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Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper Thornton (born June 22, 1953)[2] is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist.[3] Her career has spanned over 40 years.[4] Her album She's So Unusual (1983) was the first debut album by a female artist to achieve four top-five hits on the Billboard Hot 100 —"Girls Just Want to Have Fun ", "Time After Time ", "She Bop ", and "All Through the Night "—and earned Lauper the Best New Artist award at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards in 1985. Her success continued with the soundtrack for the motion picture The Goonies (1985) and her second record True Colors (1986). This album included the number-one single "True Colors " and "Change of Heart ", which peaked at number three. In 1989, she had a hit with "I Drove All Night ".

Since 1983, Lauper has released eleven studio albums and participated in many other projects. In 2010, 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. In 2013, she 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.[5] The musical was awarded five other Tonys including Tony Award for Best New Musical. In 2014, Lauper was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for the cast recording . In 2016, the West End production won Best New Musical at the Olivier Awards .[6]

Lauper has sold over 50 million records worldwide.[7] She has won awards at the Grammys , Emmys , Tonys , the New York's Outer Critics Circle, MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs), Billboard Awards , and American Music Awards (AMAs).[8] An inductee into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Hollywood Walk of Fame , Lauper is one of the few singers to win three of the four major American entertainment awards (EGOT ).[9] She won the inaugural Best Female Video prize at the 1984 VMAs for "Girls Just Want to Have Fun ". This music video is recognized by MTV , VH1 and Rolling Stone as one of the greatest music videos of the era.[10] [11] [12] [13] She is featured in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 's Women Who Rock exhibit.[14] Her debut album is included in Rolling Stone 's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time ,[15] while "Time After Time " is included in VH1 's list of the 100 Best Songs of the Past 25 years.[16] VH1 has ranked Lauper No. 58 of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll .[17]

Lauper is known for her distinctive image, featuring a variety of hair colors and eccentric clothing,[18] and for her powerful and distinctive four-octave singing range.[19] She has been celebrated for her humanitarian work, particularly as an advocate for LGBT rights in the United States . Her charitable efforts were acknowledged in 2013 when she was invited as a special guest to attend U.S. President Barack Obama's second inauguration .[20]

Life and career

1953–1979: Early life

Lauper was born in Brooklyn , New York City,[21] to a Catholic family. Her father, Fred, was of Swiss-German descent, and a direct descendant of Christen Lauper, a leader of the Swiss peasant war of 1653 .[22] [23] Her mother, Catrine (née Gallo) (1930-2022),[24] was of Italian descent (from Sicily ). Lauper's siblings are her younger brother Fred (nicknamed Butch), and older sister, Ellen.[25] Lauper's parents divorced when she was five.[4] Her mother remarried and divorced again.[26]

Lauper grew up in the Ozone Park [27] neighborhood of Queens and, as a child, listened to such artists as The Beatles and Judy Garland . At age 12, she began writing songs and playing an acoustic guitar given to her by her sister.[28] [29]

Lauper expressed herself with a variety of hair colors and eccentric clothing,[18] and took a friend's advice to spell her name as "Cyndi" rather than "Cindy". Her unconventional sense of style led to classmates bullying and throwing stones at her.[27]

Lauper went to Richmond Hill High School , but was expelled[30] although she later earned her GED .[31] [32] She left home at 17, to escape her abusive stepfather,[27] intending to study art. Her journey took her to Canada, where she spent two weeks in the woods with her dog Sparkle, trying to find herself.[33] She eventually traveled to Vermont , where she took art classes at Johnson State College and supported herself working odd jobs.[34] [35] [36] In 2019, Lauper gave the commencement address at Northern Vermont University - Johnson , the academic institution that now includes Johnson State. At this event, NVU awarded her the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters .[36]

In the early 1970s, Lauper performed as a vocalist with various cover bands . One, called Doc West, covered disco songs as well as Janis Joplin . A later band, Flyer, was active in the New York metropolitan area, singing hits by bands including Bad Company , Jefferson Airplane and Led Zeppelin . Although Lauper was performing on stage, she was not happy singing covers .[37] In 1977, Lauper damaged her vocal cords and took a year off from singing. She was told by doctors that she would never sing again, but regained her voice with the help of vocal coach Katie Agresta.[38]

1980–1982: Blue Angel Main article: Blue Angel

In 1978, Lauper met saxophone player John Turi through her manager Ted Rosenblatt. Turi and Lauper formed a band named Blue Angel and recorded a demo tape of original music. Steve Massarsky , manager of The Allman Brothers Band ,[39] heard the tape and liked Lauper's voice. He bought Blue Angel's contract for $5,000 and became their manager.[40]

Lauper received recording offers as a solo artist, but held out, wanting the band to be included in any deal she made. Blue Angel was eventually signed by Polydor Records and released a self-titled album on the label in 1980. Lauper hated the album cover, saying that it made her look like Big Bird , but Rolling Stone magazine later included it as one of the 100 best new wave album covers (2003). Despite critical acclaim, the album sold poorly ("It went lead", as Lauper later joked) and the band broke up. The members of Blue Angel had a falling-out with Massarsky and fired him as their manager. He later filed an $80,000 suit against them, which forced Lauper into bankruptcy.[41] After this Lauper temporarily lost her voice due to an inverted cyst in her vocal cord.[42]

After Blue Angel broke up, Lauper spent time, due to her financial problems, working in retail stores, waitressing at IHOP (which she quit after being demoted to hostess when the manager sexually harassed her),[27] and singing in local clubs. Her most frequent gigs were at El Sombrero.[42] Music critics who saw Lauper perform with Blue Angel believed she had star potential due to her four-octave singing range.[19] In 1981, 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 .[43]

1983–1985: She's So Unusual Main article: She's So Unusual Lauper in 1985

On October 14, 1983, Lauper released her first solo album, She's So Unusual . The album became a worldwide hit, peaking at No. 4 in the U.S. and reaching the top five in eight other countries. The primary studio musicians were Eric Bazilian and Rob Hyman (of The Hooters ), Rick Chertoff , Richard Termini and Peter Wood. Lauper became popular with teenagers and critics, in part due to her hybrid punk image, which was crafted by stylist Patrick Lucas.[44]

Lauper co-wrote four songs on She's So Unusual , including the hits "Time After Time" and "She Bop". On the songs she did not write, Lauper sometimes changed the lyrics. Such is the case with "Girls Just Want to Have Fun ". Lauper found the original lyrics to be misogynistic, so she rewrote the song as an anthem for young women.[45]

The album includes five cover songs, including The Brains ' new wave track "Money Changes Everything " (No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100) and Prince 's "When You Were Mine ". The album made Lauper the first female artist to have four consecutive Billboard Hot 100 top five hits from one album. The LP stayed in the Top 200 charts for more than 65 weeks, and since has sold 16 million copies worldwide.[46] [47]

Cyndi won Best New Artist at the 1985 Grammy Awards . She's So Unusual also received nominations for Album of the Year , Record of the Year , Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (for "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"), and Song of the Year (for "Time After Time"). She wore almost a pound of necklaces at her award ceremony. It also won the Grammy for Best Album Package , which went to the art director, Janet Perr .[48] [49]

The video for "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" won the inaugural award for Best Female Video at the 1984 MTV Video Music Awards, and made Lauper an MTV staple. The video featured professional wrestling manager "Captain" Lou Albano as Lauper's father, and her real-life mother, Catrine, as her mother,[50] and also featured her attorney, her manager, her brother Butch, and her dog Sparkle.[51] In 1984–85, Lauper appeared on the covers of Rolling Stone magazine, Time , and Newsweek . She appeared twice on the cover of People , and was named a Ms. magazine Woman of the Year in 1985.[52]

In 1985, 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.[53]

Lauper appeared with professional wrestler Hulk Hogan , who played her "bodyguard"[54] [55] and would also later make many appearances as herself in a number of the World Wrestling Federation 's "Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection " events, and played Wendi Richter 's manager in the inaugural WrestleMania event .[56] Dave Wolff, Lauper's boyfriend and manager at the time, was a wrestling fan as a boy, and engineered the rock and wrestling connection.[57]

In 1985, Lauper released the single "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough ", from the soundtrack to the movie The Goonies , and an accompanying video which featured several wrestling stars. The song reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[58]

1986–1988: True Colors and Vibes

Lauper received a nomination at the 1986 Grammy Awards : Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for "What a Thrill," another in the same category the following year (for the album track “911”) and yet another in 1988, Best Long Form Music Video for Cyndi Lauper in Paris .[59]

Lauper released her second album, True Colors in 1986. It entered the Billboard 200 at No. 42 and rose to its #4 peak.[60]

In 1986, Lauper appeared on the Billy Joel album The Bridge , with a song called "Code of Silence". She is credited as having written the lyrics with Joel and she sings a duet with him. In the same year, Lauper also sang the theme song for the series Pee-wee's Playhouse , credited as "Ellen Shaw". In 1987, David Wolff produced a concert film for Lauper called Cyndi Lauper in Paris . The concert was broadcast on HBO .[61]

Lauper made her film debut in August 1988 in the quirky comedy Vibes , alongside Jeff Goldblum , Peter Falk , and Julian Sands . Lauper played a psychic in search of a city of gold in South America. Deborah Blum and Tony Ganz produced the film, with David Wolff as associate producer. To prepare for the role, Lauper took a few classes in finger waving and hair setting at the Robert Fiancé School of Beauty in New York, and studied with a few Manhattan psychics. The film flopped and was poorly received by critics, but would later be considered a cult classic.[62] [63]

Lauper contributed a track called "Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China) " for the Vibes soundtrack, but the song was not included. A music video was released, a high energy, comic action/adventure romp through a Chinese laundry. The song reached No. 54 on the US charts,[64] but fared better in Australia, reaching No. 8.[65]

1989–1992: A Night to Remember and marriage

A Night to Remember – Lauper's third album – was released in the spring of 1989. The album had one hit, the No. 6 single "I Drove All Night ", originally recorded by Roy Orbison , three years before his death on December 6, 1988. Lauper received a Grammy nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance at the 1990 Grammy Awards for "I Drove All Night", but overall album sales for A Night to Remember were down. The music video for the album's song "My First Night Without You " was one of the first to be closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.[66]

Because of a friendship with Yoko Ono , Lauper took part in the May 1990 John Lennon tribute concert in Liverpool, performing the Beatles song "Hey Bulldog", and the John Lennon song "Working Class Hero".[67] She also took part in Ono and Lennon's son Sean 's project called "The Peace Choir", performing a new version of Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance ".[68] [better source needed ]

On November 24, 1991, Lauper married actor David Thornton .[69]

1993–1995: Hat Full of Stars and Twelve Deadly Cyns

Lauper's fourth album Hat Full of Stars was released in June 1993 and was met with critical acclaim, but failed commercially, unsupported by her label. The album, which tackled such topics as homophobia , spousal abuse , racism, and abortion sold fewer than 120,000 copies in the United States and peaked at No. 112 on the Billboard charts.[70] The video for the album's song "Sally's Pigeons " features the then-unknown Julia Stiles as the young Cyndi.[71]

In 1993, Lauper returned to acting, playing Michael J. Fox 's ditzy secretary in Life with Mikey . She also won an Emmy Award [72] for her role as Marianne Lugasso in the sitcom Mad About You .[73]

1996–2000: Motherhood and Sisters of Avalon Lauper performing in 2000

On November 19, 1997, Lauper gave birth to her son, Declyn Wallace Lauper Thornton.[74] Her fifth album, Sisters of Avalon , was released in Japan in 1996, and elsewhere in 1997. The album was written and produced with the help of Jan Pulsford (Lauper's keyboard player) and producer Mark Saunders. As in Hat Full of Stars , some of the songs in Sisters of Avalon addressed dark themes. The song "Ballad of Cleo and Joe " addressed the complications of a drag queen 's double life. The song "Say a Prayer" was written for a friend of hers who had died from AIDS. "Unhook the Stars" was used in the movie of the same name . Again without support from her label, the release failed in America, spending a single week on the Billboard album chart at No. 188. This album also met with much critical praise, including People magazine, which declared it "'90s nourishment for body and soul. Lauper sets a scene, makes us care, gives us hope."[75]

On January 17, 1999, Lauper appeared as an animated version of herself in The Simpsons episode "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken ", singing the National Anthem to the melody of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun". That same year, Lauper opened for Cher 's Do You Believe? Tour alongside Wild Orchid .[76] She also appeared in the films Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle and The Opportunists .[77] She contributed to the soundtrack of the 2000 animated film, Rugrats in Paris: The Movie , performing the song "I Want a Mom That Will Last Forever".

2001–2004: Shine and At Last

On October 12, 2000, 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 . A CD of the songs performed was released exclusively to Sears stores from September 30 to October 31, 2001, and was marketed as a fundraiser for breast cancer.[78]

In 2002, Sony issued a best-of CD, The Essential Cyndi Lauper . Lauper also released a cover album with Sony/Epic Records entitled At Last (formerly Naked City ), which was released in 2003. At Last received one nomination at the 2005 Grammy Awards : Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) , for "Unchained Melody ". The effort was also a commercial hit, selling 4.5 million records[79]

In April 2004, Lauper performed during the VH1 's benefit concert Divas Live 2004 alongside Ashanti , Gladys Knight , Jessica Simpson , Joss Stone and Patti LaBelle , in support of the Save the Music Foundation.[80]

2005–2007: The Body Acoustic

She made appearances on Showtime 's hit show Queer as Folk in 2005, 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 as Jenny. She performed with Shaggy , Scott Weiland of Velvet Revolver /Stone Temple Pilots , Pat Monahan of Train , Ani DiFranco , and The Hooters in the VH1 Classics special Decades Rock Live . In 2006, she sang "Message To Michael " with Dionne Warwick [81] and "Beecharmer" with Nellie McKay on McKay's Pretty Little Head album.[82]

On October 16, 2006, Lauper was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame .[83] In 2007, she served as a guest performer on the song "Lady in Pink" on an episode of the Nick Jr. show, The Backyardigans .

2008–2009: Bring Ya to the Brink Cyndi Lauper performing in 2008

Lauper's sixth studio album, Bring Ya to the Brink was released in the United States on May 27, 2008.[84]

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Other projects for 2008 included the True Colors Tour and a Christmas duet with Swedish band The Hives , entitled "A Christmas Duel ". The song was released as a CD single and a 7" vinyl in Sweden.[85] Lauper also performed on the "Girls Night Out", headlining it with Rosie O'Donnell in the US.[86]

On November 17, 2009, Lauper performed a collaborative work with Wyclef Jean called "Slumdog Millionaire", performing it on the Late Show with David Letterman .[87]

2010–2012: The Celebrity Apprentice , Memphis Blues , memoir

In January 2010, Mattel released a Cyndi Lauper Barbie doll as part of their "Ladies of the 80s" series.[88]

In March 2010, Lauper appeared on NBC 's The Celebrity Apprentice , coming in sixth place.[89]

Memphis Blues —Lauper's 7th studio album—was released on June 22, 2010, and debuted on the Billboard Blues Albums chart at No. 1, and at No. 26 on the Billboard Top 200. The album remained No. 1 on the Blues Albums chart for 14 consecutive weeks; Memphis Blues was nominated for Best Traditional Blues Album at the 2011 Grammy Awards .[90]

Lauper made international news in March 2011 for an impromptu performance of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" while waiting for a delayed flight at Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires. A video was later posted on YouTube.[91] [92]

In November 2011, she released two Christmas singles exclusive to iTunes . The first release was a Blues-inspired cover of Elvis Presley 's classic "Blue Christmas ", and the second was a new version of "Home for the holidays ", a duet with Norah Jones . In June 2012, Lauper made her first appearance for WWE in 27 years, to promote WWE Raw 's 1000th episode to memorialize "Captain" Lou Albano .[93]

In September 2012, Lauper performed at fashion designer Betsey Johnson 's 40 year Retrospective Fashion show.[94] She also released a New York Times best selling memoir that detailed her struggle with child abuse and depression.[95]

2013–2015: Kinky Boots and touring

Lauper composed music and lyrics for the Broadway musical Kinky Boots , with Harvey Fierstein writing the book. The musical was based on the 2006 independent film Kinky Boots . It opened in Chicago in October 2012[96] and on Broadway at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on April 4, 2013.[97] In May, she won Best Score for Kinky Boots at the 63rd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards .[98] The musical led the 2013 Tony Awards , with 13 nominations and six wins including Best Musical and Best Actor . She won the award for Best Original Score .[99] Lauper was the first woman to win solo in this category. After a six-year run and 2,507 regular shows, Kinky Boots ended its Broadway run on April 7, 2019. It is the 25th-longest-running Broadway musical in history. It grossed $297 million on Broadway.[100]

In the summer of 2013, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of her debut album She's So Unusual , Lauper embarked on an international tour covering America and Australia. The show consisted of a mix of fan favorites and the entirety of the She's So Unusual record. She was a guest on 36 dates of Cher 's Dressed to Kill Tour , starting April 23, 2014.[101] [102] A new album was confirmed by Lauper on a website interview.[103]

Lauper hosted the Grammy Pre-Telecast at the Nokia Theatre, L.A. on Jan 26,[104] where she later accepted a Grammy for Kinky Boots (Best Musical Theater Album).[105]

On April 1 (March 1 in Europe), Lauper released the 30th Anniversary edition of She's So Unusual through Epic Records[106] It featured a remastered version of the original album plus three new remixes. The Deluxe Edition featured bonus tracks such as demos and a live recording as well as a 3D cut-out of the bedroom featured in the 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' music video with a reusable sticker set.[107]

On September 17, 2014, Lauper sang on the finale of America's Got Talent .[27] [108] On September 25, as part of the Today Show 's Shine a Light series, Lauper re-recorded "True Colors " in a mashup with Sara Bareilles ' "Brave " to raise awareness and money for children battling cancer.[109] By October the project had raised over $300,000.[110]

The Songwriters Hall of Fame included Lauper in its nomination list in October 2014.[111] Also during October, Lauper's fourth consecutive 'Home for the Holidays' benefit concert for homeless gay youth was announced. Acts included 50 Cent and Laverne Cox with 100% of the net proceeds going to True Colors United [112]

In March 2015, Lauper once again guest starred on the crime show Bones as Avalon Harmonia.[113]

Lauper promoted her work with Novartis and the National Psoriasis Foundation, and discussed her own five years with psoriasis , on The Today Show in July 2015. She also announced a project with producer Seymour Stein , which she later told Rolling Stone was a country album coproduced by Tony Brown .[114]

On September 15, 2015, Kinky Boots opened at the Adelphi Theatre in London's West End.[115]

On August 30, 2017, songwriters Benny Mardones and Robert Tepper sued Lauper for lifting elements from their song "Into the Night " for Kinky Boots ' final song "Raise You Up".[116] In August 2019, a filed letter by Mardones' lawyer stated that all parties involved have agreed in principle to settle the case. No more details were given at the time.[117]

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