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Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPière |
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Female |
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5' 8" |
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US - United States of America |
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| Date of Birth |
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May 20, 1946 |
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El Centro, CA |
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Biography |
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Cher (born Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPière on May 20, 1946) is an American actress and singer. Cher first achieved success as one of the pop music duo Sonny and Cher with her first husband, Sonny Bono. Together, they had a number one single called "I Got You Babe" (1965) in both the U.K. and The U.S.A. CBS head of programming Fred Silverman gave the duo their own show, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, in 1971. During the early Seventies, Cher began to establish herself as a solo recording artist with producer Snuff Garrett. Cher and Bono divorced in 1974, and she later married rock musician Gregg Allman, a member of the Allman Brothers Band. She has two children, Chastity Bono and Elijah Blue Allman. Cher and Allman divorced in 1979.
Several years later she was cast in a stage production of Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. This finally allowed her to make the transition into a successful acting career, starring in films including Silkwood, Mask (for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award in 1985), Suspect, Moonstruck (for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1988), Mermaids and Tea With Mussolini. Following the devastating earthquake that hit Armenia in December of 1988, Cher travelled to the country to participate in the relief activities. Cher is of Armenian descent. In 1998 she had one of the biggest successes of her recording career with the number one hit Believe which won her a Grammy Award. In 2004 she performed her last-ever world-wide tour (the Farewell Tour). Cher is the only recording artist in history to score #1 hits in four successive decades and she also holds the Billboard record for the longest time span, 34 years, between her first #1 hit in 1965 and her most recent #1 in 1999. Cher's manager is an expatriate Australian impresario Roger Davies.
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