European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine Cyndi Lauper just wants to be a real artist Byran Spotnitz United press International Cyndi who is almost As famous for her outrageous ragtag wardrobe As her ability to Belt out a has gone from bankruptcy to Best new artist in less than two the ascension for the 31yearold Catholic High school dropout from has been accompanied by a Media Blitz including stints on the Johnny Carson and Ruth Westheimer and television wrestling Lauper has yet to Cash in on the obvious merchandising potential her clanging Breed of fashion but that not stopping department stores and designers who figure the next Best thing to the Lauper name is the Lauper rows of boutiques in new Yorks Greenwich Village and even big department stores display the Paisley and rhinestones that Lauper and her pals wore in her joyous girls just want to have fun Lauper is not pleased to see people profiting on her and she refuses to give her endorsement to Cyndi Lauper Cyndi Lauper makeup or Cyndi Lauper at least for if i did i would give it More thought than a lot of these people who Are just trying to Cash in and get a Quick Lauper said standing on the Patio of a Central Park the offers have been pouring paupers manager and David said she has been pitched everything from writing a Cookbook with her Mother to Selling her own brands of clothing and he said there Are no firm no firm commit ments and Lauper said that because i dont want to be commercial like i want to be a real my integrity is real her feelings about seeing her wild wardrobe and Ever changing hair colors Bright yellow and Orange one tastefully pastel colors of the Rainbow the next become a National phenomenon Are More difficult to sort i can walk Down a Block and see everything Ive Ever worn in a Lauper i its amazing to see in blown and then i feel bad because i what am i Gonna Wear on this Lauper is wearing a Black Blouse studded with Pink an ammunition plaid Black velvet boots that Stop at the ankle to show red mirrored sunglasses and enough jewelry to sink a Small her hair is multicoloured and her Mas Cara Blue on one rust on the other starts at the eyelid and keeps going until it bumps into her she is in her Nice she because she is accepting the Ford Mustang that comes with being named Best new artist by rolling Stone she gamely poses for pictures with Ford executives at the but tries to make Clear As tactfully As she can that this is not an endorsement of the i dont know How to she As patrons even in this pricey restaurant gawk at her from their Lauper seems comfortable with her Only two years she was filing for bankruptcy after having lost her voice and then lost her then came the Solo Shes so which has sold 4 million Lauper has been constantly in the Public Eye since the video for the albums first girls just want to have made the song a the press has hailed her As the Leader of the new pack of women and feminists have praised her for stressing individuality Over unlike fellow Fash Ion plate Rocker some fear paupers flamboyant image May Cross into a cartoon character like the wrestling personalities she includes in her music videos and has brought with her to awards she bristles when an outfit of hers is called a to it is a uniform to show she wants people to in not going to buy the thing off the rack because you Tell me that looks in going to buy what i think looks Good and put together things that i because that creative and i guess that part of music and maybe i dont but i get you know Cyndi has been dressing like this and wearing her hair differently for Long before she became a Wolff she didst do this As any kind of a shtick like that on stage and off the River from the Ozone Park Section of Queens where her divorced Mother raised elder and younger often working late into the night to make ends Cyndi held a variety of jobs waitress and race track attendant among them before finding work singing backup in a third rate band in by shed Sung her voice raw and needed lessons to bring it Back from a Lauper then met a songwriter named John Turi at a nightclub and formed a band called Blue specializing in 50sstyle their one and Only album was released in 1980 and fell Fiat the band followed Lauper filed for bankruptcy to Ward off a debt claimed by the bands manager about the time her Solo Shes so was released in late girls just want to have fun debuted on mtg on 12 of that year and paupers career has boomed since she has just finished a music video and two songs for the Steven Spielberg and is hard at work on a second video for the video was originally a promotional but i never look at it like Lauper i look at it As an Art form and i kill myself to make sure that it stays that she also is starting to organize and write material for her second due next and a single or a min album of Christmas songs will be released for the while Lauper has had Complete creative control Over her she has collaborated with other both in the development of her videos and in the writing of her songs on Shes so several of which she Jules who wrote paupers hit All through the night and co wrote her kiss remembers working with her for the first i think we were both pretty nervous about gelling together and trying to do this Shear then we ripped off two songs in the first she was extremely of and had no fear about coming up with six different variations for a line and me saying that five of them were shed just great one of them wow and i thought that was a great i guess the reason in working so much is that in getting a Chance to be involved in All these things and Lauper i cant pass in getting to do what Ive always wanted to i want to create in every shape and in just that Dpi photo w Lauper now lives in just across from bankruptcy to Best Cyndi has used a Media Blitz to get to top in two August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 13