Cyndi Lauper: 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour', Budapest Aréna, 19 February
- 13 Dec 2024 6:35 AM
This marvellous show will also stop in Budapest, Cyndi Lauper live on February 19, 2025 at Budapest Arena.
Since 1983, Lauper has released eleven studio albums and participated in many other projects. In 2010, Memphis Blues became Billboard's most successful blues album of the year, remaining at number one on the Billboard Blues Albums chart for 13 consecutive weeks.
In 2013, she won the Tony Award for best original score for composing the Broadway musical Kinky Boots, making her the first woman to win the category by herself.
The musical was awarded five other Tony’s including Tony Award for Best New Musical. In 2014, Lauper was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album for the cast recording. In 2016, the West End production won Best New Musical at the Olivier Awards.
Lauper has sold over 50 million records worldwide.[6] She has won awards at the Grammys, Emmy’s, Tony’s, the New York's Outer Critics Circle, MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs), Billboard Awards, and American Music Awards (AMAs).
An inductee into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Lauper is one of the few singers to win three of the four major American entertainment awards (EGOT).[8] She won the inaugural Best Female Video prize at the 1984 VMAs for "Girls Just Want to Have Fun". This music video is recognized by MTV, VH1 and Rolling Stone as one of the greatest music videos of the era.
She is featured in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Women Who Rock exhibit.[13] Her debut album is included in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time,[14] while "Time After Time" is included in VH1's list of the 100 Best Songs of the Past 25 years.[15] VH1 has ranked Lauper No. 58 of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll.
Lauper is known for her distinctive image, featuring a variety of hair colours and eccentric clothing,and for her powerful and distinctive four-octave singing range.
She has been celebrated for her humanitarian work, particularly as an advocate for LGBT rights in the United States. Her charitable efforts were acknowledged in 2013 when she was invited as a special guest to attend U.S. President Barack Obama's second inauguration.
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