Early life and pre-fame
Lauper was born to Fred and Catrine Lauper in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in a rough area of Queens. Her mother uses the stagename, "Catrine Dominique" for the music videos in which she has appeared. Her father was of German and Swiss descent and her mother was Italian American (from Campania). She has a sister named Ellen and a brother called Fred (nicknamed Butch).
When Lauper was five, her parents divorced, and her mother moved with the three children to Ozone Park, which was at that time a poor neighborhood in Queens, New York. Lauper's mother remarried, divorced again, and went to work as a waitress trying to support her children. It was during this time that Lauper began listening to artists like Judy Garland, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, and the Beatles. Her mother encouraged her independence and creativity.
At the age of twelve, Lauper learned how to play a guitar which she had inherited from her sister, and started to write her own lyrics. She had a grea
More about Cyndi Lauper (From Wikipedia)
Early Life And Pre-fame
Lauper was born to Fred and Catrine Lauper in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in a rough area of Queens. Her mother uses the stagename, "Catrine Dominique" for the music videos in read more...
Blue Angel
In 1978, after Lauper regained her voice, she met saxophone player John Turi through her manager Ted Rosenblatt. Turi and Lauper became writing partners and formed a band called read more...
She's So Unusual
On October 14, 1983, She's So Unusual was released, and became a worldwide hit. With help from Rick Chertoff, Eric Bazilian and Rob Hyman (of The Hooters) as her primary studio musicians, read more...
The WWF
Lauper always claims that David Wolff was a major fan of wrestling and it was his idea to get her involved with the WWF (World Wrestling Federation). The WWF television show had read more...
The Goonies
Steven Spielberg had asked Lauper to be the musical director of his latest film The Goonies, an adventurous family film about lost treasure. Lauper had the power to choose whom she read more...
True Colors
Lauper released her second album True Colors on September 15, 1986. It reached number four on the Billboard 200. For this album, she increased her involvement both in production read more...
Late 1980s
In 1987 David Wolff produced a concert film for Lauper called Cyndi: Live in Paris. The concert was broadcast on HBO that same year.
Lauper made her film debut in August 1988 read more...
A Night To Remember
A Night to Remember, Lauper's third album, was released on May 23, 1989. Though critically well-received, it was not as big a commercial success as her previous albums. The album read more...
Love And Marriage
A mutual breakup between Cyndi Lauper and David Wolff occurred in 1989. Most of the details about the breakup have not been published, but Lauper later stated: "The business got read more...
Tycoon And A Duet With Sinatra
In 1992, Lauper contributed two tracks to the European musical Tycoon, an English version of the hit French stage show Starmania. She scored another Top 20 hit in Europe (it went read more...