Superstar Cher loves to explore her surroundings when she travels
DON’T be surprised if you spot pop superstar Cher at your local cafe or peeping over your garden fence during the next few weeks when she arrives in town for her tour.
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DON’T be surprised if you spot pop superstar Cher at your local cafe or peeping over your garden fence during the next few weeks.
Speaking ahead of touching down in Sydney, the hit-maker told Confidential she loves to check out her surroundings whenever she travels.
“When I was in Australia the last time for Mardi Gras, we just went around looking at all the rich people’s houses and we went to Bondi Beach,” she told Confidential.
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“A man took us all around … they look different than our houses. We were gone for hours just looking at stuff, going around in neighbourhoods and looking at things.”
Cher will kick off the Australian dates of her Here We Go Again tour at the Newcastle Entertainment Centre on Wednesday, before travelling to Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.
The 72-year-old will play the WIN Entertainment Centre in Wollongong on October 16 and Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena on the 18th and 20th of next month.
“When I go out, my objective is always to make people feel really good, that is my job. It is the only thing I am supposed to go out and do,” the industry veteran said of her stageshows.
“And so that is what my goal is. My goal is to go out and make people forget their problems for whatever amount of time and lift them up and that is my job.”
Born Cherilyn Sarkisian, Cher has been belting out pop hits for five decades.
Her biggest chart-toppers include Believe, All Or Nothing, Strong Enough, Gypsies Tramps and Thieves, If I Could Turn Back Time, and I Got You Babe.
She’s also been an advocate of equality, performing at the 40th anniversary Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras party earlier this year.
“I felt like an outsider when I was growing up,” Cher said. “I didn’t really fit in. I didn’t really want to try to fit in.
“I kind of wanted to try but I wouldn’t have fitted in anyway, so it wouldn’t have made any difference. So I know what it feels like to be different and you don’t forget it.
“You never really forget it, no matter how successful you become. No matter what, you always have empathy and know what it is like to feel different.”