Cyndi Lauper Documentary Let the Canary Sing within the Works

Cyndi Lauper is the topic of a forthcoming career-retrospective documentary titled Let the Canary Sing. It’s directed by Alison Ellwood, who additionally oversaw the 2019 Go-Go’s documentary and a two-part documentary concerning the Laurel Canyon scene for Epix in 2020. The undertaking doesn’t but have a launch date, however is in manufacturing through Sony Music Leisure’s Premium Content material Division.

Based on a press launch, Let the Canary Sing will cowl the pop star’s ascent from her Queens upbringing to the highest of the pop charts within the Eighties and past. Ellwood shared a press release concerning the undertaking:

Like many individuals, I assumed when Cyndi Lauper burst onto the music scene within the early ’80s, that she was one other younger star experiencing a meteoric rise to fame and success due to MTV. Her music movies had been wild and colourful, her songs like “Ladies Simply Wish to Have Enjoyable” had been infectious. However because it seems, her story is one in every of exhausting knocks, exhausting work and dogged willpower.  Cyndi wished her voice not simply to be listened to, however a voice to be heard. The documentary shall be a full portrait of Cyndi Lauper – her “True Colours” shining by way of.

Alongside together with her music profession, Lauper has been an energetic advocate for LGBTQIA+ inclusive causes. The United Nations Human Rights Council and the Excessive Be aware World Initiative honored her for her work with the Excessive Be aware World Prize in 2019.