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The pop legend, whose birth father was Armenian, also addressed the tensions between Armenians and Azerbaijan in her conversation with The Guardian, which she has been tweeting about lately as well. She began to identify strongly with her heritage once she took a trip years ago when she visited its capital, Yerevan.\n
\u201cWhen I got there, I thought, \u2018Wow, everybody looks like me! How could I not have strong feelings about this?\u2019\u201d she told the publication. The album is a 13-track project, which features collaborations with pals including Stevie Wonder and Cyndi Lauper, covers of classics like Chuck Berry\u2019s \u201cRun Rudolph Run\u201d and original tracks such as the dance-pop single \u201cDJ Play a Christmas Song.\u201d\n
\u201cI wanted to make a Cher Christmas album,\u201d the entertainment legend told PEOPLE. \u201cbut I didn\u2019t know how to do it. I never could figure out a way. Then this year, I just asked the record company if they would just let me do it \u2014 and just hand the finished product over to them \u2014and they were agreeable, so I started picking songs.\u201d\n
She added: \u201cWe did them one at a time, so what I realized is that I have a fun Christmas album that only has a couple of sad songs. I was really happy that it was eclectic, and it\u2019s really eclectic. I was proud of it myself.\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In an interview with The Guardian released Wednesday, the \u201cBelieve\u201d singer opened up about how \u201chorrified\u201d she\u2019d feel if former President Donald Trump was once again re-elected. I almost got an ulcer the last time,\u201d she told the outlet. \u201cIf he gets in, who knows? This time I will leave [the country].\u201dThe actress\/musician is particularly …\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":80758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80760,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80757\/revisions\/80760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}