then cyndy, with whom i've worked for 16 year she reminded me that her father was a uranium miner. >>e worked close to 20 years in the mines, not knowing the effects, years on down the road that this would have on them and us. he had good intentions to provide for his family. but the cancer that he was agnosed with was directly related to working in the mines. >> to hear cyndy talk about her dad, it, yeah, just really touched me, you know. that history and the personal impact it had on this family of someone i know closely. so yeah that was the imagery i started working with.rs >> when i fisaw chip's piece, it brought tears to my eyes, really.th to kno it's posted where it's at in phoenix, and then also just north of flagstaff as well is it's a huming experience. and when i got tre to the exhibition itself, it was breathtaking. for me, it important to keep the memory alive, for myen childrmy future grandchildren. i want them to know how my father helped us to become who we are today. >> living here, seeing how many people realize they've not been treated fairly, but they still live in

so thank you, miss lauper. >> jimmy: is cyndi lauper a friend of yours?really long time and i was always a fan of hers, amazing vocals. >> jimmy: she's one of the most amazing underrated singers of all-time. she's also one of those people, you heard her sing, really sing, it was the same kind of reaction we had when we first really heard you sing. it was like, oh my goodness, where did this -- how did this happen? this is like a miraculous voice. [ cheers and applause ] which one of the kids is the better singer? [ laughter ] >> i can't say that, they're going to watch this. my son is like a technological genius. by the way he ordered a dog the other day. >> jimmy: what? >> he went with his father and like -- because i have to control them with ipads. rged $on something. >> jimmy: no he didn't! >> yeah he did, he figures it i'm like, you're 6 years old. the other night he apparently was with nick, he ordered a dog. and nick called and they called him and he was like -- they were like, your dog is ready. he's like, i didn't order a damn dog. >> jimmy: you

new album vocally i started taking lessons from this is going to be a name drop so i apologize but cyndilauper his vocal coach allowed me to do lessons with her my whole time when i was doing the show and so i learned like pulling the tongue out and different ways of singing and accessing different parts of your voice i kind of found practice wasn't sound very funny it was like. basically like if i if i took this let's say this is like a paper towel usually you take this and you put on your tongue and pull out. the so if you start to pull it out it will access these vocal chords apparently. so i have been where probably every fan would love to be in the private living room of brendan's hotel suite anyway he's not fluent in german but he can at least order beer in german and here's my advice if you ever meet brendan jewelry from panic at the disco make sure you have a piece of paper with you that's going to be a big plus thank you. time for the pop explored queer is that you ok and when a couple of awesome c.d.'s if you can tell us who were the original artists was the following song the

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