The True Colors 35th anniversary expanded digital edition includes the original album in its entirety plus two bonus tracks: Junior Vasquez' Pride Remix of "True Colors" and "Heading for the Moon," the original B-side of the "True Colors" single, released on DSPs for the first time. There is an official lyric video for "Heading for the Moon" and a customized "True Colors" Instagram filter for fans to help mark the occasion, now live through her Instagram account.
Originally released October 14, 1986 on Portrait (Epic Records' sister label), True Colors, Cyndi Lauper's second solo studio album, lived up to the promise of her Best New Artist Grammy-winning debut, She's So Unusual, released three years earlier, also on October 14 (1983).
True Colors reached #4 on the Billboard 200 and has sold more than seven million copies worldwide. In the United States, the True Colors album has been certified 2x platinum by the RIAA. The RIAA has certified the "True Colors" single platinum as of October 14, 2021.
Two tracks from the album earned Grammy Award nominations: "True Colors" for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and "911" for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.
The title track was first released as a 7" single in late summer 1986, hitting #1 on the Billboard Hot 100), alongside original songs (most cowritten by Cyndi including "Change of Heart," which peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100) and classic soul covers (Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" and the Dixie Cups' "Iko Iko").
True Colors the title track, co-authored by the 1980's hit songwriting team Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, has been embraced for the past three decades as an anthem of liberation in the LGBTQ community.
With Cyndi Lauper providing lead vocals and arrangements, True Colors features contributions from guest artists including Nile Rodgers (guitars: "Change of Heart"); Rick Derringer (guitars: "Calm Inside the Storm," which he cowrote with Cyndi, and "The Faraway Nearby"); Adrian Belew (guitars and arrangements: "What's Going On"); The Bangles (backing vocals: "Change of Heart"); Billy Joel (backing vocals: "Maybe He'll Know"); Ellie Greenwich (backing vocals: "Calm Inside the Storm"); Aimee Mann (backing vocals: "The Faraway Nearby") and others.
Cyndi was also credited as an art director for True Colors, which featured cover photography by Annie Leibovitz.
In 2008, following the success of her multi-artist True Colors Tour for LGBTQ equality, Cyndi Lauper co-founded (formerly True Colors Fund), a nonprofit organization addressing the issue of youth homelessness. TCU focuses on the unique experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) youth, who make up 40% of the homeless youth population in America.
Cyndi Lauper has been called "an iconoclastic vocalist who revolutionized the role of women in rock and roll" by AllMusic's Lindsay Planer. Cyndi's sold more than 50 million records worldwide and won awards at the Grammys, Emmys, Tonys, the New York's Outer Critics Circle, MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs), Billboard Awards, Billboard's Women In Music Icon Award, the 2019 High Note Global Prize issued by United Nations Human Rights, and American Music Awards (AMAs). She's been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and was awarded a star on the the Hollywood Walk of Fame in April 2016.
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