Cher is the French word for "dear, beloved." **Cherilyn Sarkisian (born 1946)** — known mononymously as Cher — the **American singer-actress whose career spans more than six decades and made her the only solo artist to have a Billboard Hot 100 #1 hit in every decade from the 1960s to the 2020s**. **Won the Academy Award for Best Actress for *Moonstruck* (1988)** and the Grammy for Best Dance Recording for *Believe* (2000) — whose vocoder "Cher effect" defined a generation of pop production. **Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2024**. Lifetime sales over 100 million records.
Subject of her own memoir *Cher: The Memoir, Part One* (2024).
Cher reduces to six — the number of dear.