Her mother married seven times and put her in an orphanage. In the book, Cher describes her difficult childhood

“This book completely blew me away. It drained all the energy out of me.” she shared according to the New York Times, a singer who, like Madonna, Beyoncé or the younger Zendaya, is known to the whole world only by her first name. “I’ve lived too much. And too long,” Cher said.

She has been in the scene for more than six decades, she created her first scene with Sonny Bono when she was nineteen. She shone in the era of hippies and disco. Later, she won an Oscar for her acting performance in the film Under the influence of the full moonGrammy Award for Dance Hit Believe from the end of the millennium or the Emmy television icon for recording the concert from The Farewell Tour, with which the beginning of the millennium bid farewell to her career.

It wasn’t until this year that Cher was finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “It was easier to get divorced twice than to get here among you” joke.

In the first part of his memoirs, according to the DPA group, he mostly returns to his youth. The daughter of a former model and a drug-addicted truck driver, she became poor. Her mother was married “at least seven times”, at one point leaving her daughter to the orphanage and visiting her once a week. “Or maybe one day we’re driving like this when my mom turns to me and says: Cher, I don’t know where I can get a rental. How can I do it?” she told singer on CBS television.

She realized what she wanted to do with her life when she saw Elvis Presley sing on TV in September 1956. “He looked and moved differently than anyone else. before. I felt like he was singing just to me. I wanted to jump up in front of the TV and be like Elvis.” writing Cher in the book.

Here, she also tells how the mother had just received some money, so she took her daughter to a Presley concert. “He was there and he was very attractive. There was an unbelievable scream from the crowd. Everyone jumped to their feet and started screaming so loudly that we couldn’t hear the words from Heartbreak Hotel,” referring to Cher Presley’s famous song.

As a sixteen-year-old, she did not finish high school, instead trying to establish herself as a dancer and actress in Los Angeles in the early 1960s. It was there in the cafe that she met the singer Sonny Bono, who was 11 years old, with whom she quickly created a life and artistic couple.

As Sonny & Cher, they were already shining with a hit in the middle of the decade I Got You Babewho even surpassed the Beatles in the British charts and were popular with the generation of flower children known at the time. The couple later graced them with, among other things, songs tuned against the war in Vietnam. Another great success followed with the compositions The Beat is going or Bang Bang (My Baby Got Me Down).

But by the end of the 60s, Sonny & Cher’s softer country rock music had definitely been replaced by a harder rock sound. The couple went into debt and financed the film from their own pockets Divinityin which Cher played the main role, but the film flopped and deepened their problems. In the end, even their regular television show did not solve these problems for a long time The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hourwhich was watched by tens of millions of Americans.

The couple, who were already raising a child at the time, officially separated in 1975. The singer now describes the circumstances of the break-up in her memoirs, giving her -infidelity, the episode when Sonny allegedly burned her tennis suit in the garden, or now. when Sonny reorganized the accounting of the family business so that Cher would formally work for him as a lower-wage employee at Cher Enterprises.

Sonny & Cher beat the Beatles with their hit I Got You Babe. Recording from Top of the Pops in 1965. | Video: Atco Records

The singer has now told the New York Times that Sonny “gave her all her money”. The musician, who became mayor of the California city and was also elected as a Republican to the US Senate, cannot comment further. He died after a terrible skiing accident in 1998.

For a while after the divorce, Cher supported herself by performing regularly in Las Vegas, where she was singing twice a day, seven days a week at one point.

She lived with the music publisher David Geffen or the rock musician Gregg Allman, playing on New York Broadway. She shifted her focus to dance music and made a comeback in pop music in the late 1990s with the album Believe and a hit of the same name.

She made the most of her success between 2002 and 2005, when her farewell tour, called The Farewell Tour, became the most commercially successful concert series by a female singer any way at the time. So Cher surpassed even Madonna.

However, she is still dealing with music today, for example in 2018 she released the album Dancing Queen, which contained only covers of songs by the Swedish band ABBA. Until now, last year was the last time that Cher released a Christmas album called simply Christmas.

Today, according to the New York Times, her partner is Alexander Edwards, a thirty-eight-year-old music publishing employee. “You shouldn’t be singing at my age. But I’ve been doing it all my life, so I’ll be really sorry if it doesn’t work one day,” said Cher, 78, who still going. for a singing teacher who is now 96 years old. “I’ve been touring all my life. How could I be doing anything else?” concluded the singer in an interview with the New York Times.

The Czechs would also get to know her, in March 1999 she performed when the Anděl music awards were announced. In Veletržní palác in Prague, she sang the song Believe from a replay and told the ČTK group that she had visited the Czech capital at the beginning of the decade at a Rolling Stones concert. “I arrived at the time with my friend Patrik, who made the Rolling Stones lights and at the same time put the light in the Spanish Hall of Prague Castle,” she said.

Video: Cher’s Single Believe

Cher returned to the charts in 1999 with the dance hit Believe. | Video: Warner Bros. Tables