The 71-year-old wore a sheer silver outfit and danced around like a teen.
Her performance was introduced by Gwen Stefani who called her a role model and said she taught women ‘how to be strong.’
Cher then went on to sing If I Could Turn Back Time as she wore a flashback black outfit from the 1990s. And she delivered a heartfelt speech as she picked up her Icon Award.
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Cher looked youthful as she danced with several backup dancers.
A film was then shown as a narrator covered her career from her early days as part of Sonny &Cher.
Her films Moonstruck and her concert shows were highlighted.
Then she came out again, this time in black, to sing If I Could Turn Back Time.
‘I have wanted to do this since I was 5 years old and I’ve been doing it for 53 years. I was 71 yesterday,’ she began.
‘And I can do a five minute plank!’ Cher said to laughs.
‘I want to thank my mom. Because she said you’re not going to be the smartest, the most beautiful, the most talented, but you will be special,’ said the performer.
‘I have had so much help, the greatest people to work with.’
She then said: ‘Phil Spector taught me so much…. I worked with people who were the greatest in the industry.
‘Luck has so much to do with my success.’
The Icon Award marks Cher’s third BMA win, after she previously secured the gongs for Single of the Year for Believe in 1999, and for Dance/Club Play Artist of the Year in 2002.
In 1999 she was also nominated for Top Female Artist and Female Hot 100 Artist of the Year.
Upon receiving the award, Cher – who has 48-year-old son Chaz Bono with her ex-husband Sonny Bono, and 40-year-old son Elijah Allman with Gregg Allman – will join an esteemed list of past recipients, including Celine Dion, Prince, Jennifer Lopez, Stevie Wonder, and Neil Diamond.
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