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With a career lasting over 40 years, Cher has sold over 100 million
records
worldwide.[9][10] After a three-year hiatus and retirement from touring, Cher returned to
the
stage in 2008 at Caesars
Palace in Las
Vegas where she is currently
performing her show Cher at the
Colosseum.
Cher born Cherilyn Sarkisian on May 20, 1946)[2] is an American
popsinger-songwriter,
actress, director and record producer.
She has won an Academy
Award, a Grammy Award,
an Emmy
Award, three Golden Globe
Awards and a People's
Choice Award for her work in
film, music and television.
Cher began her career at the age of seventeen and came to prominence
as one
half of the pop rock duo Sonny & Cher with
the success of their song "I Got You Babe"
in 1965. She subsequently
established herself as a solo recording artist, and became a television
star in
the 1970s with the variety
show The
Sonny and Cher Comedy
Hour, for which she won a Golden Globe Award. A well received
performance in the film SilkwoodAcademy
Award for Best
Supporting Actress in 1984. In the following years, Cher starred in a
string
of hit films[3] including Mask, The
Witches of Eastwick, and
Moonstruck,
for which she
won the Academy
Award for Best Actress in 1988. earned her
a nomination for the
Cher is the only female solo artist to reach the Top Ten of the
BillboardHot
100 in each of the previous four decades.[4] Her hit dance single "Believe"
is her biggest-selling recording
and was the best-selling single of 1999,[5] having sold over 10
million copies worldwide.[6] She
holds the Hot 100 record for the longest hit-making career span, with 33
years
between the release of her first and most recent #1 singles, in 1965 and
1998.[7] Cher ended her
3-year-long "Farewell
Tour" in 2005 as the
most successful tour by a female solo artist of all time.[8]