Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper (born June 22, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist. His career has spanned more than 30 years. Her debut solo album She's So Unusual (1983) is the first female debut album to map the 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 Grammy Awards in 1985. His success continued with the soundtrack for the movie The Goonies and the record of both True Colors (1986). The album includes the number one "True Colors" and "Change of Heart", which peaked at number three.
Since 1989, Lauper has released nine 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 -raw. Sunday. In 2013, Lauper won the Tony Award for best original score for composing Broadway Kinky Boots, making it the first woman to win her own category. This musical was awarded five other Tonys including Tony Award for Best New Musical. In 2014, Lauper was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for the recording of players. In 2016, West End production won Best New Musical at the Olivier Awards
Lauper has sold more than 50 million albums and 20 million singles. She has won awards at Grammy, Emmy, Tonys, New York Outside Critic Circles, MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs), Billboard Awards, and American Music Awards (AMAs). A lighter in both Songwriters Hall of Fame and Hollywood Walk of Fame, Lauper is one of several singers to win three of America's four major entertainment awards (EGOT). Lauper won the inaugural Best Female Video prize on VMA 1984 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 our time. She is featured in the Rock Who and Women's Rock/Roll Hall of Fame Museum exhibition. Her debut album was included on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, while "Time After Time" was included in the Vh1 list of 100 Best Songs of the Past 25 years. VH1 has a rating of Lauper No. 58 of 100 Greatest Women of Rock & amp; Scroll .
Lauper is known for his distinctive image featuring a variety of hair colors, eccentric outfits and is well known for his powerful and distinctive four-octave singing range.
Lauper has been celebrated for his humanitarian work, particularly as an advocate for LGBT rights in the United States. His charity efforts were recognized in 2013 when the singer was invited as a special guest to attend the US President Barack Obama's second inauguration.
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Lauper was born at Boulevard Hospital in Astoria, Queens, New York City, to a Catholic family. His father, Fred, is of German and Swiss descent. His mother, Catrine (nÃÆ' Â © e Gallo), is Italian Italian (from Sicily). Brother Lauper is Fred's younger brother (nicknamed Butch), and older sister, Ellen. Launder's parents divorced when she was five years old. Her mother remarried and divorced again.
Lauper grew up in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens and, as a child, listened to artists like The Beatles, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, and Billie Holiday. At the age of 12, he started writing songs and playing acoustic guitar that was given to him by his sister.
Lauper reveals himself with a variety of hair colors, eccentric clothes and even takes his friend's suggestion to spell his name as "Cyndi" rather than "Cindy" and his unique sense of style causes his classmates to bully him, with some cruel kids actually throwing stones. to him (probably because it is not ashamed of "different").
Lauper went to Richmond Hill High School, but was expelled, although he later got his GED. He left home at the age of 17, to escape from his rough stepfather, who intended to study art. His journey took him to Canada, where he spent two weeks in the woods with his dog Sparkle, trying to find himself. She eventually went to Vermont, where she took an art class at Johnson State College and supported herself working odd jobs.
In the early 1970s, Lauper appeared as a vocalist with various cover bands. One, called Doc West, covered disco songs as well as Janis Joplin. The last band, Flyer, was active in the New York metropolitan area, singing hits by bands including Bad Company, Jefferson Airplane and Led Zeppelin. Although Lauper performed on stage, he did not like to sing. In 1977, Lauper damaged his vocal cords and took a year off from singing. He was told by a doctor that he would never sing again, but regained his voice with the help of vocal coach Katie Agresta.
1980-1982: Blue Angel
In 1978, Lauper met saxophone player John Turi through his manager Ted Rosenblatt. Turi and Lauper formed a band called Blue Angel and recorded a demo tape of original music. Steve Massarsky, manager of The Allman Brothers Band, heard the tape and liked the sound of Lauper. He bought a $ 5,000 Blue Angel contract and became their manager.
Lauper accepted the recording offer as a solo artist, but persisted, wanting the band to be included in every transaction he 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 him look like Big Bird, but the Rolling Stone magazine was later included as one of 100 best new wave album covers (2003). Despite critical acclaim, the album was sold badly ("It leads", because Lauper then joked) and the band broke up. Blue Angel members quarreled with Massarsky and fired him as their manager. He then filed a $ 80,000 lawsuit against them, forcing Lauper into bankruptcy. After Lauper this loss of voice for a while because the cyst upside down in his vocal cords.
After Blue Angel broke up, Lauper spent time, due to his financial problems, working at a retail store, a waiter at IHOP (whom he stopped after being relegated to the hostess when the manager made a pass on him), and sang at a local club. His most frequent show was at El Sombrero. The music critic who saw Lauper performing with Blue Angel believes he has potential stars because of his four-octave singing range. In 1981, while singing in a local New York bar, Lauper met David Wolff, who took over as his manager and signed a recording contract with Portrait Records, a subsidiary of Epic Records.
1983-1985: He is very unusual
On October 14, 1983, Lauper released his first solo album, He's Very Unusual . The album peaked at No. 4 in the US, and became a worldwide hit. The main studio musicians are Eric Bazilian and Rob Hyman (from The Hooters), Rick Chertoff, Richard Termini and Peter Wood. Lauper became popular among teenagers and critics, partly because of its hybrid punk images, made by stylist Patrick Lucas.
Lauper was interested in writing his own songs, but the record company gave him songs to record written by other writers. Lauper sometimes changes the lyrics in the material provided by the record company; as is the case with "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun". Lauper found the original lyrics to be a misogynist, so he rewrote the song as a national anthem for young women.
The album's second single "Time After Time" was co-written by Lauper and Rob Hyman. "Time After Time" reached No. 1 on the Billboard chart Hot 100 and Contemporary Adults. The song will produce Lauper a RIAA Gold certification for record sales of up to 500,000 copies, and then covered by Miles Davis on his album "You're on hold". This became a staple of Davis's live show at the time, which featured on the live album "Live around the world".
The other Billboard Hot 100 singles on She's Very Unusual is "She Bop" (No. 3), "All Through the Night" (No. 5) Jules Shear, and "Money Changes Everything" (No.27).
The album includes five cover songs, including the new wave song The Brains "Money Changes Everything" (No. 27 on Billboard Hot 100) and Prince's "When You Were Mine". This album made Lauper the first woman to have four Billboard Hot 100 five top hits from one album. LP stays on the Top 200 charts for more than 65 weeks, and has sold 16 million copies worldwide.
Lauper won Best New Artist at the 1985 Grammy Awards. He also received nominations for this Year's Album, Record of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (for "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"), and Song of the Year (for "Time ") After Time.") It also won a Grammy for Best Album Package, which went to art director, Janet Perr.
The video for "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" won the inaugural award for Best Female Video at MTV Video Music Awards 1984, and made Lauper the MTV sticks. The video features professional wrestling manager Captain Lou Albano as Lauper's father, and his real mother, Catrine, as his mother, and also featuring his lawyer, his manager, his brother Butch, and his dog Sparkle. In 1984-1985, Lauper appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, Left , and Newsweek . She appeared twice on the cover of People , and was crowned as Ms. Woman of the Year magazine in 1985.
In 1985, Lauper participated in the United States for fundraising for famine victims in Africa, "We Are the World", which has sold over 20 million copies since then.
Lauper emerges with professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, who plays his "bodyguard" and later also will make many appearances like himself in a number of "World Wrestling Federation" Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection events, and plays manager Wendi Richter in the inaugural WrestleMania event. Dave Wolff, Lauper's girlfriend and manager at the time, was a fan of small-time wrestling, and fabricated rock and wrestling connections.
In 1985, Lauper released the single "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough", from the soundtrack to The Goonies movie, and the accompanying video featuring several wrestling stars. The song reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
1986-1988: True Color and Vibes
Lauper received two nominations at the 1986 Grammy Awards: Best Female Female Vocal Performance for "What a Thrill" and Best Long Form Music Video for Cyndi Lauper in Paris.
Lauper released their second album, True Colors , on September 18, 1986. The album reached No. 1. 4 on Billboards 200 and sold 2 million copies in the US. He increased his involvement in the production and songwriting on his second album, co-writing most of the songs with Essra Mohawk, John Turi, Billy Steinberg, and Tom Kelly. Guests include Angela Clemons-Patrick, Nile Rodgers, Aimee Mann, Billy Joel, Adrian Belew, The Bangles, Ellie Greenwich, and Rick Derringer.
True Colors is not very commercially successful because He's Very Unusual , but it does contain three high charting singles, including the title track, "True Colors", which became Lauper's second a song to hit No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100; "Change of Heart" (No. 3); and Marvin Gaye's cover "What's Going On" (No. 12). The fourth single from the album, "Boy Blue", did not reach the top-40. She donated the proceeds from the song to AIDS research. The song "True Colors" (written by Steinberg and Kelly) is licensed to Kodak for use in its advertisement.
In 1986, Lauper appeared on Billy Joel's album The Bridge , with a song titled "Code of Silence". He is credited for writing the lyrics with Joel and he sings a duet with him. In the same year, Lauper also sang the theme song for the Pee-wee Playhouse series, 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.
Lauper made his film debut in August 1988 in the weird comedy Vibes , along with Jeff Goldblum, Peter Falk, and Julian Sands. Lauper plays psychics searching for the golden city in South America. Deborah Blum and Tony Ganz produced the film, with David Wolff as associate producer. To prepare for the role, Lauper took several classes in waving and hair arranging at Robert Fiance School of Beauty in New York, and studied with some of Manhattan's paranormal. The film failed and was poorly received by critics. But then it would be considered a classic cult by fans.
Lauper donated a song called "Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)" for soundtrack Vibes , but the song was not included. Music video released, high energy, comic action/adventure through Chinese laundry. The song reached No. 54 on the US charts, but fared better in Australia, reaching No. 1. 8. "The Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)" became the opening song on her 2008 Australian tour.
1989-1992: Nights to Remember and marriage
A Night to Remember - Lauper's third album - released in spring 1989. The album has one hit, 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 album sales in overall for A Night to Remember down. The music video for the album track "My First Night Without You" was one of the first to be closed-captioned for Deaf in which Cyndi would later descend from the music industry for feeling miserable & Depressed about his singing & amp; the company that owns the rights to the music.
On July 21, 1990, Lauper joined Roger Waters and other artists featuring "Another Brick in Walls, Part II" as part of a Wall concert in Berlin. As part of the concert, Lauper also featured "The Tide Is Turning" with Waters, Joni Mitchell, Bryan Adams, Paul Carrack, and Van Morrison. Three hundred thousand people attended the concert and more than five million people around the world watched live television.
Due to his friendship with Yoko Ono, Lauper took part in the John Lennon award concert in Liverpool in May 1990, performing Beatles "Hey Bulldog" and John Lennon's "Working Class Hero". He also took part in the Ono and Lennon Sean's son project called "The Peace Choir", performing a new version of Lennon "Give Peace a Chance".
Pada 24 November 1991, Lauper menikahi aktor David Thornton.
1993-1995: Hat Full of Stars dan < i> Dua Belas Deadly Cyns
The fourth release album Hatful of Stars was released in June 1993 and was greeted with critical acclaim, but failed commercially, unsupported by its label. The album, which handles topics such as homophobia, husband-wife abuse, racism, and abortion sold for less than 120,000 copies in the United States and culminated in No. 112 on the Billboard graph. The video for the album track "Sally's Pigeons" featuring Julia Stiles is not known as the young Cyndi.
Lauper co-wrote several songs for the album with Mary Chapin Carpenter, Ailee Willis, Nicky Holland, Tom Gray, Hugh Masekela and The Hooters. In the same year, Lauper recorded "Boys Will Be Boys" with The Hooters for their album Out of Body . The Hooters dedicate their song "Private Emotion" to him.
Her greatest hits album, Twelve Deadly Cyns... and Then Some , was released outside the US in 1994 and reached US audiences in the summer of 1995. The album sold over six million copies worldwide. These included two re-recorded songs, "I'm Gonna be Strong", originally recorded with Blue Angel, and reworked his first hit, recently baptized "Hey Now (Girls Just Wanna Have Fun)".
In 1993, Lauper returned to acting, playing Michael J. Fox's secretary in Life with Mikey. She also won an Emmy Award for her role as Marianne Lugasso at the sitcom Mad About You .
1996-2000: Motherhood and Sister Avalon
On November 19, 1997, Lauper gave birth to his son, Declyn Wallace Thornton. The 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 (keyboard player Lauper) and producer Mark Saunders. As in Hat Full of Stars , some of the songs in Sisters of Avalon are aimed at dark themes. The song "Ballad of Cleo and Joe" discusses the complications of a transvestite's double life. The song "Say a Prayer" was written for a friend who died of AIDS. "Unhook the Stars" is used in movies of the same name. Again without the support of the label, the release failed in America, spent a week on Billboard's album chart in No. 1. 188. The album also met a lot of critical acclaim, including the magazine's People, who declared it "90s nutrition for body and soul." Lauper makes a scene, makes us care, gives us hope. "
In November 1998, Lauper released Christmas album Merry Christmas... Have a Nice Life . The album contains original and standard material, and is produced jointly and mixed by William Wittman.
On January 17, 1999, Lauper appeared as an animated version of himself in the episode of "The Simpsons " Wild Barts Can not Be Broken ", singing National Anthem into the" Girls Just Wanna Have Fun "melody. In the same year, Lauper opened for Cher's Do You Believe? Tour with Wild Orchid. She also appeared in the films Madam. Parker and the Vicious Circle and The Opportunists.
Lauper contributed a cover version of The Trammps' "Disco Inferno" to the soundtrack for the movie A Night at the Roxbury . The song was also released as an EP and won the 1999 Grammy Awards nomination award for Best Dance Recording. In 2000, Lauper contributed the song "I Want a Mom That Will Last Forever" to the Rugrats in Paris movie . The song is written with Mark Mothersbaugh (DEVO). In 2000, Lauper also co-wrote the song "If You Believe" with Faye Tozer from the British pop group Steps, for the band's third studio album, Buzz .
2001-2004: Shine and On Last
In 2001, Lauper set up a new album Shine . The album returned to the early punk-rock sound and featured Japanese pop superstar Ryuichi Sakamoto, and George Fullan of Train. Just weeks before the album's scheduled release on September 11, 2001, the label (Edel America Records) folded. The five-song EP Shine was released in June 2002, but the full album was released exclusively in Japan. The album Shine remix was finally released through Tower Records.
On October 12, 2000, Lauper took part in the Women's Rock show, Girls with Guitars show with Ann Wilson of Heart and with girl group Destiny's Child. CDs of songs played were released exclusively to the Sears store from September 30 to October 31, 2001, and marketed as a fundraiser for breast cancer.
In 2002, Sony released the best-of CD, The Essential Cyndi Lauper . Lauper also released a cover album with Sony/Epic Records titled At Last (previously Naked City ), released in 2003. At Last received one nominated at the 2005 Grammy Awards: Best Instrumental Arrangement Compompanying Vocalist (s), for "Unchained Melody". The effort also became a commercial hit, selling 4.5 million records
In April 2004, Lauper performed during the VH1 live concert, Divas Live 2004 with Ashanti, Gladys Knight, Jessica Simpson, Joss Stone and Patti LaBelle, to support Save the Music Foundation.
2005-2007: The Body Acoustic
In 2005, under a new contract with Sony Music, Lauper released The Body Acoustic , an album featuring an acoustic reinterpretation of the song from its repertoire. The album also includes two new songs including "Above the Clouds". The guest stars on the album include Shaggy, Ani DiFranco, Adam Lazzara from Taking Back Sunday, Jeff Beck, Puffy AmiYumi, Sarah McLachlan, and Vivian Green. "Time After Time" with Sarah McLachlan charted on Adult Contemporary's Billboard .
She made an appearance on the hit show Showtime Queer As Folk in 2005, directed the ad for the 80 edition Play Games Trivial Pursuit in 2006, served as judge at the 6th Annual Independent Music Awards and made his Broadway debut in the nomination of Tony 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 at VH1 Classics special Decades Rock Live. In 2007, she sang "Beecharmer" with Nellie McKay on McKay's Pretty Little Head album and Message To Michael with Dionne Warwick.
Pada 16 Oktober 2006, Lauper dilantik ke dalam Long Island Music Hall of Fame.
2008-2009: Bawa Ya ke Brink
In 2009, Lauper took role and wrote songs for the Serbian Here and There , starring her husband, David Thornton.
Lauper's sixth studio album, Bring Ya to the Brink was released in the United States on May 27, 2008. As the album was released by the US, the single "Set Your Heart" has had significant playback. in Japan, and Lauper embarked on an Australian tour with Katie Noonan and Kate Miller-Heidke. The album features dance songs written with artists including Axwell, The Scumfrog, Jaxx Basement, Digital Dog, Dragonette, Kleerup, and others. Bring Ya to Brink receive one Grammy nomination for Best Electronic/Dance Album and chart two # 1 songs on the Billboard Dance chart . "Set Your Heart" is used in Japan's advertising campaign for Toyota MarkX ZIO 2008.
Other projects for 2008 include the True Colors Tour and the Christmas duo with Swedish band The Hives, entitled "A Christmas Duel". The song was released as a single CD and vinyl 7 "in Sweden Lauper also performed in" Girls Night Out ", headlining with Rosie O'Donnell in the US.
Lauper's appearance on TV in 2009 included American soap opera Whenever the World Turned on "Time After Time" as a duet with Allison Iraheta, in the final season of 8 American Idol and in 2009 TV Land Awards on April 19 dressed as "Empress of Evil" for music honors to Sid and Marty Krofft. Lauper performed a duet with Leona Lewis at VH1 Divas on September 19, 2009, sang "True Colors", and performed comedy drama with Eminem at MTV VMA in September 2009. He also played at the '30 Rock' final at the end of the third season and appeared as Avalon Harmonia, a paranormal, at the premier Season 5 of Bones .
Pada tanggal 17 November 2009, Lauper melakukan kerja kolaboratif dengan Wyclef Jean yang disebut "Slumdog Millionaire", melakukan itu di Late Show with David Letterman . Upaya kolaboratif berasal dari album terbaru Jean: Toussaint St. Jean: Dari Hut, To the Projects, To the Mansion .
2010-2012: The Celebrity Apprentice , Memphis Blues , memoar
In January 2010, Mattel released the Cyndi Lauper Barbie doll as part of their "Ladies of the 80s" series.
In March 2010, Lauper appeared on NBC's The Celebrity Apprentice , coming in sixth place. He donated his victory to the True Colors Fund. Lauper also performed songs from his upcoming album Memphis Blues at the end of the show's live season.
Memphis Blues - Lauper's 7th studio album - was released on June 22, 2010 and debuted on the Billboard album charts at No. Blues Albums. 1, and in No. 26 on Billboard Top 200. This album remains No. 1 on the Blues Albums chart for 14 consecutive weeks; Memphis Blues was nominated for Best Traditional Blues Album at the Grammy Awards 2011.
Lauper made international news in March 2011 for the spontaneous appearance of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" while waiting for a delayed flight at Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires. The video is then posted on YouTube.
In November 2011, he released two exclusive Christmas singles for iTunes. The first release was the classic Blues Elvis Presley Blues cover, "Blue Christmas", and the second was a new version of "Home for the holidays", a duet with Norah Jones. In June 2012, Lauper made his first appearance for WWE in 27 years, to promote the 1000 WWE Raw episode in memory of Captain Lou Albano.
In September 2012, Lauper performed at fashion show Retrospective Fashion 40-year-old fashion designer Betsey Johnson. He also released a New York Times Best Memoirs memoir describing his struggles with child abuse and depression.
2013 -2015: Curly Shoes, He's Very Unusual: 30th Anniversary Celebration & amp; Songwriter Hall of Fame
Lauper composed music and lyrics for Broadway musicals Kinky Boots, with Harvey Fierstein writing the book. The musical is based on the 2006 independent film Kinky Boots. Opened in Chicago in October 2012 and on Broadway at Al Hirschfeld Theater on April 4, 2013. In May, Lauper won for the best score for Kinky Boots at the annual event outside Critical Circle Awards 63th. This musical leads the 2013 Tony Awards, with 13 nominations and six wins including Best Musical and Best Actor. Lauper won the award for Best Original Score. Lauper was the first woman to win solos in this category.
In the summer of 2013, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of his debut album He's Very Unusual , Lauper embarked on an international tour covering America and Australia. The show consists of a mix of fan favorites and the entire recording of He's Very Unusual . She was a guest on 36 Cher's Dressed to Kill Tour, starting April 23, 2014. A new album confirmed by Lauper on a website interview.
Lauper hosts a Pre-Telecast Grammy at Nokia Theater, L.A. on January 26, where she later received a Grammy for Kinky Boots (Best Musical Theater Album).
On April 1 (March 1 in Europe), Lauper released the 30th Anniversary edition of He's Very Unusual via Epic Records. This album features a remastered version of the original album plus three new remixes. The Deluxe edition features bonus tracks such as live demos and recording and 3D cut-out from the bedroom featured in the music video of Girls Just Want To Have Fun with a reusable sticker set.
On September 17, 2014, Cyndi Lauper sings at the end of America's Got Talent.
On September 25, as part of the show Show's Shine a Light, Lauper re-recorded "True Colors" in a mashup with Sara Bareilles "Brave" to raise awareness and money for children fighting cancer. In October, the project has raised more than $ 300,000.
The Songwriters Hall of Fame includes Lauper in its list of nominations in October 2014. Also during October, the fourth consecutive LaLer home consolation concert for homeless gay teenagers was announced. The stories include 50 Cent and Laverne Cox with 100% of the net proceeds going to the True Color Fund
In March 2015 Lauper was once again a guest star in the crime scene Bones as Avalon Harmonia.
On June 12, 2015, Lauper appeared on The Graham Norton Show with Seth MacFarlane, Dara O'Briain and Mark Wahlberg.
To promote his work with the National Psoriasis Foundation and Novartis and reveal him, he has been suffering from psoriasis for the past five years, Cyndi appeared on the Today Show in July 2015. During the interview, Cyndi revealed that he was working on a project with Seymour Stein. Then revealed in an interview with Rolling Stone he worked on a country album with Tony Brown, and Seymour Stein as executive producer.
On September 15, 2015, Kinky Boots opened at the Adelphi Theater in London's West End.
2016-present: The detour and more
In January 2016, Lauper announced it would release a new album on May 6, 2016. It consisted of his interpretation of an early country classic titled Detour . The announcement was supported by Harlan Howard's release of "Heartaches by the Number" and a live show on Skyville Live with Kelsea Ballerini and Ingrid Michaelson. On February 17, 2016, he released a version of "Love Channel" owned by Wanda Jackson.
In February 2016, Lauper was nominated for the Olivier Award for his contribution to the British production of Kinky Boots along with Stephen Oremus, the person responsible for the arrangement. In January 2017, the production album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.
In May 2016, Lauper was featured on "Swipe to the Right" from Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise from French producer Jean-Michel Jarre. The second album Electronica project is based on collaboration with artists related to electronic music (Tangerine Dream, Moby, Pet Shop Boys, etc.).
In October 2016, his son Dex Lauper was the opening act for Scottsdale, Arizona, and Las Vegas, Nevada dated on the Detour Tour.
In January 2017, Lauper was featured at Austin City Limits ' season 42 doing some classic songs with country songs from Detour . This episode airs on PBS. In October 2017 he released a new song, "Hope", in honor of World Psoriasis Day. "I know the first hand impact psoriasis can have and my goal is to vote to millions of Americans who may be struggling with their psoriasis," Lauper said.
Together with Kesha singer Lauper performed, among other things, the song 'Praying' at the Grammy Award Ceremony in January 2018.
In March 2018, it was announced that Lauper together with co-'Time after time 'songwriter Rob Hyman would compose music for the musical version of the 1988' Working Girl 'film starring Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver. He works with Hyman because he wants "music sounds like the 80s". Also in March 2018 it was announced that Cyndi Lauper would be one of the leading leaders of the 15th annual Rock the Park Festival in Canada on July 12.
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Activism
Lauper has been a supporter of LGBT rights throughout his career, campaigning for equality through various charity and gay pride activities around the world. Lauper stated that he was involved in the advocacy of gay rights because his sister Ellen is a lesbian and because Lauper himself is passionate about the equation. Lauper quotes his brother, Ellen as a role model.
The song "Above the Clouds" celebrates the memory of Matthew Shepard, a young man who was beaten to death in Wyoming because he was gay. As a member of the Matthew Shepard Foundation Board, Lauper devoted a concert tour in 2005 to promote the Foundation's message.
He co-founded the True Colors tour of Human Rights throughout the United States and Canada in June 2007. One dollar per ticket is for the Human Rights Campaign, which advocates equal rights for LGBT individuals. In April 2010, Lauper's True Colors Fund launched the Give a Damn campaign, to help people get more involved in LGBT rights.
In 2012 Lauper started the Forty to None Project after learning that while 10% of young Americans identify themselves as LGBT, up to 40% of American homeless youth do it. She founded the True Colors Residence in New York City for homeless LGBT teenagers. The 30 bed facility offers temporary protection and job placement assistance.
In August 2008, he donated an article entitled "Hope" to The Huffington Post, prompting Americans to vote for Barack Obama in the upcoming US presidential election. Lauper conducted at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
Legacy
Lauper is described by AllMusic's Lindsay Planer as "an iconoclastic vocalist who revolutionized the role of women in rock and roll." During his thirty-year career, he influenced several recording artists including Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Vanessa Paradis, Tegan and Sara, and Yelle. Because of his success and influence Lauper has been inducted into Hollywood and Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Spotify's Stephen Thomas Erlewine notes that He's Very Unusual and his peculiarly peculiar looks "helped popularize the new punk and wave image for America, making it an acceptable part of the pop landscape." Rolling Stone Magazine states that its debut is "arguably the first time explicitly punk-influenced elements are in the front and in the middle of the pop landscape, both musically and through the Lauper Patrick Lucas style ensemble, dressed up decades Reagan in feminist chutzpah. "The album was ranked # 487 on Rolling Stone ' list of the 500 Largest Albums of All Time in 2003. The album was ranked # 41 on > Rolling Stone ' Women Who Rock list: 50 Greatest of All Time Albums in 2012. Rolling Stone Reviews states, "The wild and beautiful voice of a sound... The superb pipe of Lauper is connected with the right material, the result sounds like the beginning of a new golden age. "Thirty years after its release, the album was hailed as 'everlasting' and 'once in a lifetime album'.
Its iconic cover and re-arrangement of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" set it as a 'feminist idol'. Sheila Moeschen argues that the song 'contains a different feminine aesthetic that is contrary to the raw sensuality and sadness of his contemporaries like Madonna or veteran rockers Joan Jett and Pat Benatar' who introduced 'a nation of women into a new kind of woman. exemplary, celebrating differences and encouraging playfulness in self-expression '. John Rockwell writes that the song is "a joyful endorsement for the pleasure of women who simultaneously make feminist statements, fulfill men's fantasies and - especially in the often-played video versions - arouse the warmth of family and friends." The video for "Girls" won the first Women's Best Video prize at VMA 1984. It featured multicultural women with flirting, sideways and neon eye shadows, singing with Lauper. She is the first woman to have four Top 5 hits from a debut album, the first woman to win solo solo category during the 2013 Tony Awards and one of only four women who have won the Grammy, Emmy and Tony competitive prizes.
"Time After Time" Lauper song has been covered by more than 100 artists and was ranked # 22 on the 100th Best Rolling Stone song and at # 19 in VH1 100 Biggest song of the 80s.
"She Bop", the third single from She's So Unusual made history the first and only top ten song to call gay porn magazines. The single is included in the PMRC's "Filthy Fifteen" list leading to a parent-advisory sticker marking a recording that is deemed unsuitable for a young audience. In 1984 their retrospective Rolling Stone listed She Bop as the 36th best song of the year, praising it for its unusual play on sexuality.
The song "True Colors" is an LGBT song, after which True Colors Fund, which advocates for young LGBT and homeless runaway, is named.
Discography
- He is very unusual (1983)
- True Color (1986)
- A Night to Remember (1989)
- Hat Full of Stars (1993)
- Sister Avalon (1996)
- Merry Christmas... Have a Nice Life (1998)
- Last (2003)
- Shine (2004)
- Bring Yes to Brink (2008)
- Memphis Blues (2010)
- The detour (2016)
Moviesography
Tour
Awards and nominations
Grammy Grammy Awards
Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Lauper has won two awards from 15 nominations.
- He's Very Unusual won the Grammy for Best Album Package. The Grammy is awarded to art director Janet Perr and not to Cyndi Lauper.
- Cyndi Lauper is one of many artists in the single "We Are the World" who won four Grammys; However, no one goes to Lauper.
- Lauper received a Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Arrangement Compompanying Vocalist (s), as he is one of three arranger along with Steve Gaboury and Don Sebesky.
Tony Awards
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence at the Theater , better known informally as the Tony Award, recognizes achievements in live Broadway theaters. The award was given by The Broadway League at the annual ceremony in New York City. Lauper was the first woman to win Tony's solo for Best Score.
Emmy Awards Emmy Awards
An Emmy Award recognizes excellence in the television industry.
MTV Video Music Award
The MTV Video Music Awards was founded in 1984 by MTV to celebrate the best music videos of the year. Lauper won one award of 14 nominations, becoming the first person to win the category of Best Female Videos .
Other introductions
See also
- List of artists who reached number one in the United States
- List of awards and nominations received by Cyndi Lauper
- List hit number one (United States) dance
- List hit number one (United States)
References
External links
- Official website
- "Cyndi Lauper" song, by Mat Shearer
- Cyndi Lauper fans
- Paul Burston, "Cyndi Lauper Returns, and Girl Still Wants to Excite" (interview), The Times , August 2, 2008
- Cyndi Lauper on Broadway Internet Database
- Cyndi Lauper on IMDb
- NYTimes, 2010,
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