Cyndi lauper brief biography of siren
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Women Who Inspire: Cyndi Lauper
(Photo Courtesy CyndiLauper.com)
NAME: Cyndi Lauper
AGE: 60
OCCUPATION: Singer, Songwriter, Actor, LGBT Rights Activist
WHO SHE IS: Cyndi Lauper burst onto the scene in the early 1980s, sporting a shock of long, bright-red hair and a mismatched mess of tulle skirts, plaid pants, lacey tanks and tons of attitude. She was bold, brash, and unafraid to speak in her heavy Queens accent. She also (somewhat inexplicably) loved to align herself with wrestling stars. Her debut album, She’s So Unusual, was a huge hit, spawning the classic 80s anthem “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” (which, as we all know, is a tune that has stood the test of time) as well as “Time After Time,” “She Bop,” and more. She released “The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough” for the film in 1985, (a total aside, but a song I listened to and repeatedly rewound on my Walkman for probably a month straight), and her second album, True Colors • Peters, Gary. "23. Case Study: Cyndi Lauper, “Time After Time”". Improvising Improvisation: From Out of Philosophy, Music, Dance, and Literature, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017, pp. 230-241. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226452760-026 Peters, G. (2017). 23. Case Study: Cyndi Lauper, “Time After Time”. In Improvising Improvisation: From Out of Philosophy, Music, Dance, and Literature (pp. 230-241). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226452760-026 Peters, G. 2017. 23. Case Study: Cyndi Lauper, “Time After Time”. Improvising Improvisation: From Out of Philosophy, Music, Dance, and Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 230-241. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226452760-026 Peters, Gary. "23. Case Study: Cyndi Lauper, “Time After Time”" In Improvising Improvisation: From Out of Philosophy, Music, Dance, and Literature, 230-241. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. https • For so much of my early life, Cyndi Lauper’s music — usually “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and “Time After Time” — was kind just... ambiently in the air. With my vague cultural memory of her association with professional wrestling, she seemed like a live-action cartoon from the Thundercats era that had somehow become flesh and blood — and then irrelevant, in that order.Then of course, there was her time on Celebrity Apprentice, which I’m not going to talk about at all. As with a lot of things, as I got older, I reassessed and discovered, obviously, that Lauper is a national treasure. The woman left home at 17 to escape an abusive situation, traveled to Canada, worked a bunch of jobs and was, at one point, told she would never sing again after damaging her vocal cords — and this was all before she’d recorded and
23. Case Study: Cyndi Lauper, “Time After Time”
Every Record I Own: Cyndi Lauper, She's So Unusual/by Alexander Heigl
Provenance: Curb find, though with a sticker from “Crazy Eddie Record & Tape Asylum”