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The Foundation Music for Rome presents on July 11 this extraordinary concert Memphis Blues Tour by the controversial singer Cyndi Lauper, to be held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica.
The organization has considered this concert as the most important musical event of this summer season in Italy, and seeks to take Lauper together again with the Italian public and lovers of music and the voice of this unique singer, who has Italy in her genes.
Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper, known as Cyndi Lauper, was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1953. She did not have an easy childhood, her mother of Italian-American origin, who she inherited her expressiveness from, worked as a waitress after a marriage breakdown. Cyndi grew up listening to the music of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Judy Garland and the Beatles, an explosive mix for a girl who loved urban sounds.
At the early age of 12 she began writing her own songs, besides playing guitar with virtuosity. The sounds of adolescence and the bustle of the suburbs were the first stimulus to compose love songs. Her desire to excel led her to experiment with clothes and hair, transforming her image radically with odd trends and hair colors, which were then her sign on stage.
She didn’t highlight in the studies and, despite having been accepted into a special school for the training of young talents in audiovisual, she left without finishing her degree. Determined to finish her studies, she made her way to Canada, but her intention was also unsuccessful. She finally finished her art studies at Johnson State College in Vermont.
Her first forays into music were performed in Long Islan, the group Doc West. Unsuccessfully, she moved to the band Flyer to play progressive rock and hard rock like Led Zeppelin, Queen, etc.
In 1976 she recorded her first album, which went unnoticed and she retired from music for a year due to an injury in the vocal cords.
Although her meeting in 1978 with the saxophonist John Turi marked her transformation and led her to sign a contract with Polydor Reccords, she stayed far from shining on stage. Only in 1983 with the album She´s So Unusual would she rank fourth in the United States. Thereafter, Lauper along with Rick Chertoff, Rob Hyman and Eric Bazilian would touch the sky of international stardom.
Her contribution to the campaign against HIV / VHID led her to design a shirt for the second Fashion Against Aids campaign in 2009. As a result of her difficult life and her relationship with at-risk youth during adolescence, she is an advocate of non-discrimination and especially of the rights of gay, bisexual and transgender, launching the 2010 campaign Give a Damm.
For further information http://www.auditorium.com/eventi/4998313
Nancy Guzman
For those staying in apartments in Rome this concert is a must, especially since Cyndi Lauper´s voice represents the non-conformist voice of the 80s and 90s.
