Cyndi Lauper
Cyndi Lauper
Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT activist. Her career has spanned over 30 years. Her debut solo album She's So Unusualwas the first debut female album to chart 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"—earned Lauper the Best New Artist award at the 27th Grammy Awards in 1985. Her success continued with the soundtrack for the motion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth22 June 1953
CityAstoria, NY
CountryUnited States of America
My career never went like anyone else’s, so I never followed anyone.
I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?
My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.
When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.
If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.
Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.
I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.
I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.
You can laugh when I talk, but not when I sing.
God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with.
It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.
Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades...I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls.
You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.
When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead