970s singer-songwriter feel\" that highlights her storytelling skills, according to AllMusic's Jose F. Promis.^[307]\n

Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times writes, \"There were a lot of great records by female singers in the early days of rock ... None, however, reflected the authority and command that we associate with rock 'n' roll today as much as [Cher's] key early hits\".^[308] Some of Cher's early songs discuss subjects rarely addressed in American popular music such as divorce, prostitution, unplanned and underaged pregnancy, and racism.^[306] According to AllMusic's 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 male she loved\". Her ability to carry both male and female ranges allowed her to sing solo in androgynous and gender-neutral songs.^[309]\n

Cher's contralto voice has been widely praised for its distinctiveness.^[310] Ann Powers of The New York Times described it as \"a quintessential rock voice: impure, quirky [and] a fine vehicle for projecting personality.\"^[311] Zaleski called her timbre \"recognizable, dusky and sultry, like exquisite black velvet,\" with a wide range and \"warbling\" vibrato.^[296] AllMusic's Bruce Eder stated that her voice's \"intensity and passion\" are amplified by her acting skills, creating \"an incredibly powerful experience for the listener.\"^[312] The Guardian's Laura Snapes called her voice \"miraculous\", capable of expressing \"vulnerability, vengeance and pain\" simultaneously.^[313] Zaleski added that her vocal delivery feels like \"a direct line to her soul\",^[296] while author Paul Simpson observed that \"she spits out the words ... with such conviction you'd think she was delivering an eternal truth about the human condition\".^[314]\n

\"Believe\" (1998)

\"Believe\" features pioneering use of Auto-Tune to distort Cher's vocals, also known as the \"Cher effect\".^[315]

\"Believe\" without Auto-Tune

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Writing about Cher's musical output during the 1960s, Hilburn stated that \"no one matched the pure, seductive wallop of Cher\".^[308] By contrast, her vocal performances during the 1970s were described by Eder as \"dramatic, highly intense ... [and] almost as much 'acted' as sung\".^[19] First heard in the 1980 record Black Rose,^[316] Cher employed sharper, more aggressive vocals on her hard rock-oriented albums, establishing her sexually confident image.^[317] For the 1995 album It's a Man's World, she restrained her vocals, singing in higher registers and without vibrato.^[164]\n

Cher's 1998 song \"Believe\" was the first commercial recording to use Auto-Tune\u2014an audio processor for correcting off-key vocals\u2014as a stylistic effect, creating a robotic, futuristic sound.^[315]^[318] Cher, who proposed the effect,^[319] faced resistance from her label but insisted it remain, saying, \"You can change [the song] over my dead body\".^[319] Dubbed the \"Cher effect\",^[315] the technique was later described by Pitchfork's Simon Reynolds as having \"revolutionized the sound of popular music\" and as \"the sound of the 21st century.\"^[320] Cher used Auto-Tune extensively on Living Proof (2001) and subsequent albums.^[266] In 2023, the Cher Fan Club's YouTube channel released a cover of Madonna's \"La Isla Bonita\" using artificial intelligence (AI) to replicate Cher's voice.^[321] Calling it \"shocking\", Cher expressed concern: \"I've spent my entire life trying to be myself and now ... they'll do my singing? ... it's out of control.\"^[322]\n

Films, videos and stage

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Maclean's magazine's Barbara Wickens wrote, \"Cher has emerged as probably the most fascinating movie star of her generation ... [because] she has managed to be at once boldly shocking and ultimately enigmatic.\"^[323] New York Post movie critic David Edelstein attributes Cher's \"top-ranking star quality\" to her ability of projecting \"honesty, rawness and emotionality. She wears her vulnerability on her sleeve.\"^[323] Jeff Yarbrough of The Advocate wrote that Cher was \"one of the first superstars to 'play gay' with compassion and without a hint of stereotyping\", as she portrays a lesbian in the 1983 film Silkwood.^[324]\n

Author Yvonne Tasker notes that Cher's film roles often mirror her public image as a rebellious, sexually autonomous and self-made woman.^[325] In her films, she recurrently serves as a social intermediary to disenfranchised male characters.^[326] Film critic Kathleen Rowe wrote of Moonstruck that the depiction of Cher's character as \"a 'woman on top' [is] enhanced by the unruly star persona Cher brings to the part'\".^[327] For Moonstruck, Cher was ranked 1st on Billboard's list of \"The 100 Best Acting Performances by Musicians in Movies\" and her performance was described as \"the standard by which you mentally check all others\".^[328] Moonstruck was acknowledged by the American Film Institute as the eighth best romantic comedy film of all time.^[329]\n

Cher's public image is also reflected in her music videos and live performances, where she explores themes of self-construction, the pursuit of perfection and female sexuality, according to Tasker.^[330] Tony Spilde of The Bismarck Tribune felt that \"[Cher's] lavish concerts have become bigger than the music they're meant to promote.\"^[331] In her 1991 Cher... at the Mirage concert video, she stood apart from contemporary female pop singers by featuring a male dancer impersonating her instead of female backup dancers mirroring her movements.^[330] Author Diane Negra described this as Cher embracing her identity as a \"fictionalized production\", offering audiences a \"pleasurable plurality.\"^[332] James Sullivan of the San Francisco Chronicle highlighted Cher's impact on the era of stadium-sized shows, stating, \"She's comfortable enough to see such imitation as flattery, not theft.\"^[333]\n

Cher was ranked 17th on VH1's list of the \"50 Greatest Women of the Video Era\".^[334] The 1980 video for \"Hell on Wheels\" involves cinematic techniques^[335] and was described by film historian Lawrence J. Quirk as one of the earliest examples of a modern music video.^[336] Deemed \"controversial\" for her performance on the battleship USS Missouri, straddling a cannon,^[152] and wearing a leather thong that revealed her tattooed buttocks,^[153] the 1989 music video for \"If I Could Turn Back Time\" was the first ever to be banned by MTV.^[330]\n

Public image

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Fashion icon status

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Time magazine's Cady Lang described Cher as a \"cultural phenomenon [who] has forever changed the way we see celebrity fashion.\"^[337] Cher emerged as a fashion trendsetter in the 1960s, popularizing \"hippie fashion with bell-bottoms, bandanas and Cherokee-inspired tunics\".^[338] She began working as a model in 1967 for photographer Richard Avedon after then-Vogue magazine editor Diana Vreeland discovered her at a party for Jacqueline Kennedy.^[338] Avedon took the controversial photo of Cher in a beaded and feathered nude gown designed by Bob Mackie for the cover of Time magazine in 1975;^[339] Billboard magazine's Brooke Mazurek described it as \"one of the most recreated and monumental looks of all time.\"^[340] Cher first wore the gown to the 1974 Met Gala. According to Vogue's Andr\u00e9 Leon Talley, \"it was really the first time a Hollywood celebrity attended and it changed everything. We are still seeing versions of that look on The Met red carpet 40 years later.\"^[340] Billboard wrote that Cher has \"transformed fashion and [become] one of the most influential style icons in red carpet history\".^[340]\n

The Hamilton Spectator declared Cher \"the It Girl of the '70s\".^[341] Through her television shows, she became a sex symbol with her inventive and revealing Mackie-designed outfits, and successfully fought the network censors to bare her navel.^[149] Cher has been erroneously identified as the first woman to expose her navel on television after the 1951 American Code of Practices for Television Broadcasters,^[342]^[c] and her frequent exposed midriff earned her the moniker \"pioneer of the belly beautiful\" from People.^[344] In 1972, after she was featured on the annual \"Best Dressed Women\" lists, Mackie stated: \"There hasn't been a girl like Cher since Dietrich and Garbo. She's a high-fashion star who appeals to people of all ages.\"^[345]\n

In May 1999, after the Council of Fashion Designers of America recognized Cher with an award for her influence on fashion, Robin Givhan of the Los Angeles Times called her a \"fashion visionary\" for \"striking just the right note of contemporary wretched excess\".^[346] Givhan referenced Tom Ford, Anna Sui and Dolce & Gabbana as \"[i]nfluential designers [who] have evoked her name as a source of inspiration and guidance.\"^[346] She concluded that \"Cher's Native American showgirl sexpot persona now seems to epitomize the fashion industry's rush to celebrate ethnicity, adornment and sex appeal.\"^[346] Vogue proclaimed Cher \"[their] favorite fashion trendsetter\", describing her as \"[e]ternally relevant [and] the ruler of outr\u00e9 reinvention\".^[347] Alexander Fury of The Independent lauded Cher as \"the ultimate fashion icon\" and traced her influence among female celebrities such as Beyonc\u00e9, Jennifer Lopez and Kim Kardashian, stating that \"[t]hey all graduated from the Cher school of never sharing the stage, with anyone or anything ... They're trying to share the spotlight, to have Cher's success.\"^[348]\n

Physical appearance

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Cher has attracted media attention for her physical appearance\u2014particularly her youthful looks and her tattoos. Paddy Calistro of the Los Angeles Times wrote that during Cher's rise as a movie star in the 1980s, her \"highly articulated bone structure captured audience attention\", which led to an increased number of medical requests for \"surgically inserted 'cheekbones'\".^[349] Journalists have often called Cher the \"poster girl\" of plastic surgery.^[350] Author Caroline Ramazanoglu wrote that \"Cher's operations have gradually replaced a strong, decidedly 'ethnic' look with a more symmetrical, delicate, 'conventional' ... and ever-youthful version of female beauty ... Her normalised image ... now acts as a standard against which other women will measure, judge, discipline and 'correct' themselves.\"^[351] In 1992, Madame Tussauds wax museum honored Cher as one of the five \"most beautiful women of history\" by creating a life-size statue.^[352] She was ranked 26th on VH1's list of the \"100 Sexiest Artists\" in 2002.^[353]\n

Cher has six tattoos. The Baltimore Sun called her the \"Ms. Original Rose Tattoo\".^[354] She got her first tattoo in 1972.^[354] According to Sonny Bono, \"Calling her butterfly tattoos nothing was like ignoring a sandstorm in the Mojave. That was exactly the effect Cher wanted to create. She liked to do things for the shock they created.\"^[355] In the late 1990s, she began having laser treatments to remove her tattoos.^[356] The process was still underway in the 2000s. She commented, \"When I got tattooed, only bad girls did it: me and Janis Joplin and biker chicks. Now it doesn't mean anything. No one's surprised.\"^[357]\n

Cher was the inspiration for Mother Gothel, a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Pictures' animated feature film Tangled (2010). Director Byron Howard stated that Gothel's exotic appearance was based on Cher's \"exotic and Gothic looking\" appearance, continuing that the singer \"definitely was one of the people we looked at visually, as far as what gives you a striking character\".^[358]\n

Social media presence

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Cher's social media presence has been noted for its unconventional and candid style. Time named Cher \"Twitter's most outspoken (and beloved) commentator\",^[337] while The New York Times' J Wortham highlighted her authenticity, contrasting it with the heavily curated online personas typical of celebrity accounts. Wortham described Cher as \"an outlier, perhaps the last unreconstructed high-profile Twitter user\", whose posts combine \"nakedness and honesty\" that is \"rarely celebrated\" in mainstream culture.^[359] Similarly, The Guardian's Monica Heisey described Cher's Twitter account as \"a jewel in the bizarro crown of the internet\", noting, \"While many celebrities use Twitter for carefully crafted self-promotion, Cher just lets it all hang out.\"^[360] Journalists have also remarked on her frequent use of emojis, which Cher has linked to her dyslexia, describing them as intuitive tools for visualizing emotions.^[361]\n

Gay icon status

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Cher is revered by the LGBTQ community, a status attributed to her career accomplishments, distinctive sense of style and enduring longevity.^[362] She is regarded as a gay icon and is frequently imitated by drag queens.^[363] According to Salon writer Thomas Rogers, drag queens emulate figures like Judy Garland, Dolly Parton and Cher because they \"overcame insult and hardship on their path to success\"\u2014narratives that resonate with the challenges many gay men face when coming out.^[363] Maclean's journalist Elio Iannacci stated that Cher was \"one of the first to bring drag to the masses,\" hiring two drag queens to perform with her during her Las Vegas residency in 1979.^[364] Cher's portrayal of a lesbian in the film Silkwood, her transition to dance music and her social activism have further solidified her status as a gay icon. As the mother of a trans man, Chaz Bono, Cher has advocated for visibility and support for trans families.^[365]^[366]\n

Cher's influence on LGBTQ culture was highlighted in the NBC sitcom Will & Grace, where she was the idol of the gay character Jack McFarland. She appeared as herself in two episodes, including the 2000 episode \"Gypsies, Tramps and Weed\"\u2014referencing her 1971 song \"Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves\"\u2014which became the show's second-highest-rated episode.^[367]^[368] Cher's impact on the drag community is also evident in the reality competition RuPaul's Drag Race, which has honored Cher through challenges like the musical performance \"Cher: The Unauthorized Rusical\" in season 10 and the runway theme \"Everything Every-Cher All at Once\" in season 16.^[369]^[370]\n

Activism

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Philanthropy

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Cher's philanthropic work is channeled through the Cher Charitable Foundation, which focuses on combating poverty, advancing medical research, improving health care and supporting the rights of vulnerable groups such as veterans, children, LGBTQ individuals, elders and animals.^[371]\n

Cher has been a vocal advocate for American soldiers, returning veterans and communities affected by war. In 1993, she joined a humanitarian mission to Armenia, delivering food and medical supplies to the war-torn region.^[372] She has supported Operation Helmet, which provides free helmet upgrade kits to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and contributed to the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, aiding military personnel severely injured in war-related operations.^[373]\n

Beginning in 1990, Cher served as a donor and as the National Chairperson and Honorary Spokesperson for the Children's Craniofacial Association, whose mission is to \"empower and give hope to facially disfigured children and their families\".^[373] The annual Cher's Family Retreat is held each June to provide craniofacial patients and their families an opportunity to interact with others with similar experiences. She supports the Get A-Head Charitable Trust, which aims to improve the quality of life for people with head and neck diseases.^[373]\n

Cher is a donor, fundraiser and international spokesperson for Keep a Child Alive, which seeks to combat AIDS, including providing antiretroviral medicine to children and their families.^[373] In 1996, she hosted the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) Benefit alongside Elizabeth Taylor at the Cannes Film Festival.^[374] In 2015, she received the amfAR Award of Inspiration for \"her willingness and ability to use her fame for the greater good\" and for being \"one of the great champions in the fight against AIDS\".^[375]\n

Cher has served as the Honorary National Chair of Habitat for Humanity's \"Raise the Roof\" fundraising initiative, aimed at supporting the construction and repair of affordable homes for families in need.^[373] In 2007, Cher became the primary supporter of the Peace Village School (PVS) in Ukunda, Kenya, which \"provides nutritious food, medical care, education and extracurricular activities for more than 300 orphans and vulnerable children.\"^[373] Her support enabled the school to acquire land and build permanent housing and school facilities and in partnership with Malaria No More and other organizations, she piloted an effort to eliminate malaria mortality and morbidity for the children, their caregivers and the surrounding community.^[373]\n

In 2016, after the discovery of lead contamination in the drinking water of Flint, Michigan, Cher donated more than 180,000 bottles of water to the city.^[376] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Cher launched the CherCares Pandemic Resource and Response Initiative (CCPRRI) alongside Dr. Irwin Redlener, the head of Columbia University's Pandemic Resource and Response Center, to distribute $1 million to \"chronically neglected and forgotten people\" through the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF). Cher told Billboard, \"There are rural areas where people of color and Latinos and Native Americans were getting no services. It's not a lot of money\u2014$1 million goes in the blink of an eyelash!\u2014so now I'm trying to get my friends to make it a lot more so we can do something that will really meet people's needs.\"^[277]\n

In 2017, Cher weighed in on the need to protect elder rights as she executive produced Edith+Eddie, a documentary about a nonagenarian interracial couple, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).^[377] That same year, she co-founded Free the Wild, an international charity dedicated to protecting wild animals in captivity.^[378]^[379] In 2020, Free the Wild partnered with Four Paws International, prompting Cher to travel to Pakistan to advocate for and work with the country's government for the transfer of Kaavan, an elephant confined to a zoo for 35 years, to a wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia.^[380] This effort was chronicled in the documentary Cher & the Loneliest Elephant, released on Paramount+ in 2021, which detailed her collaboration with animal aid groups and veterinarians to free Kaavan.^[381]\n

Cher's older child, Chaz Bono, first came out as a lesbian at age 17, which reportedly caused Cher to feel \"guilt, fear and pain\".^[366] However, she soon came to accept Chaz's sexual orientation and came to the conclusion that LGBTQ people \"didn't have the same rights as everyone else, [and she] thought that was unfair\".^[382] She was the keynote speaker for the 1997 national Parents, Families, & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) convention and has since become one of the LGBTQ community's most vocal advocates.^[382] In May 1998, she received the GLAAD Vanguard Award for having \"made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for lesbians and gay men\".^[383] On June 11, 2009, Chaz came out as a transgender man and his transition from female to male was legally finalized on May 6, 2010.^[384]\n

Politics

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Cher has said that she is not a registered Democrat, but has attended many Democratic events.^[385] Her progressive political views have attracted media attention and she has been an outspoken critic of the conservative movement.^[386] She has commented that she did not understand why anyone would be a Republican because eight years under the administration of George W. Bush \"almost killed [her]\".^[387]\n

During the 2000 United States presidential election, ABC News wrote that she was determined to do \"whatever possible to keep him [Bush] out of office\".^[385] She told the site, \"If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican? ... You won't have one fucking right left.\"^[385] She added, \"I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.\"^[385]\n

\nOn October 27, 2003, Cher anonymously called a C-SPAN phone-in program to recount a visit she made to maimed soldiers at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and criticized the lack of media coverage and government attention given to injured servicemen. Although she identified herself as an unnamed entertainer, she was recognized by the C-SPAN host, who subsequently questioned her about her 1992 support for independent presidential candidate Ross Perot. She said:

When I heard him talk right in the beginning, I thought that he would bring some sort of common-sense business approach and also less partisanship, but then ... I was completely disappointed like everyone else when he just kind of cut and run and no one knew exactly why ... Maybe he couldn't have withstood all the investigation that goes on now.^[388]

In a 2006 Stars and Stripes interview, Cher elaborated on her \"against the war in Iraq but for the troops\" position: \"I don't have to be for this war to support the troops because these men and women do what ... they're told to do ... They do the best they can. They don't ask for anything.\"^[389]\n

Cher supported Hillary Clinton in her 2008 presidential campaign.^[386] After Obama won the Democratic nomination, she supported his candidacy.^[390]^[391] However, in a 2010 interview with Vanity Fair, she commented that she \"still thinks Hillary would have done a better job\", although she \"accepts the fact that Barack Obama inherited insurmountable problems\".^[386] During the 2012 United States presidential election, Cher and comedian Kathy Griffin released a public service announcement titled \"Don't Let Mitt Turn Back Time on Women's Rights\", criticizing Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for his support of Richard Mourdock, the US Senate candidate who suggested that pregnancies resulting from rape were \"part of God's plan\".^[392]\n

In September 2013, Cher declined an invitation to perform at the 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Russia due to the country's controversial anti-LGBTQ legislation that overshadowed preparations for the event.^[393] In June 2015, after Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president, she made critical comments on Twitter, stating that \"Donald Trump's punishment is being Donald Trump\".^[394] In 2018, after the victory in Brazil's presidential election of right-wing populist Jair Bolsonaro, Cher called him a \"pig\" and \"a politician from hell\", before declaring that Bolsonaro should be \"locked in prison for the rest of his life\".^[395]\n

Cher has advocated for awareness of the Armenian Genocide. At the 2016 premiere of The Promise, a war film depicting the genocide, she criticized Turkey's refusal to recognize the events as genocide and highlighted the general public's lack of awareness. She referenced the Obersalzberg Speech and the line, \"Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?\" She also discussed her Armenian heritage and her grandparents' survival of the genocide.^[396] In 2021, she congratulated Joe Biden on Twitter for being the first US President to formally acknowledge the Armenian Genocide.^[397]\n

In September 2020, Cher raised nearly $2 million for Biden's presidential campaign at a virtual, LGBTQ-themed fundraiser.^[398] In October, she traveled to Nevada and Arizona to campaign on behalf of Biden,^[399] and released a cover version of \"Happiness is Just a Thing Called Joe\", a song conceived for the 1943 musical film Cabin in the Sky, with lyrics updated to be about Biden.^[400] The same month, Cher posted messages on Twitter in support of Armenia and Artsakh regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh war.^[401]\n

In 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Cher expressed her support for Ukraine and called for aid to Ukrainians through her Twitter account.^[402] She referred to Russian President Vladimir Putin as a despot intent on restoring the Soviet Union,^[403] and announced plans to provide shelter for Ukrainian refugees in her home.^[404]^[405]\n

Legacy

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Cher is commonly referred to by the media as the \"Goddess of Pop\".^[d]^[e] Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield stated, \"there are no other careers remotely like hers, [particularly] in the history of pop music\", and referred to Cher as \"the one-woman embodiment of the whole gaudy story of pop music.\"^[422] According to Goldmine magazine's Phill Marder, Cher \"has been and remains today one of the Rock Era's most dominant figures\".^[423] He described her as the leader of an effort in the 1960s to \"advance feminine rebellion in the rock world [and] the prototype of the female rock star ... the perfect female punk long before punk even was a rock term.\"^[423] Billboard's Joe Lynch described Cher as \"a woman who pioneered an androgynous musical identity in the mid '60s\" and who by doing so \"teed things up for people like Bowie and Patti Smith\".^[424]\n

Billboard's Keith Caulfield wrote that \"there's divas and then there's Cher.\"^[425] The New York Times' Matthew Schneier stated, \"[Cher] has earned her mononym. Her star power is such that she has spored an entire industry of imitators, both figurative and literal.\"^[426] Dazed magazine's Shon Faye elaborates: \"If Madonna and Lady Gaga and Kylie and Cyndi Lauper were playing football, Cher would be the stadium they played on and the sun that shone down on them.\"^[427] According to Jeff Miers from The Buffalo News, \"Her music has changed with the times over the decades, rather than changing those times through groundbreaking work\"; however, he felt that subsequent female pop singers were heavily inspired by Cher's abilities to combine \"showmanship with deep musicality ... to make valid statements in a wide variety of trend-driven idioms ... to ease effortlessly between pop subgenres [and] to shock without alienating her fans\", as well as by her charismatic stage presence and the strong LGBTQ support among her fan base.^[428]\n

Cher has repeatedly reinvented herself by adopting a series of personas,^[429] for which Professor Richard Aquila from Ball State University called her \"the ultimate pop chameleon\".^[430] According to Entertainment Weekly's Marc Snetiker, \"Cher has floated through generation after generation, scooping up new fans, thrilling old ones, reinventing her own myth and glittering splendidly through it all.\"^[266] Billboard magazine's Brooke Mazurek credited Cher as having \"revolutionized the idea of what a pop star could visually accomplish, the way they could create multiple personas that live on and off-stage.\"^[340] James Reed from The Boston Globe elaborates: \"Along with David Bowie, she is one of the original chameleons in pop music, constantly in flux and challenging our perceptions of her\".^[431]\n

The New York Times declared Cher the \"Queen of the Comeback\".^[178] According to author Lucy O'Brien, \"Cher adheres to the American Dream of reinvention of self: 'Getting old does not have to mean getting obsolete.'\"^[432] Author Craig Crawford describes Cher as \"a model of flexible career management\" and relates her career successes to a constant reshaping of her image according to the evolving trends of popular culture.^[433] He further comments that she billed \"each dramatic turnaround of style as another example of rebellion\u2014an image that allowed her to make calculated changes while appearing to be consistent.\"^[433]\n

Cher's \"ability to forge an immensely successful and lengthy career as a woman in a male-dominated entertainment world\"^[428] has drawn attention from feminist critics.^[434] Billboard's Lauren Tom described Cher as \"a pioneer of female autonomy during a male-driven era [who] paved a way in a sexist industry with her music\".^[435] According to author Diane Negra, Cher was presented in the beginning of her career as a product of male creativity;^[436] Cher remembers, \"It was a time when girl singers were patted on the head for being good and told not to think\".^[178] However, her image eventually changed due to her \"refusal of dependence on a man and the determination not only to forge a career (as an actor) on her own terms but to refuse the conventional role assigned to women over forty years old in an industry that fetishises youth\", wrote author Yvonne Tasker.^[437] She was featured in the 16th-anniversary edition of Ms. magazine as an \"authentic feminist hero\" and a 1980s role model for women: \"Cher, the straightforward, tattooed, dyslexic single mother, the first Oscar winner to have entered into matrimony with a known heroin addict and to have admitted to being a fashion victim by choice, has finally landed in an era that's not afraid to applaud real women.\"^[438]\n

Following Cher's 1988 Oscar win, The New York Times' Stephanie Brush highlighted her impact on women moviegoers, comparing her to Jack Nicholson for men. Brush wrote that Cher represents women in \"revenge fantasies\", unapologetically telling off those who underestimate her, and concluded, \"You need to be more than beautiful to get away with this. You need to have been Cher for 40 years.\"^[47] Cher's 1996 interview for Dateline NBC's Jane Pauley became a viral video in 2016; in it, Cher tells the story of her mother asking her to \"settle down and marry a rich man\", to which Cher replies, \"Mom, I am a rich man.\"^[439] Cher's \"Mom, I am a rich man\" quote was included in Taylor Swift's 2019 music video \"You Need to Calm Down\". Bustle magazine's Erica Kam commented, \"[Cher's quote] puts a spin on typical gender norms ... It would make sense, then, that Swift would want to follow Cher's example.\"^[440]\n

Alec Mapa of The Advocate elaborates: \"While the rest of us were sleeping, Cher's been out there for the last four decades living out every single one of our childhood fantasies ... Cher embodies an unapologetic freedom and fearlessness that some of us can only aspire to.\"^[362] Rolling Stone's Jancee Dunn wrote, \"Cher is the coolest woman who ever stood in shoes. Why? Because her motto is, 'I don't give a shit what you think, I'm going to wear this multicolored wig.' There are folks all over America who would, in their heart of hearts, love to date people half their age, get multiple tattoos and wear feathered headdresses. Cher does it for us.\"^[441] Alexander Fury of The Independent wrote that Cher \"represents a seemingly immortal, omnipotent, uni-monikered level of fame.\"^[348] Bego stated: \"No one in the history of show business has had a career of the magnitude and scope of Cher's. She has been a teenage pop star, a television hostess, a fashion magazine model, a rock star, a pop singer, a Broadway actress, an Academy Award-winning movie star, a disco sensation and the subject of a mountain of press coverage.\"^[442] Lynch wrote that \"the world would certainly be different if she hadn't stayed so irrevocably Cher from the start.\"^[424]\n

Achievements

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As a solo artist, Cher has sold 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time.^[43]^[386]^[443] She is among the few entertainers to have won an Emmy, Grammy and Oscar,^[444] and one of five actor-singers to have had a US number-one single and won an acting Academy Award.^[59] Her breakthrough single, Sonny & Cher's \"I Got You Babe\", is a Grammy Hall of Fame inductee^[445] and was featured on Rolling Stone's \"500 Greatest Songs of All Time\" list in 2003.^[33] Her 1971 single \"Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves\" was called \"one of the 20th century's greatest songs\" by Billboard.^[63] Her 1998 song \"Believe\" is the biggest-selling single of all time by a female artist in the UK.^[200] It was voted the world's eighth favorite song in a poll conducted by BBC in 2003\u2014the only American song on the list.^[446] \"Believe\" appeared on the 2021 revised list of Rolling Stone's \"500 Greatest Songs of All Time\".^[205] In 1988, Cher became the first performer to receive an Academy Award for acting and a RIAA-certified gold album in the same year.^[447]\n

Cher is the only solo artist to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in seven consecutive decades, from the 1960s to the 2020s.^[448] She held the previous US record for Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles over the longest period of time: 33 years, seven months and three weeks between \"I Got You Babe\", which topped the chart for the first time on August 14, 1965, and \"Believe\", whose last week at number one was April 3, 1999.^[201] With \"Believe\", she became the oldest female artist at the time to have a US number-one song in the rock era, at the age of 52.^[202] Billboard ranked her at number 43 on their \"Greatest Hot 100 Artists of All Time\" list.^[449] In 2014, the magazine listed her as the 23rd highest-grossing touring act since 1990, with total earned revenue of $351.6 million and 4.5 million attendance.^[450]\n

Cher has received numerous lifetime achievement awards, including the Vanguard Award at the 1998 GLAAD Media Awards,^[383] the Legend Award at the 1999 World Music Awards,^[451] a special award for influence on fashion at the 1999 CFDA Fashion Awards,^[346] the Lucy Award for Innovation in Television at the 2000 Women in Film Awards,^[452] the Artist Achievement Award at the 2002 Billboard Music Awards,^[222] the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Glamour Awards,^[453] the Legend Award at the 2013 Attitude Awards,^[454] the Award of Inspiration at the 2015 amfAR Gala,^[375] the Icon Award at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards,^[257] the Ambassador for the Arts Award at the 2019 Chita Rivera Awards for Dance and Choreography,^[455] and the 2020 Spirit of Katharine Hepburn Award.^[456]\n

In 2010, Cher received the honor of placing her handprints and footprints in cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.^[457] Her name is on a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as part of the duo Sonny & Cher.^[190] She had also been selected for the honor as a solo artist in 1983, but declined to schedule the mandatory personal appearance.^[458] In 2018, Whoopi Goldberg presented her Kennedy Center Honor, the highest recognition of cultural achievement in the US.^[274] In 2024, Cher was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.^[459]\n

In 2003, Cher appeared at number 41 on VH1's list of \"The 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons\", which recognizes \"the folks that have significantly inspired and impacted American society\".^[460] She was ranked 31st on VH1's list of \"The 100 Greatest Women in Music\" for the period 1992\u20132012.^[461] Esquire magazine placed her at number 44 on their list of \"The 75 Greatest Women of All Time\".^[462] She was featured on the \"100 Greatest Movie Stars of our Time\" list compiled by People.^[463] In a 2001 poll, Biography magazine ranked her as their third favorite leading actress of all time.^[464]\n

Discography

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Main articles: Cher albums discography, Cher singles discography, and List of songs recorded by Cher

Solo studio albums

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All I Really Want to Do (1965)
The Sonny Side of Ch\u00e9r (1966)
Ch\u00e9r (1966)
With Love, Ch\u00e9r (1967)
Backstage (1968)
3614 Jackson Highway (1969)
Ch\u00e9r / Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves (1971)
Foxy Lady (1972)
Bittersweet White Light (1973)
Half-Breed (1973)
Dark Lady (1974)
Stars (1975)
I'd Rather Believe in You (1976)
Cherished (1977)
Take Me Home (1979)
Prisoner (1979)
I Paralyze (1982)
Cher (1987)
Heart of Stone (1989)
Love Hurts (1991)
It's a Man's World (1995)
Believe (1998)
Not Commercial (2000)
Living Proof (2001)
Closer to the Truth (2013)
Dancing Queen (2018)
Christmas (2023)

Collaborative studio albums

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Two the Hard Way (with Gregg Allman as Allman and Woman) (1977)
Black Rose (as lead vocalist of Black Rose) (1980)

Tours and residencies

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Main article: List of Cher concerts

Headlining tours

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Take Me Home Tour (1979\u20131982)
Heart of Stone Tour (1989\u20131990)
Love Hurts Tour (1991\u20131992)
Do You Believe? Tour (1999\u20132000)
Living Proof: The Farewell Tour (2002\u20132005)
Dressed to Kill Tour (2014)
Here We Go Again Tour (2018\u20132020)

Collaborative tours

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Two the Hard Way Tour (with Gregg Allman as Allman and Woman) (1977)
The Black Rose Show (as lead vocalist of Black Rose) (1980)

Residencies

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Take Me Home Tour (1979\u20131982)^[b]
Cher (2008\u20132011)
Classic Cher (2017\u20132020)

Filmography

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Main article: Cher filmography

Films

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Wild on the Beach (1965)
Good Times (1967)
Chastity (1969)
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)
Silkwood (1983)
Mask (1985)
Suspect (1987)
The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Moonstruck (1987)
Mermaids (1990)
The Player (1992)
Pr\u00eat-\u00e0-Porter (1994)
Faithful (1996)
If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
Tea with Mussolini (1999)
Stuck on You (2003)
Burlesque (2010)
Zookeeper (2011)
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
Bobbleheads: The Movie (2020)

Headlining television shows and specials

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The Sonny & Cher Nitty Gritty Hour (1971)
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour (1971\u20131974)
Cher (1975\u20131976)
The Sonny and Cher Show (1976\u20131977)
Cher... Special (1978)
Cher... and Other Fantasies (1979)
Standing Room Only: Cher in Concert (1981)
Cher... A Celebration at Caesars (1983)
Cher... at the Mirage (1991)
Sonny & Me: Cher Remembers (1998)
Cher: Live in Concert \u2013 From the MGM Grand in Las Vegas (1999)
Cher: The Farewell Tour (2003)
Dear Mom, Love Cher (2013)
Cher & the Loneliest Elephant (2021)

Bibliography

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The Ugly Duckling (1987)
Forever Fit (1991)
The First Time (1998)
Cher: The Memoir, Part One (2024)

Notes

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Cher's birth certificate lists her name as Cheryl Sarkisian, contrary to the long-reported Cherilyn. Cher later discovered this when formally changing her name to \"Cher\", attributing the discrepancy to her mother's recollection of naming her after actress Lana Turner's daughter, Cheryl Crane, and her grandmother, Lynda.^[2]\n
^ ^a ^b Cher's 1979\u20131982 concert series had no official name but was promoted under various titles, such as \"Cher\",^[120] \"Cher in Concert\",^[121] \"The Cher Show\"^[122] and \"The Cher Tour\".^[123] It later became known as the Take Me Home Tour, a name adopted by Cher^[124] and biographers.^[125] The tour had dates in North America, Europe, South Africa and Australia, with extended stays in venues including Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.^[125] Though combining elements of both tours and residencies, the media often called it a Vegas residency, referring to shows outside Las Vegas as extensions of her \"Vegas act\".^[126] At the time, Vegas residencies were seen as signs of career decline, influencing public perception and Cher's career choices.^[127] Consequently, the concert series is also listed among her residencies.\n
^ The actual first woman to expose her navel on television was Yvette Mimieux in 1964.^[343]\n
^ Publications that directly refer to Cher as the \"Goddess of Pop\" include Billboard,^[406] Harper's Bazaar,^[407] Los Angeles Times,^[408] Love,^[409] The Mercury News,^[410] Rolling Stone,^[411] Time,^[337]^[412] USA Today,^[413] Vogue Espa\u00f1a^[414] and The Washington Post.^[415]\n
^ Publications that describe Cher as \"often called\", \"nicknamed\" or \"known as\" the \"Goddess of Pop\" include ABC News,^[416] CR Fashion Book,^[417] The Cut,^[418] E! News,^[419] The Independent^[420] and New York Post.^[421]\n

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^ Quintero, Estevan (May 6, 2017). \"What You Should Know About the Goddess of Pop, Cher\". Billboard. Archived from the original on July 6, 2017.\n
^ Fisher, Lauren Alexis (June 19, 2015). \"An Ode to Cher's Twitter\". Harper's Bazaar. Archived from the original on July 19, 2020. With the Goddess of Pop's natch for reinventing herself each decade, it's safe to say that this time she's coming back as a social media superstar.\n
^ Flemming, Jack (August 26, 2020). \"Cher's former Miami Beach mansion seeks $22 million\". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on April 23, 2024. An opportunity to live like the Goddess of Pop just surfaced in Miami Beach, where Cher's ... mansion has hit the market[.]\n
^ Bardsley, Ella (February 4, 2020). \"Sonny and Cher who? The Goddess of Pop fronts Dsquared2's SS20 campaign\". Love. Archived from the original on November 4, 2020. In 1995 ... Dean and Dan Caten had no idea they'd be swarmed by a rush of buyers keen to snap up their covetable designs. Fast forward 25 years, and the Goddess of Pop, Cher, stars in their 2020 campaign.\n
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^ Polus, Sarah (April 22, 2016). \"Celeb endorsement of the week: Cher for Hillary Clinton\". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on January 16, 2025. While it's unclear whether [Cher's] endorsement will noticeably help Clinton's campaign, it's safe to say the free publicity from the goddess of pop won't hurt the Democratic front-runner.\n
^ Leib, Mason (April 2, 2024). \"Cher and Jennifer Hudson perform fiery duet of 'Believe' at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards\". ABC News. Archived from the original on April 2, 2024. Meryl Streep presented the award to Cher ... with a heartwarming tribute to the singer known as the Goddess of Pop.\n
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^ Carson, Lewis & Shaw 2004, p. 130.\n
^ ^a ^b Crawford 2007, pp. 31\u201332.\n
^ Negra 2001, p. 164.\n
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^ Negra 2001, p. 170.\n
^ Tasker 2002, p. 191.\n
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Literary sources

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Bego, Mark (2001). Cher: If You Believe. Taylor Trade Publications. ISBN 0-8154-1153-7.
Berman, Connie (2001). Cher. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7910-5907-4.
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Carson, Mina; Lewis, Tisa; Shaw, Susan M. (2004). Girls Rock! Fifty Years of Women Making Music. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2904-4.
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v t e Cher
\n Albums \n Singles \n Songs \n Films \n Concerts \n Videos \n Awards \n
Studio albums	\n All I Really Want to Do \n The Sonny Side of Ch\u00e9r \n Ch\u00e9r \n With Love, Ch\u00e9r \n Backstage \n 3614 Jackson Highway \n Ch\u00e9r / Gypsys Tramps & Thieves \n Foxy Lady \n Bittersweet White Light \n Half-Breed \n Dark Lady \n Stars \n I'd Rather Believe in You \n Cherished \n Take Me Home \n Prisoner \n I Paralyze \n Cher \n Heart of Stone \n Love Hurts \n It's a Man's World \n Believe \n Not Commercial \n Living Proof \n Closer to the Truth \n Dancing Queen \n Christmas \n
Collaborative albums	\n Sonny & Cher discography \n Two the Hard Way \n Black Rose \n
Soundtrack albums	\n Chastity \n Mermaids \n Burlesque \n Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again \n
Live albums	\n VH1 Divas Live '99 \n VH1 Divas Las Vegas \n Live! The Farewell Tour \n
Compilation albums	\n Cher's Golden Greats \n Superpak Vol. I and II \n Greatest Hits \n Greatest Hits: 1965\u20131992 \n If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher's Greatest Hits \n The Greatest Hits \n The Very Best of Cher \n Gold \n Icon \n Forever \n
Tours and residencies	\n Two the Hard Way Tour \n Take Me Home Tour \n Heart of Stone Tour \n Love Hurts Tour \n Do You Believe? Tour \n Living Proof: The Farewell Tour \n Cher \n Dressed to Kill Tour \n Classic Cher \n Here We Go Again Tour \n
Video releases	\n CherFitness: A New Attitude \n CherFitness: Body Confidence \n Extravaganza: Live at the Mirage \n The Video Collection \n Live in Concert \n The Farewell Tour \n The Very Best of Cher: The Video Hits Collection \n
Films directed	\n If These Walls Could Talk \n
Television	\n The Sonny & Cher Nitty Gritty Hour \n The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour \n Cher \n The Sonny and Cher Show \n Cher... Special \n Cher... and Other Fantasies \n Standing Room Only: Cher in Concert \n Cher... A Celebration at Caesars \n Cher... at the Mirage \n Sonny & Me: Cher Remembers \n Cher: Live in Concert \u2013 From the MGM Grand in Las Vegas \n Cher: The Farewell Tour \n Dear Mom, Love Cher \n Cher & the Loneliest Elephant \n
Books authored	\n The Ugly Duckling \n Forever Fit \n The First Time \n Cher: The Memoir, Part One \n
In popular media	\n \"The Post-Modern Prometheus\" \n \"Gypsies, Tramps and Weed\" \n \"A.I.: Artificial Insemination\" \n \"The Unauthorized Rusical\" \n \"RDR Live!\" \n The Cher Show \n
Related	\n Sonny & Cher \n Sonny Bono \n Gregg Allman \n Chaz Bono \n Elijah Blue Allman \n Sonny & Cher dolls \n 9: The Last Resort \n
\n $\"\"$ Category \n

v t e Cher singles
1960s singles	\n \"All I Really Want to Do\" \n \"Where Do You Go\" \n \"Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)\" \n \"Alfie\" \n \"I Feel Something in the Air\" \n \"Sunny\" \n \"Behind the Door\" \n \"Mama (When My Dollies Have Babies)\" \n \"Hey Joe\" \n \"You Better Sit Down Kids\" \n \"The Click Song\" \n \"Take Me for a Little While\" \n \"Yours Until Tomorrow\" \n \"Chastity's Song (Band of Thieves)\" \n \"I Walk on Guilded Splinters\" \n \"For What It's Worth\" \n
1970s singles	\n \"Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves\" \n \"The Way of Love\" \n \"Living in a House Divided\" \n \"Don't Hide Your Love\" \n \"Am I Blue?\" \n \"Half-Breed\" \n \"Dark Lady\" \n \"Train of Thought\" \n \"I Saw a Man and He Danced with His Wife\" \n \"Rescue Me\" \n \"Geronimo's Cadillac\" \n \"Long Distance Love Affair\" \n \"Pirate\" \n \"War Paint and Soft Feathers\" \n \"Take Me Home\" \n \"Wasn't It Good\" \n \"It's Too Late to Love Me Now\" \n \"Hell on Wheels\" \n
1980s singles	\n \"I Paralyze\" \n \"I Found Someone\" \n \"We All Sleep Alone\" \n \"Skin Deep\" \n \"After All\" \n \"If I Could Turn Back Time\" \n \"Just Like Jesse James\" \n
1990s singles	\n \"Heart of Stone\" \n \"You Wouldn't Know Love\" \n \"Baby I'm Yours\" \n \"The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)\" \n \"Love and Understanding\" \n \"Save Up All Your Tears\" \n \"Love Hurts\" \n \"Could've Been You\" \n \"When Lovers Become Strangers\" \n \"Oh No Not My Baby\" \n \"Whenever You're Near\" \n \"Many Rivers to Cross\" \n \"Walking in Memphis\" \n \"One by One\" \n \"Not Enough Love in the World\" \n \"The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore\" \n \"Paradise Is Here\" \n \"Believe\" \n \"Strong Enough\" \n \"All or Nothing\" \n \"Dov'\u00e8 l'amore\" \n
2000s singles	\n \"The Music's No Good Without You\" \n \"Song for the Lonely\" \n \"Alive Again\" \n \"A Different Kind of Love Song\" \n \"When the Money's Gone\" \n \"Love One Another\" \n
2010s singles	\n \"You Haven't Seen the Last of Me\" \n \"Woman's World\" \n \"I Hope You Find It\" \n \"Take It Like a Man\" \n \"I Walk Alone\" \n \"Fernando\" \n \"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)\" \n \"SOS\" \n
2020s singles	\n \"Chiquitita\" \n \"DJ Play a Christmas Song\" \n
Promotional singles	\n \"Ringo, I Love You\" \n \"Superstar\" \n \"Classified 1A\" \n \"Carousel Man\" \n \"Holdin' Out for Love\" \n \"Bad Love\" \n \"Rudy\" \n \"Bang Bang\" \n \"Main Man\" \n \"Human\" \n \"Sirens\" \n \"Ooga Boo\" \n \"One of Us\" \n
Other songs	\n \"Our Day Will Come\" \n \"Fernando\" \n \"Dressed to Kill\" \n
Guest singles	\n \"A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)\" \n \"Dead Ringer for Love\" \n \"I Got You Babe\" \n \"It Ain't Necessarily So\" \n \"Love Can Build a Bridge\" \n \"Pi\u00f9 che puoi\" \n \"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered\" \n \"Stop Crying Your Heart Out\" \n
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v t e Sonny & Cher
\n Sonny Bono \n Cher \n
Studio albums	\n Look at Us \n The Wondrous World of Sonny & Ch\u00e9r \n In Case You're in Love \n All I Ever Need Is You \n Mama Was a Rock and Roll Singer, Papa Used to Write All Her Songs \n
Live albums	\n Sonny & Cher Live \n Live in Las Vegas Vol. 2 \n
Compilations	\n The Best of Sonny & Ch\u00e9r \n Sonny & Cher's Greatest Hits \n The Two of Us \n Greatest Hits \n All I Ever Need Is You \n The Beat Goes On: The Best of Sonny & Cher \n The Definitive Pop Collection \n
Soundtracks	\n Good Times \n
Other albums	\n Baby Don't Go \u2013 Sonny & Cher and Friends \n
Singles	\n \"Baby Don't Go\" \n \"Just You\" \n \"I Got You Babe\" \n \"But You're Mine\" \n \"What Now My Love\" \n \"Little Man\" \n \"The Beat Goes On\" \n \"All I Ever Need Is You\" \n \"A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done\" \n \"When You Say Love\" \n
Television	\n The Sonny & Cher Nitty Gritty Hour \n The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour \n The Sonny Comedy Revue \n Cher \n The Sonny and Cher Show \n
Films	Good Times
Related topics	\n Sonny & Cher dolls \n
\n Discography \n

Awards for Cher

v t e Academy Award for Best Actress
1928\u20131950	\n Janet Gaynor (1928) \n Mary Pickford (1929) \n Norma Shearer (1930) \n Marie Dressler (1931) \n Helen Hayes (1932) \n Katharine Hepburn (1933) \n Claudette Colbert (1934) \n Bette Davis (1935) \n Luise Rainer (1936) \n Luise Rainer (1937) \n Bette Davis (1938) \n Vivien Leigh (1939) \n Ginger Rogers (1940) \n Joan Fontaine (1941) \n Greer Garson (1942) \n Jennifer Jones (1943) \n Ingrid Bergman (1944) \n Joan Crawford (1945) \n Olivia de Havilland (1946) \n Loretta Young (1947) \n Jane Wyman (1948) \n Olivia de Havilland (1949) \n Judy Holliday (1950) \n
1951\u20131975	\n Vivien Leigh (1951) \n Shirley Booth (1952) \n Audrey Hepburn (1953) \n Grace Kelly (1954) \n Anna Magnani (1955) \n Ingrid Bergman (1956) \n Joanne Woodward (1957) \n Susan Hayward (1958) \n Simone Signoret (1959) \n Elizabeth Taylor (1960) \n Sophia Loren (1961) \n Anne Bancroft (1962) \n Patricia Neal (1963) \n Julie Andrews (1964) \n Julie Christie (1965) \n Elizabeth Taylor (1966) \n Katharine Hepburn (1967) \n Katharine Hepburn / Barbra Streisand (1968) \n Maggie Smith (1969) \n Glenda Jackson (1970) \n Jane Fonda (1971) \n Liza Minnelli (1972) \n Glenda Jackson (1973) \n Ellen Burstyn (1974) \n Louise Fletcher (1975) \n
1976\u20132000	\n Faye Dunaway (1976) \n Diane Keaton (1977) \n Jane Fonda (1978) \n Sally Field (1979) \n Sissy Spacek (1980) \n Katharine Hepburn (1981) \n Meryl Streep (1982) \n Shirley MacLaine (1983) \n Sally Field (1984) \n Geraldine Page (1985) \n Marlee Matlin (1986) \n Cher (1987) \n Jodie Foster (1988) \n Jessica Tandy (1989) \n Kathy Bates (1990) \n Jodie Foster (1991) \n Emma Thompson (1992) \n Holly Hunter (1993) \n Jessica Lange (1994) \n Susan Sarandon (1995) \n Frances McDormand (1996) \n Helen Hunt (1997) \n Gwyneth Paltrow (1998) \n Hilary Swank (1999) \n Julia Roberts (2000) \n
2001\u2013present	\n Halle Berry (2001) \n Nicole Kidman (2002) \n Charlize Theron (2003) \n Hilary Swank (2004) \n Reese Witherspoon (2005) \n Helen Mirren (2006) \n Marion Cotillard (2007) \n Kate Winslet (2008) \n Sandra Bullock (2009) \n Natalie Portman (2010) \n Meryl Streep (2011) \n Jennifer Lawrence (2012) \n Cate Blanchett (2013) \n Julianne Moore (2014) \n Brie Larson (2015) \n Emma Stone (2016) \n Frances McDormand (2017) \n Olivia Colman (2018) \n Ren\u00e9e Zellweger (2019) \n Frances McDormand (2020) \n Jessica Chastain (2021) \n Michelle Yeoh (2022) \n Emma Stone (2023) \n

v t e Billboard Icon Award
Billboard Music Awards	\n 2011: Neil Diamond \n 2012: Stevie Wonder \n 2013: Prince \n 2014: Jennifer Lopez \n 2016: Celine Dion \n 2017: Cher \n 2018: Janet Jackson \n 2019: Mariah Carey \n 2020: Garth Brooks \n 2021: Pink \n
Billboard Latin Music Music Awards	\n 2021: Man\u00e1 \n 2022: Chayanne \n 2023: Ivy Queen \n
\n Billboard Music Awards \n Billboard Latin Music Awards \n

v t e Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress
1946\u20131975	\n Mich\u00e8le Morgan (1946) \n Isa Miranda (1949) \n Bette Davis (1951) \n Lee Grant (1952) \n Iya Arepina / Elena Dobronravova / Larisa Kronberg / Vera Kuznetsova / Klara Luchko / Ekaterina Savinova (1955) \n Susan Hayward (1956) \n Giulietta Masina (1957) \n Bibi Andersson / Eva Dahlbeck / Barbro Hiort af Orn\u00e4s / Ingrid Thulin (1958) \n Simone Signoret (1959) \n Melina Mercouri / Jeanne Moreau (1960) \n Sophia Loren (1961) \n Katharine Hepburn / Rita Tushingham (1962) \n Marina Vlady (1963) \n Anne Bancroft / Barbara Barrie (1964) \n Samantha Eggar (1965) \n Vanessa Redgrave (1966) \n Pia Degermark (1967) \n Vanessa Redgrave (1969) \n Ottavia Piccolo (1970) \n Kitty Winn (1971) \n Susannah York (1972) \n Joanne Woodward (1973) \n Marie-Jos\u00e9 Nat (1974) \n Valerie Perrine (1975) \n
1976\u20132000	\n Dominique Sanda / Mari T\u00f6r\u0151csik (1976) \n Shelley Duvall / Monique Mercure (1977) \n Jill Clayburgh / Isabelle Huppert (1978) \n Sally Field / Eva Mattes (1979) \n Anouk Aim\u00e9e / Milena Dravi\u0107 / Carla Gravina (1980) \n Isabelle Adjani / Elena Solovey (1981) \n Jadwiga Jankowska-Cie\u015blak (1982) \n Hanna Schygulla (1983) \n Helen Mirren (1984) \n Norma Aleandro / Cher (1985) \n Barbara Sukowa / Fernanda Torres (1986) \n Barbara Hershey (1987) \n Barbara Hershey / Jodhi May / Linda Mvusi (1988) \n Meryl Streep (1989) \n Krystyna Janda (1990) \n Ir\u00e8ne Jacob (1991) \n Pernilla August (1992) \n Holly Hunter (1993) \n Virna Lisi (1994) \n Helen Mirren (1995) \n Brenda Blethyn (1996) \n Kathy Burke (1997) \n \u00c9lodie Bouchez / Natacha R\u00e9gnier (1998) \n S\u00e9verine Caneele / \u00c9milie Dequenne (1999) \n Bj\u00f6rk (2000) \n
2001\u2013present	\n Isabelle Huppert (2001) \n Kati Outinen (2002) \n Marie-Jos\u00e9e Croze (2003) \n Maggie Cheung (2004) \n Hana Laszlo (2005) \n Yohana Cobo / Pen\u00e9lope Cruz / Lola Due\u00f1as / Chus Lampreave / Carmen Maura / Blanca Portillo (2006) \n Jeon Do-yeon (2007) \n Sandra Corveloni (2008) \n Charlotte Gainsbourg (2009) \n Juliette Binoche (2010) \n Kirsten Dunst (2011) \n Cristina Flutur / Cosmina Stratan (2012) \n B\u00e9r\u00e9nice Bejo (2013) \n Julianne Moore (2014) \n Emmanuelle Bercot / Rooney Mara (2015) \n Jaclyn Jose (2016) \n Diane Kruger (2017) \n Samal Yeslyamova (2018) \n Emily Beecham (2019) \n Renate Reinsve (2021) \n Zar Amir Ebrahimi (2022) \n Merve Dizdar (2023) \n Karla Sof\u00eda Gasc\u00f3n / Selena Gomez / Adriana Paz / Zoe Salda\u00f1a (2024) \n

David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress

Ingrid Bergman (1957)
Deborah Kerr (1959)
Audrey Hepburn (1960)
Brigitte Bardot (1961)
Audrey Hepburn (1962)
Geraldine Page (1963)
Shirley MacLaine (1964)
Audrey Hepburn (1965)
Julie Andrews (1966)
Julie Christie / Elizabeth Taylor (1967)
Faye Dunaway / Katharine Hepburn (1968)
Mia Farrow / Barbra Streisand (1969)
Liza Minnelli (1970)
Ali MacGraw (1971)
Elizabeth Taylor (1972)
Liza Minnelli (1973)
Barbra Streisand / Tatum O'Neal (1974)
Liv Ullmann (1975)
Isabelle Adjani / Glenda Jackson (1976)
Faye Dunaway / Annie Girardot (1977)
Jane Fonda / Simone Signoret (1978)
Ingrid Bergman / Liv Ullmann (1979)
Isabelle Huppert (1980)
Catherine Deneuve (1981)
Diane Keaton (1982)
Julie Andrews (1983)
Shirley MacLaine (1984)
Meryl Streep (1985)
Meryl Streep (1986)
Norma Aleandro (1987)
Cher (1988)
Jodie Foster (1989)
Jessica Tandy (1990)
Anne Parillaud (1991)
Geena Davis / Susan Sarandon (1992)
Emmanuelle B\u00e9art / Tilda Swinton / Emma Thompson (1993)
Emma Thompson (1994)
Jodie Foster (1995)
Susan Sarandon (1996)

GLAAD Vanguard Award

Roseanne Barr & Tom Arnold (1993)
Aaron Spelling (1994)
Steve Tisch (1995)
Sidney Sheinberg (1996)
Cristina Saralegui (1997)
Cher (1998)
Whoopi Goldberg (1999)
Elizabeth Taylor (2000)
Shirley MacLaine (2002)
Eric McCormack (2003)
Antonio Banderas (2004)
Liza Minnelli (2005)
Charlize Theron (2006)
Jennifer Aniston (2007)
Janet Jackson (2008)
Kathy Griffin (2009)
Drew Barrymore (2010)
Kristin Chenoweth (2011)
Josh Hutcherson (2012)
Jennifer Lopez (2014)
Kerry Washington (2015)
Demi Lovato (2016)
Patricia Arquette (2017)
Britney Spears (2018)
Beyonc\u00e9 & Jay-Z (2019)
Taylor Swift (2020)
Kacey Musgraves (2022)

v t e Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture \u2013 Musical or Comedy
1950\u20131975	\n Judy Holliday (1950) \n June Allyson (1951) \n Susan Hayward (1952) \n Ethel Merman (1953) \n Judy Garland (1954) \n Jean Simmons (1955) \n Deborah Kerr (1956) \n Kay Kendall / Taina Elg (1957) \n Rosalind Russell (1958) \n Marilyn Monroe (1959) \n Shirley MacLaine (1960) \n Rosalind Russell (1961) \n Rosalind Russell (1962) \n Shirley MacLaine (1963) \n Julie Andrews (1964) \n Julie Andrews (1965) \n Lynn Redgrave (1966) \n Anne Bancroft (1967) \n Barbra Streisand (1968) \n Patty Duke (1969) \n Carrie Snodgress (1970) \n Twiggy (1971) \n Liza Minnelli (1972) \n Glenda Jackson (1973) \n Raquel Welch (1974) \n Ann-Margret (1975) \n
1976\u20132000	\n Barbra Streisand (1976) \n Diane Keaton / Marsha Mason (1977) \n Ellen Burstyn / Maggie Smith (1978) \n Bette Midler (1979) \n Sissy Spacek (1980) \n Bernadette Peters (1981) \n Julie Andrews (1982) \n Julie Walters (1983) \n Kathleen Turner (1984) \n Kathleen Turner (1985) \n Sissy Spacek (1986) \n Cher (1987) \n Melanie Griffith (1988) \n Jessica Tandy (1989) \n Julia Roberts (1990) \n Bette Midler (1991) \n Miranda Richardson (1992) \n Angela Bassett (1993) \n Jamie Lee Curtis (1994) \n Nicole Kidman (1995) \n Madonna (1996) \n Helen Hunt (1997) \n Gwyneth Paltrow (1998) \n Janet McTeer (1999) \n Ren\u00e9e Zellweger (2000) \n
2001\u2013present	\n Nicole Kidman (2001) \n Ren\u00e9e Zellweger (2002) \n Diane Keaton (2003) \n Annette Bening (2004) \n Reese Witherspoon (2005) \n Meryl Streep (2006) \n Marion Cotillard (2007) \n Sally Hawkins (2008) \n Meryl Streep (2009) \n Annette Bening (2010) \n Michelle Williams (2011) \n Jennifer Lawrence (2012) \n Amy Adams (2013) \n Amy Adams (2014) \n Jennifer Lawrence (2015) \n Emma Stone (2016) \n Saoirse Ronan (2017) \n Olivia Colman (2018) \n Awkwafina (2019) \n Rosamund Pike (2020) \n Rachel Zegler (2021) \n Michelle Yeoh (2022) \n Emma Stone (2023) \n Demi Moore (2024) \n

v t e Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series \u2013 Musical or Comedy
1962\u20131979	\n Donna Reed (1962) \n Inger Stevens (1963) \n Mary Tyler Moore (1964) \n Anne Francis (1965) \n Marlo Thomas (1966) \n Carol Burnett (1967) \n Diahann Carroll (1968) \n Carol Burnett / Julie Sommars (1969) \n Mary Tyler Moore (1970) \n Carol Burnett (1971) \n Jean Stapleton (1972) \n Cher / Jean Stapleton (1973) \n Valerie Harper (1974) \n Cloris Leachman (1975) \n Carol Burnett (1976) \n Carol Burnett (1977) \n Linda Lavin (1978) \n Linda Lavin (1979) \n
1980\u20131999	\n Katherine Helmond (1980) \n Eileen Brennan (1981) \n Debbie Allen (1982) \n Joanna Cassidy (1983) \n Shelley Long (1984) \n Estelle Getty / Cybill Shepherd (1985) \n Cybill Shepherd (1986) \n Tracey Ullman (1987) \n Candice Bergen (1988) \n Jamie Lee Curtis (1989) \n Kirstie Alley (1990) \n Candice Bergen (1991) \n Roseanne Barr (1992) \n Helen Hunt (1993) \n Helen Hunt (1994) \n Cybill Shepherd (1995) \n Helen Hunt (1996) \n Calista Flockhart (1997) \n Jenna Elfman (1998) \n Sarah Jessica Parker (1999) \n
2000\u20132019	\n Sarah Jessica Parker (2000) \n Sarah Jessica Parker (2001) \n Jennifer Aniston (2002) \n Sarah Jessica Parker (2003) \n Teri Hatcher (2004) \n Mary-Louise Parker (2005) \n America Ferrera (2006) \n Tina Fey (2007) \n Tina Fey (2008) \n Toni Collette (2009) \n Laura Linney (2010) \n Laura Dern (2011) \n Lena Dunham (2012) \n Amy Poehler (2013) \n Gina Rodriguez (2014) \n Rachel Bloom (2015) \n Tracee Ellis Ross (2016) \n Rachel Brosnahan (2017) \n Rachel Brosnahan (2018) \n Phoebe Waller-Bridge (2019) \n
2020\u2013present	\n Catherine O'Hara (2020) \n Jean Smart (2021) \n Quinta Brunson (2022) \n Ayo Edebiri (2023) \n Jean Smart (2024) \n

v t e Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress \u2013 Motion Picture
1943\u20131975	\n Katina Paxinou (1943) \n Agnes Moorehead (1944) \n Angela Lansbury (1945) \n Anne Baxter (1946) \n Celeste Holm (1947) \n Ellen Corby (1948) \n Mercedes McCambridge (1949) \n Josephine Hull (1950) \n Kim Hunter (1951) \n Katy Jurado (1952) \n Grace Kelly (1953) \n Jan Sterling (1954) \n Marisa Pavan (1955) \n Eileen Heckart (1956) \n Elsa Lanchester (1957) \n Hermione Gingold (1958) \n Susan Kohner (1959) \n Janet Leigh (1960) \n Rita Moreno (1961) \n Angela Lansbury (1962) \n Margaret Rutherford (1963) \n Agnes Moorehead (1964) \n Ruth Gordon (1965) \n Jocelyne LaGarde (1966) \n Carol Channing (1967) \n Ruth Gordon (1968) \n Goldie Hawn (1969) \n Karen Black / Maureen Stapleton (1970) \n Ann-Margret (1971) \n Shelley Winters (1972) \n Linda Blair (1973) \n Karen Black (1974) \n Brenda Vaccaro (1975) \n
1976\u20132000	\n Katharine Ross (1976) \n Vanessa Redgrave (1977) \n Dyan Cannon (1978) \n Meryl Streep (1979) \n Mary Steenburgen (1980) \n Joan Hackett (1981) \n Jessica Lange (1982) \n Cher (1983) \n Peggy Ashcroft (1984) \n Meg Tilly (1985) \n Maggie Smith (1986) \n Olympia Dukakis (1987) \n Sigourney Weaver (1988) \n Julia Roberts (1989) \n Whoopi Goldberg (1990) \n Mercedes Ruehl (1991) \n Joan Plowright (1992) \n Winona Ryder (1993) \n Dianne Wiest (1994) \n Mira Sorvino (1995) \n Lauren Bacall (1996) \n Kim Basinger (1997) \n Lynn Redgrave (1998) \n Angelina Jolie (1999) \n Kate Hudson (2000) \n
2001\u2013present	\n Jennifer Connelly (2001) \n Meryl Streep (2002) \n Ren\u00e9e Zellweger (2003) \n Natalie Portman (2004) \n Rachel Weisz (2005) \n Jennifer Hudson (2006) \n Cate Blanchett (2007) \n Kate Winslet (2008) \n Mo'Nique (2009) \n Melissa Leo (2010) \n Octavia Spencer (2011) \n Anne Hathaway (2012) \n Jennifer Lawrence (2013) \n Patricia Arquette (2014) \n Kate Winslet (2015) \n Viola Davis (2016) \n Allison Janney (2017) \n Regina King (2018) \n Laura Dern (2019) \n Jodie Foster (2020) \n Ariana DeBose (2021) \n Angela Bassett (2022) \n Da'Vine Joy Randolph (2023) \n Zoe Salda\u00f1a (2024) \n

v t e Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year
1951–1975	\n Gertrude Lawrence (1951) \n Barbara Bel Geddes (1952) \n Mamie Eisenhower (1953) \n Shirley Booth (1954) \n Debbie Reynolds (1955) \n Peggy Ann Garner (1956) \n Carroll Baker (1957) \n Katharine Hepburn (1958) \n Joanne Woodward (1959) \n Carol Lawrence (1960) \n Jane Fonda (1961) \n Piper Laurie (1962) \n Shirley MacLaine (1963) \n Rosalind Russell (1964) \n Lee Remick (1965) \n Ethel Merman (1966) \n Lauren Bacall (1967) \n Angela Lansbury (1968) \n Carol Burnett (1969) \n Dionne Warwick (1970) \n Carol Channing (1971) \n Ruby Keeler (1972) \n Liza Minnelli (1973) \n Faye Dunaway (1974) \n Valerie Harper (1975) \n
1976–2000	\n Bette Midler (1976) \n Elizabeth Taylor (1977) \n Beverly Sills (1978) \n Candice Bergen (1979) \n Meryl Streep (1980) \n Mary Tyler Moore (1981) \n Ella Fitzgerald (1982) \n Julie Andrews (1983) \n Joan Rivers (1984) \n Cher (1985) \n Sally Field (1986) \n Bernadette Peters (1987) \n Lucille Ball (1988) \n Kathleen Turner (1989) \n Glenn Close (1990) \n Diane Keaton (1991) \n Jodie Foster (1992) \n Whoopi Goldberg (1993) \n Meg Ryan (1994) \n Michelle Pfeiffer (1995) \n Susan Sarandon (1996) \n Julia Roberts (1997) \n Sigourney Weaver (1998) \n Goldie Hawn (1999) \n Jamie Lee Curtis (2000) \n
2001–present	\n Drew Barrymore (2001) \n Sarah Jessica Parker (2002) \n Anjelica Huston (2003) \n Sandra Bullock (2004) \n Catherine Zeta-Jones (2005) \n Halle Berry (2006) \n Scarlett Johansson (2007) \n Charlize Theron (2008) \n Ren\u00e9e Zellweger (2009) \n Anne Hathaway (2010) \n Julianne Moore (2011) \n Claire Danes (2012) \n Marion Cotillard (2013) \n Helen Mirren (2014) \n Amy Poehler (2015) \n Kerry Washington (2016) \n Octavia Spencer (2017) \n Mila Kunis (2018) \n Bryce Dallas Howard (2019) \n Elizabeth Banks (2020) \n Viola Davis (2021) \n Jennifer Garner (2022) \n Jennifer Coolidge (2023) \n Annette Bening (2024) \n Cynthia Erivo (2025) \n

v t e Kennedy Center Honorees (2010s)
2010	\n Merle Haggard \n Jerry Herman \n Bill T. Jones \n Paul McCartney \n Oprah Winfrey \n
2011	\n Barbara Cook \n Neil Diamond \n Yo-Yo Ma \n Sonny Rollins \n Meryl Streep \n
2012	\n Buddy Guy \n Dustin Hoffman \n David Letterman \n Led Zeppelin \n Natalia Makarova \n
2013	\n Martina Arroyo \n Herbie Hancock \n Billy Joel \n Shirley MacLaine \n Carlos Santana \n
2014	\n Al Green \n Tom Hanks \n Patricia McBride \n Sting \n Lily Tomlin \n
2015	\n Carole King \n George Lucas \n Rita Moreno \n Seiji Ozawa \n Cicely Tyson \n
2016	\n Martha Argerich \n Eagles \n Al Pacino \n Mavis Staples \n James Taylor \n
2017	\n Carmen de Lavallade \n Gloria Estefan \n LL Cool J \n Norman Lear \n Lionel Richie \n
2018	\n Cher \n Philip Glass \n Reba McEntire \n Wayne Shorter \n Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, Alex Lacamoire, and Andy Blankenbuehler) \n
2019	\n Earth, Wind & Fire \n Sally Field \n Linda Ronstadt \n Sesame Street \n Michael Tilson Thomas \n
\n Complete list \n 1970s \n 1980s \n 1990s \n 2000s \n 2010s \n 2020s \n

v t e Rock and Roll Hall of Fame \u2013 Class of 2024
Performers	\n Mary J. Blige \n Cher \n Dave Matthews Band (Carter Beauford, Jeff Coffin, Stefan Lessard, Dave Matthews, LeRoi Moore, Tim Reynolds, Rashawn Ross, Boyd Tinsley) \n Foreigner (Dennis Elliott, Ed Gagliardi, Lou Gramm, Al Greenwood, Mick Jones, Ian McDonald, Rick Wills) \n Peter Frampton \n Kool & the Gang (Robert \"Kool\" Bell, Ronald Bell, George Brown, Robert \"Spike\" Mickens, Claydes Charles Smith, James \"J.T.\" Taylor, Dennis \"Dee Tee\" Thomas, Ricky Westfield) \n Ozzy Osbourne \n A Tribe Called Quest (Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Phife Dawg, Q-Tip, Jarobi White) \n
Non-performers (Ahmet Ertegun Award)	\n Suzanne de Passe \n
Award for Musical Excellence	\n Jimmy Buffett \n MC5 (Michael Davis, Wayne Kramer, Fred \"Sonic\" Smith, Dennis Thompson, Rob Tyner) \n Dionne Warwick \n Norman Whitfield \n
Award for Musical Influence	\n Alexis Korner \n John Mayall \n Big Mama Thornton \n

Billboard Year-End number one singles (1980\u20131999)

1980: \"Call Me\" \u2013 Blondie
1981: \"Bette Davis Eyes\" \u2013 Kim Carnes
1982: \"Physical\" \u2013 Olivia Newton-John
1983: \"Every Breath You Take\" \u2013 The Police
1984: \"When Doves Cry\" \u2013 Prince
1985: \"Careless Whisper\" \u2013 Wham! featuring George Michael
1986: \"That's What Friends Are For\" \u2013 Dionne & Friends
1987: \"Walk Like an Egyptian\" \u2013 The Bangles
1988: \"Faith\" \u2013 George Michael
1989: \"Look Away\" \u2013 Chicago
1990: \"Hold On\" \u2013 Wilson Phillips
1991: \"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You\" \u2013 Bryan Adams
1992: \"End of the Road\" \u2013 Boyz II Men
1993: \"I Will Always Love You\" \u2013 Whitney Houston
1994: \"The Sign\" \u2013 Ace of Base
1995: \"Gangsta's Paradise\" \u2013 Coolio featuring L.V.
1996: \"Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)\" \u2013 Los del R\u00edo
1997: \"Candle in the Wind 1997\"/\"Something About the Way You Look Tonight\" \u2013 Elton John
1998: \"Too Close\" \u2013 Next
1999: \"Believe\" \u2013 Cher

v t e Best-selling singles by year in the United Kingdom
1950s	\n 1952: \"Here in My Heart\" \u2013 Al Martino \n 1953: \"I Believe\" \u2013 Frankie Laine \n 1954: \"Secret Love\" \u2013 Doris Day \n 1955: \"Rose Marie\" \u2013 Slim Whitman \n 1956: \"I'll Be Home\" \u2013 Pat Boone \n 1957: \"Diana\" \u2013 Paul Anka \n 1958: \"Jailhouse Rock\" \u2013 Elvis Presley \n 1959: \"Living Doll\" \u2013 Cliff Richard (UK) \n
1960s	\n 1960: \"It's Now or Never\" \u2013 Elvis Presley \n 1961: \"Wooden Heart\" \u2013 Elvis Presley \n 1962: \"I Remember You\" \u2013 Frank Ifield (UK) \n 1963: \"She Loves You\" \u2013 The Beatles (UK) \n 1964: \"Can't Buy Me Love\" \u2013 The Beatles (UK) \n 1965: \"Tears\" \u2013 Ken Dodd (UK) \n 1966: \"Green, Green Grass of Home\" \u2013 Tom Jones (UK) \n 1967: \"Release Me\" \u2013 Engelbert Humperdinck (UK) \n 1968: \"Hey Jude\" \u2013 The Beatles (UK) \n 1969: \"Sugar, Sugar\" \u2013 The Archies \n
1970s	\n 1970: \"The Wonder of You\" \u2013 Elvis Presley / \"In the Summertime\" \u2013 Mungo Jerry (UK) \n 1971: \"My Sweet Lord\" \u2013 George Harrison (UK) \n 1972: \"Amazing Grace\" \u2013 Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (UK) \n 1973: \"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree\" \u2013 Dawn featuring Tony Orlando \n 1974: \"Tiger Feet\" \u2013 Mud (UK) \n 1975: \"Bye Bye Baby\" \u2013 Bay City Rollers (UK) \n 1976: \"Save Your Kisses for Me\" \u2013 Brotherhood of Man (UK) \n 1977: \"Mull of Kintyre\" / \"Girls' School\" \u2013 Wings (UK) \n 1978: \"Rivers of Babylon\" / \"Brown Girl in the Ring\" \u2013 Boney M. \n 1979: \"Bright Eyes\" \u2013 Art Garfunkel \n
1980s	\n 1980: \"Don't Stand So Close to Me\" \u2013 The Police (UK) \n 1981: \"Tainted Love\" \u2013 Soft Cell (UK) / \"Don't You Want Me\" \u2013 The Human League (UK) \n 1982: \"Come On Eileen\" \u2013 Dexys Midnight Runners (UK) \n 1983: \"Karma Chameleon\" \u2013 Culture Club (UK) \n 1984: \"Do They Know It's Christmas?\" \u2013 Band Aid (UK) \n 1985: \"The Power of Love\" \u2013 Jennifer Rush \n 1986: \"Don't Leave Me This Way\" \u2013 The Communards (UK) \n 1987: \"Never Gonna Give You Up\" \u2013 Rick Astley (UK) \n 1988: \"Mistletoe and Wine\" \u2013 Cliff Richard (UK) \n 1989: \"Ride on Time\" \u2013 Black Box \n
1990s	\n 1990: \"Unchained Melody\" \u2013 The Righteous Brothers \n 1991: \"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You\" \u2013 Bryan Adams \n 1992: \"I Will Always Love You\" \u2013 Whitney Houston \n 1993: \"I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)\" \u2013 Meat Loaf \n 1994: \"Love Is All Around\" \u2013 Wet Wet Wet (UK) \n 1995: \"Unchained Melody\" \u2013 Robson & Jerome (UK) \n 1996: \"Killing Me Softly\" \u2013 Fugees \n 1997: \"Something About the Way You Look Tonight\" / \"Candle in the Wind 1997\" \u2013 Elton John (UK) \n 1998: \"Believe\" \u2013 Cher \n 1999: \"...Baby One More Time\" \u2013 Britney Spears \n
2000s	\n 2000: \"Can We Fix It?\" \u2013 Bob the Builder (UK) \n 2001: \"It Wasn't Me\" \u2013 Shaggy featuring Rikrok (UK) \n 2002: \"Anything Is Possible\" / \"Evergreen\" \u2013 Will Young (UK) \n 2003: \"Where Is the Love?\" \u2013 Black Eyed Peas \n 2004: \"Do They Know It's Christmas?\" \u2013 Band Aid 20 (UK) \n 2005: \"(Is This the Way to) Amarillo\" \u2013 Tony Christie featuring Peter Kay (UK) \n 2006: \"Crazy\" \u2013 Gnarls Barkley \n 2007: \"Bleeding Love\" \u2013 Leona Lewis (UK) \n 2008: \"Hallelujah\" \u2013 Alexandra Burke (UK) \n 2009: \"Poker Face\" \u2013 Lady Gaga \n
2010s	\n 2010: \"Love the Way You Lie\" \u2013 Eminem featuring Rihanna \n 2011: \"Someone like You\" \u2013 Adele (UK) \n 2012: \"Somebody That I Used to Know\" \u2013 Gotye featuring Kimbra \n 2013: \"Blurred Lines\" \u2013 Robin Thicke featuring T.I. & Pharrell Williams \n 2014: \"Happy\" \u2013 Pharrell Williams \n 2015: \"Uptown Funk\" \u2013 Mark Ronson (UK) featuring Bruno Mars \n 2016: \"One Dance\" \u2013 Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla (UK) \n 2017: \"Shape of You\" \u2013 Ed Sheeran (UK) \n 2018: \"One Kiss\" \u2013 Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa (UK) \n 2019: \"Someone You Loved\" \u2013 Lewis Capaldi (UK) \n
2020s	\n 2020: \"Blinding Lights\" \u2013 The Weeknd \n 2021: \"Bad Habits\" \u2013 Ed Sheeran (UK) \n 2022: \"As It Was\" \u2013 Harry Styles (UK) \n 2023: \"Flowers\" \u2013 Miley Cyrus \n 2024: \"Stick Season\" - Noah Kahan \n

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