MUSICIAN

Cyndi Lauper

1953 - Today

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Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper (; born June 22, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. Her album She's So Unusual (1983) was the first debut album by a female artist to achieve four top-five hits on the Billboard Hot 100—"Girls Just Want to Have Fun", "Time After Time", "She Bop", and "All Through the Night"—and earned Lauper the Best New Artist award at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards in 1985. Her success continued with the soundtrack for the motion picture The Goonies (1985) and her second record True Colors (1986). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cyndi Lauper has received more than 15,620,417 page views. Her biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Cyndi Lauper is the 124th most popular musician (up from 169th in 2019), the 699th most popular biography from United States (up from 991st in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Musician.

Cyndi Lauper is most famous for her song "Girls Just Want to Have Fun."

Memorability Metrics

  • 16M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 62

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Cyndi Lauper ranks 124 out of 3,175Before her are Thomas Bangalter, Nick Mason, John Dowland, Neil Young, Björk, and Chris Isaak. After her are Gary Moore, Nat King Cole, Jacqueline du Pré, Mike Oldfield, Neil Peart, and Fritz Kreisler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Cyndi Lauper ranks 26Before her are Jim Jarmusch, Carlos Queiroz, Paul Krugman, Fatih Terim, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Daniel Passarella. After her are Mike Oldfield, Jean-Marie Pfaff, Paulo Roberto Falcão, Malcolm Young, Ségolène Royal, and Peter Stormare.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cyndi Lauper ranks 699 out of 20,380Before her are Douglas Fairbanks (1883), Bradley Cooper (1975), Sam Peckinpah (1925), Jack Palance (1919), Murray Rothbard (1926), and Anne Bancroft (1931). After her are Floyd Mayweather Jr. (1977), Hattie McDaniel (1893), Kevin Bacon (1958), H. L. Mencken (1880), Sally Field (1946), and Harold Urey (1893).

Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Cyndi Lauper ranks 34Before her are Quincy Jones (1933), John Coltrane (1926), Ice-T (1958), Glenn Miller (1904), Lionel Richie (1949), and Chris Isaak (1956). After her are Nat King Cole (1919), Buddy Holly (1936), Nikki Sixx (1958), Bill Evans (1929), Ray Manzarek (1939), and Benny Goodman (1909).