Age: 73
female
Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and LGBT rights activist whose career has spanned over four decades. Her debut solo album She's So Unusual (1983), was an instant commercial success. The album was the first debut female album to chart four top-five hits on the Billboard Hot 100—"Girls Just Want to Have Fun", "Time After Time", "She Bop", and "All Through the Night," earning Lauper the Best New Artist award at the 27th Grammy Awards in 1985. Her success continued with her second record, True Colors (1986), which included the number one hit of the same name and "Change of Heart," which peaked at number 3 and earned Lauper two nominations at the 29th Grammy Awards in 1987. Since 1989, Lauper has released nine studio albums to varying critical acclaim; and has participated in several other projects. Her most recent album, the Grammy-nominated Memphis Blues, became Billboard's most successful blues album of the year, remaining at number one on the "Billboard" blues charts for 13 consecutive weeks. In 2011, Lauper released an autobiography detailing her battle with child abuse and depression; which became New York Times Best Seller. In 2013, Lauper completed writing both the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical Kinky Boots, which led it to the 2013 Tony Awards with 13 nominations, and won six awards including Best Musical. The musical also won Best Score making Lauper the first woman to win the composing category solo. In 2013, she became the first artist to top the dance charts with a Broadway single in over 25 years. Over the course of her career, Lauper has released over 40 singles and (as of 2011) has sold more than 80 million albums, 20 million singles, and 1 million DVDs. She has won Grammy, Emmy, Tony, MTV VMA awards, Billboard and AMA. In 1999 VH1 ranked Lauper No. 58 of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll. Lauper is also one of only twenty artists to achieve "GET" status by winning competitive Grammy, Emmy and Tony awards.
The world stops on the American day of Independence, 1999. Upon the river of Padma, in the Bengali region, a devastating battle is fought between the kuei jinn and the newly-awakened antediluvian of the Ravnos, Zapathasura. For three days it rages, and kills, until the intervention of the Technocracy with neutron bombs destroy the bodhisattvas covering the skies with clouds. Weakened by the fight and the blasts, the eldest Ravnos succumbs. That is where the canon ends. ⠀ The End of Man India detects the nuclear blasts, and reports come in of the complete destruction of Rahsahi. Two million dead, there could be no question of the cause in their minds. The small-scale exchange of nuclear weapons between India and Pakistan quickly spills over into China, Russia, and onward. There is no restraint, there is no consideration of de-escalation or loss of civilian life. The effect is total, nearly half of the global population disappears in a flash. People are crushed in their home, flash-fried if close enough or caught in the firestorm as the flames engulf every flammable structure. Then the true dying begins.
