Cher Resurfaces And Comes Back With Her First Christmas Album

Although she has been a singer and performer for six decades, Cher had never released one of pop's most ubiquitous (and commercially viable) releases: a Christmas album. “I just didn't want to” she said. “I didn't know how Christmas music and Cher could come together and be harmonious.”

Then suddenly she changed his mind. “Christmas” is a 13-song tour of Christmas music, with special appearances by Stevie Wonder, Cyndi Lauper, Michael Bublé, rapper Tyga and Darlene Love, who recreates “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” in which Cher sang choirs for the first time at 17 years old. “There was no way I was going to do a song without her” she said.

At age 77, Cher recently suffered losses, including the death of her longtime friend Tina Turner in May and her mother, Georgia Holt, at age 96, just before the holiday season last year; her album is dedicated to her. But she also has reasons to be hopeful, like an unexpected romance with music producer Alexander Edwards, 40 years younger than her, who encouraged her to return to the studio, she said. He receives producer credit for “Christmas”.