In a 'Rolling Stone' Musicians on Musicians feature, Lauper told Gracie Abrams that she would "sit and play guitar" when her mother asked her to clean Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cindi Lauper in 1984. (Credit: Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images) In an ’80s pop landscape full of enormous talents and ...

Songwriters are the unsung heroes of the musical world. While plenty of artists and bands write their own material, just as many use songwriters to write or co-write the tracks that would propel them ...

“I clean the house, and while I’m cleaning, all this stuff comes to me. I don’t know why.” Cleaning has always inspired Cyndi Lauper to write songs. “Mother used to say to ‘Please clean up the room,’ ...