--- description: "Here I am/ Just like I said I would be," sings Cyndi Lauper on True Colors, the recent follow-up to her 1983 debut solo album. And now, just as she hoped, the True Colors title ballad is No. 1 on the... title: People: Nov. 3, 1986 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # People: Nov. 3, 1986 (6707597) by [Guy D. Garcia](/author/guy-d-garcia/) Nov 3, 1986 5:00 AM CUT by [Guy D. Garcia](/author/guy-d-garcia/) Nov 3, 1986 5:00 AM CUT “Here I am/ Just like I said I would be,” sings Cyndi Lauper on True Colors, the recent follow-up to her 1983 debut solo album. And now, just as she hoped, the True Colors title ballad is No. 1 on the Billboard singles chart, while the album has reached No. 8\. The flamboyant singer, who recently posed for a saucy array of promotional shots, is in Italy working on a new video to keep the record rolling. Good as Lauper is at grabbing the eye on a half shell, her artistic rival Madonna found a way to reach the video generation without shelling out anything. She held a “Make My Video” contest on MTV, and more than 1,000 entries poured in. Last week a black-and-white amateur production set to her song True Blue won a $25,000 cash prize. Madonna immediately challenged the winning team from Florida to try again. “So you think you can make my next video for under $1,000?” asked the Material Girl. “If you can, we have something to talk about.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6707597/people-nov-3-1986-3/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6707597/people-nov-3-1986-3/"},"headline":"People: Nov. 3, 1986 (6707597)","datePublished":"1986-11-03T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-22T06:11:38.348Z","description":"\"Here I am/ Just like I said I would be,\" sings Cyndi Lauper on True Colors, the recent follow-up to her 1983 debut solo album. And now, just as she hoped, the True Colors title ballad is No. 1 on the...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6707597/people-nov-3-1986-3/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Guy D. Garcia","url":"https://time.com/author/guy-d-garcia/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6707597/people-nov-3-1986-3/","name":"People: Nov. 3, 1986 (6707597)"}}]}] ```