Happy Birthday to American Grammy Award singer-song writer, actress, and LGBT activist, Cynthia Ann "Cyndi" Stephanie Lauper who turns 62 years young today.

Cyndi is married to actor David Thorton and they have one adult son, Declyne.  

Cyndi is still touring today.

I copied a list of her accomplishments from Wikipedia: 

Lauper has established herself as a pop icon^[5] winning awards at the Grammy, Emmy, Tony, New York's Outer Critics Circle, MTV VMA, Billboard, and AMA awards.^[6] Lauper won the inaugural Best Female Video prize at the 1984 VMAs for Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. This music video is recognized by MTV, VH1 and Rolling Stone as one of the greatest ever music videos.^{[7][8][9][10]} She is featured in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum's Women Who Rock exhibit.^[11] Her debut album is included in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time,^[12] while Time After Time is included in Vh1's list of the 100 Best Songs of the Past 25 years.^[13] VH1 has ranked Lauper No. 58 of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll.^[14]