Pianist and soul singer whose hit single, "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)," went to #1 on the R&B charts.
She started singing gospel music in church at the age of nine and, by eighteen, she started pursuing a career in secular music.
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She grew up in Greenwood, Mississippi.
Cher's version of "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" appeared in the closing credits for the 1990 film, Mermaids and reached #1 on the U.K. charts, where it sold more than half a million copies in five weeks.
