Cyndi Lauper

Cyndi Lauper entered the ’80s as if color TV had learned to argue with the street. Her elastic, wounded voice made pop a place for loud girls, flawless ballads and misfits who don’t ask permission.

After the breakthrough of “She’s So Unusual”, she refused a single shop window: she sang adult pain, standards, dance, blues and country. Her career is less a straight line than broken stained glass, each color insisting on surviving.

Why listen to Cyndi Lauper?

To hear joy at the moment it discovers it can also be a form of resistance.