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Bono began his music career as a songwriter at Specialty Records, where his song "Things You Do to Me" was recorded by Sam Cooke, and went on to work for record producer Phil Spector in the early 1960s as a promotion man, percussionist and "gofer".
Apr 2, 2014 · Born Salvatore Phillip Bono on February 16, 1935, in Detroit, Michigan, Bono began his music career as a songwriter and singer for Johnny Otis's Dig Records label in the early 1960s.
Sonny & Cher were an American pop and entertainment duo in the 1960s and 1970s, made up of spouses Sonny Bono and Cher. The couple started their career in the mid-1960s as R&B backing singers for record producer Phil Spector .
Jul 23, 2024 · Sonny Bono (born February 16, 1935, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.—died January 5, 1998, South Lake Tahoe, California) was an American songwriter, producer, entertainer, and politician who found fame in the 1960s and ’70s as part of the TV and music duo Sonny and Cher.
Popularly known as ‘Sonny Bono’, Salvatore Philip Bono was an eminent American singer, producer, and politician. This biography profiles his childhood, family, personal life, career, achievements, death, and other facts.
Jan 19, 1998 · His opera buffa culminated in a Palm Springs, Calif., funeral in a Roman Catholic church, attended by three wives, his gay-activist daughter, conservative G.O.P. hierarchs from Washington and...
Sonny Bono. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994, Sonny Bono (1935-1998) made a career out of reinventing himself. He played the straight man to his then-wife Cher, on the Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour in the 1970s and later served as mayor of Palm Springs, California.
Sonny Bono (February 16, 1935 – January 5, 1998) was a recording artist, a producer, singer - songwriter, actor and politician. He was married to Cher between 1964 and 1975, during which time they formed the duo Sonny & Cher. Together, they had numerous hit records and singles.
Sep 1, 2022 · Sonny Bono might be best known as the "other" half of the more famous duo of Sonny and Cher, but he had a pretty wild life in his own right — not just in the shadow of his more glamorous then-wife. It was a pretty strange life, too, one that was shortened by a tragic accident.
Jan 6, 1998 · Sonny Bono enjoyed celebrity in the 1960s as half of the singing and acting duo Sonny and Cher and later became a Congressman. Born in 1935, to a first generation Sicilian-American family, he...
