After Cher’s paternal grandparents fled to America after the Armenian genocide of 1915, her dad John Sarkisian married actress, singer, and model Georgia Holt. Holt had only just turned 19 when ...
Cher's childhood was incredibly chaotic ... realized she couldn't see a future with her husband, John Sarkisian, soon after falling pregnant. While Holt initially believed that an abortion ...
The Grammy winner had later changed her legal name to simply Cher in the late 1970s, dropping her last name Sarkisian. “I was shocked to discover that I was officially registered as Cheryl ...
Cher at the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony on October 19, 2024 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) Cher has revealed the ...
For more than 30 years, Cher thought her legal name was Cherilyn Sarkisian. But when she finally got her hands on a copy of her birth certificate, she learned it was actually something different ...
"She doesn’t like men. That’s why she’s named Cher: She dropped her father’s name. Sarkisian," he added. Born Cherilyn Sarkisian, the singer formally requested a legal name change in 1979 ...
My favorite part of Cher’s recently published memoir ... Her formative years, by any degree, were dizzying: born in 1946 as Cheryl Sarkisian to a Cherokee mother and Armenian father in rural ...
In her new memoir Cher: The Memoir, Part One, which was released on November 19, the singer — who was born Cherilyn Sarkisian — reflected on her absolutely "shocked" reaction after finding out ...