Lauper has released over 40 singles, and as of 2011 had sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, and 1 million DVDs and 20 million singles, making her one of the best selling artists of all time.

In the same year, Lauper released her second album, True Colors, on September 15, 1986.

Lauper recorded " Santa Claus is Coming to Town ", a duet with Frank Sinatra, which was released on the album A Very Special Christmas 2.

In June 1993 Lauper released her fourth album, Hat Full of Stars, which tackled such topics as homophobia, spousal abuse, racism and abortion.

Under a new contract with Sony Music, Lauper released The Body Acoustic, an album that featured acoustic reinterpretations of tracks from her back catalog.

Though she had not released an album of new material since 1997's Sisters of Avalon, Lauper remained busy through the years.

In January 2010, American toy company Mattel released a Cyndi Lauper Barbie doll as part of their " Ladies of the 80s " series.

The DVD came with a bonus live CD of the concert, making it the first ever official live CD of music to be released by Lauper.

In September Lauper released her critically acclaimed memoir detailing her struggle with abuse and depression as well as her rise to 80s super stardom.

Vibes is a comedy film released in 1988 starring Cyndi Lauper, Jeff Goldblum, Julian Sands and Peter Falk.

Later on when Lauper released the album, now titled A Night to Remember, the track was not included on most formats of the album.

He also released Acoustic Cafe, an album, that with the exception of " You Have My Heart ," is a collection of covers ranging from Bob Dylan (" If Not For You ," " Make You Feel My Love ") to Cyndi Lauper (" Time After Time ").

A cover of the 1989 Cyndi Lauper hit " I Drove All Night ", released to launch her new advertising campaign with Chrysler, incorporated dance-pop and rock and roll.

Pop singer Cyndi Lauper co-wrote " Sally's Pigeons " with Carpenter and released it on her 1993 album Hat Full of Stars.

This category contains articles about albums released by Cyndi Lauper.

* " Girls Just Want to Have Fun ", the first major single released by singer Cyndi Lauper on She's So Unusual

In 2008 he released his autobiography, Often Imitated, Never Duplicated with the foreword written by Cyndi Lauper.

released by Cyndi Lauper in 1989 on Epic / CBS Records, and re-released in 1996 on Epic / Sony Records.

Wanna Have Fun is an EP released by Cyndi Lauper in 1996.

Smith, Screaming Headless Torsos, KIF, Patrick Stump, Cyndi Lauper and completing his solo record due to be released early 2011.

" Time After Time " is a song by American singer Cyndi Lauper, released as the second single from her album She's So Unusual.

It was also a single released by the 1980 band Blue Angel, with lead vocals provided by future star Cyndi Lauper.

This release was prior to Lauper's solo career ; however, Lauper re-recorded the track and released it as a single in 1994.

Blumenfield was also in Fields Laughing ( who released an EP in 1985 on Stonegarden Records ) and Smallens was also in Beauty Constant ( whose Like The Enemy LP was issued in 1987 ), Wittman continues to play with Cyndi Lauper.

They received a much wider audience serving as the opening act of Cyndi Lauper on her Fun tour.

The album spawned a minor hit " My Side of the Bed ", and a Cyndi Lauper penned " Unconditional Love ", but it stalled, and Hoffs was dropped from Columbia during the recording of her second solo album.

Lauper later enlisted them for backup vocals in her 1986 hit song " Change of Heart ".

At the age of twelve, Lauper learned how to play an acoustic guitar, which her sister had given to her, and she started to write her own lyrics.

Even at this early age, Lauper started dyeing her hair different colors and wearing radical fashions.

Lauper was accepted in a special public high school for students with talent in the visual arts, but she was held back and eventually dropped out, earning her GED sometime later.

In 1977, Lauper damaged her vocal cords and took a year off.

Vocal coach Katie Agresta helped Lauper regain her voice by teaching her proper vocal exercises.

In 1978, after regaining her voice, Lauper met saxophone player John Turi through her manager Ted Rosenblatt.

Lauper hated the cover, often saying they made her look like Big Bird.

Music critics that saw Lauper perform with Blue Angel thought that she had star potential since she had a wide singing range ( four octaves ), perfect pitch, and a vocal style all her own.

In 1981, while singing in a local New York bar, Lauper met David Wolff, who took over as her manager ( and at some point became romantically involved with her ) and got her signed with Portrait Records, a subsidiary of Epic Records.

At the time, Lauper became popular with teenagers and critics, in part due to her hybrid punk image, crafted by stylist Patrick Lucas.

Lauper knew she could write songs, but the record company had a lot of material they wanted her to record.

An example is her Platinum-certified " Girls Just Want to Have Fun "; Lauper says the original lyrics of the song dealt more with a girl pleasing a man, and therefore she changed the lyrics, wanting the song to be more of an anthem as she felt the original song seemed misogynistic.

Lauper co-wrote " Time After Time " with Rob Hyman when her producer, Rick Chertoff, suggested to the band that the album could use one more song.

The record label did not have much faith in Lauper as a songwriter, but they gave her the chance to prove herself.