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GROWING up with three sisters in the 1980s, it was difficult to avoid the music of Cyndi Lauper with songs like Girls Just Want To Have Fun and Time After Time appearing to dominate our small house in Churchtown as well as the globe.
Born on June 22, 1953, Cyndi, who was raised in Queens, New York, became an icon of female strength and identity. Jon Pareles, in The New York Times, described Lauper's 1986 No 1 hit True Colours as "a virtual benediction" with its lyrics 'I see your true colors and that's why I love you'."
A year earlier, Cyndi had her first No 1 record in America with Time After Time. The song passed into another...