Cyndi Lauper should make a pop-umentary film. It could be a fruit punch montage. With comedic flip footage of Cyndi sporting her manic-panic hair-do on the street in “Girls just wanna have fun” and spots of her talking to a ceramic dalmatian in her “Time after Time” video, it’d be a smash. For the art-house [...]
Cyndi Lauper’s last album for Epic Records, “Merry Christmas … Have A Nice Life,” is not due until Oct. 27, but she is already looking for a new label deal. “This is a new time in my life, and I think everything should be new,” says Lauper, who recently acquired a new manager, Arma Andon [...]
Cyndi Lauper’s ’80s anthem “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” has earned an esteemed place in America’s finest drag shows over the last 14 years. Last weekend, the flamboyant redhead repaid the compliment by performing at a Gay Pride rally in New York City.
As diva of ceremonies, Lauper performed three songs, including the apropos “Disco [...]
Rob Hyman finds the keys to Largo in 19th-century classical music.
While The Band’s Levon Helm hoots and hollers through “Gimme A Stone,” The Band’s keyboard maestro Garth Hudson made the Largo theme ebullient and Ellingtonian. The Chieftains lent certain songs an authentic Irish quality. (”We had to struggle to figure how many we could afford,” [...]
Largo may be a musical term denoting a slow tempo, but for Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Joan Osborne, Taj Mahal, The Chieftains, Carole King and Cyndi Lauper among others, the word also refers to their collective project of the same name. On April 28, Mercury will release Largo, a 16-track self-titled concept album masterminded by [...]
“Cyndi Lauper talks about her gay sister, her baby, her new CD, getting sued, &, of course, drag.”
Cyndi Lauper is the mother of a baby boy, as of November 19, 1997. Cyndi Lauper is also a drag queen. She’s been one since she was a kid. While her sister wanted to play “boyish games,” [...]
FOXY BROWN: Hi, Cyndi !
CYNDI LAUPER: HOW ya’ doin’, doll ?
FB: Fine. I’ve been telling people, “I’m talking to Cyndi Lauper !” and they’re all like, “Yeah, right.”
CL: Well, you’re doing the interview now, hon.
FB: I wanted to ask you, being a female in the music industry, do you think the industry is sexist ?
CL: [...]
NEW YORK - (Feb. 21) -As the April 1 release of ”Sisters Of Avalon” draws near, Epic Records continues to strive to illuminate Cyndi Lauper as an artist of greater creative substance than the often-cartoonist figure who became a leader of the MTV generation in 1983 with the kitschy ”Girls Just Want To Have Fun.”
Produced [...]
Remember the ’80s? How could you forget them? They just happened ten minutes ago.
Not so fast. It may be hard to fathom, but Wham! happened a full ten years ago. With ’90s music innovations like, um, gangsta rap, is it any wonder why the ’80s are making a comeback?
The songs of the ’80s are returning [...]
So you’ve been wondering where Cyndi Lauper’s been. She admits she’s a year late in coming out with her new album, Hat Full Of Stars, while seated in her living room in the Althrop building on the upper west side of Manhattan. She looks like a normal American girl-next-door, with no make-up, oversized painter pants [...]
