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Cyndi Lauper delivers hopeful speech during New Year’s Eve show
Cyndi Lauper spoke about her optimism for 2021, as well as performing two songs, at a New Year’s Eve show in New York.Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, broadcast live from Times Square, initially saw the ‘Time After Time’ singer team up with Billy Porter – alongside whom Lauper had previously collaborated on the 2013 Broadway musical version of Kinky Boots – to perform an acoustic rendition of her 1986 Number One hit ‘True Colors’.“This has been a year of great loss,” Lauper said, introducing her second song of the evening, ‘Hope’. “But in my heart, I feel that if we stick together, we just stick together and help each other, we can make it through.