Cher is an artist.
Cher . After her divorce from Sonny Bono in 1975 , Cher launched a comeback in 1979 with the disco-oriented album Take Me Home and earned $ 300,000 a week for her 198082 residency show in Las Vegas . 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 . 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 .