Cyndi Lauper is 61-years-old today. Born in Queens, New York, Lauper is a singer, songwriter and actress. She achieved success with the release of the debut solo album, Shes So Unusual, in 1983. It spawned four Billboard Hot 100 top-five songs — Girls Just Wanna Have Fun,” Time After Time,” She Bop and All Through the Night.” Shes So Unusual was the first album in history to have four top five singles by a female. Her success continued with the follow-up, True Colors in 1986, which spawned two Billboard Hot 100 top-ten songs — True Colors and Change of Heart.” Since 1989 released from a nine studio albums acclaimed critical, A Night to Remember (1989), Hat Full of Stars (1993), Sisters of Avalon (1996), Merry Christmas... Have a Nice Life (1998), Shine (2001), At Last (2003), The Body Acoustic (2005) and Bring Ya to the Brink (2008). In 2010, her eleventh studio album, Memphis Blues in 2010, which topped the Billboard Blues Albums chart for thirteen consecutive weeks at number one, and spawned five Billboard Digital Blues Songs top-five songs — Just Your Fool,” Crossroads,” How Blue Can You Get?,” Rollin and Tumblin and Early in the Mornin’,” became most album successful on the charts since Shes So Unusual and True Colors. Lauper has also released over 40 singles, and as of 2011 had sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, and one million DVDs and 20 million singles, which makes her one of the best selling artists of all time. Here, Lauper performs in the video “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” in 1983.
Posted on: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 07:47:48 +0000
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