At 70 years old, over 40 of which have been spent on the road, Cyndi Lauper says goodbye to touring.
The iconoclastic American singer who revolutionized the role of women in rock-n-roll has announced that her new Girls Just Wanna Have Fun tour will be her last. The announcement came on the eve of the debut, on June 4th on Paramount+, of Let’s The Canary Sing, the new documentary starring Cyndi.
Sicilian on her mother’s side, a two-time Grammy winner, the singer has not given any explanations about her farewell to life on the road, but it is presumable that she will talk about it during the promotion of the feature film directed by Alison Ellwood which had its first red carpet there last year at the last Tribeca festival. On June 4, Cyndi will be at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood for a handprint ceremony immediately before a private evening honoring the film, and on June 5, she will discuss the documentary and farewell tour on the late-night show Jimmy Kimmel Live.
For fans of songs like Time after Time and She Bop, in addition to the legendary Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, soundtrack of many marches for women’s rights, all that remains is to console themselves with the documentary that tells the multifaceted life of Cyndi Lauper, from childhood between Brooklyn and Queens with a violent stepfather, to global success in the 80s, to activism for all progressive causes, primarily those of the LGBT, against AIDS and against world hunger (see the concert of 1985 We Are the World with Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and many other greats).
Cyndi Lauper began her career singing covers of Jefferson Airplane, Led Zeppelin and Bad Company. In 1978, thanks to the interest of her manager, agent David Wolff, she formed the pop rock group Blue Angel, and then continued as a soloist with her first successful album She She’s So Unusual in 1983: 22 million copies sold worldwide.
It will be an illuminating glimpse behind the scenes with Cindy recalling her first job as a secretary (“I fell asleep reading the mail”) to when She Bop ended up at the center of the list of 15 “dirty” songs wanted by the then second lady Tipper Gore in a campaign to “moralize” the music loved by teenagers. No longer just a singer, Cyndi Lauper is also involved in cinema and TV: in 1991 she appears in Desperately Seeking Guilty, while in 1994 she takes part in the famous sit-com Crazy Lovers.
The latest tour will include 23 dates this fall at stadiums across North America including New York’s legendary Madison Square Garden on October 30, Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on November 1, Los Angeles’ Intuit Dome on November 23 and Chase Center in San Francisco three nights later.
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