On “Christmas,” Cher enlists an all-star list of collaborators. "And then I went to the mic and I was able to sing,” she says. So she called up her vocal teacher, “Adrienne Angel, who's 96, who came out and hung with me and we worked every day." She hadn't sang since a March 12, 2020, performance in Oklahoma City was canceled when a Utah Jazz basketball player tested positive for the coronavirus. In some ways, it required Cher to find her voice again. Her first new album in five years, the appropriately titled “Christmas,” releases Friday. The secret, of course, was to lean into the incredible eclecticism of her career, all while avoiding the sleepy, saccharine pitfalls of a “Silent Night” -heavy holiday release. “I didn't know how I was going to make it a ‘Cher Christmas album.’” “I just didn't want to do one,” she told The Associated Press. But a Christmas album? That's new territory. 1 song in each of the past six decades - heck, she's got her own gelato business, Cherlato. She's achieved EGOT status, she's the only artist to have a No. LOS ANGELES – There isn't much Cher hasn't done in her career.
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