Cynthia Ann Stephanie "
Cyndi"
Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and
LGBT rights activist. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album
She's So Unusual and became the first female singer to have four top-five singles released from one album. The Top 5 hits "
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", "
She Bop", "
All Through the Night" and number-one single "
Time After Time" became some of the most important and influential singles of the
1980s. The album earned Lauper
Best New Artist at the
27th Grammy Awards in 1985. Her success continued with the follow-up,
True Colors, which launched several more hits including the number-one single "
True Colors", and earned two nominations at the
29th Grammy Awards. Lauper has since released 11 albums, the most recent the acclaimed grammy nominated
Memphis Blues which was Billboard's biggest selling blues album of 2010. Lauper has also released over 40 singles, and as of 2011 had sold more than 50 million albums worldwide,
and 1 million DVDs and 20 million singles,
which makes her one of the
best selling artists of all time. Throughout her career, Lauper has won numerous awards, including
Grammy,
Emmy,
MTV VMA,
Billboard, and
AMA. In 1999, Lauper ranked #58 of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll by
VH1.