Claim: Cyndi Lauper is an American singer.

`` True Colors '' is a song written by American songwriters Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly . It was both the title track and the first single released from American singer Cyndi Lauper 's second album . It was the only original song on the album that Lauper did not help write .   `` True Colors '' spent two weeks in the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 , and was the last single from Lauper to occupy the top of the chart . It received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance .