“...I'm a recovering Catholic. … There's, y'know, the Sisters of Charity, the Sisters of Mercy, and it just so happens that I was with the Sisters of No Charity and No Mercy at All.”
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Cyndi Lauper
Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Lauper is known for her distinctive image, which features eccentric clothing and a variety of hair colors. She is also known for her powerful four-octave vocal range. Lauper has been dubbed the "Queen of Quirky Pop." She has sold over 50 million records worldwide. She has also been celebrated for her humanitarian work, par…
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entertainment · American singer-songwriter and actress (born 1953) · television actor · film actor · singer · singer-songwriter · composer · stage actor · voice actor · recording artist · pop musician · actor · also Cyndi Lauper, Cynthia Lauper, Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper Thornton, Lauper
Born 22 June 1953 · Q1545
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I'm against all [the Catholic Church]'s teaching that women are evil and that their power and their sexuality is evil. Let's kinda like get a little beyond that, get Christ-like, you know what I mean?
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2026· 16 entries
“When you take a group of people and you repress them and they cut themselves off from their feelings as a human - and a human being has sexual feelings, has bodily feelings - what you are handing over to children is a monster. Because if you are not connected to who you are in your heart, and you don't understand and have compassion for yourself, how in the wide world of sports are you gonna have compassion with forty screaming children?”
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Published video “The time Junior was allergic to me!”.
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Published video “Cyndi Lauper - Boy Blue (Live in Paris)”.
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Published video “Happy 18 to “Into the Nightlife!””.
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Published video “Cyndi Lauper - 911 (Live in Paris)”.
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Published video “Cyndi Lauper - One Track Mind (Live at Le Zénith, Paris, France - March 12, 1987)”.
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Yahoo: Synthwave Trio Gunship Releases Corin Hardy-Directed Video for Their Cover of Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Time After Time’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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Published video “Happy “Hey Now” day!”.
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Published video “Out now!! #wwe #sdcc @WWE @Mattel”.
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Mattel released a WWE 3-pack set of action figures on Mattel Creations
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Published video “Gonna pull you up by your love, by your love 💕 ”.
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Published video ““I dressed how I wanted to live.” Listen to Wiser Than Me with wherever you get your podcasts.”.
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Published video “Break-up anthem loading…”.
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Page Six: Cyndi Lauper curses out heckler during Las Vegas residency: ‘I’m going to come for you’
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2025· 8 entries
Lauper was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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Variety: Cyndi Lauper Enlists SZA, Cher and Joni Mitchell for an Unusual ‘Grammy Salute’ That Benefits as Much From Her Farewell-Tour Chatter as Her Famous Guests: TV Review
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Her "Grammy Salute" special, which was held at the Hollywood Bowl, aired on CBS and Paramount+
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American Songwriter: 4 Timeless Cyndi Lauper Songs That Propelled Her Into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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The Guardian: Cyndi Lauper review – 80s pop eccentric hasn’t changed a bit
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The Guardian: Cyndi Lauper review – a freedom fighter’s swan song
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The Guardian: Cyndi Lauper review – still showing her true colours in fun farewell tour
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Newsweek: Cyndi Lauper Makes Bold Declaration About the ‘Ozempic Thing’
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2024· 10 entries
AZ Central: Cyndi Lauper's farewell Phoenix setlist, from 'True Colors' to 'Time After Time'
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People: Cyndi Lauper Had a 'Hard Time with Fame' After Her Debut Album in 1983: 'Scared the Hell Out of Me'
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AZ Central: Cyndi Lauper's joyous farewell tour isn't goodbye. But it's the end of a wild era
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Yahoo: Cyndi Lauper is still having fun at her MSG comeback on farewell tour: review
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And initially ended on August 30, 2025, at the Hollywood Bowl
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The Guardian: Coldplay, Cyndi Lauper and the Red Arrows: Saturday at Glastonbury 2024 – a photo essay
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The Guardian: Cyndi Lauper at Glastonbury review – nostalgic Pyramid stage crowd just wants to have fun
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Lauper performed at the Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, Somerset, England
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The Guardian: ‘Want to be a real artist? Keep going!’: Cyndi Lauper at 71 on self-doubt, success – and surviving sexual assault
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Released album “Let the Canary Sing”.
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: Dolly Parton, Cyndi Lauper, Gloria Estefan, Belinda Carlisle and Debbie Harry to collaborate on new song
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: Cyndi Lauper: girls just wanna have fun – and be given their due | Rebecca Nicholson
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2020· 4 entries
Released ep “Hope (Tracy Young Hopeful Mix)”.
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Lauper participated in an online fundraising concert to raise money for LGBTQ nightlife workers who struggled financially because of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Lauper sang a chorus from the song "I Sing the Body Electric" of the soundtrack from the teen musical drama film Fame (1980) at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony held in Los Angeles
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Lauper and Rob Hyman co-wrote the track "Secret to the Formula" for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
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2019· 4 entries
The 2-disc compilation album, Japanese Singles Collection – Greatest Hits was released, nine days after its original Japanese release
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Released album “Japanese Singles Collection: Greatest Hits”.
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Lauper performed at the opening ceremony of Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019
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Lauper gave the commencement address at Northern Vermont University – Johnson, the academic institution that includes Johnson State College (which she attended)
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2018· 3 entries
It was announced that Lauper would receive the Icon Award at the Billboard's 13th annual Women in Music Event on December 6 in New York City
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The Guardian: Cyndi Lauper: 'Fame is tricky. There's no book on dealing with it'
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Released album “She’s So Unusual: Live & Remastered + bonus tracks (Live, The Summit, Houston, TX 10 Oct ’84)”.
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2017· 4 entries
Songwriters Benny Mardones and Robert Tepper sued Lauper for lifting elements from their 1980 song "Into the Night" for Kinky Boots' final song "Raise You Up
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Awarded VH1 Trailblazer Honors (2017).
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Released album “Kinky Boots”.
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Lauper, together with "Time After Time" songwriter Rob Hyman, contributed the track "Hero Is My Middle Name" for the musical SpongeBob SquarePants
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2016· 6 entries
Released album “Grab a Hold”.
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Released album “Detour”.
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Released album “True Colours Live at Ripley's Music Hall Philadelphia 1983”.
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Released album “Kinky Boots (Original West End Cast Recording)”.
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Released her version of Wanda Jackson's "Funnel of Love
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The West End production won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical
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2015· 3 entries
Kinky Boots opened at the Adelphi Theatre in London's West End
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Released album “The Agora Ballroom, Cleveland Ohio, 14 December 1983”.
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Was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
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2014· 3 entries
Released ep “She’s So Unusual: REMiXED”.
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Lauper sang on the finale of America's Got Talent
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Lauper was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for the cast recording
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2013· 5 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Original Score for Kinky Boots (2013).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for Kinky Boots (2013).
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Released album “Kinky Boots: The New Musical Based on a True Story”.
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“At one of our performances I saw all these stars around me, like Bernadette Peters and Glenn Close, and I thought, ‘why wasn’t there a vehicle for all these great actresses to star in together? Something funny and fun.’ No solid ideas yet, but I’m thinking.”
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Lauper won the Tony Award for Best Original Score for composing the Broadway musical Kinky Boots, making her the first woman to win the category by herself
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2012· 1 entry
“The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess”
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2011· 1 entry
Released album “To Memphis With Love”.
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2010· 3 entries
And debuted on the Billboard Blues Albums chart at number one, and at number 26 on the Billboard Top 200
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Released album “Memphis Blues”.
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Memphis Blues became Billboard's most successful blues album of the year, remaining at number one on the Billboard Blues Albums chart for 13 consecutive weeks
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2009· 7 entries
Lauper performed a collaborative work with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean called "Slumdog Millionaire," performing it on the Late Show with David Letterman
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Released album “True Colors: The Best of Cyndi Lauper”.
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Released album “Playlist: The Very Best of Cyndi Lauper”.
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Released album “Floor Remixes”.
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Released album “Flashback”.
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Lauper guest starred on her first of five episodes of Bones on Fox, as psychic Avalon Harmonia
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Released album “Time After Time: The Cyndi Lauper Collection”.
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2008· 6 entries
Released album “Gold: Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Bring Ya to the Brink”.
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Lauper started True Colors United
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Released ep “True Colors Live 2008”.
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Released album “Original Album Classics”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “The Very Best of Cyndi Lauper”.
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Served as a guest performer on the song "Lady in Pink" on an episode of the Nick Jr
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2006· 3 entries
Lauper was inducted into The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame
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Released album “Collections”.
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Sang "Message to Michael" with Dionne Warwick and "Beecharmer" with Nellie McKay on McKay's second studio album, Pretty Little Head
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2005· 4 entries
Released album “The Body Acoustic”.
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Released album “Hey Now! Remixes & Rarities”.
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Directed a commercial for Totally 80s edition of the board game Trivial Pursuit in 2006, served as a judge on the 6th Annual Independent Music Awards and made her Broadway debut in the Tony-nominated The Threepenny Opera
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Released album “2005-12-03: Lakewood Civic Auditorium, Lakewood, OH, USA”.
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2004· 2 entries
Released ep “Disco Inferno”.
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Released album “The Best of Cyndi Lauper”.
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2003· 4 entries
Released album “At Last”.
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Released album “The Great Cyndi Lauper”.
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Released album “The Essential Cyndi Lauper”.
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Released ep “Shine Remixes”.
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2002· 4 entries
Released ep “Shine”.
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Released album “36 All-Time Favorites!”.
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Released album “Pop & Wave”.
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Released album “Best of Cindy Lauper”.
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2001· 3 entries
Released album “Feels Like Christmas”.
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Released album “Media Markt Collection: Cyndi Lauper”.
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Released album “Shine”.
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2000· 2 entries
Released album “Time After Time: The Best Of”.
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Lauper took part in the television show Women in Rock, Girls with Guitars performing with Ann Wilson of Heart and with the girl group, Destiny's Child
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1999· 1 entry
Lauper appeared as an animated version of herself in The Simpsons episode "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken," singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" to the melody of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun
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1998· 3 entries
Released album “Wanna Have Fun”.
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Released her sixth studio album and first Christmas album, Merry Christmas
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Released album “Merry Christmas… Have a Nice Life!”.
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1997· 1 entry
Lauper and Thornton had a son
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “Sisters of Avalon”.
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for Mad About You (1995).
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Released album “She's so Unusual / A Night to Remember”.
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1994· 1 entry
Released album “Twelve Deadly Cyns… and Then Some”.
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1993· 3 entries
And was met with critical acclaim, but failed commercially, unsupported by her label
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Released album “Hat Full of Stars”.
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Lauper returned to acting, playing Michael J
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1991· 3 entries
Lauper married actor David Thornton
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On November 24, 1991, Lauper married actor David Thornton.
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Lauper met Thornton on the set of the film Off and Running (1991).
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1990· 1 entry
Released album “She’s So Unusual / True Colors”.
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1989· 2 entries
Released album “A Night to Remember”.
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Released album “The Best Remixes”.
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1988· 2 entries
Best Long Form Music Video for Cyndi Lauper in Paris
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Released album “Live in Paris”.
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1987· 2 entries
David Wolff produced a concert film for Lauper called Cyndi Lauper in Paris
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Though Lauper's version came out first, and Orbison's version was not released until 1991
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1986· 3 entries
Released album “True Colors”.
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Released album “The 12″ Tape”.
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Lauper appeared on Billy Joel's tenth studio album The Bridge, with a song called "Code of Silence
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1985· 3 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best New Artist (1985).
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Released ep “Cyndi Lauper”.
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Lauper participated in USA for Africa's famine-relief fund-raising single "We Are the World," which sold more than 20 million copies since then
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video for Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1984).
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By MTV to celebrate the top music videos of the year
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1983· 2 entries
Lauper released her debut solo studio album, She's So Unusual
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Released album “She’s So Unusual”.
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1981· 1 entry
While singing in a local New York bar, Lauper met David Wolff, who took over as her manager and had her sign a recording contract with Portrait Records, a subsidiary of Epic Records
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1978· 1 entry
Lauper met saxophonist John Turi through her manager Ted Rosenblatt
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1953· 1 entry
Born 1953-06-22.
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