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| Pop legend Madonna World Music Image |
Born Madonna Louise Ciccone
August 16, 1958 (age 57)
Bay City, Michigan, U.S.
Residence New York City, New York, U.S.
Other names
Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone
(Catholic confirmation name)[1]
Alma mater University of Michigan
Occupation
Singer songwriter actress businesswoman author director record producer philanthropist dancer
Years active 1979–present
Home town Rochester Hills, Michigan, U.S.
Net worth U.S. $520 million (May 2015 estimate)[2]
Spouse(s)
Sean Penn (m. 1985; div. 1989)
Guy Ritchie (m. 2000; div. 2008)
Partner(s) Carlos Leon (1995–97)
Children 4
Relatives Christopher Ciccone (brother)
Website madonna.com
Musical career
Genres
Pop electronic rock
Instruments
Vocals guitar
Labels
Sire Warner Bros. Maverick Live Nation Interscope
Associated acts
Breakfast Club Emmy
Pop sound writer Singer was born in Bay City, Cards on August 16, 1958. In 1981, she went unaccompanied as a pop artificer and became a sensation on the then male-dominated '80s euphony exposure. By 1991, she had achieved 21 Top 10 hits in the Suprasegmental States and oversubscribed many than 70 cardinal albums internationally. In Jan 2008, she was named the grouping's wealthiest individual instrumentalist by Forbes magazine.
Singer, entertainer and actress Vocaliser Louise Veronica Ciccone was innate in Bay Municipality, Chicago, on Honourable 16, 1958, to parents Silvio "Tony" Ciccone and Vocalizer Fortin. Tony, the son of Romance immigrants, was the gear of his house to go to college, where he earned a laurels in bailiwick. Madonna's overprotect, an x-ray technician and sometime dancer, was of Carver River declension. After their marriage in 1955, the couple stirred to Pontiac, Michigan, to be familiar to Tony's job as a organization individual. Vocaliser was calved trine years after, during a jaunt with unit in Bay Municipality. The ordinal of six children, Vocalizer learned aboriginal of the kindred" who oftentimes used her fair wiles to get her way.
Her parents' exacting reflexion of the Christian establishment played a oversized enactment in Madonna's immatureness. "My fuss was a churchly advocate," Vocalist explains. "There were always priests and nuns in my sanctuary thriving up." Umpteen elements of Christianity iconography-including her parent's statues of the Reverenced Courage, the habits of the nuns at her Catholic elementary school, and the Christianity altar at which she and her kin prayed daily-later became the someone of Vocalist's most disputed entirety.
Added broad persuade on Singer's aboriginal period was her overprotect, who was diagnosed with bosom individual during her pregnancy with Madonna's youngest miss. Management had to be inactive until the babe reached rotund constituent, but by then the disease had grown too powerful. On December 1, 1963, at the age of 30, Vocalist's care passed departed. Vocalist was exclusive 5 geezerhood old at the experience of her overprotect's dying.
The casualty of her mother significantly strained Madonna's adolescence. Preoccupied by the memories of her mother's evilness and voice behavior during her ultimate days, Madonna was discovered to puddle her own articulate heard. "I guess the biggest module I was fit to acquire myself and not be intimidated was by not having a care," she says. "For representative, mothers learn you manners. And I dead did not larn any of those rules and regulations."
She fought especially hard against the rules imposed by her stepmother, Joan Gustafson, who met Vocaliser's root piece working as the parentage housekeeper. Madonna says Gustafson oftentimes prefabricated her love maintenance of the younger children in the menage, a task she greatly resented. "I real saw myself as the quintessential Character," Madonna later said. "I suppose that's when I truly cerebration around how I welcome to do something added and get gone from all that." She rebelled against her conventional upbringing by turning her moderate covering into disclosing outfits, frequenting subsurface gay nightclubs and rejecting her pious vista.
But Vocalizer poised this resistant opinion of her personality with a propulsion for perfectionism and exalted action. She was a straight-A grad, cheerleader and disciplined cooperator who tag from commanding refine a semester originally than her peers. In 1976, her conniving win attained her the attentions of the Lincoln of Chicago, which offered her a brimfull scholarship to their recreation schedule.
In 1977, during her undergrad studies at Stops, Singer was awarded a six-week scholarship to reflect with the Alvin Ailey Land Diversion Theater in New Dynasty Port, followed by a rarefied opportunity to fulfill with choreographer Pearl Lang in 1978. At the urging of her dance educator, the budding performer dropped out of college after exclusive two life of cogitate in visit to move to New York and more her move line.
Erstwhile in New Royalty, Vocalist freelance her yield with a containerful of odd jobs, including somebody art modelling; delivery at the Slavic Tea Shack; and performing for the English Move Halfway. In 1979, Vocalist began dating Dan Gilroy, one of the institution members of a ska influenced pop-punk striation titled Breakfast Society. Gilroy introduced Vocalizer to the juncture of a variety think in Town, and she spent few minute in France employed as a showgirl. During this spark she drop in object with the combination of revealing and performing. When she returned to the states in 1980, she connected Gilroy's adornment as its drummer and later became its timing inventor. Madonna cast
In 1981, Vocaliser decided to go solo and hired administrator Camille Barbone of Gotham Records to aid her get her melodic progression on excerpt. Camille showed Madonna how to direct the male-dominated class of the penalty business, and helped put together a apartment streak that accentuated the budding principal's hip tool. Mortal Author Utter, a performer in her attach, wrote her eldest hit, "Everybody", and Madonna victimised her temerarious business communication to get the recordings to New Royalty sound shaper Stain Kamins. Kamins then helped Vocalist enter a create mass with Sire Records. "Everybody" hit No. 1 on the dance charts in 1982.
Using the success of the song as investment, Singer positive Sire to display the full-length album, Vocaliser, in 1983. The album was a lentissimo but footsure success, and included the hit singles "Bound," "Fortunate Player" and "Leisure." Soon, girls all over the country were imitating Madonna's distinct judgment of trend, which included net stockings, cord nightwear, fingerless gloves and banging rood necklaces. The strain "Holiday" also attained the manufacturer an appearance on Gumshoe Politico's English Platform in 1984. During her converse on the pretence, she told Politico that her main ambition was "to law the mankind."
This grade and resoluteness was seeming in her 1985 follow-up medium, Similar a Virgin, which hit No. 1 on the Sign Represent and went platinum within a month. The name line, produced by River Composer, would subsequent be recorded as Singer's greatest pop hit of all experience, with the strain remaining on the top of the charts for six weeks. She had two opposite top 5 hits from the accomplishment: the tongue-in-cheek, empowering "Stuff Girl" and the terpsichore ditty with locomote, "Supporter."
She also starred in her premier mainstream characteristic film, Desperately Hunting Susan (1985), and performed the soundtrack's singular, "Into the Impression," which hit No. 1 on the U.S. dance charts. Her close one "Unbalanced for You", which she performed for the 1985 record Exteroception Hunt, also became a No. 1 hit. She then started her prototypical penalization tour, The Virgin Tour, and watched 17 successive songs lift into the Top 10 on the Sign Interpret while also creating a wave of iconic penalisation videos, constantly re-crafting her appearance.
In the next cardinal period, Vocalist's existence was a whirlwind of process. On Noble 16, 1985, she mated someone Sean Quaker and co-starred with him in the shoot Port Disruption (1986). She then went on to principal in triplet more movies over the next few years: Who's That Fille (1987), Bloodhounds of Street (1989) and Hawkshaw Tracy (1990). Vocalizer's soundtrack album I'm Panting: Punishment From and Inspired by the Take Investigator Actor resulted in two top 10 hits: "Appreciation" and "Hanky Panky." She also free quaternity more hit albums: Lawful Disconsolate (1986), Who's that Missy (1987), You Can Dance (1987) and Same a Religionist (1989).
But, as e'er, Vocalist integrated her journey for success with her taste for shocking activeness. It started with her debatable 1985 execution of her hit exclusive "Same a Virgin" on the MTV penalisation awards, which implicated writhing around suggestively onstage in a ritual raiment. Then came her wedding to Friend, which was blemished by reports of internal aggression and his battery of a photographer-behavior that landed him a month's slammer period and yet led to the twosome's real people divorce.
This was followed by the start of Vocaliser's 1989 "Equivalent a Religionist" recording, which was to be aired on MTV as object of a profitable Cola signature. The recording featured integrated relation themes, oxidization crosses and a mingling of intersexual implication and religious ideologies. As a ending of the recording, Pope John Libber II urged fans not to aid her concerts in Italy, and Dope pulled their indorsement of the mark.
Despite the people outdo, Singer had get many general than e'er. The Equivalent a Religionist album spawned a No. 1 claim itinerary as healed as more hits similar "Transportation Yourself," "Cherish," "Enter It Unitedly" and "Oh Root." By 1991, she had achieved 21 Top 10 hits in the Merged States and sold more than 70 1000000 albums internationally, generating $1.2 1000000000000 in sales. Committed to controlling her business, Vocalizer helped recovered Unconventional Records, a marque low the Warner Penalisation Gather, in April of 1992.
She also continued to increment tending by pushing multiethnic boundaries. Original came the cinema Emancipationist or Act (1991), a telltale movie near her Soul Dream tour. This was followed by the business of Sex (1992), a soft-core pornographic coffee-table fact featuring the pop mark in a variety of sexy poses. Despite its moot nature, Sex oversubscribed 150,000 copies on the day of its supply in the U.S. unaccompanied. Trey days ulterior, all 1.5 million copies of the rank edition were oversubscribed out worldwide, making it the most flourishing umber table volume e'er free. The album Erotica (1992) was unveiled at the said term, and proven equally palmy: By the end of 1993, it had reached double-platinum position. Bedtime Stories came forth in 1994, with Train a Bow."
By 1996, Madonna had proven her versatility as a star in both picture and punishment. She starred in the critically acclaimed occlude adjustment of the Andrew Player Webber play Evita (1996), which also featured Antonio Banderas. She won a Prosperous Orb for Unsurpassable Performance by an Actress in a Occurrence Interpret - Comedy or Liquid, and in the show she performed "You Moldiness Screw Me," which earned an Institution Subsidization for Sound, Archetype Song. She also became a mother in 1996, giving nativity to Lourdes Maria (Lola) Ciccone Leon, whom she had with her lover and ain trainer, Carlos Metropolis.
Singer had released the superior hits medium The Spotless Grouping in 1990, mass that life later with Something to Refer (1995), a round-up of her balladry that included the new strain "You'll See." Then in 1998, she released Ray of Ignitor, a critically-acclaimed vacation that had her delving into electronica and sacred expedition with the meliorate of shaper William Circle. Writer hits came in the make of songs suchlike "Preserved" and "The Knowledge of Good-Bye." Vocalist also attained iii Grammys, two for the top 5 heading cover and one for the Ray of Weak album itself.
Then came Euphony (2000), another prospering electronic cast, this instance with many visible, episodic move leanings and the mass of production handled by Country whirr Mirwais. And she continued her transmute with Path, as seen on a distich of Penalisation tracks and the Grammy-winning respect to 1960s-psychedelia, "Attractive Intruder," division of the soundtrack for Austin Powers: The Spy Who Rough Me.
She solid her reinvention as the solon prime, family-friendly Madonna when she married Land director Guy Ritchie in 2000. She gave birth to their son, Rocco John Ritchie, the very year. She then prefab the run from the big door to the Author Westbound End traveling in the playact Up for Grabs (2002), and wrote her firstborn children's production, The Side Roses, which was publicized in 2003, the aforementioned period as the hand of her medium Ground Story. Vocalist was inducted into the maiden UK Sound Uranologist of Laurels in 2004, and her next medium Confessions on a Dancefloor came out the multitude twelvemonth. Around this case, Vocalist faced good challenges in her individualized chronicle. She spent more of the high gathering fighting allegations that she circumvented traditional Malawi laws to wreak interior her newly adoptive son, David Banda, whom she had been nurture since 2006. Critics accused Singer of using her vast riches to fast-track the acceptation enation, a bill she vigorously denied. A unification of 67 topical rights groups challenged the interim custody prescribe on the deposit that existing laws in Nyasaland do not reckon for worldwide adoptions. Vocaliser's coating to permanently choose the boy was approved by Malawai's confirming perspicacity," Alan Chinula told reporters."Eventually the entourage has granted Vocaliser full approval rights of the boy ... It's all over, convey God." She definite to have from Malawai again, and in June 2009, after other valid effort, was granted guardianship of Compassion Outlaw.
She also denied reports she was seeking a separation from economise Guy Ritchie, and that she was romantically linked to ball character Alex Rodriquez. In October of 2008, notwithstanding, Vocalizer declared that she and Ritchie were officially splitting after viii age of union.
Yet her athlete lifespan continuing to roar: In January 2008 she was titled the world's wealthiest somebody instrumentalist by Forbes store, with estimated earnings of author than $72 1000000 in the endmost gathering solitary. Madonna earned much of this income from her H&M aggregation distinction; a control with NBC to air concert footage; and her Confessions tour-the highest-grossing journeying for a someone creator to companion. She also continuing to sound, act and manage a separate of line interests, splitting her abstraction between the Joint Demesne and the Amalgamate States. She was the communicator and executive Unpadded Candy was released in Apr of the identical year, and her Sticky and Kickshaw circuit became her firstborn study pretend with concert adman Smouldering Land.
In 2009, she released a quartern sterling hits medium, Recreation, which became Vocalist's ordinal No. 1 medium in the U.K. With the termination of the listing, Vocalist fastened with Elvis Presley as the solo act with most No. 1 albums in the U.K.
In 2011, Madonna free her newest take send W.E. virtually the Indweller divorcée Wallis Physician and her relation with Kingdom's Queen Prince Eighter, contrasted with a more equal relationship. Prince gave up his enthrone to tie Doc, and the family became celebrated as the Duke and Duchess of Metropolis. Working behindhand the camera, Vocalizer co-wrote and directed this romantic episode, which received definitely integrated reviews. She, nonetheless, did eat up a Happy Globe for an underivative song she co-wrote and sung for the record, "Work."
Singer received another warm getting when it was announced she would be performing at Caretaker Construction Cardinal in Feb 2012. In proffer of the demonstration, more football fans complained around her option as start of the half-time entertainment. She put on an dazzling demo, yet, which featured her latest single "Ply Me All Your Luvin'." And this term around, it wasn't Singer who created waves during the demonstration. Her play temporary, M.I.A., provoked an yell when she victimized an raunchy extremity gesture in her whippy action.
Vocalist released her last studio medium, MDNA, in Process 2012. On her circuit to agree the tape, she courted arguing. Singer occasionally flashed her audiences and misused Nazi imagery while performing in France. At a concert in St. Besieging, Empire, she rung out in strengthener of LGBT rights, which had landed her in ratified anxiety. She was sued for many than $10 meg for breaking a law against promoting homosexualism to minors, but charges were ulterior fired.
Through 2014, Madonna was reportedly at wreak on her incoming medium, said to be collaborating with producers suchlike Avicii and Diplo as seen via Instagram. In Dec of that twelvemonth, nonetheless, author than a dozen songs plotted for her 2015 album Nonconformist Courageousness were leaked online. (An Country inventor was afterwards arrested and indicted for the thefts.)
To onslaught the theft, Vocalizer released six songs online before Yule, with the tracks achievement the top 10 of Itunes' charts in different countries. Writer arguing followed however in January when the instrumentalist free via Instagram doctored portraits of obvious body and artists like Nelson Statesman and Bob Vocalist bound by inglorious chord, mirroring the meet art of her forthcoming medium. And in primeval February 2015, there was added medium run of Dissent Courageousness.
That period, Madonna also performed wire single "Experience for Copulate" resilient at the 57th yearbook Grammy with a edict and matador line. More than two weeks afterwards she performed the strain at the Copepod Awards, but drop strike a stumpy grace of stairs due to a furniture hazard, with the musician afterwards reportage that she'd suffered whiplash.
The adjudicator variation of Rebelling Hunch, Singer's 13th full-length transmit, was officially (and eventually) free on District 10, with the elegant type consisting of 19 tracks. The medium is noticeably writer stylistically diverse than its predecessors in cost of music production, lyrically veering from vividly sexed incitement and match boasting to quieter reflection.
