The ‘80s would not have been the same without Cyndi Lauper. The singer is a living music legend so take a look at Cyndi from her younger years to today.
Born Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper, the icon known as Cyndi Lauper burst onto the scene in the early 1980s thanks to her album She’s So Unusual. With that LP, she broke through the glass ceiling — it became the first debut album by a female artist to achieve four top-five hits on the Billboard Hot 100. First working with the band Blue Angel, Cyndi then established herself as a solo artist with her version of “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.” Her music and fashion became synonymous with the 1980s, blending early punk, new wave, and pop into a unique sound and signature style.
Cyndi won the first-ever MTV Video Music Awards’ Best Female Video prize in 1984 for “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” and has been recognized as one of the greatest music videos of the era. She has also won countless awards at the Grammys, Emmys, Tonys, and VMAs.
Beyond her music, Cyndi has built a respected acting career, appearing in hit TV shows like Mad About You, Bones, and That’s So Raven, as well as films such as Vibes, Life With Mikey, and Henry & Me. She even made a cameo in The Goonies, contributing the beloved theme song “The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough.”
Cyndi is also a lifelong LGBTQ+ advocate, co-founding the True Colors Fund to combat youth homelessness and champion equality. Now celebrating her Rock Hall induction, decades of hits, and the announcement of her farewell tour, Cyndi Lauper continues to prove that true icons never fade — they just keep inspiring new generations to be unapologetically themselves.
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Cyndi Lauper: Photos of the ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’ Singer
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Cyndi Lauper & Son Declyn At Her 2018 Home for the Holidays Benefit Concert
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Cyndi Lauper & Son Declyn At The 2021 MTV Video Music Awards
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Cyndi Lauper & Beck At MusiCares’ 2022 Person of the Year
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Cyndi Lauper In 1980
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Cyndi Lauper & Lionel Richie
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Cyndi Lauper Rocks NYC
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Cyndi Lauper In 2013
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Cyndi Lauper In 2014
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Cyndi Lauper Kisses David Thornton
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Cyndi Lauper At 2021 Global Citizen Live
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Cyndi Lauper At The 2021 Tony Awards
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Cyndi Lauper At The 2020 Grammys
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Cyndi Lauper & David Thornton In 2016
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Cyndi Lauper In 2019
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Cyndi Lauper At The 2018 Grammys
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Cyndi Lauper & David Thornton In 2012
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Cyndi Lauper In 2017
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Cyndi Lauper In 2019
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Cyndi’s True Colors Shine In 1995
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Cyndi Lauper In 1986
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Cyndi Lauper In 1994
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Cyndi Lauper Is Punk
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Cyndi Lauper 2025
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