Cyndi Lauper is back with another Grammy-nominated song, but this time she’s singing a different tune. BACK IN 1984, WHEN CYNDI LAUPER was named the Best New Artist of the Year, she was a girl who just wanted to have fun. Today she wants more. The 45 year old is happily married and has a [...]
Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper Thorton was raised in Ozone Park, Queens. Lauper burst onto the music scene in 1984 with her album She’s So Unusual, the first debut record by a solo artist to spin off four top five singles, including Girls Just Want to Have Fun and Time after Time. Now a mother, Lauper [...]
LOS ANGELES (CNN) — Although Cyndi Lauper officially began to work on her new holiday disc over the last year, it’s actually been a lifetime in the making. “Merry Christmas, Have a Nice Life” is filled with glimpses of Lauper’s life, including her warmth, her passion, and of course, her sense of humor. Also, Lauper’s [...]
On October 27, 1998, Sony US sent the following e-mail to its news mailing list Cyndi Lauper presents her first-ever Christmas album, Merry Christmas…Have A Nice Life. This great holiday album went on sale Today! The album includes the classics “Silent Night” and “Rocking Around The Christmas Tree” plus some of the fun music that [...]
When Cyndi Lauper was told by doctors that she’d never sing again, she wouldn’t take no for an answer. After six months of professional voice lessons, Cyndi’s voice returned and she went on to become the first female rock star to have four singles in the top five on the music charts. This perseverance is [...]
She’s so unusual. Again. No joke: Cyndi Lauper has put together a bona fide comeback more worthy of success than anything on the charts. Lauper’s debut – 1983′s “She’s So Unusual” – was one of rock history’s most monumental achievements by a new artist, producing four Top 5 singles and selling some 9 million copies. [...]
Just over 13 years ago, two wildly-dressed New York-based women made their top of the pops debut on the same show. Madonna thrust her midriff into the camera and warbled ‘Holiday’, quickly followed by Cyndi Lauper cavorting around the studio declaring, ‘Girls just wanna have fun’. And where are they now ? Madonna is an [...]
NO PREGNANT PAUSES: In 1983,when she burst on the pop scene in Day-Glo hair, declaring that “Girls Just Want To Have Fun,” Cyndi Lauper instantly became a liberating voice for her sorority fans. Now, 44 and pregnant with her first child (due in November), Lauper is once again showing her true colors as a stalwart [...]
The show must go on for Cyndi Lauper. In more ways than one. The quirky singer-actor with the Technicolor hair, known for mid-80′s hits Girls Just Want To Have Fun, She Bop and True Colors, lately has been feeling as green as her frizzy locks. At 45, Lauper is three months pregnant with her first [...]
PEOPLE: Hi everyone. I’m Andrew Alden, this is PEOPLE Online on Pathfinder — and tonight’s guest is …(drum-roll)… singer Cyndi Lauper. Tonight’s guest is singer Cyndi Lauper. From Blue Angel to Money Changes Everything; from She’s So Unusual to expectant motherhood, and her current tour with rock goddess Tina Turner, singer Cyndi Lauper has always [...]
