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True Colors

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ404211
Source-derived summary

True Colors or True Colours may refer to:

Music

Cyndi Lauper

True Colors (Cyndi Lauper album), 1986

"True Colors" (Cyndi Lauper song), the title track

True Colors (concert tour), an annual music event created by her

True Colors: The Best of Cyndi Lauper, 2009

Zedd

True Colors (Zedd album), 2015

"True Colors" (Zedd song), 2015

True Colors Tour, a concert tour by him

Other artists

True Colors, 2019 EP by Alba

True Colors (EP), 2019 EP by Yunho

Albums

True Colours (High Contrast album), 2002 album

True Colours (Level 42 album), 1984

True Colours (Split Enz album), 1980 album

True Colours, a 2005 album by Smujji

True Colors: The Best of Sonic the Hedgehog Part 2, a compilation album of songs from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise

Songs

"True Colours" (Go West song), 1986

"True Colours", by Becky Hill from Believe Me Now?

"True Colours", by Studio Killers from Studio Killers

"True Colors", by The Weeknd from Starboy

"True Colors", by Wage War from Manic

Film and television

Film

True Colors (film), a 1991 film directed by Herbert Ross

TV series

True Colors (American TV series), a 1990–92 American television series

True Colours (Australian TV series), a 2022 Australian television series

TV episodes

"True Colors" (The Adventures of Super Mario Bros.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “True Colors” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through True, Colors and Wikimedia, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 2009, 2015, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, True, Colors and Wikimedia is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from True Colors” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.