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CYNDI SUBMITTED FOR GRAMMY NOMINATIONS

She has been been submitted for Grammy nominations in the following categories:
Best Dance Recording - "Into the Nightlife"
Best Electronic/Dance Album - "Bring Ya to the Brink"
Best Short Form Music Video - "Into the Nightlife"
Let's hope she gets nominated!

CYNDI ON GOSSIP GIRL

Cyndi will have a cameo role on the CW show Gossip Girl.Date: Monday, November 10 Episode: "Bonfire of The Vanity" Time: 8:00-9:00 p.m

CYNDI LAUPER AT SHEPHERDS BUSH EMPIRE, W12

Cyndi Lauper arrived on the stage with a piece of cardboard in one hand and a hammer in the other, knelt down with difficulty — boy, were those leather trousers tight — and started the show by banging beats on the floor through the card. The singer who spent her 1980s heyday as the screwball foil to the more calculating Madonna has clearly lost none of her quirky charm.
Nor has she shed as many fans as you might expect. There was barely breathing room at Shepherds Bush Empire and the tumultuous cheers that greeted the short, slim, blonde bob-sporting Lauper suggested that those aware that she is still making music hadn’t just come for the hits. Indeed, the 55-year-old is on the verge of a commercial comeback, thanks to her current album Bring Ya to the Brink, a classy collection of beats-backed tracks made with a host of hip young producers.
Bouts of demonic dancing, daft stories delivered in her nasal, “New Yawk” whine and a spell of flirtation with a mortified security guard added a sense of fun to a fast-paced show that relied on Lauper’s versatile, emotive vocals to raise the music far beyond pedestrian pop. The opener Change of Heart was a badly dated bombastic rocker played by a four-piece, middle-aged, male band, but Lauper infused it with soul and her energy was infectious. When she jumped on to a chair down in the crowd, a hundred hands tried to grab her. Mostly they belonged to gay men, who spent the show either punching the air or filming the singer on their camera phones.
She Bop, Lauper’s controversial ode to masturbation, was magnificently moody; her passionate guitar playing on a cover of Prince’s When U Were Mine contrasted sharply with Madonna’s faux rock chick moves and a folk arrangement of Time after Time, on which she played the dulcimer, was luminously lovely.
Oldies and techno-tinged newies went down equally well. The highlight was either the new single Into the Nightlife, a deliciously dizzy disco stomper that got the crowd dancing, or an extended Girls Just Want to Have Fun, performed as a duet with the sexy young unknown Jesse Jane, that delved into calypso and electro before fans drowned out the duo. Lauper may insist that she never went away, but it definitely looks as if she’s back.

OH CYNDI, DEAR, YOU KNOW YOU'RE STILL NO.1

Twenty-five years after Girls Just Want To Have Fun made Cyndi Lauper a 1980s pop icon, the New Yorker returns with a new album and a tour promoting human rights, says Declan Cashin.Cyndi Lauper has the strongest 'Noo Yawk' accent I've ever heard, so it was probably not the best idea to volunteer to teach her some Irish during the course of a transatlantic phone call that had a five-second delay due to being relayed through a London agency. "My son's name is Declan too," she tells me excitedly after I introduce myself (though junior Lauper's version is spelled 'Declyn', named, she reveals, after Declan McManus aka Elvis Costello). "Do you want to know how to say the name in Irish?" I volunteer. "Sure," she replies, and so begins two minutes of comical, at times painful, phonetic lessons as Gaeilge ("It's pronounced 'Day-glaw-en', come on Cyndi, one more time"). At any rate, the pop legend will have time to perfect her new found language skills this week when she touches down here for the first time in her career, playing the Savoy in Cork on Friday night, and a sold out date in Tripod, Dublin, on Saturday. Almost 25 years to the day since the release of She's So Unusual, the monster hit album that contained such enduring classics as Girls Just Want To Have Fun, Time After Time and She Bop, the 55-year-old Brooklyn native is back on tour to promote her tenth studio album, Bring Ya To The Brink.Having seen her last two albums -- At Last and The Body Acoustic -- fail to make any major critical or commercial impact, Lauper is in the thrust of a full-blown career renaissance right now, drawing five-star reviews for her new effort, a dance and club-fused stomper with collaborative input from Euro dance-pop maestros such as Dragonette, Scum Frog and, most notably, Basement Jaxx. "I just wanted to make some music with energy," Lauper explains. "I found that the dance community is a little more innovative, and adventurous. So I reached out to artist-producers to make this unique sound, as opposed to just producers in their own right. I was looking to push the envelope a bit, and make something that was familiar and joyful, and let's face it, dancing is about as joyful as it can get."The sound and style of Bring Ya To The Brink has also drawn fresh comparisons between Lauper and that other opinionated, middle-aged pop diva looking to keep her sound modern and relevant: Madonna. The two stars burst onto the scene at almost the same time in the early 1980s, but went on to have wildly divergent careers. It must be sweet, therefore, to read the words of one British music critic who wrote that Bring Ya To The Brink was "the album Madonna should have made instead of Hard Candy". Lauper pauses momentarily when I ask if she recognizes any parallels between their careers. "You know, I think Madonna was always better at some things than I was," she replies. "I focused more on singing, and writing poetry. She was focussed on writing too, but she comes at it from a totally different place. "I think she comes at performance art like a dancer, and I couldn't dance to save my life. I think she's a big inspiration for me sometimes, but we're like apples and oranges. I always say I'm like her evil cousin from a completely different family!"Aside from her new album, the singer's stock has also been given a boost due to the True Colours tour, a collaborative project she created last year to raise awareness of human rights issues, notably on behalf of the gay community, of which she has been a vocal and fiercely pro-active supporter for many years. The second tour, which just finished in July, featured the likes of Indigo Girls, Andy Bell, Regina Spektor and Joan Armatrading, as well as performances from comediennes Margaret Cho and Rosie O'Donnell. "I do as much as I can for the gay community," she says. "But, you know, I'm not Oprah. I can't build a school in Africa, but I think everyone should do what they can."I just think that everybody's civil rights are up for grabs if one group doesn't have them. What they're saying is, 'We live in a free society...oh, except for you guys over there'. That means you could be in the next group that's the exception, and then the next group, then that group, and that's how it starts."I don't think it should be tolerated. If something happens that you think is wrong, you have to raise your voice. This is supposed to be the age of reason."Lauper also used this year's True Colours tour to appeal to American attendees to vote in next month's presidential election, and it's not surprising to hear who will be receiving Lauper's vote on November 4. "I think Barack Obama would understand what it's like to be discriminated against compared to McCain or Sarah Palin," she states. What does she make of Palin? "Not for nothing, Declyn plays hockey so that makes me a hockey mom and I don't talk like that," she says. "It will be interesting to see what happens." Bring Ya To The Brink is out now. Tickets are still available for Cyndi's show in The Savoy, Cork, on Friday night.

STEVE WRIGHT IN THE AFTERNOON

Cyndi was the guest on Steve Wright in the Afternoon today and she spoke about her career, politics, music and more. Download the interview here.

CYNDI LAUPER SHE'S BACK FOR MORE GIRLIE FUN

The original girl who just wanted to have fun, Cyndi Lauper is back - and thankfully not as part of the never-ending 1980s revival in which anyone who released a couple of singles during that decade is called a 'legend' and sent on tour with Limahl.

Instead, part-time wrestling aficionado and restless campaigner Lauper is touring with a new album, Bring Ya To The Brink, from which her current single Into The Nightlife is taken. It bears funked-up, floor-filling comparison to Madonna's Confessions On A Dance Floor, and Lauper has had a hand in writing and producing every track.
With 25million album sales under her belt, Lauper may not yet be in danger of overtaking the pop queen, but she's certainly motoring along in the same fast lane.

And since 1983 debut She's So Unusual made pop history by producing four Top Five singles from a single album, there's no shame in using a little retro-branding. Thus Lauper's current UK visit comes as part of her True Colors tour - the song that originally brought international attention to Lauper's traffic-light hair, thrift-store chic and ear for a great pop tune. The artwork for Bring Ya To The Brink may picture her in domestic mode with broom in hand, but on the basis of its content, there's clearly plenty of fun to be had with Lauper yet.

Thu, Carling Academy Glasgow, 121 Eglinton Street, Glasgow, 7pm, £25. Tel: 0844 477 2000. www.cyndilauper.com