We remembered her for her coal-black hair and electrifying voice that blared from the speakers with the song Believe in the nineties. Oh, how we went crazy when we heard this piece! Cher, the legendary disco diva who deserves a place alongside Madonna and the late Jackot, knows how to serve the world of the entertainment industry and that's why nothing can stop her.
Cherilyn Sarkisian respectively Cher, the disco diva, American singer, actress and director, will turn 68 this year, but she is far from showing that much. During the fifties in the world of the entertainment industry, she has already tasted many a fall, after which she picked herself up and proved that she is a reflection of the female autonomy of self-actualization. Last summer it was a song Woman's World catapulted to the top of the dance music charts, celebrating her 25th studio album, which Cher released 50 years after she sang as a backing vocalist with Phil Spector.
Born on May 20, 1946, the singer plucked up the courage at the age of 16, left school and her mother's house behind and moved to a friend's house in Los Angeles, where she joined acting lessons. In order to survive, she danced in smaller Hollywood clubs, introducing herself to managers and agents. According to the author of Cher's biography Connie Berman, Cher didn't hesitate for a moment and approached anyone who would give her a chance to break into the scene or arrange an audition for her.
Happy music with Sonny
He appears to have been 11 years older Sonny Bono the right person for it, as he was then working with producer Phil Spector. It wasn't long before Sonny introduced Cher to Spector and he installed her as a backing vocalist on his big hits Be My Baby and You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling. Two years later, in 1964, Cher and Sonny got married and soon began working together professionally. Caesar & Cleo, as they were initially called, released quite a few poorly received tracks, but Cher soon caught her rhythm with Bob Dylan, which is for her first solo album All I Really Want to Do wrote three compositions in 1965.
In the same year, Ceasar & Cleo changed its name to Sonny & Cher, and their music was described by Cher as folk'n'roll: "Folk music with a rocker bit. But with a smile. Our music is happy music. It does not carry any message". And people grabbed that, they loved that. Their biggest hit I Got You Babe succeeded the first-placed on the charts The Beatles and the song Help!, and they succeeded him The Rolling Stones with I Can't Get No Satisfaction.
The exciting seventies and movie fame
After breaking onto the scene, Cher practically had the key to even greater success already in her hands. The 1970s brought her television fame when the show ran at the beginning of that booming era The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, which received 12 Emmy nominations. But in 1972, her marriage to Sonny ended, although the public did not find out until two years later. At the end of the seventies, Cher was a single mother of two children, one from her marriage to Sonny and the other from her marriage to Gregg Allman and she realized that she also had to decide about the future of her singing career. She gave up her desire to become a rock singer and ventured into disco water, where she solidified her path with hit after hit.
In the early eighties, success drove her to Broadway, where she starred in the film Silkwood, which earned her a 1983 Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Film years followed, Cher starred in blockbusters Mask and The Witches of Eastwick, for the role of Loretta Castorini in the romantic drama Moonstruck and in 1988 she earned a golden statuette. Full of momentum, a year later she fulfilled her long-standing wish and released a platinum album as a rock singer Heart of Stone.
She comes back dressed to kill
Cher proved that she is versatile in 1996, when she starred in the movie If These Walls Could Talk in the hands of a director's keyboard, otherwise in the years that followed, she tried herself in various musical genres and reached the peak of commercial fame with the composition Believe experienced in 1998. Four years later, she embarked on her last tour Living Proof: The Farewell Tour, and then in the theater The Colosseum at Caesars Palace signed a three-year contract. No, her journey by no means ends here. Three years ago, she returned to the big screen, where she left a part of her heart, with a film Burlesque, and she found the other part of her heart again in musical waters. After eleven years, she released a new studio album Closer to the Truth, with which she also reached the highest place on the American music charts and with which she is preparing for a tour Dressed to Kill Tour across America and Canada.
You can see photos of Cher over the years in the gallery.
