MADONNA BIOGRAPHY

Madonna

(Artistic name Louise Veronica Ciccone, Bay City, Michigan, 1958) Singer and actress. Considered the most important "pop phenomenon" of the eighties and nineties, Madonna has been able to break any records in his career, as the only soloist who has been in the top two positions of British lists of singles.

Madonna

Accustomed to the cover of magazines, both specialized and general information, his hits and his appearances on the big screen they have run parallel those scandals in which it has been involved, although their musical production gained solvency since its inception as a product for dancefloor, with albums that have been surrounded by excellent professional sound and production.

He entered the university in 1975 with a scholarship to continue her dance studies, which began in 1972 when he met Christopher Flynn, her teacher. In 1978 he settled in New York, against the opinion of his father, and began his unstoppable career. He began acting in modern dance companies with choreographer Pear Lang.Interested already own environments dancefloors, in 1979 he moved to Paris to join the corps de ballet of the then popular singer Patrick Hernandez.

Back in New York, he formed with Dan Gilray The Breakfast Club group, which came to be battery in the absence of someone who could do it better. In 1982 he signed with Sire Records and its theme Everybody , the first of his career, was released to go virtually unnoticed. The same happened with the next two until the last, Holiday , was produced by renowned DJ John "Jellybean" Benitez: entered the top 20 US in September 1983. That same month, with good reviews, released his first album, entitled Madonna. The First Album .

His big moment came in 1984: in November he took to the street album Like A Virgin . The eponymous single, produced by Nile Rogers (the former leader of Chic), it soon became his first number one, shooting like a star in his image of sex symbol had much significance. The international tour, which began in April 1985, ran through 27 cities and had a total of nearly three hundred and fifty thousand attendees. In addition, he also participated in Live Aid festival with the biggest stars of the moment.

Madonna's next album, True Blue , was selling in twenty five countries, with themes of success as Papa Don't Preach or La Isla Bonita (which reached number one in the UK charts four times, unprecedented circumstance that has not been repeated), his fame in ascension.

In this year he also made ​​his film debut as a professional actress in Desperately Seeking Susan , along with Rosanna Arquette, while the following year openedShanghai Surprise , produced by George Harrison, and in which Madonna plays the lead role of the film together her husband still at that time: Sean Penn . It premiered in 1987 Who's That Girl : Although the film received good reviews, the main theme of the soundtrack of the film was able to be selling in the United States, Japan and Europe. That same year he embarked on a major world tour that took the same name that began in Japan and finished in Italy.

Madonna in concert

In 1989 he returned completely to the music with the album Like A Prayer , promoted with a video-clip, rated as less irreverently in conservative circles and asource of new scandal, an aspect wisely exploited by the company responsible for maintaining always alive image Madonna. The deliberate mix of religious symbolism and eroticism velvet raised a considerable stir, worsened their already poor relations with the Catholic Church and led to the ban on video in Italy.

In the nineties, after starring alongside Warren Beatty movie Dick Tracy and publish the compilation of their hits and a new topic ( The Immaculate Collection ), scandals, censorship occurred in some countries of the video-clip promotional songjustify My Love (by explicitly sexual content of their images) and television interviews, or editing a book, sex (1992), full of erotic photographs with Madonna starring and texts in which he recounts his sexual fantasies , which aroused the indignation of American conservatives. They returned to make public their outrage at the documentary film Truth Or Dare ( In Bed with Madonna ), filmed during their world tour The Blonde Ambition Tour.

In 1991 there were renewed its contract with Warner for the not inconsiderable figure of sixty million dollars to release the album Erotica (1992) and embark on a new international tour under the name of "The Girlie Show". His albums Bedtime Stories (1994) and Something To Remember (compilation of ballads, published in November 1995) show a somewhat calmer, at least in his role as interpreter pop look.

Something To Remember went on to sell over six million copies before recording their next album, which would be the original soundtrack of the film Evita . This album went to number two in the US charts and sold over two million copies, but not enough Caló his followers, to clear away from his style.

Madonna, mother of a daughter, transformed their way of life and offered a more refined image in their appearances. The year 1998 was one of the best for the life of this singer, he was born since Ray Of Light , perhaps the most important record of the long career of Madonna. Without being a radical turn to his musical style, he got rave reviews by all means. Frozen was the first single, remixed by British Stereo MC 's , which began a long list of successes. Then came the album, which debuted at number one in the UK and two in the United States; This was followed by a second single, Ray Of Light , which won awards for video clip and climbed to the top of the charts.

On December 22, 2000 he married in the Scottish Skibo Castle with Guy Ritchie, father of Rocco, the second son of the singer. In the 41st Grammy Award singer and actress, who opened the ceremony with the interpretation of the theme Nothing Matters , he won three awards, including best pop album by Ray of Light .

After presenting Music , his new work, the queen of pop began in Barcelona on July 9, 2001 his new world, The Drowes World Tour; the fifth in his career. After the resounding failure of Sweet away (2002), a new foray into film directed by her husband, her tenth studio album, American Life , went on sale worldwide in April 2003. That same year Madonna returned today with the launch of a series of books aimed at children and young people. The first volume, The English Roses , went on sale in 30 languages ​​and in a hundred countries.

In 2004 he embarked on a world tour, with the name Re-invention, started in May in Los Angeles. The show was attended by a hundred people, with twelve dancers and five musicians on stage. The tour ended in Lisbon, the night of September 14, 2004, the city where the singer had to repeat concert with the demand for tickets. Show that coincided with the recognition of their adherence to the Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism par excellence, and his desire to change her name to Esther.

In 2005 Madonna presented confessions on a dance floor , a job in which he returned to his roots with music specifically designed for the dance floor. His first single, Hung up , containing a "tribute" to ABBA and Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (a man after midnight) , was a resounding success, and the LP received rave reviews worldwide. Madonna also left the "serenity" of the latest albums and returned to show off an acid social criticism (including policy against the presidents of the United States and Britain) and a purely provocative attitude, palpable especially in assemblies the "Confessions" tour, which began in May 2006 and included, among other harsh scenes, a crucifixion of the singer herself.