辛迪·劳博尔出生于纽约-布鲁克林,12岁便开始学习吉他演奏以及歌词写作;七十年代中期,她曾作为歌手在纽约的主要地区与各种不同风格的乐队合作演出,她演唱过Jefferson Airplane, Led Zeppelin, Bad Company等乐队的歌曲。
1983年春天,辛迪与Portrait唱片公司签约。她的第一张个人专辑She is so unusual《她如此特别》同年年底在美国发行,销量突破四百五十万张;此外,这张专辑中的五支单曲有四支获得最佳提名,它们是Girls Just Want To Have Fun, Time After Time, She Bop 与All Through The Night.,这是第一张女艺人获得如此殊荣的专辑。
这张专辑获得:
- 美国音乐奖之最受欢迎流行/摇滚女歌手奖
- 美国音乐奖之最受欢迎流行/摇滚影视奖
- 格莱美最佳新人奖
- 滚石唱片最佳新人与最佳女性影视艺人奖
- MTV最佳女影视艺人奖
1984年,辛迪接近了她300场演唱会的目标,在150个城市进行了演出或是唱片推广;1985年,她为电影《Goonies》创作并演唱主题曲,打入10大热门歌曲行列;1986年,辛迪联合制作了专辑True Colors《真色彩》,单曲“真色彩”获得格莱美提名;1988年10月,辛迪作为美国作词家组合的成员之一前往苏联旅游,创作了一首伟大的歌曲Cold Sky 《冰冷天空》,同年,她第一次涉足电影界,主演了一名心理医生,她的表演为她赢得了众多影迷。
1989年,辛迪录制了专辑A Night To Remember《值得回忆的夜》,其中部分歌曲在1990年1月作为单曲再次发行,单曲之一I Drove All Night《我整夜未眠》使辛迪再次获得格莱美提名;1990年,她拍了第二部电影Off and Running《突然奔跑》;1991年,她的第4张专辑Hat Full Of Stars《布满星星的帽子》获得了广泛高度的赞扬; 1994年的专辑《12致命》包含了许多热门单曲,并且在全世界发行,此外,她还第一次在Mad About You《为你疯狂》连续剧中露面,1995年她第二次出演《为你疯狂》,获艾美奖提名;
1996年,辛迪在日本发行了迄今为止最好的一部唱片Sisters Of Avalon《阿瓦隆姐妹》,这也是她第一次参与了每一首歌的作词,1997年《阿瓦隆姐妹》在全世界发行;1998年10月,辛迪推出了Christmas album《圣诞节》专辑,这部专辑也是她与索尼公司的最后一次合作;1999年,她拍了电影The Opportunists《投机者》,该影片次年发行,辛迪的表演受到好评;2001年,辛迪的新专辑Shine《光芒》由于商标问题未能发行,但最终在网络上被泄漏出去,而第二年她发表的唱片包括了《光芒》中的几首歌,取得了成功;辛迪希望2003年末发行一个完整的专辑并继续个人巡演。
Cyndi Lauper was one of the biggest stars of the early MTV era, selling five million copies of her debut album, She's So Unusual, as well as scoring a string of four Top Ten hits from the record, including the major hits &Girls Just Want to Have Fun& and &Time After Time.& Lauper's thin, girlish voice and gleefully ragtag appearance became one of the most distinctive images of the early '80s, which helped lead her not only to the top of the charts, but also to stardom. Throughout America, there were numbers of teenage girls dressing like Lauper and using &Girls Just Want to Have Fun& as an anthem, a call to arms for self-expression. At first, her music was a bright, colorful new wave fusion of a number of styles, including new wave, post-punk, reggae, pop, and funk. Both her music and her appearance helped popularize — and just as importantly, sanitize —- the image of punk and new wave for America, making it an acceptable part of the pop landscape. Lauper didn't follow through on the success of She's So Unusual, choosing to turn toward middle-of-the-road balladry and mainstream pop, but her first album remains a benchmark of the early '80s.
Born in Brooklyn, NY, and raised in the neighboring borough of Queens, Lauper (born June 22, 1953) dropped out of high school in her late teens, choosing to sing in a number of local cover bands instead. Eventually, her voice was so strained she turned to voice lessons from Katherine Agresta, a well-known vocal teacher in New York. In 1977, Lauper began writing her own material with keyboardist John Turi. The duo formed Blue Angel that same year. Over the next few years, the group built up a solid following in New York, culminating in the release of an eponymous debut album on Polydor in 1980. The Blue Angel record flopped and shortly afterward, Lauper filed for bankruptcy, which led to the disbandment of Blue Angel.
Following the breakup of the group, Lauper sang in local clubs and restaurants. In 1983, her manager and boyfriend David Wolff managed to secure her a contract with Portrait. At the end of the year, she released her debut album, She's So Unusual. Helped by heavy MTV support of the album's first single/video &Girls Just Want to Have Fun,& She's So Unusual became a major hit in the spring of 1984, eventually climbing to number four on the U.S. charts; it would wind up going platinum five times, as well as becoming a hit in the U.K. and Europe. &Girls Just Want to Have Fun& peaked at number two, while its follow-up, the ballad &Time After Time,& reached number one; two other songs, &She Bop& and &All Through the Night,& went Top Ten.
With the success of She's So Unusual under her belt, Lauper was an official star, yet she wasn't able to maintain her popularity. During 1985 she worked on her follow-up album; her only release of the year was &The Goonies 'R' Good Enough,& the theme song from the children's adventure film The Goonies. Her second album, True Colors, appeared in the fall of 1986, and while it was successful — the title track went to number one, while the album peaked at number four and went platinum — its softer, adult contemporary sound lost Lauper some fans. Lauper's career continued to lose momentum, as her feature film debut in 1988's comedy Vibes bombed. A Night to Remember, her third album, was released to weak reviews in 1989, and although it spawned the Top Ten hit &I Drove All Night,& it suffered from disappointing sales, peaking at number 37. The next year, she severed her relationship with Wolff and married actor David Thornton.
After taking a few years off, Lauper returned in 1993 with Hat Full of Stars, an album where she co-produced and co-wrote all of the tracks. The record stiffed, peaking at 112. The following year, the hits compilation Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some was released in the U.K.; the album reached number two, while a remixed &Girls Just Want to Have Fun& became a number one hit. Twelve Deadly Cyns was released in America the following career to less attention. Lauper released Sisters of Avalon, her first album of new material in four years, in the spring of 1997 to generally positive reviews, yet the record didn't chart. Merry Christmas...Have a Nice Life! followed in late 1998. After a long hiatus, Lauper returned to the studio in 2003 for At Last, a collection of pop standards that garnered favorable reviews and spawned a live DVD, Live...At Last. The Body Acoustic, a collection of stripped-down reinventions of previous hits, followed in 2005. In 2008, Lauper released her tenth studio album, the dance-oriented Bring Ya to the Brink.