EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ has acquired the Cyndi Lauper documentary Let the Canary Sing and has set the premiere date for June 4 within the U.S. and Canada; the UK, Australia, Latin America, Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria can watch a day later.
Deadline has your first take a look at the trailer above.
Moreover, a companion album of the identical title might be launched by Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Leisure. Tracks embrace lots of her songs from her days in Blue Angel to her breakout single “Ladies Simply Need to Have Enjoyable,” to “True Colours” and “I Drove All Night time,” to call just a few.
Cyndi Lauper, ‘Let The Canary Sing’
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Directed by Emmy Award-winning documentarian Alison Ellwood, Let the Canary Sing “chronicles Lauper’s meteoric ascent to stardom and her profound affect on generations by means of her music, ever-evolving punk model, unwavering feminism and tireless advocacy. The documentary takes the viewers on a fascinating exploration of a famend and pioneering artist who has left a exceptional legacy together with her artwork,” a launch from the streamer shares.
Ellwood’s credit embrace the two-part documentary Laurel Canyon, concerning the music scene that flourished within the Hollywood Hills neighborhood within the Sixties, and The Go-Go’s, concerning the all-female pop band that had been contemporaries of Lauper.
“Through the years I’ve been requested to do a documentary about my life and work, nevertheless it by no means felt like the best time. Till now,” shared Lauper. “Once I first met Alison Ellwood, I knew straight away I may belief her to inform my story actually, which was extremely vital to me, and she or he succeeded in that. I’d prefer to thank Alison, the producers and all the superb documentary members who agreed to be interviewed.”
The title stems from a lawsuit Lauper confronted greater than 40 years in the past after she went solo following her time with Blue Angel. The choose who resolved the case mentioned of Lauper, “Let the canary sing.”
The documentary is produced by Wonderful Level Movies (The Go-Go’s, No Stone Unturned) with Trevor Birney, Eimhear O’Neill, Andrew Tully and Alison Ellwood. Government producers additionally embrace Lisa Barbaris and Gregory P. Cimino II, Esq; Tom Mackay, Richard Story and Rebecca Teitel for Sony Music Leisure; Sophia Dilley and Wesley Adams for Harmony Originals. Sony Music Imaginative and prescient is the distributor.
Lauper additionally seems within the new documentary The Best Night time in Pop, now streaming on Netflix, concerning the making of the landmark charity single “We Are the World.” She is joined within the movie by Bruce Springsteen, Kenny Loggins, Dionne Warwick, Huey Lewis, Smokey Robinson, and others recalling the evening in January 1985 after they recorded one in every of pop music’s most celebrated songs.