{"id":264223,"date":"2018-12-27T07:29:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T14:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/watch-adam-lambert-move-cher-to-tears-with-his-powerful-performance-of-believe\/"},"modified":"2018-12-27T07:29:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T14:29:39","slug":"watch-adam-lambert-move-cher-to-tears-with-his-powerful-performance-of-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/watch-adam-lambert-move-cher-to-tears-with-his-powerful-performance-of-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Adam Lambert Move Cher to Tears With His Powerful Performance of &#8220;Believe&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20181127\/rs_600x600-181227061821-600-adam-lambert-cher-ch-122718.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<div id=\"text-1\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.66323296355\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"15.437400950872\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/cher\">Cher<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s been around for, well, a long time. She&#8217;s seen her fair share of tribute performances, from the Broadway stage to the streets during gay pride parades, but it seems <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/adam_lambert\">Adam Lambert<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s Kennedy Center Honors performance may take the cake. The 72-year-old singer-actress-activist was moved to tears by Lambert&#8217;s performance of her dance hit &#8220;Believe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lambert took the poppy song and slowed it down, turning it into a powerful ballad, wowing Cher and her fellow honorees including <strong>Reba McEntire<\/strong>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/cyndi_lauper\">Cyndi Lauper<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Little Big Town<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/whoopi_goldberg\">Whoopi Goldberg<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/amanda_seyfried\">Amanda Seyfried<\/a><\/strong> also paid tribute to the iconic singer at the Kennedy Center Honors.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5\">\n<p>Cher, who recently returned to the big screen in this summer&#8217;s <em>Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again<\/em>, took to Twitter to try and express her feelings about Lambert&#8217;s performance.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"socialcontent-twitter-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-type=\"async\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"54.798701298701\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.5032467532468\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Tried 2 write Feelings About Adam Lambert Singing<br \/>Believe In Words,but Cant seem 2.When Your senses are Overwhelmed All Can you feel with your \u2764\ufe0f.<br \/>I Was Shocked AND Over The MOON When Cindi (Lauper) came out Rocking the house.<br \/>Shocked Because SHE TOLD ME SHE WAS IN LA,<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cher (@cher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cher\/status\/1078199115056463878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"socialcontent-twitter-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-type=\"async\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"55.513513513514\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.4894894894895\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">&amp; Over The Moon Because<br \/>My Friend?CINDI Is One Of Our\u201dGreat\u201dSingers\u203c\ufe0f<br \/>When \u2728Adam\u2728&amp; Cindi\u2728 Sang Together It=Heaven ??.<br \/>\u201dLittle Big Town\u201dWere Adorable,&amp; Harmonies\u2728?\u2728.<br \/>Amanda Was Genuine,&amp; Dear?,&amp; When Whoopi Came Out In\u201dCher Outfit\u201dShe brought Down House?.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cher (@cher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cher\/status\/1078242141694963712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"43.7875\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2.325\">\n<p>Lauper performed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d6ll7YES6dc\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;If I Could Turn Back Time&#8221;<\/a> and Lambert and Lauper also did a duet to &#8220;I Got You Babe.&#8221; See that below.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-8\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"54.436860068259\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5.6313993174061\">\n<p>Other honorees at the 2018 ceremony included composer and pianist <strong>Philip Glass<\/strong> and jazz saxophonist and composer <strong>Wayne Shorter<\/strong>. <em>Hamilton<\/em> co-creators <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/lin-manuel_miranda\">Lin-Manuel Miranda<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Thomas Kail<\/strong>, <strong>Andy Blankenbuehler<\/strong> and <strong>Alex Lacamoire<\/strong> also received a special Kennedy Center Honors their groundbreaking work.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/999552\/watch-adam-lambert-move-cher-to-tears-with-his-powerful-performance-of-believe?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cher&#8216;s been around for, well, a long time. She&#8217;s seen her fair share of tribute performances, from the Broadway stage to the streets during gay pride parades, but it seems Adam Lambert&#8216;s Kennedy Center Honors performance may take the cake. The 72-year-old singer-actress-activist was moved to tears by Lambert&#8217;s performance of her dance hit &#8220;Believe.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 22:45:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}