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Back in the game
The singer took time away from the timelight. Now, she's released 'Hat Full Of Stars'. 'This album's about my life', she says

Cyndi Lauper is the untutored poet of the New York streets. Her speech rings with the "ya gottas" and "ya haftas" of the hardscrabble outer boroughs. Her head swims with the images of ignorance and abuse she encountered growing up there.

 

Lauper, the colorful urban urchin who skipped and pranced her way through the city, outfitted in rainbow hues (and with rainbow hair), in her "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" video nearly 10 years ago, lives by a peaceful pond in Connecticut now with her husband.