Cher has released a brand new ABBA cover in aid of a good cause. The singer, who is working on a follow-up to her 2018 ABBA covers album Dancing Queen, revealed a Spanish-language cover of the track “Chiquitita”.

The track will be released on Friday, with a music video set to debut on Saturday evening as part of a virtual telethon for the charity UNICEF.

The singer tweeted: “I am SO proud to premiere a new Spanish ‘Chiquitita’ during the broadcast of UNICEF Won’t Stop.

“I admired UNICEF since I was a little girl. Let’s prioritise every child around the world as if they were our own!”

It will mark the first time Cher has ever released a song in Spanish – mirroring ABBA, who released a Spanish version of the song on their album Gracias Por La Música.

Speaking to Billboard, Cher explained: “It was difficult to sing something in Spanish that you have sung in English because I’m a perfectionist.

“Singing in another language, trying to make it emotional and getting the words right… they have letters that make a completely different sound than

“I’m used to or than is done in English. We don’t roll any of our R’s. We recorded it four times while my engineer and the woman who taught me the song were both in England over Skype.

“I kept going back and back over certain lines. I don’t speak Spanish, but 40 years ago I knew a teeny bit of it. Still, my pronunciation is pretty good.”