Biography: Cher
Cher (born May 20, 1946) is a singer and actress whose successful career has lasted more than 50 years. She is one of the few people who won Emmy, Grammy and Academy Awards. Her global record revenue has exceeded 100 million, and she has arrived at number 1 each year from the 1960s through the 2010s with at least one Billboard chart.
Cher
Cher's father was a truck driver and her mother was a model -actress. Her parents divorced when she was just ten months old. Later her mother remarried and gave birth to a second daughter. That relationship ended when Cher was nine. Her mother remarried several more times and the family moved around the country regularly. When she left school at the age of 16, Cher moved to Los Angeles with a friend. She took acting classes and worked to make money to support herself. Cher met Sonny Bono in 1962 when he was an aspiring songwriter and promotion manager for producer Phil Spector. She accepted Sonny's offer to work as a housekeeper. In return, he introduced her to Phil Spector. Cher appeared on multiple recordings as a backup singer including Ronets' “Be My Baby” and the Righteous Brothers “You've Lost That Lovin 'Feelin'.” Phil Spector also produced Cher's first album, an unsuccessful single titled “Ringo, I Love You” and released under the name Bonnie Jo Mason in 1964. By the end of 1964, Cher signed a record deal with Liberty Records and Sonny Bono worked as her producer. Released on the label's imperial insignia, her cover of Bob Dylan's “All I Really Want To Do”, the first to be credited with the name Cher, came in the top 20 charts from the United States.
