About Cindy from the early years

Cindy Bullens (born Cynthia Bullens March
21, 1955 - died as a female gender Cynthia

Bullens from surgery and transition September

1, 2011) was an American singer-songwriter who

grew up in Massachusetts. Bullens released two

albums in the late 1970s on United Artists and

Casablanca and another in 1989. Bullens' 1978

debut album, Desire Wire is described flatly by

William Ruhlmann for Allmusic as: "One of the

great lost rock albums of the 1970s, Bullens'

debut release is full of tough, passionate,

incredibly catchy rock & roll played to the hilt

and sung with fire". These early albums

anticipated later work by a host of 1980s female

and female-identified rock artists, from Pat

Benatar, to Blondie, to the Go-Go's, to Headpins.

In 1974, Bullens performed background vocals on

Gene Clark's album No Other and as one of the

Sex-O-Lettes on the debut album by

Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes. Bullens also

served as a backup vocalist on Rod Stewart's

Atlantic Crossing and with Elton John on three

major tours, as well as his album Blue Moves

and his hit with Kiki Dee,"Don't Go Breaking My

Heart" (both released in 1976). Bullens provided vocals on three songs("It's Raining on Prom Night," "Mooning," and "Freddy, My Love") on the soundtrack of the 1977 feature film, Grease. The album release Grease was nominated for the 1979 Grammy Award for "Album of the Year".In 1980, she earned another Grammy nomination (as "best female rock singer") for her single "Survivor". In January 1980, Bullens hit the Billboard Hot 100 with the song "Trust Me." It peaked at #90. Bullens withdrew from the music business in the early 1980s to raise a family, returning in the early and mid-1990s as a songwriter and then later as a touring and recording artist. Since 1999, Bullens has toured extensively all over the US, Canada, Europe and Australia, has appeared on several major TV shows, including Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Today Show, and CBS This Morning and many radio and TV stations around the world. Bullens is featured in two documentaries, On This Island and Space Between Breaths (and scored the music). Bullens wrote the musical Islands in 2000, which played on Broadway for a special performance at the New Victory Theater in September 2001, two weeks after 9/11.