Cher thinks she just made history. “My life seems to be longer than any other human being that has ever existed“, he tells the “Guardian”. “I feel like I should be in the Guinness Book of Records for this. And I’m still going!».

In fact, at 77, with a career spanning six decades behind her, Cher is still finding new ways to express herself. This week she will release her first Christmas album. “Everyone has done one“, she said.

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“So when my manager called and said, “We’d like you to do this,” my answer was “No!”. He said, “Just think about it.” So I sat down and thought, “What can I do that’s different?”». The answer, as it turned out, was a festive album, that doesn’t ‘shout’ Christmas every second.

In fact, half the songs are new, including the catchy dance track “DJ, Play a Christmas Song”, which recalls a night that is anything but silent. Other tracks on the album are completely unexpected, such as a cover of Ecstasy “This Will Be Our Year” by the Zombies, from their 1968 cult masterpiece ‘Oracle & Odyssey’.More than anything, I wanted this album to be funCher pointed out.

And why not; Fun has been Cher’s trademark ever since she crossed paths with Sonny on their song “I Got You Babe” in 1965. At the same time, fun, for Cher, is not just about pleasure. It’s also about survival.

Even her new album has a deeper context than it might initially appear. He finds an emotional climax in a cover of “Christmas” (Baby Please Come Home), which originally appeared on Phil Spector’s classic 1963 Christmas album, with Darlene Love on vocals and 17-year-old Cher wailing in the background. Now, 60 years later, she and Love perform the song as a duet. “I hate it when people say, “I remember it like it was yesterday.”“, said the famous singer.

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Cher’s most popular song of all time, the “Believe”which she wrote when she was 52, came about only thanks to the support of her British record company, at a time when her American label had abandoned her. To celebrate the ‘Believe’ album, an expanded 25th anniversary edition of the set will be released this month. The album’s title track made history not only because it reached No. 1 in more than 10 countries, but also because it was the first of a million recordings to use auto-tune as a hook. Later, other artists, especially in the field of hip-hop, began to use auto-tune in their recordings.

The artist says she is terrified of the possibility of Trump regaining power. “I almost got an ulcer last time”, he said. “If he gets into power, who knows? This time I will leave the country».