Cher is an artist.
Burlesque is a 2010 American backstage musical film written and directed by Steven Antin which stars Cher and Christina Aguilera along with Eric Dane , Cam Gigandet , Julianne Hough , Alan Cumming , Peter Gallagher , Kristen Bell and Stanley Tucci . Cher . She then revived her musical career by recording the rock-inflected albums Cher ( 1987 ) , Heart of Stone ( 1989 ) , and Love Hurts ( 1991 ) , all of which yielded several successful singles . After seven years of absence , she returned to film in the 2010 musical Burlesque . Honorific nicknames in popular music are often religious , familial , or ( most frequently ) royal and aristocratic in nature and are used as a form of expression in the media , or to identify the significance of an artist by fans .