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1953: June 22nd Cyndi Lauper (full name: Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper Thornton), is born in Brooklyn-New York on June 22nd 1953 (note that a lot of biogaphies are wrong at this purpose: this is the correct date). Her father is named Fred Lauper, her mother Catrine Dominique (present in several videos), her sister Elen Lauper (this one was, in politics, a member of the Socialist Workers Party and she was a candidate for the mayor of Phoenix. She is now an accupuncturist in Glendale) and her brother Fred (nicknamed as Butch). Cyndi took up playing the guitar and writing lyrics at the age of twelve. The first song she learnt to play was "Greensleeves". She went to 4 high schools. The one that gave her the honorary high school diploma was Richmond Hill High School in Richmond Hill, NY. 1977 In the mid-seventies she performed as a vocalist with various cover bands in the New York metropolitan ...