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Every day more and more people ask themselves how old Cyndi Lauper really is. In fact, the grammy winner singer doesn’t like to talk about her age. Usually when someone asks her this kind of question she replies: What I am a car?

Cyndi continues to insipire new and old generations, and for all of you out there that still wondering how old she really is, she was born June 22, 1953.

Even though the women’s team lost by a big margin, Cyndi did a great job on her first task as the project manager. It was an exciting show to see and there is much more to come. Here is a video from back scenes of the next chalenge, which will be broadcast next Sunday.

Cyndi appeared as a special guest on David Letterman’s show, singing with Wyclef Jean Slamdog Millionare. The song is being one of the most downloaded on iTunes.

If you listen to the radio, you’ve heard them. If you watch TV, you’ve certainly seen them. An electrified cartoon of a red careering through a kooky party. A tarted-up floozy flirting in a gondola. Dressed in lingerie or lace or in regal gypsy regalia, singing in a girlish peep or a banshee wail, they’re the new women of rock and roll. Cyndi Lauper and Madonna are setting the pace. But they’ve got a lot of company: Chaka Khan and Donna Summer, Sheila E. and Apollonia Kotero, Joan Jett and Pat Benatar, Sheena Easton and the Go-Go’s, Teena Marie and Laura Branigan, Chrissie Hynde and Annie Lennox and -perhaps the godmother of them all- the great Tina Turner.

Rarely have so many women performing rock had so many hit records on the charts. Never have so many women with such strong images so dominated the music videos shown on MTV, the rock-and-roll cable network. Madonna’s new album, “Like A Virgin” (Sire), recently No. 1 for three weeks, is already “triple platinium”. In 14 weeks, it’s sold some 3.5 million copies -a staggering amount,particularly since her first tour doesn’t start until April. Turner, the Pointer Sisters, Pat Benatar and Chaka Khan all have current albums, that have topped the million mark. And after 63 weeks, Cyndi Lauper’s album, “She’s So Unusual” (Portrait), is still charted in the Top 30, with nearly 4 million copies sold. Lauper’s recordings have earned five Grammy nominations and her album has produced four Top Five Singles – a new record for female singers.

As one of the most influential strongholds of knee-jerk misogyny, the rock scene has long cried out for women with power, ideas and an independent sense of style. Now, it seems, they’re emerging one after another. Many of the new women rockers do a lot more than sing. They play their own instruments, write their own songs, control their own careers. Musically, they run the gamut: they’re into funk and soul, pop and new wave, even heavy metal. With their costumes and come-ons, their thoughtfulness and their wit, their dopey hairdos and varied musical styles, they’re turning old ideas about pop’s feminine mystique inside out and upside down.

The current upsurge, however, has many different and even contradictory facets. Striking figures like Cyndi Lauper -whose anthem, “Girls Just Want To Have Fun”, offers a funny, subversive image of the liberated woman as screwball -flourish beside much more traditional starlets like Madonna. In her new hit, “Material Girl”, Madonna exploits her feminine wiles like a determined gold digger: “The boy with the cold hard cash is always Mr. Right”.

Some insiders point to Madonna’s steamy image and argue that little has really changed for women in rock and roll since the days of “girl groups” like the Ronettes. Citing her own experience -and rejecting vehemently any patronizing talk of “woman rock”- Joan Jett, perhaps the hardest rocker of them all, says that sexism runs rampant in “every facet of the music industry, starting with the audience”.

Some insiders point to Madonna’s steamy image and argue that little has really changed for women in rock and roll since the days of “girl groups” like the Ronettes. Citing her own experience -and rejecting vehemently any patronizing talk of “woman rock”- Joan Jett, perhaps the hardest rocker of them all, says that sexism runs rampant in “every facet of the music industry, starting with the audience”.

But others think that a real revolution is under way. To Pat Benatar, a veteran hard rocker like Jett, the most striking change has been in her fan mail: “Most of my letters used to be from girls saying how glad they were that we emerged because it really helped them with their boyfriends. Now when i get letters, the girls aspire for themselves.”

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It has now been confirmed that Cyndi Lauper will be part of the new upcoming TV show “The Celebrity Apprentice”. Cyndi will be competing with other celebrities in the business oriented show.

The cast includes Cyndi Lauper, Rod Blagojevich, Sharon Osbourne, Bret Michaels, Darryl Strawberry and Sinbad.

All the money raised will be donate to the charities choosen by the artist. The show will be broadcast by NBC and will be aired in January 2010.