Cyndi Lauper

Also known as Cynthia Lauper, Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper Thornton

Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Lauper is known for her distinctive image, which features eccentric clothing and a variety of hair colors. She is also known for her powerful four-octave vocal range. Lauper has been dubbed the "Queen of Quirky Pop". She has sold over 50 million records worldwide. She has also been celebrated for her humanitarian work, particularly as an advocate for LGBTQ rights in the United States.

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Cyndi Lauper is an American singer, singer-songwriter, film actor, and television actor. Born Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper in New York City in 1953, she is a soprano who plays the acoustic guitar, Appalachian dulcimer, and voice. Her musical genres include rock music, new wave, pop rock, and dance-rock. She has been associated with record labels such as Epic Records, Portrait, and Downtown Records, and her work period began in 1977.

Lauper has received several awards, including the Tony Award for Best Original Score, the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. She is recognized in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection. She was educated at Johnson State College and has one child. Her spouse is David Thornton.

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Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and LGBT rights activist whose career has spanned over four decades. Her debut solo album She's So Unusual (1983), was an instant commercial success. The album was 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…

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Michael Jackson: A Life in Music — Self (archive footage)2026
9/11 Tribute in Light: Live from Lower Manhattan — Self - "True Colors"2026
Music Box: Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately? — Self2025
A Grammy Salute to Cyndi Lauper: Live from the Hollywood Bowl — Self2025
2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self2025
The World According to Allee Willis — Self2024
The Greatest Night in Pop — Self2024
Cyndi Lauper at the BBC — Self2024
Katy Perry: Rock In Rio 40 anos — Self2024
Johnson and Knopfler's Music Legends — Self2024

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Type: Person
Gender: Female
Country: United States
Active from: 1953

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Blue Angel1979–1980
Peace Choir

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Instance of: human
Family name: Thornton
Gender: female
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: New York City
Spouse: David Thornton
Occupation: recording artist
Employer: IHOP
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: English language
Award: MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video
Field of work: music composing
Genre: country music
Instrument: voice
Record label: Downtown Records
Discography: Cyndi Lauper discography
Official website: www.cyndilauper.com
Image: CyndiLauper2022.jpg
Number of children: 1
Voice type: soprano

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date of birth: 1953-06-22
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birth name: Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper
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start of work period: 1977-00-00
medical condition: psoriasis
social media followers: 3280000
nominated for: Tony Award for Best Original Score
married name: Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper Thornton
writing language: English language
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Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper (/ˈlɔːpər/ LAW-pər; born June 22, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Lauper is known for her distinctive image, which features eccentric clothing and a variety of hair colors. She is also known for her powerful four-octave vocal range. Lauper has been dubbed the "Queen of Quirky Pop." She has sold over 50 million records worldwide. She has also been celebrated for her humanitarian work, particularly as an advocate for LGBTQ rights in the United States.

Lauper's debut album, She's So Unusual (1983), was the first debut album by a female artist to achieve 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"—and earned Best New Artist at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards in 1985. The music video for "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" won Best Female Video at the inaugural 1984 MTV Video Music Awards and has been hailed by MTV, VH1 and Rolling Stone as one of the greatest videos of the era. Lauper's second album, True Colors (1986), achieved two more top-five hits; the title track and "Change of Heart." Lauper's chart success continued with the singles "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" (1985), "I Drove All Night" (1989) and into the 2000s with multiple number-one hits on the Hot Dance Club Play charts, "Same Ol' Story," and "Into the Nightlife" (2008).

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