Her charitable efforts were acknowledged in 2013 when she was invited as a special guest to attend U.S. She has been celebrated for her humanitarian work, particularly as an advocate for LGBT rights in the United States. Lauper is known for her distinctive image, featuring a variety of hair colors and eccentric clothing, and for her powerful and distinctive four-octave singing range. 58 of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll. Her debut album is included in Rolling Stone 's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, while " Time After Time" is included in VH1's list of the 100 Best Songs of the Past 25 years. She is featured in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Women Who Rock exhibit. This music video is recognized by MTV, VH1 and Rolling Stone as one of the greatest music videos of the era. She won the inaugural Best Female Video prize at the 1984 VMAs for " Girls Just Want to Have Fun". An inductee into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Lauper is one of the few singers to win three of the four major American entertainment awards ( EGOT). She has won awards at the Grammys, Emmys, Tonys, the New York's Outer Critics Circle, MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs), Billboard Awards, and American Music Awards (AMAs). Lauper has sold over 50 million records worldwide. In 2016, the West End production won Best New Musical at the Olivier Awards. In 2014, Lauper was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for the cast recording. The musical was awarded five other Tonys including Tony Award for Best New Musical. In 2013, she won the Tony Award for best original score for composing the Broadway musical Kinky Boots, making her the first woman to win the category by herself. In 2010, Memphis Blues became Billboard 's most successful blues album of the year, remaining at number one on the Billboard Blues Albums chart for thirteen consecutive weeks. Since 1983, Lauper has released eleven studio albums and participated in many other projects. In 1989, she had a hit with " I Drove All Night". This album included the number one single " True Colors" and " Change of Heart", which peaked at number three. Her success continued with the soundtrack for the motion picture The Goonies and her second record True Colors (1986). 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. Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper Thornton (born June 22, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist.
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