AP - Oct 15, 2009
Cyndi Lauper says that professional wrestler Captain Lou Albano took her up the music charts. The singer said Thursday that she was lucky to work with Albano on her music videos in the 1980s. The rambunctious...
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Cyndi Lauper says she downplays a psychic she portrays on Thursday s season five premiere of Fox s Bones. That means no flamboyant fashions or clothing with a celestial theme. I didn t think she should...
More »AP - Mar 5, 2008
Cyndi Lauper will take her True Colors tour back on the road this summer. Lauper, whose tour last year promoted gay rights, will open the second go-round in Boston on May 31 alongside fellow headliners...
More »AP - Apr 13, 2007
Island Def Jam Music Group said it has revived the defunct Mercury Records label and tapped a former Sony Music veteran to run it. David Massey was named president of Mercury, which will become a division...
More »Reuters - Mar 14, 2007
Cyndi Lauper, Erasure and Debbie Harry will anchor a summer tour of 15 North American cities designed to raise awareness of gay-rights issues. The True Colors trek, which begins June 8 at the MGM Grand...
More »Reuters - Aug 6, 2006
Trivial Pursuit is one of the most popular brands in the Hasbro Games family. Since its introduction 24 years ago, the game -- the original version and its special editions -- has sold nearly 100 million...
More »AP - Jul 24, 2006
Chaka Khan, Clint Black and Michael Bolton are among the pop stars who will be part of Celebrity Duets, a new Fox TV show that pairs singers and celebrities trying to prove they can carry a tune. The...
More »Reuters - Mar 26, 2006
World Wrestling Entertainment -- better-known as the WWE -- is ramping up its music initiatives with the formation of the WWE Music Group. The New York-based operation will concentrate on further connecting...
More »Reuters - Dec 23, 2005
Less than two weeks before the planned January 3 release of her second album, singer/songwriter Nellie McKay has voluntarily left her Columbia Records label following a public dispute about the length...
More »Reuters - Dec 23, 2005
Pop star Cyndi Lauper will make her Broadway debut next year in The Threepenny Opera, playing the prostitute Jenny in the satirical musical about a highwayman and his sweetheart. The role of Jenny was...
More »E! Online - Nov 22, 2005
The members of Destiny s Child may have gone their separate ways, but that didn t stop the band from picking up a pair of awards at Tuesday s American Music Awards. The former girl group won the...
More »AP - Nov 22, 2005
This girl is a woman now, but Cyndi Lauper still wants to have fun. She sure was having it Monday afternoon inside the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium, cracking jokes with her band between musical interludes...
More »Reuters - Nov 17, 2005
Three acts that debuted on the Billboard 200 in a 13-month period between November 1982 and December 1983 all have new albums entering the new chart. Kate Bush is the senior chart veteran of the trio...
More »E! Online - Nov 16, 2005
He might be a tough guy on the silver screen, but on this week s album chart, 50 Cent got an old-fashioned butt-whipping from Kenny Chesney. Chesney scored his fourth straight number one debut with...
More »AP - Nov 7, 2005
Cyndi Lauper, The Body Acoustic (Epic) On her new disc The Body Acoustic, 52-year-old Cyndi Lauper recasts a slew of her old hits from She Bop to True Colors and Time after Time in acoustic...
More »AP - Jun 30, 2005
Cyndi Lauper has lost her bid to have the rent on her Manhattan apartment cut nearly in half. On Thursday, the state Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that set Lauper s rent at nearly $1,...
More »AP - May 31, 2005
Cyndi Lauper may have sold millions of albums, but that doesn t mean she wants to pay much more than $500 for her Manhattan apartment. Lauper, 51, and her husband, David Thornton, an actor whose...
More »Reuters - Dec 18, 2004
The third chart entry proves to be the charm for Mario, who rises to a new career peak on the Billboard Hot 100 with Let Me Love You (3rd Street/J). The single moves 3-2, eclipsing the No. 4 peak of his...
More »Reuters - Dec 16, 2004
Snoop Dogg was too hot to drop from the top of Billboard s Hot 100 singles chart Thursday as his hit tune Drop It Like It s Hot featuring Pharrell logged a third week at No. 1. The cut stems from Snoop...
More »AP - Dec 7, 2004
61. Salsa/Merengue Album: Valio La Pena, Marc Anthony; Travesia, Victor Manuelle; Autentico, Gilberto Santa Rosa; Creciendo, Son de Cali; Across 110th Street, Spanish Harlem Orchestra featuring Ruben...
More »AP - Oct 13, 2004
American superstars Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey will host December s traditional Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, honoring the 2004 laureate, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai, organizers told...
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