Cyndi Lauper to launch farewell tour in Montreal in October

Singer Cyndi Lauper will launch her farewell tour in Montreal in October.

Lauper will kick off a 23-show run at Montreal’s Bell Centre on Oct. 18.

The tour, entitled “Ladies Simply Wanna Have Enjoyable” after one in every of her most well-known songs, additionally features a cease in Toronto on Oct. 20.

She is going to then journey throughout the U.S., earlier than concluding the tour in Chicago on Dec. 5.

The tour coincides with the launch of a documentary on the 70-year-old artist’s profession. The characteristic movie “The Canary Sings” can be broadcast from Tuesday on the Paramount + platform.

Lauper’s profession exploded within the Eighties, with hits “Time after Time” and “She Bops,” songs she co-wrote, along with the mega-hit “Ladies Simply Need to Have Enjoyable.”

She additionally contributed to the musical “Kinky Boots,” which received six Tony Awards in 2013. Lauper picked up the award for Greatest Unique Rating.

The artist was inducted into the Songwriters Corridor of Fame in 2015, and her album “She’s so Uncommon” was added to the Library of Congress’s Nationwide Recording Registry in 2018.

This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed in French on June 3, 2024.