Cyndi Lauper emerged as one of the decade’s more colorful figures with the 1983 release of a career-defining breakthrough called “She’s So Unusual,” which sent four singles to the Top 5 on the ...

A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. “I had a hard time when I was famous because when I first hit everybody, they took everything I was wearing — the color ...

Lauper was born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens. Before she became a pop star, she worked odd jobs, including as an IHOP waitress and singing in a cover band. Inspired by the feminist art of Yoko Ono ...