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I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.
Cyndi Lauper
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Cyndi Lauper
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 22
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Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper
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