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 lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.
I used to get spanked. Yeah, my mother used to line us up and we'd get it with the belt. I think she was into music, cause we were all different sizes like a xylophone. But I've been through therapy, I'm OK now.
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?
OK, let's really talk about Jenny. People who can fight, can --.
Yes. It's all his fault. I was nice, very pure, never did anything wrong, and then he started in and started corrupting me.
I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.
When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.
With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.
People used to complain to me all the time, 'I can't even hear you sing because your clothes are so loud.
Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!
God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with.
I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.
My career never went like anyone else’s, so I never followed anyone.
Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.