![]() ![]() ![]() It didn't have the huge impact of the first record, but it did spawn a hit single in the title track. Not wanting to be remembered as a "cartoon character," it wasn't long before she was back to music, and she released the follow-up to the debut, True Colors, in September 1986. This would lead directly to a phenomenon referred to as "The Rock 'n Wrestling Connection", which has been credited for helping lead to WrestleMania. Soon after, she became the manager of would-be Women's Champion Wendi Richter, who borrowed Cyndi's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" for a theme song. Cyndi herself eventually showed up on Piper's Pit and negated these claims to "Rowdy" Roddy Piper (eventually getting righteously pissed off at Lou in the process). In fact, Lauper was the first female to have four consecutive Billboard Hot 100 top five hits from a single album.ĭuring this time, Wolff arranged for Cyndi to make a brief foray into the world of Professional Wrestling (namely, WWE, then the WWF), in a storyline where Captain Lou Albano insisted that he was her manager. ![]() In addition to the enormous success, lead off by the single "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", Cyndi was a major teen idol and fashion icon for a time. ![]() With his help, she signed with Portrait Records (a subsidiary of Epic Records) and released She's So Unusual in October 1983. Soon after, David Wolff discovered her singing in a bar in New York, and became her manager (and, for a time, her significant other). Lauper was a member of rockabilly outfit Blue Angel, but their music didn't really go anywhere commercially, and the band dissolved. Her debut album, She's So Unusual has sold 22 million copies worldwide - thus making it one of the decade's best-selling albums - and contains her most famous songs, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", "Time After Time", and "She Bop". So visible was Cyndi, in fact, that for a time she was a serious rival to no less than Madonna. Pop starlet Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper (born Jin New York City, New York), better known as Cyndi Lauper, is notable as being one of the earliest success stories of MTV as well as one of the most fondly-remembered pop stars of The '80s. ![]()
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