Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper (born June 22, 1953 in Queens, New York) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and LGBT rights activist. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual and became the first female singer to have four top-five singles released from one album. The Top 5 hits "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", "She Bop", "All Through the Night" and number-one single "Time After Time" became some of the most important and influential singles of the 1980s. The album earned Lauper Best New Artist at the 27th Grammy Awards in 1985. Her success continued with the follow-up, True Colors, which launched several more hits including the number-one single "True Colors", and earned two nominations at the 29th Grammy Awards. Lauper has since released 11 albums, the most recent the acclaimed grammy nominated Memphis Blues which was Billboard's biggest selling blues album of 2010. Lauper has also released over 40 singles, and as of 2011 had sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, and 1 million DVDs and 20 million singles, which makes her one of the best selling artists of all time. Throughout her career, Lauper has won numerous awards,
Cyndi Lauper got bored in an airport in Buenos Aires yesterday, so what better way to pass the time than by treating everyone to a rendition of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" over the PA… READ MORE >
Time after time, Cyndi Lauper looks pretty good.Here's the 30-year-old back in 1984 (left) -- and 26 years later, the 56-year-old version at an event in NYC last week (right).We see her true… READ MORE >
