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While she has now worked in musical formats as diverse as Broadway, pop, dance and blues, as well as having done both acting and reality TV (the latter as a contestant on The Celebrity Apprentice), Lauper says that to her, вЂњPerformance art is performance art вЂ¦ ItвЂ™s all about the story.вЂќ Being just one award away from the coveted EGOT designation (for those renowned few who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award), Lauper admits, вЂњI want that Oscar,вЂќ and hopes to land it someday as a film composer. That list, she says, almost certainly includes writing another Broadway show following the success of her hit Kinky Boots. 4 on Top Country Albums) and whatвЂ™s left on the bucket list for a star who has already earned Grammy, Emmy and Tony Awards. The cotton candy-haired Lauper, looking utterly ageless at 62, sat down with Billboard in Nashville to talk about the origins of the project (which was released May 6 on Sire/Rhino and debuts at No. вЂњItвЂ™s a real singerвЂ™s album.вЂќД¬yndi Lauper Explains How She's Forcing Change In North Carolina: Watch вЂњIt was exciting to come here and make a record thatвЂ™s an homage to country,вЂќ says Lauper of Nashville. Sire Records founder Seymour Stein served as both the projectвЂ™s executive producer and its instigator. Lauper recorded the album in Nashville with veteran country producer Tony Brown and a crop of Music CityвЂ™s A-list session players. That she happens to have enlisted country luminaries including Willie Nelson, Vince Gill and Emmylou Harris, bluegrass superstar Alison Krauss and pop-turned-country chanteuse Jewel for the project merely adds heft to her purpose as she lends her vocal skills to songs both famous (вЂњI Fall to Pieces,вЂќ вЂњHeartaches by the NumberвЂќ) and somewhat obscure (вЂњYouвЂ™re the Reason Our Kids Are UglyвЂќ), largely culled from the вЂ™40s, вЂ™50s and вЂ™60s.

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Just to clear the air, Cyndi Lauper is not the latest in a long string of pop stars attempting to вЂњgo country.вЂќ Her new release, Detour, an album full of classic country song covers, is less an indicator of the veteran pop starвЂ™s desire to change genres than it is a sincere homage to a dozen tunes she grew up listening to on a transistor radio in her auntвЂ™s kitchen and falling in love with.

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