You will end the night feeling great about life, carefree, and ready to embrace every opportunity that life may throw at you to “just wanna have fun.” Cyndi Lauper is a great role model for girls of any age.

I saw her for the first time touring with Deborah Harry from Blondie and it turned out to be the best girls’ night ever!!! Lauper performs all her best hits, puts on a great show, and provides fun and on-point audience interaction. In concert, Cyndi Lauper has not missed a beat. I still envy all her cool funky outfits and admire her relentless determination to be her uncompromising and inspirational self. I may have also “borrowed” some of my sister’s clothes, but let’s not tell her about that! Decades later, I own my own copy of the album on iTunes, but not much else has changed. When I was young I remember stealing my older sister's 'She's So Unusual' cassette tape to rock out to 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and all the other upbeat, empowering pop songs on this memorable debut album. She’s also become well known over the years for her charitable activities, in particular as a champion for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender causes she was asked to perform at the 2013 second term inauguration ceremony of President Barack Obama in recognition of her efforts over the years.Ĭyndi Lauper is an icon.

Her awards history, too, is incredibly impressive she’s scooped gongs at the Grammys, Emmys and Tonys - one of only twenty performers ever to do so - as well as picking up awards from Billboard, MTV (at the VMAs) and VH1. In the popular imagination, at least, Lauper is arguably best known as a little bit of a one-hit wonder it’s certainly true that ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fun’, her international smash hit in 1983, is the most enduring track from her back catalogue, but the truth is that Lauper boasts a far more impressive track record than most artists to be tagged with the one hit wonder label - in fact, she was the first female solo artist to see her first four singles chart in the top five on the Billboard singles rundown in the U.S, with ‘All Through the Night’, ‘Time After Time’ and ‘She Bop’ also making the cut.

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