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Actress and singer Georgia Holt had small parts in the movies and on television, but she was best known as the mother of pop superstar Cher and actress Georganne LaPiere, as well as being the grandmother of musician Elijah Blue Allman and LGBTQ+ rights advocate Chaz Bono.

Georgia Holt was born Jackie Jean Crouch on June 9, 1926, in Kensett (White County). She was born in poverty; her father, the teenage Roy Malloy Crouch, was a baker, and her mother, Lynda Inez Gulley, was reportedly thirteen years old at the time she gave birth. Crouch would later have a younger brother, Mickey. Her father taught her how to sing and play guitar during her early childhood. After her parents separated, Crouch moved back and forth between them, estimating that she attended seventeen different schools. When she was ten, she and her brother moved westward with their father, hitchhiking from town to town as he looked for work. Her father encouraged her singing, stopping at bars along the way, where she sang for nickels and dimes.

The three settled in a rundown one-room dwell

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