To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video Despite being one of the biggest stars of the 80s , Cyndi Lauper couldn’t fathom making a documentary about her life. The 70-year-old singer recently announced she had decided to go on a farewell tour this year, across 23 cities. However, her decision to make a documentary about her life was not so straightforward as Cyndi was incredibly reluctant at first.
‘Well I’m not dead,’ she said to Alex Jones on Friday night’s The One Show after the presenter questioned her about this hesitation. As those around her burst into laughter, the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun legend continued: ‘I just felt like I don’t think so! And then they said well if you’re alive then you can tell them what’s wrong, you know, fact-check.’ Of course, she did eventually agree and Cyndi Lauper: Let The Canary Sing is being released on Paramount Plus this month.
Cyndi shared: ‘It’s a documentary but not an auto-documentary so actually it’s done by this wonderful filmmaker, Alison Ellwood.’ The True Colours hitmaker explained she had watched one of Alison’s documentaries while in lockdown and really loved her style. ‘I thought well if you’re going to do that let me work with a real filmmaker,’ Cyndi reasoned in her matter-of-fact manner.
Her approach was very hands-off, except for providing family pictures and videos which were particularly moving for the star. She fou.
