Cher

Cher is a Pop Legend, Rock 'n' Roller, Director, Oscar-Winning Actress and Critically Acclaimed Broadway Star who has won an Artist Achievement Award and the Dance/Club Play Artist of the Year Award as well as the 2002 Billboard Music Award and a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording "Believe". She has projected her amazing 40 years as the ultimate female superstar. Her every concert is an epitome of her phenomenal career: her triumphs in music, TV, theater and movies. During her concerts, Cher delivers a full-blown burlesque abounded with glitzy stage show, multiple costume changes, and electrifying live versions of her famous songs. Her career rose to prominence when Sonny Bono signed her and became her producer, collaborator and eventually husband. The professional duet, initially known as Caesar and Cleo produced some of the most popular duets of all time, including "I Got You Babe" and "The Beat Goes On." "I Got You, Babe" became a theme song for hippie lovebirds everywhere. The duo successfully exploited the success; the 1970s variety show showcased the couple’s onstage tease and had everyone asking, "Is she really going out with him?" Once divorced, Cher pursued a solo career with some success. Before her divorce in 1974, the duo sold over 80 million records worldwide. Once divorced, Cher pursued a solo career with some success. Following her bitter split Cher hosted her own TV variety show, which lasted one year. Cher continued to make headlines for her romantic exploits, including a courtship with Gregg Allman, a member of the Allman Brothers Band. She has two children, Chastity Bono and Elijah Blue Allman. In 1978, Cher was romantically linked with Gene Simmons of KISS. Cher and Allman divorced in 1979 and she later had a relationship with guitarist Les Dudek.

Since the mid-'70s, Cher became known more for her acting than for her music, although she continued to record and by the early 1980s Cher had conferred her musical skills and television background into small film parts, eventually winning an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her appearance in 1983's Silkwood, Mask (for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award in 1985), Suspect, Moonstruck (for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1988), Mermaids and Tea With Mussolini. Sonny and Cher reunited for a performance on Late Night with David Letterman in February 1988. In 1989, another million-selling hit with the song If I Could Turn Back Time. The album "Heart of Stone" went on to sell three million copies. With the hit singles "Save Up All Your Tears" and "Love And Understanding," Cher proved herself again. In 1993, Cher recorded "I Got You Babe," her 1965 hit with Sonny. In 1995, she released It's a Man's World, panned by critics but loved by fans. Her 1998 Warner Brothers release Believe was a huge seller, earning her an award for Best Dance Recording at the 42 Annual Grammy Awards. Her effort, Not Comm.ercial -- which was distributed exclusively through the Internet -- came out in 2000. The album was written after a draw back to a poetry class in France; it was rejected by record labels and Cher chose to sell it on her Web site, with great success. In 2001 in Europe and 2002 in the United States, Cher released album Living Proof. The September 11th dedicated track from the album "Song for the Lonely" peaked at #85. In 2004 she was nominated for a Grammy for "Best Dance Recording" for her song "Love One Another."