American singer-songwriter born June 22, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York. Distinguished by her four-octave vocal range, deliberately unconventional fashion sense, and the way her recordings consistently spanned pop, rock, dance, blues, country, and standards.
Released twelve solo studio albums between She's So Unusual (1983) and Detour (2016). Commercial peak: She's So Unusual (the first debut album by a female solo artist to produce four top-five US singles — "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," "Time After Time," "She Bop," and "All Through the Night") and True Colors (1986). Co-wrote the songs for the Broadway musical Kinky Boots (2013), winning a Tony Award. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2015.
