According to an article in BANG Showbiz, Cyndi Lauper has become the latest rock/pop music icon to head to Nashville to record an album of country music.
On the pop side, Lauper’s 1983 debut solo album She’s So Unusual was the first debut female album to chart four Top 5 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 – Girls Just Want to Have Fun (#2), Time After Time (#1), She Bop (#3) and All Through the Night (#5).
Her second album, True Colors, although not as commercially successful as She’s So Unusual, produced two more Top 5 singles on Billboard; the title track (#1) and Change Of Heart (#3).
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With obviously serious intentions for making the transition, Cyndi, who’s career has spanned over 30 years, has recruited veteran producer Tony Brown, who’s list of client artists includes country music heavyweights Brooks & Dunn, Vince Gill, Patty Loveless, Reba McEntire, George Strait, Wynonna, Tricia Yearwood and many others.
Also on Brown’s resume is a stint as part of Elvis Presley‘s backing group The TCB Band, and as a backup singer for Emmylou Harris.
Perhaps showing her ‘true colors,’ Lauper, 62, admits –
“I want to record all those songs I used to sing my guts out in my apartment to!”
And, on Tuesday night (9/15) while speaking at the UK Adelphi Theatre premiere of her musical ‘Kinky Boots‘ (for which she won a Tony Award for ‘Best Original Score’ in 2013 for the Broadway version) Lauper told BANG –
“I don’t know if you listen to country music, but I want to work with Seymour Stein – he was the co-founder of Sire Records – and I’ve always wanted to work with him. So I figure while I’ve still got teeth in my mouth let me go work with him!”
Stein has also helped launch the careers of Madonna, The Ramones and The Pretenders, among many other pop and rock legends.
You’ll hear the countri-fied Cyndi Lauper sometime in 2016.
