Cher (singer)

Compilations are only listed if they have charted. In November 2004 her son Terry died from complications of melanoma. The former manager of successful '70s Australian pop band Sherbet, Davies' company also manages Tina Turner, Sade, Pink, Joe Cocker and Tony Joe White. In 2004 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom but refused to attend the ceremony because of a fear of flying. Cher is managed by expatriate Australian impresario Roger Davies. She wrote a best-selling autobiography. Among her many achievements, Cher is the only recording artist in history to score #1 hits in four successive decades and she also holds the Billboard record for the longest time span --34 years-- between her first #1 hit in 1965 and her most recent #1 in 1999. In 1987, she founded the Doris Day Animal League, and she currently devotes much of her time towards the cause of helping animals.

However, while this tour may be her last, it shows no signs of terminating in the near future; it has included over 200 shows and continues to add new venues. Day stood by his side. She therefore embarked on her last-ever world-wide tour (the Farewell Tour), her most spectacular and best-received tour ever. Soon after, she and the world learned that he was dying of AIDS. In the same year, she was told that for health reasons she would no longer be able to perform live. Day was taken aback by Hudson's emaciated and wizened frame, as he had always been in top physical condition. In 2004 she was nominated for a Grammy for "Best Dance Recording" for her song "Love One Another" but she lost to Australian Kylie Minogue. The show generated unexpected press when her old friend Rock Hudson appeared in the first episode.

1 in the charts for seven weeks and is the all-time biggest-selling single by a solo female artist. In 1985 Day hosted her own talk show, Doris Day's Best Friends. In the United Kingdom, "Believe" stayed at No. Though generally presenting a happy, carefree image to the public, she had four difficult marriages:. With the success of Believe, Cher became the oldest woman in the rock era to have a Number One hit. Day continued with the show only as long as she needed the work to help pay down her debts. In 1998 she had one of the biggest successes of her recording career with the number one hit Believe and the million selling album of the same name which won her a Grammy Award. Its theme song was "Que Sera Sera".

The album was written after a retreat to a poetry class in France; it was rejected by record labels and Cher chose to sell it on her Web site, with limited success. Upon Melcher's death she learned that he had committed her to a TV series. From 1968 to 1973, she therefore starred in her own situation comedy, The Doris Day Show. One exception was her alternative-rock album entitled Not.Commercial (pronounced "not-dot-com-mercial"). Robinson in The Graduate (a role which went to Anne Bancroft). Her ability to reinvent herself has allowed her to continue performing and creating successful recordings for more than 35 years. One of the roles he turned down for her was Mrs. Cher is of Armenian descent. Day herself found many of her mid-late 1960s films to be of very poor quality and did them only at the insistence of her third husband, Marty Melcher.

Following the devastating earthquake that hit Armenia in December of 1988, Cher travelled to the country to participate in the relief activities. Critics, comics and pundits attacked Day as "the world's oldest virgin" and audiences began to shy away from her repetitive, gimmicky roles. In 1989 she scored another million-selling #1 hit with the song If I Could Turn Back Time. Times as well as attitudes changed, but Day's films did not. This finally allowed her to make the transition into a successful acting career, starring in films including Silkwood (nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress), 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. Many of her 1960s films ignored her singing abilities and painted her as a good-hearted woman with a strong will, a hint of naïveté, and the purest virtue this side of a nun. Once again the critics praised her work and she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. She and Hudson made two more films together.

The reviews she received were glowing and she was cast in the film version, directed by Robert Altman. The film received positive reviews and was a box office favourite. It also brought a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Day. For several years she worked at trying to secure a role to prove herself, until she was cast in a stage production of Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. In 1959 Day entered her most successful phase as a film actress with the hugely popular Pillow Talk co-starring Rock Hudson, who became a lifelong friend. Cher had demonstrated her considerable comedic talents in the various skits she performed on The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, and while she was highly regarded in this arena, her ambition to develop a movie career was at first not taken seriously. She continued to be paired with some of Hollywood's biggest male stars, including James Stewart, Cary Grant, David Niven, and Clark Gable. Cher and Allman divorced in 1979 and she later had a relationship with guitarist Les Dudek. In 1955, she received some of the best notices of her career for her portrayal of singer Ruth Etting in Love Me or Leave Me, co-starring James Cagney.

In 1978, Cher was romantically linked with Gene Simmons of KISS. She continued to make saccharine and somewhat low-level musicals such as Starlift, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, and Tea for Two for Warner Brothers until the cycle exhausted itself. She has two children, Chastity Bono and Elijah Blue Allman. Day began her film career in 1948 as a peppy, Betty Huttonesque persona. Cher and Bono divorced in 1974, and she later married rock musician Gregg Allman, a member of the Allman Brothers Band. In Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, she sang "Que Sera Sera", which won an Oscar; it became her signature song. During the early Seventies, Cher began to establish herself as a solo recording artist with producer Snuff Garrett, and she scored three U.S. #1 hits with the songs Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves (1971), Half-Breed (1973), and Dark Lady (1974). Day acted in many films, in most of which she sang.

She later hosted and performed in her own variety TV series, which ran for two seasons and concluded in 1977. On her own, she had more # 1's, including "Secret Love". It was a surprise hit and ran for four seasons before the duo decided to end its run; Cher announced her intent to separate from Sonny. She admitted coming to hate singing "Journey", but never tired of reading the letters. After their career stalled (their bubble-gum pop was not popular in an era of edgier tunes), CBS head of programming Fred Silverman gave the duo their own show, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, in 1971. "Sentimental Journey" earned her a flood of letters from World War II GIs. and The U.S.A. With Brown, she charted 12 popular music hits, among them her first two # 1's: "Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time".

Cher became famous as one of the pop music duo Sonny and Cher with her first husband, Sonny Bono. Together, they had a number one single called "I Got You Babe" (1965) in both the U.K. She never really liked the name Doris Day, thinking it sounded too much like a stripper; this was ironic, since she eventually became associated with a nearly opposite image of wholesomeness and innocence. Cher (born Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPière on May 20, 1946) is a world-famous actress and singer. It was Barney Rapp who convinced her that "Kappelhoff" was too awkward a name and suggested "Day" after the song "Day after Day" that was part of her repertoire. 2001 "The Music's No Good Without You" #8 UK. She sang with the big bands of Barney Rapp, Bob Crosby, and Les Brown, before setting out on her own in the late 1940s. from "Living Proof"