Chappell Roan ‘Honored’ to Induct Cyndi Lauper into Rock Hall of Fame

Roan made her love of “True Colors” part of her presence at the Rock Hall ceremony. She combined replicas of two outfits Lauper wore in the video for the song, showing up in a skirt made of torn-up newspaper and an elaborate chandelier-like headpiece. 

In her speech, Roan celebrated Lauper’s “courage” as an artist, which “not only creates incredible art that gives everyone who experiences it the permission to be themselves — it opens their hearts, it changes their mind, and that is its power.” 

While Roan is certainly one of Lauper’s pop progeny, Lauper has also raved about Roan. In an interview with Playbill last year, Lauper said of Roan’s music, “Such dusky, yearning keyboard pop… This is just incredible.”

Following Roan’s introduction, Lauper sang “True Colors” and “Time After Time,” accompanied by Raye on the latter. Avril Lavigne and fellow inductees, Salt-N-Pepa, also joined for Lauper’s final song, “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.”