Cyndi Lauper
When: 8th February 2025
Location: OVO Hydro
Cyndi Lauper is a songwriter, actor, activist and, with her bright and colourful clothing and hairstyles, remains an 80s pop favourite for many across the world. Coming to Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on 8th February 2025.
Cyndi Lauper: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour
Having sold over 50 million records over a career spanning four decades, Lauper has garnered many accolades many pop stars dream of. Her 1985 debut album She’s So Unusual was the first by a female artist to boast four top five hits on the Billboard 100 – ‘Time After Time’, ‘She Bop’, ‘All Through The Night’ and ‘Girls Just Want To Have Fun’ – songs that perfectly encapsulate the fun and freedom of the decade’s new wave pop. It won her her first Grammy award, and as the years go by it keeps creeping up the ranks of Rolling Stone‘s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Further hits came on 1985’s True Colours, notably its title track.
Lauper is also known as the composer and songwriter of the 2012 Broadway smash Kinky Boots, which scooped six wins at the 2013 Tony Awards, including Best Original Score, as well as Best Musical Theater Album at the 2014 Grammy Awards. Lauper has also featured in various films and television shows, both as herself and as a host of characters.
A zealous champion of the gay and queer community, in 2008 Lauper founded True Colors United, which seeks to tackle homelessness in the LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities.
June 2024 saw the release of Let the Canary Sing, a Paramount+ documentary about Lauper’s career, alongside a soundtrack that included ‘Time After Time’, ‘She Bop’ and other classics. Lauper also announced her last ever tour, the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour. Dates in Manchester, London, Birmingham and Belfast were announced as part of the European leg.
