‘Let The Canary Sing’, a Documentary About Cyndi Lauper is in Production

‘Let The Canary Sing’, a documentary on Cyndi Lauper, is slated to be released soon. The film will follow the singer from her infancy in Queens, New York, to the top of the pop charts in the 1980s and beyond, according to a press release.

Alison Ellwood, who directed 2020’s The Go-Go’s, is in charge of this film. Although no release date has been set, the documentary is rumoured to be in the works at Sony Music Entertainment’s Premium Content Division.

Ellwood said that like many others, he assumed that Cyndi Lauper was another young artist experiencing a meteoric rise to popularity and success thanks to MTV, when she emerged onto the music scene in the early ’80s.

She added that her music videos were wild and colourful, and her songs were infectious, such as ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fun’ [1983]. But, as it turns out, hers is a tale of hard labour, perseverance, and tenacity.

In 2014, NME published a list of ‘35 great Number Two singles that were scandalously beaten to the top spot,’ which included Lauper’s party classic ‘Girls…’

In the United States, it was defeated to the top place by Van Halen’s ‘Jump,’ and in the United Kingdom, it was beaten to the second spot by UB40’s ‘Red Red Wine.’

Lauper also earned a top ten single in the UK with ‘Time After Time’ (number three) and ‘I Drove All Night’ (Number Seven). ‘A Night To Remember’ and ‘Twelve Deadly Cyns…And Then Some’ were both top ten albums in the United Kingdom.

–Silviya.Y