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Cher is an American singer and actress. Dubbed the "Goddess of Pop", she is known for her androgynous, contralto voice, bold fashion, elaborate stagecraft and multifaceted career. Her screen roles often reflect her public image as a strong-willed, outspoken woman. An influential figure in popular culture, Cher has sustained a career spanning more than six decades through continual reinvention.
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I had told the studio head to stalk and beg Cher to do the movie [Burlesque]. I told him to tell her that I was such a big fan that I would drink her bath water if she did the movie. So, when we were introduced, I said: 'Yes, I'm the one who wants to drink your bath water.'
To be cute and pretty back then, you had to have a turned-up nose and lots of blond hair. But Cher is an amazing-looking girl. She can look like anything. She loved getting dressed up, and nothing intimidated her. By the end, people were turning on the show just to see what she was going to wear.
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“I had told the studio head to stalk and beg Cher to do the movie [Burlesque]. I told him to tell her that I was such a big fan that I would drink her bath water if she did the movie. So, when we were introduced, I said: 'Yes, I'm the one who wants to drink your bath water.'”
“To be cute and pretty back then, you had to have a turned-up nose and lots of blond hair. But Cher is an amazing-looking girl. She can look like anything. She loved getting dressed up, and nothing intimidated her. By the end, people were turning on the show just to see what she was going to wear.”
“Cher is a person with a huge heart, and that really comes through not only in her music but as a screen performer. She has an extraordinary blend of strength and vulnerability on-camera.”
“I do think she needs a good director. Otherwise, she's in trouble.”
“When I think of Cher I think of her giant heart. How open it is. How strong it is. How battered it is, and how she leads with her heart. She just puts it all out there.”
“Moonstruck was when she showed how completely effortless her fully rounded talent was—funny, heartbreaking, inimitable—no one else could've done it that way. She owned that part. She jumped out of the screen. It was like we'd been waiting for her, and round the corner she came: 'Yeah, and I can do this, too!'”
“You couldn't watch [The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour] and not recognize her natural talent as an actress. She made everybody else on TV look like they were trying too hard, pushing. She was so immediate, free, and she was canny about landing the jokes. Skilled, but it was invisible.”
“My earliest impressions of her were when I was a freshman in high school, and 'I Got You Babe' was number one. I knew she was also high school age, but she had such a deep, velvet, mature voice. I sounded like Tweety bird at that age. And her hair was like a dark curtain that swung and shone, and she had one crooked tooth that made her even more perfect.”
“Cher and I had more personal talks about love and relationships. She has been through the gamut of marriages and divorces, and I consider her a wise woman. She's someone I look to as a mentor, both personally and professionally.”
“I have always had tremendous respect for her. She is a woman who did everything before anyone else did it. She is an icon and she inspired me through some of my career. We've had similar costumes too!”
“You should never be inhibited by what people expect you to do.”
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“There are rural areas where people of color and Latinos and Native Americans were getting no services. It”
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“the soul of the universe, everything that I need, I can find in its practice.”
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“I was dropped by my [label] and couldn”
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Published video “Cher’s iconic “Half-Breed” performance in full costume 🪶✨ #Cher #HalfBreed #FarewellTour #Live2002”.
Published video “Cher - Half-Breed (Cher - The Farewell Tour, 11/08/2002)”.
Published video “Cher's "Believe" joins the Billions Club! 🎉✨ #Cher #Believe #BillionsClub #PopIcon”.
Published video “The voice, the style, the attitude—Cher! ❤️ #Cher #AllOrNothing #TopOfThePops #90sPop #YTShorts”.
Published video “Cher - All Or Nothing (Top Of The Pops, 06/18/1999)”.
Published video “Vintage Cher at her most glamorous ✨ #Cher #TheCherShow #70sTV #YTShorts”.
Published video “Cher - Silver Dollar / More Of Her On The Chair (Tony Randall) (The Cher Show, 11/23/1975)”.
Published video “Cher puts her stamp on a classic 🎤🔥 #Cher #TakinItToTheStreets #Live1991 #TheMirage #PopRock”.
Published video “Cher - Takin' It To The Streets (Cher: Extravaganza - Live At The Mirage, 02/04/91)”.
Published video “Celebrating Pride with a Cher classic 🌈🎤 #Cher #TakeMeHome #Disco #YTShorts”.
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Public attention spiked: 42,388 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.9× the usual 7,187, with 5 article edits. Editors noted: 2015–2022: ABBA-inspired projects and fashion ventures
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Snopes rated the claim “Singer and actor Cher once said of U.S. President Donald Trump: "He's an a**hole. He's so dangerous, and what he brings to my country, what he's awakened in my country is bigotry and distrust and a certain kind of supremacy in certain groups."” Correct Attribution.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Springsteen, Cher, Joni Mitchell and dozens of other celebrities bought small diners where they ate when struggling and now serve free meals to 120 homeless people every day.” Factory Fakes.
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Cher was ranked 130th in Forbes' inaugural "Self-Made 250", a list of the greatest living self-made Americans
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Snopes rated the claim “Cher responded to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt with a retort after she allegedly called the singer "irrelevant" and "outdated."” False.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Cher read out Karoline Leavitt's bio on MSNBC and said "sit down, baby girl"” Vietspam.
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Released album “The Farewell Tour (Live)”.
Awarded Bambi Award (2025).
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Becoming the first performer to have won an Academy Award for acting and been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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Released album “Forever Fan”.
Released album “Forever”.
Snopes rated the claim “Singer Cher said to former U.S. President Donald Trump, “You are the most unattractive man I have ever met in my entire life. You have demonstrated every loathsome characteristic of the male personality and even discovered a few new ones. You are physically repulsive, intellectually retarded, you…” Incorrect Attribution.
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Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2024).
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Released album “Christmas”.
Snopes rated the claim “Singer and actress Cher died in December 2022 or January 2023.” False.
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Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Cher voiced support for Ukraine on Twitter and called for humanitarian aid
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Released ep “Believe”.
And ranked eighth in a 2003 BBC poll of the world's favorite songs—the only American entry
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After invoking a copyright termination clause
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Photo of 74 year old Cher and her 94 year old mother” False.
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Cher focused on projects that could be completed from home
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Launched Cher Eau de Couture, a "genderless" follow-up to her 1988 fragrance Uninhibited
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Whoopi Goldberg presented Cher with the Kennedy Center Honors for her "extraordinary contributions to culture", with tribute performances by Adam Lambert, Cyndi Lauper and Little Big Town
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Released album “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) (Midnight Mixes)”.
Released album “Dancing Queen”.
Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (2018).
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Cher received the Kennedy Center Honors, the highest cultural recognition in the US, and in 2024, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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After the victory in Brazil's presidential election of right-wing populist Jair Bolsonaro, Cher called him a "pig" and "a politician from hell", declaring that Bolsonaro should be "locked in prison for the rest of his li
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Snopes rated the claim “Musicians Robert Plant and Cher plan to wed at Westminster Abbey in July 2016.” False.
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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
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Released album “Megapolis”.
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.
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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"
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Rolling Stone's Andy Greene wrote, "They weren't exactly the best of friends at this point, but both of them knew it would make for unforgettable television
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Released ep “All or Nothing (remixes)”.
Released album “Chastity”.
Released ep “Dov’è l’amore (remixes)”.
Released ep “Love One Another (remixes)”.
Released album “Closer to the Truth”.
Released album “The Triple Album Collection”.
Released album “ICON”.
Released ep “You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me: The Remixes (from “Burlesque”)”.
Released album “The Best of Cher: The Imperial Recordings, 1965–1968”.
Cher became the primary supporter of the Peace Village School in Ukunda, Kenya, which "provides nutritious food, medical care, education and extracurricular activities for more than 300 orphans and vulnerable children"
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Released album “Gold”.
Released album “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Cher, Volume 2”.
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
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Released album “Live: The Farewell Tour”.
Released album “The Farewell Tour”.
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special for The Farewell Tour (2003).
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Released album “The Very Best of Cher”.
Released album “Behind the Door”.
Released album “The Best of Cher”.
Released album “3 Original CDs”.
Released ep “A Different Kind of Love Song / The Music's No Good Without You (Maxi-Single)”.
Cher signed a global deal with Warner Bros
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Released album “Absolutely the Best, Volume 1”.
"If I want to put my tits on my back, it's nobody's business but my own
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Released album “Living Proof”.
Released album “Holdin' Out for Love”.
Released album “Essential Collection”.
Released album “not.com.mercial”.
Snopes.com rated the claim “Cher had her lowest pair of ribs surgically removed to achieve an ultra-small waist.” False.
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Awarded Grammy Awards for Believe (2000).
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Cher released Not Commercial, largely self-written during a songwriting camp in 1994 and recorded with members of David Letterman's CBS Orchestra
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Released album “Cher: The Story (1964-1972)”.
Released album “Cher / Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves”.
Released album “The Way of Love: The Cher Collection”.
Released album “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Cher”.
Released album “Live in Concert”.
Released album “The Greatest Hits”.
Released album “If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher’s Greatest Hits”.
Cher sang "The Star-Spangled Banner", the US national anthem, at the Super Bowl XXXIII
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The Lucy Award for Innovation in Television at the 2000 Women in Film Awards, the Icon Award at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards the Ambassador for the Arts Award at the 2019 Chita Rivera Awards for Dance and Choreography
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Released album “Bittersweet: The Love Songs Collection”.
Released album “Bang, Bang: The Early Years”.
Released album “Singles Collection”.
After the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) honored Cher with its Influence on Fashion Award, Robin Givhan of the Los Angeles Times called her a "fashion visionary" for "striking just the right note of conte
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Cher starred in Franco Zeffirelli's critically acclaimed war film Tea with Mussolini, playing a flamboyant American socialite unwelcome among Englishwomen (Judi Dench, Maggie Smith) in Italy
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Released ep “Strong Enough (remixes)”.
Released album “Blue: The All Time Great Love Songs”.
Released album “Believe”.
Awarded GLAAD Vanguard Award (1998).
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Released album “Cher and Sonny & Cher: Greatest Hits”.
Cher delivered a tearful eulogy at his funeral, calling him "the most unforgettable character" she had met
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Cher 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.
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Released album “The Casablanca Years”.
Cher appeared alongside Demi Moore and Sissy Spacek in If These Walls Could Talk, a three-part anthology TV film about abortion
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Hosted the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) Benefit alongside Elizabeth Taylor at the Cannes Film Festival
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Released album “The Long and Winding Road”.
Released album “It’s a Man’s World”.
Released album “All I Ever Need: The Kapp/MCA Anthology”.
With the charity single "Love Can Build a Bridge", alongside Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry and Eric Clapton
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Released album “Basic: Original Hits”.
Released album “Bang, Bang & Other Hits”.
Released album “Cher Guest: Sonny”.
Released album “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves”.
Joined a humanitarian mission to Armenia, delivering food and medical supplies to the war-torn region
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Released album “Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves: 25 Great Songs”.
Cher re-recorded "I Got You Babe" with MTV's animated duo Beavis and Butt-Head, mocking her own image as they introduce her as "a chick that's got tattoos on her butt
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Released album “Half Breed / Dark Lady”.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism.
Released album “Cher’s Greatest Hits, 1965–1992”.
Awarded Echo Pop Award for the Best International Rock/Pop Female Artist (1992).
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Released album “Half-Breed”.
Released album “All I Really Want to Do / The Sonny Side of Cher”.
Madame Tussauds wax museum honored Cher as one of the five "most beautiful women of history" by creating a life-size statue
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Released album “Turning Back Time”.
Released album “The Collection”.
Released album “Half Breed”.
Released album “Love Hurts”.
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
Released album “Golden Greats”.
Released album “Take Me Home / Prisoner”.
Released album “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) - The Best Of Cher”.
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"
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Released album “Heart of Stone”.
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for Moonstruck (1988).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Moonstruck (1988).
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Released album “Cher”.
Cher signed with Geffen Records and revived her musical career with what music critics Johnny Danza and Dean Ferguson described as "her most impressive string of hits to date", establishing her as a "serious rock and rol
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Released album “Outrageous”.
“Don’t buy into the idea that women aren’t strong enough to do anything they want on their own.”
“I love having boyfriends. A girl can wait for the right man to come along – but in the meantime that doesn’t mean she can’t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.”
“Cher, cantora, em campanha para o democrata Al Gore, detonando o republicano George W. Bush”
“You don't have to be smart to act — look at the outgoing president of the United States.”
Awarded Palme d'Or for Mask (1985).
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Awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (1985).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for Silkwood (1984).
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But declined the required personal appearance
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Released album “I Paralyze”.
Cher moved to New York to study acting with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, but skipped enrollment after auditioning for and being cast in Robert Altman's Broadway production Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Ji
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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
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Cher formed the rock band Black Rose with guitarist and then-partner Les Dudek
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Released album “Prisoner”.
Released album “Take Me Home”.
Legally adopted the mononym Cher, with no surname
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Cher began a two-year live-in relationship with Kiss member Gene Simmons
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Released album “Cherished”.
Under the rubric Allman and Woman, Cher and Allman recorded the duet album Two the Hard Way
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Released album “I'd Rather Believe In You”.
Mego Toys released a line of Sonny & Cher dolls
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Released album “The Golden Hits of Cher”.
Four days after finalizing her divorce from Sonny, Cher married rock musician Gregg Allman, co-founder of the Allman Brothers Band, whom she had been dating since January, shortly after ending her relationship with Geffe
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Released album “Stars”.
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour (1974).
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Released album “Dark Lady”.
Released a Greatest Hits album that, according to Billboard, 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"
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Released album “Cher's Greatest Hits”.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds.
Released album “Half‐Breed”.
Released album “Bittersweet White Light”.
Released album “Foxy Lady”.
Released album “Superpak, Vol. II”.
After she was featured on the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List, Mackie stated: "There hasn't been a girl like Cher since [Marlene] Dietrich and [Greta] Garbo
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Cher released the all-ballad album Foxy Lady, demonstrating the evolution of her vocal abilities, according to Bego
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“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.”
Released album “Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves”.
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
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Released album “3614 Jackson Highway”.
Cher was dropped by Imperial Records, and Sonny & Cher were dropped by Atco
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Released album “Backstage”.
Released album “Cher’s Golden Greats”.
Released album “With Love, Cher”.
Caught the attention of then-Vogue editor Diana Vreeland at a party for Jacqueline Kennedy and began modeling for photographer Richard Avedon
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Released album “Chér”.
Released album “The Sonny Side of Chér”.
Released ep “The Hits of Cher”.
Released ep “Bang Bang”.
Released album “All I Really Want to Do”.
As part of the folk rock duo Sonny & Cher, whose hit single "I Got You Babe" became emblematic of 1960s counterculture
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During their commercial peak, and production on the musical Good Times ran through 1966
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Holt married bank manager Gilbert LaPiere, who adopted Cher (under the name Cheryl LaPiere) and Georganne and enrolled them at Montclair College Preparatory School, a private school in Encino
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their invention of partition chromatography.
Holt married actor John Southall, with whom she had Cher's half-sister, Georganne
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Born 1946-05-20.
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of haemin.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his work on the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid gland.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his work on sugar and purine syntheses.
Moonstruck was when she showed how completely effortless her fully rounded talent was—funny, heartbreaking, inimitable—no one else could've done it that way. She owned that part. She jumped out of the screen. It was like we'd been waiting for her, and round the corner she came: 'Yeah, and I can do this, too!'
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