Cyndi Lauper: “It was surreal to be close to all those stars”
Cyndi lauper was dazzled by the stars during the recording of ‘We are the world‘. The iconapop of the 80s – famous for the successes “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” And “Time After Time” – He experienced a unique experience in the same room as the great artists with whom he participated in the iconic charity song in 1985.
So he recalled that session during the podcast “Jam Nation with Jonesy and Amanda”: “They are standing there and basically I was at the bottom of the row and I am looking at Diana Ross … and then Paul Simon .. And still Bruce Springsteen, one after the other. And I’m there, a little stuck, because I couldn’t believe that they were so little distance from me. It was so surreal. ”
The greatest artists of the time joined “We Are The World” with the name of Use for Africa In January 1985. When the song was published, he collected millions of dollars in humanitarian aid for Africa and reached position no. 1 of the Billboard Hot 100.
Together with the lauper – who was 31 years old at the time and was a pop star who had already published his two main hits “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and “Time After Time” – Artists of the caliber of Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, the deceased king of pop Michael Jackson and Dionne Warwick participated in the disc.
The presence of all these big names has made lauper nervous at the time of its recording shift. “When my moment arrived – he remembered – I didn’t know what I was doing. I let myself go, why I couldn’t believe it. I want to say, Steve Perry? Daryl Hall? … Everyone.”
Lauper then praised the deceased Quincy Joneswho organized “We are the world”.
He said: “This was the genius of Quincy, who put all these people together in a circle”.
The lauper also declared that witnessing the success of all the singers who collaborated on “We Are The World” in the following years was “rather surprising”.
The “True Colors” singer had already talked about the experience of “We are the world” in the documentary “The Greatest Night in pop” published last year, a vision of the backstage of the creation of the song.
He added: “They went out with the documentary and I thought: ‘Woah, wait. How old do I have?”.
The pop star, today seventy -one, is preparing to give farewell to her historic singer career With his latest tour, the “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour”, started in October a Montreal, in Canada.
“The idea of making this tour was to bring people to gather farewell in style, with a joyful experience. To make them laugh, make them cry and make them dance”.
Recently Lauper brought to the stage Boy George To perform “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”, at the end of the London concert.
The Australian stage of the farewell tour will start on April 2 in Melbourne, Australia, and then moved on to perform in Japan.
The final phase of the tour in the United States begins on July 15th in Buffalo, New York, and on August 30th he will perform at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
