Cyndi Lauper is on tour in Japan. Earthquake, Tsunami, mass exodus of Americans, nyuclear leakage, another eqrthquake, reactor meltdowns, and Cyndi Lauper is still playing everynight.
When you want to discuss charity, this and Slash, performing in the face of fear, when they could easily turn tail and flee (Ke$ha cancelled her tour), sucked it up and went on.
I spent the day with Cyndi once, hust before She's So Unsual broke big,
I met her at her apartment on the West side and we went to a studio in New Jersey where Uncle Floyd was filming.
Cyndi was just wonderful.
This is what she twitted from Japan: "We would like to… acknowledge the professional and inspiring behaviour in which my crew, my band and the Kyoto promotion staff have… conducted themselves in this time of crisis. Although we are, what I think, is not in harms way). Winds continue to blow east. My band has never played better. And so I am lucky to have such extraordinary peeps around me…"
See, this is what we can get behind. This is how you stand by Japan. Not by playing 12 hours concerts here, play two hour concerts there and you will help them more than you'll ever know.
She adds, "Instead of constantly promoting fear I thought I'd show how things are continuing here. Of course we are worried about the nuclear situation, but promoting fear will not help."