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Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors tour in Toronto

By admin • Jun 6th, 2008 • Category: Articles

Cyndi Lauper’s tiny frame holds both a big voice and a big heart.
The 54-year-old New Yorker brought her second annual True Colors tour for human rights to the Molson Amphitheatre on Wednesday night with Toronto critical darlings The Cliks, Indigo Girls, The B-52s and TV personalities Carson Kressley (Queer Eye) and Rosie O’Donnell also on [...]



Cyndi Lauper on Lesbians in her Family, Joni Mitchell and Gay Pride

By admin • Aug 10th, 2000 • Category: Articles

As 5′3″ Cyndi Lauper once noted, “You have to remember’ no matter what you’re told’ that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.” Ms. Lauper still believes that.
And she also believes she can act. You’ll be surprised to find that you agree when you see [...]



Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors

By admin • Aug 7th, 2000 • Category: Articles

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Aug. 7, 2000 — To find your favorite ’80s music icon, one can merely flip to VH-1’s “Behind the Music” special and learn about their bouts with depression, drugs, breakups and comeback attempts.
To find Cyndi Lauper, flip to a “Mad About You” rerun, and you’ll likely see her in her Emmy-winning role [...]



The Land of Laupertunity

By admin • Aug 2nd, 2000 • Category: Articles

Cyndi Lauper’s career has been as unpredictable as her hair color, but her new movie, The Opportunists, might be her most surprising twist yet: silly singer goes serious thespian.
Girls just want to have fun, but for now a cup of coffee will do. Just hours off the red-eye back to New York from a weekend [...]



The Opportunists: Cyndi Lauper Interview

By admin • Jan 10th, 2000 • Category: Articles

For Grammy Award winner Cyndi Lauper, there’s not such a huge difference between singing and acting. In her first serious role co-starring with Chris Walken in The Opportunists, Lauper described how she goes about mixing and matching musical energy with drama. Lauper gives a standout performance rich in local color as a temperamental Queens barmaid. [...]



Cyndi Lauper: A woman who does her own thing

By admin • Dec 2nd, 1999 • Category: Articles

To many people, Cyndi Lauper was the seemingly one-album wonder who only wanted to have fun. To me, she has been a lifelong hero. Her music has played as the soundtrack to my life, sometimes fading in and out, and others, playing loudly in the foreground.
Cyndi Lauper did not have an easy time growing up. [...]



Cyndi Lauper: Clublands Newest diva

By admin • Oct 13th, 1999 • Category: Articles

Fifteen years since her breakout album She’s So Unusual, Cyndi Lauper has reinvented herself. Her remake of The Trammps’ classic “Disco Inferno” (Jellybean) and an opening slot on Cher’s high-profile summer tour have put Lauper back in the limelight – this time in the dance community.
As the Soul Solution-produced “Disco Inferno” continued to impress DJs [...]



Cyndi Lauper: Where Are Thye Now

By admin • Oct 2nd, 1999 • Category: Articles

And in the WHERE ARE THEY NOW section, there was as well a mention of Cyndi:

CYNDI LAUPER
Cyndi was the girl with the broken-chalk-on-blackboard voice, the kooky clothes, and the posse made up of wrestling managers. Then Madonna came along with the same account at the jumble store and stole her thunder. As idiosyncratic female [...]



Disco Inferno New Face

By admin • Sep 17th, 1999 • Category: Articles

In 1977 disco is hot everywhere you go, and everytime you step out on the dance floor, one song rings as the anthem, “Disco Inferno” by the Tramps.
Twenty-two years later, progressive house or techno is the hottest craze.
Dance remixes of radio edits are where the money is at and artist?s flock to find a chart [...]



Cyndi still wants to have fun

By admin • Aug 10th, 1999 • Category: Articles

American kooks burned our flag to protest same-sex couples, so we might as well give equal time to a pair of visiting American performers who have different views on the subject.
One of them is Cyndi Lauper. Like Cher - who she’s opening for in Skyreach Centre tonight - the singer of Girls Just Want to [...]