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Cyndi Lauper, American singer songwriter, actress and activist, chooses the Tracks of My Years in an interview first broadcast in 2011. She had just released her tenth studio album 'Memphis Blues' which was voted the seventh best album of 2010 by the New York Post and it went on to become Billboard's biggest selling blues album of 2010. To support the album, Cyndi made her biggest tour ever, the Memphis Blues Tour, which had more than 140 shows and covered every inhabited continent of the world. Cyndi's career has spanned over forty years. Her album 'She's So Unusual' from 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 her the Best New Artist award at the 27th Grammy Awards in 1985. Her success continued with the soundtrack for the motion picture 'The Goonies' and her second album 'True Colors from 1986. The single 'True Colors' went to number one in America and peaked at number 12 in the UK.

Cyndi is known for her distinctive image, featuring a variety of hair colours and eccentric clothing and for her powerful and distinctive four-octave singing range. She has been celebrated for her humanitarian work, particularly as an advocate for LGBT rights in the United States. Her charitable efforts were acknowledged in 2013 when she was invited as a special guest to attend U.S. President Barack Obama's second-term inauguration. Her next two chosen tracks come from Squeeze and Luther Vandross.

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