Cyndi Lauper emerged as one of the decade’s more colorful figures with the 1983 release of a career-defining breakthrough called “She’s So Unusual,” which sent four singles to the Top 5 on the ...

Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly might not have had Gregory Natal in mind when they penned the song that would become a 1986 hit for Cyndi Lauper, “True Colors”. Nevertheless, Natal became the person ...

The bets music is honest. Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors” is one of the best pop ballads ever written. Lauper didn’t write the song, but she said it came from an earnest place in her life. The tune was ...

Cyndi Lauper is, for the lack of a better word, an unconventional pop star and actress, but that doesn’t mean her music isn’t rich and powerful. “True Colors” is a prime example, but what was her ...

During a 2019 Interview article, Lauper discussed the origin of her song “Boy Blue.” “At that time, there was a popular song called ‘That’s What Friends Are For,’ and one of my closest friends, ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. But Cyndi Lauper ...