Badass Birthday
On this date, in 1953, in Brooking NY, Cyndi Lauper was born.
Cyndi Lauper is a singer, songwriter and actress. She's known for her distinctive persona: eccentric clothes, loud hair colors and a four octave vocal range. She's sold over 50 millions records worldwide.
Songs like:
Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Time After Time
She Bop
All Through The Night
True Colors
I Drove All Night
She had a cameo in the Goonies. She was the writer (along with Harvey Feinstein) of the Broadway Play "Kinky Boots", for which she won a Tony Award. The Musical won 5 other Grammys, including Best Musical. The Cast album also won a Grammy, and its run in London won her a Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical.
In totals, she's won the following awards: 2 Grammys, 1 Emmy, 1 Tony, 3 MTV Video Music Awards, 4 Billboard Music Awards, 2 American Music Awards and a star on the Hollywood Hall Of Fame. She was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame last year.
In addition to all this, she's been a longtime and fierce advocate for LGBTQ rights.
Total badass.
POLT
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