Few can boast over fifty years of career. Cher has managed to reinvent herself numerous times over the course of her transitioning from acting to music with extreme ease and success, making herself loved by audiences and critics alike.
Who is Cher
Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre, better known as Cher (El Centro, May 20, 1946), is an American singer-songwriter and actress.
She grew up in the state of California with her father John, an Armenian truck driver who took refuge in the United States, and her mother Jakie, an aspiring actress of mixed origins. With the separation of the parents, little Cher remains under the wing of her mother, however it does not live in a stable economic situation. They manage to return calm when Jakie meets her third husband who takes care of the women of the house, to whom Georganne has joined in the previous marriage.
The tranquility, however, seems apparent since Cher at the age of 16 he leaves school due to a severe form of dyslexia that is not diagnosed and which she will discover only later on.
In this moment of his life also meets Salvatore Bono, the one who will become the man of his life. Thanks to him, engaged in Hollywood Studios, she is called to replace an absent chorister and so everyone discovers her voice.
Thanks to this random event he manages to get noticed and start work on his music together with her partner with whom she also makes herself very well known in Italy. They record songs in Italian and participate in events such as the Sanremo Festival making himself known as “Sonny & Cher”. Their love, compared to that of Caesar and Cleopatra, became known all over the world, surpassing the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the British and American charts. This sudden success however, he sees a first setback with the evolution of the world and of the issues, now very much centered on the use of drugs from which the couple distances themselves.
Who is Cher: the success between music and acting
After a series of projects that never really took off and periods a work in some night clubs splitting between comedy and music, the long-awaited success returns for Cher. They are called for a television special called “The Nitty Gritty Hour” which brings them back on stage. In addition to continuing with the music, he gets a television program called “The Cher Show” which features prominent guests such as Elton John.
If his career seems to have recovered, the same cannot be said of his love life. She separates from Bono to marry very soon after with the musician Gregg Allman with whom she has a relationship of only two years ended due to his problems with drugs. Cher has two children left in memory of these two love stories, but still decides to go to the registry office and is to eliminate their surnames so as to be only Cher.
In this phase of life the singer finds herself for the first time alone on an artistic level and so he experiments both from a musical and a television point of view. Try to throw yourself into new genres, start a rock band up to fit in as an actress in some film projects. In the latter area he also succeeds with great awards such as the first Oscar nomination for “Silkwood” alongside Maryl Streep. Numerous highly successful films follow such as “Bewitched by the moon” with which she obtains the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Who is Cher: the last years of her career
He decides to go back to dealing with music also making the first solo tour in the early 1990s. They seem to be years of great success both musically and cinematically as its popularity is skyrocketing. In 1998, during one of her business trips abroad, she receives a call from her daughter who informs her of the death of Bono, a man with whom she maintained a very strong bond of friendship even after the divorce.
For the rest of the following years until the early 2000s his records get great success and his figure is often highly contested among television programs and public events. She is also often invited to very successful Italian television programs and creates collaboration with national artists such as Eros Ramazzotti. With more or less productive periods, Cher’s career continues, making her so one of the most iconic figures in the world of music and entertainment.