List Of Cher Concert Tours
This is a list of concert tours by Cher, an American singer-actress. Since 1979, Cher as solo, has embarked on six worldwide concert tours performing in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. Cher's first live concert performance was with her ex-husband Sonny Bono in 1966 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
In 1979, Cher started her first solo concert tour, the Take Me Home Tour, with performances in Europa and North America in 1979. After the success with disco music, Cher and her boyfriend at the time, Les Dudek, formed the new wave band Black Rose with which she did her first mini-tour, The Black Rose Show. Black Rose band during their tour were the opening act for Bob Seger in Europe and for Hall & Oates during the 1980 summer in North America.
After eight years off the road, Cher did her second solo sold-out tour in 1990, the Heart of Stone Tour, which was followed up by 1992's Love Hurts Tour. The Love Hurts Tour is well known by fans for cancellations due to Cher's illness.
After the huge success of the Believe album, she did her 1999/2000 Do You Believe? Tour. Finally, in 2002, she embarked on her so far last concert tour, the marathon Living Proof: The Farewell Tour, which lasted from June 2002 until April 2005. The tour featured a total 325 shows, the most ever for a concert tour by a female solo artist, and grossed more than $250 million, becoming Cher's highest-grossing tour ever. Cher closed the farewell tour in April 2005 at the Hollywood Bowl. It was the most successful tour by a single female solo artist at that time.
Since May 2008, Cher has been performing at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada with her new show, Cher at the Colosseum. She has signed for 200 shows over the span of three years. She is being paid $180 million for her return.
After her residency ends at the Caesars Palace, Cher plans to continue performing with a worldwide tour towards the end of 2011.
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