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
I am also an Emmy winning actress. Except that I gotta tell ya, it was for comedy and I've been practicing for most of my life because every job I've ever had they'd always say the same thing, 'Hey Lauper, what are ya, some kind of comedienne?' and who knew?
The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.
Yes. It's all his fault. I was nice, very pure, never did anything wrong, and then he started in and started corrupting me.
Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.
I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.
Everything does go in a circle.
People used to complain to me all the time, 'I can't even hear you sing because your clothes are so loud.
Goonies are good enough, good enough for me
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.
I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.
You can laugh when I talk, but not when I sing.
When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead
My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.