Auguri Cher, la barbie della musica spegne 70 candeline - FOTO
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Auguri Cher, la barbie della musica spegne 70 candeline - FOTO

Auguri Cher, la barbie della musica spegne 70 candeline - FOTO

Cher sul palco durante il tour  "Dressed 2 Kill" allo Staples Center, luglio 2014 a Los Angeles, California.
Cher sul palco durante il tour "Dressed 2 Kill" allo Staples Center, luglio 2014 a Los Angeles, California.
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The age-defying singer has entertained us for almost six decades, turning 70 this week. We salute a true pop icon...

In April 2013, the news of the death of Cher – singer, actress, global icon – went viral, as distraught fans flooded social media with RIP messages. It took comedian Ricky Gervais to point out that the Twitter hashtag Life stories – Cher

It’s April 2013, and the news of the death of Cher – singer, actress, global icon – goes viral, as distraught fans flood social media with RIP messages. It takes comedian Ricky Gervais to point out that the Twitter hashtag #nowthatchersdead is trending due to the demise of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher. ‘It’s “Now Thatcher’s dead”, not “Now that Cher’s dead”, he corrects. Cher, 67, is not only alive and well, she’s the only artist to have had number-one hits in each of the past six decades, the only person to have won an Academy Award, an Emmy, a Golden Globe and Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and just a few years back she recorded a new album with contributions from Pink, Timberland and Lady Gaga.

With her Malibu mansion and Las Vegas shows, Cher’s lifestyle may be the epitome of fabulous, but there were hard knocks behind the headlines. She was born in El Centro, California, in 1946. Her father, John Sarkisian, was a lorry driver addicted to drugs and gambling. Cher didn’t meet him until she was 11, as he spent years in and out of prison. Her mother, Georgia Holt, was a bit-part actress and singer who had performed in bars from the age of 13. Holt wed eight times – twice to Sarkisian. Shortly after Cherilyn Sarkisian was born, Holt became pregnant again and put Cher in a Catholic orphanage. When Sarkisian left her, Holt had an abortion and tried to reclaim her child, but the nuns accused her of being an unfit mother. Holt eventually got Cher back, then had another daughter, Georganne. ‘I raised my sister and that’s why she’s so normal and good’, says Cher. Issues of addiction, absent fathers, abortion and conflicted mother-child relationships have been a recurring drama in Cher’s life.

‘When I was a girl, I saw Cinderella with my mother,” says Cher. ‘I started singing the songs and said: this is what I’m going to do.’ At 16 she moved to Hollywood, hoping to become an actress and singer. She had sex with Warren Beatty (‘What a disappointment!’), but it was Sonny Bono who would steal her heart and change her life forever. He was recently divorced and 11 years older, he was also a songwriter, working as an assistant to record producer Phil Spector. Cher was introduced to Bono in a coffee shop in 1962. ‘I saw him walk in and everyone else faded away,’ she recalls. The feeling wasn’t mutual. When Cher needed a place to live, he agreed to let her move in – as a housekeeper: ‘I don’t find you terribly attractive,’ he told her. That changed once he heard her sing.
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