She’s So Unusual  by Cyndi Lauper

One of the leading figures in the 1983 pop & rock scene in the USA - and beyond - was the Brooklyn-born Cyndi Lauper with her debut album, titled She's So Unusual. This particular album made history as it had four singles in the Billboard Top-5, something that had never happened before for a female singer.

She's So Unusual is now considered one of the legendary albums of the 1980s. The musical style of the album falls somewhere between new wave and synth-pop. The iconic album cover is a photograph by Anna-Lou Leibovitz, taken in the summer of 1983 at Coney Island in front of the Wax Museum.

The album remained in the Billboard Top-40 for 65 weeks. In the United States, it sold over 7,000,000 copies, while worldwide it counts a total of 16,000,000 copies. Not bad at all for a thirty-year-old, who a few years earlier had gone bankrupt due to poor professional handling.