Cyndi Lauper is a groundbreaking Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning songwriter and performing artist with global record sales in excess of 50 million.

Lauper has graced the Kennedy Center stage numerous times. In 2018 she brought down the house at the awarding of Cher’s Kennedy Center Honor. In 2015 Lauper performed for Willie Nelson at his reception of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize. In 2019, she returned to perform for Gloria and Emilio Estefan at the awarding of their Gershwin Prize.

Lauper’s distinctive voice, iconic punk glamour, and infectious live shows  have catapulted her to stardom and influenced legions of fans and new artists along the way. Lauper won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist with her first album, She's So Unusual, and became the first woman in history to have four top-five singles from a debut album. Since then, Lauper has released ten additional studio albums, yielding timeless classics like “Time After Time” and “True Colors,” and the anthemic “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.” The video for “Girls…” surpassed “1 Billion Views” on YouTube in 2022, joining just a handful of other videos to hold that honor.  She’s been nominated for 15 Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, seven American Video Awards, and 18 MTV Awards. In 2013, Cyndi Lauper became the first solo woman to win the Grammy for Best Original Score (music and lyrics) for Kinky Boots. She contributed a Tony-nominated song to the score of the Broadway musical SpongeBob SquarePants and is currently writing the score for the Broadway adaptation of the 1988 feature film Working Girl. In 2023, a feature-length documentary on Lauper’s life and career, directed by Alison Elwood (The Go-Go’s, History of the Eagles, Magic Trip: Ken Kesey, Laurel Canyon) will debut at the Tribeca Film Festival in June and be released wide in October.

Lauper released a New York Times best-selling memoir in 2012, was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2015, and designed and launched a sold-out Home Decor Collection with Grandin Road in 2018. 2018 also saw Lauper receiving the “Icon Award” from Billboard at its 13^th annual Women in Music event. In 2019, “She’s So Unusual” was honored for its cultural, historical, and aesthetic importance by being inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry.

Lauper has taken on a number of critically acclaimed and culturally significant acting roles over the years – from “Off and Running” (with husband David Thornton), to The Opportunists (with Christopher Walken), to the camp classic “Vibes” (with Jeff Goldblum). She’s appeared in key television character roles on “Mad About You,” “Bones,” “That’s So Raven,” and “Magnum PI,” to name a few. The timeless longevity of Lauper’s music continues to provide the soundtrack to peoples’ lives with sync placements in “Stranger Things” (2017), “Kissing Booth” and “Zoe’s Playlist” (2021), “The Goldbergs” (2022), “Young Sheldon,” and many more.

Equally as important throughout her life and career has been Lauper’s tireless advocacy work. She has been an activist since day one, always fighting for the underdog - especially women, people living with HIV/AIDS, and LGBTQ people. Her commitment runs so deep that she started her own charity, the True Colors United in 2008 to bring an end to homelessness amongst LGBTQ youth. In December 2019, the United Nations presented Lauper with their first-ever High Note Global Prize, an award that will be given to artists who use their significant platforms to fight for social justice. In 2022, Lauper established the “Girls Just Want to Have Fundamental Rights” Fund to support women’s reproductive health and voting initiatives. The Fund was named after the song slogan which has become a popular chant, notably at 2017 Women’s March and 2022 protests following overturning of Roe v Wade. She also re-recorded her abortions rights song, “Sally’s Pigeons,” in 2022 in response to that overturning.

Lauper has been a guest of multiple Presidents, both as an entertainer and as an activist, and her commitment to activism has allowed her to be a voice and a witness at many significant actions. In 2009, she was on hand when President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. In 2013, she performed for the Obama at their “In Performance at the White House” series. She testified before the Senate Committee hearing in 2015 on LGBTQ youth homelessness and played a leading role in securing $167.5 million in new annual federal funding from Congress. Most recently, Lauper joined President and Dr. Biden at the White House for the passing of the Respect for Marriage Act.