What is so special with Madonna? She has been succesfully famous for 20 years, some artist dont even last one year.
MadonnaWhat is so special with Madonna? She has been succesfully famous for 20 years, some artist don´t even last one year.It was august 16 th, 1958, in Detroit, Michigan when Madona Ciccone gave birth to a little girl, the girl was named Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone. She was the third of eight children in a large Italian family. Two older brothers, two younger brothers and three little sisters.Madonnas father, Sylivio Ciccone, wanted each child to learn how to play a musicalinstrument but Madonna was more interested in dancing so she was allowed to take ballet lessons.When Madonna had reach the age og six her mother died in breastcancer and as the oldest daughter, Madonna is given some responsibility for the household ande her younger sisters. Her father later remarries the former housekeeper. But Madonna could never love her like she loved her mother. Madonna and her family moved to Rochester, Michigan where she graduates from Rochester Adams high school in 1976. In high school Madonna was a cheerleader and straight- A student. There she fel in love with dancing and sometimes she could spend up to five hours a day taking dance classes and working out. With a scholarship she goes to the university of Michigan, where she studies dance for three semesters.Madonna decides that dancing would be her way to the stars and her way out of Rochester. In 1978, Madonna moves to New York City with only one suitcase and thirty dollars in her pocket. She started working as a donut salesgirl at Dunkin Donuts and waitress on the side. She allso auditions for Alvin Ailey and Pearl Lange and she was accepted by the Alvin Ailey dance troupe. Later she meets Dan Gilroy who teaches her to play the guitar and drums, they allso wrote some songs together.In 1979 Madonna receives an offer to go to Paris to be a back-up singer and dancer fir a disco singer called Patrick Hernandez who had one hit called Born to be alive. Madonna was given a nice appartment, a maid, a voice coach and a proffesional career guidance. But even with all this Madonna wasn´t happy and after spending six months in Paris she decides to fly back to New York.Back in New York she started to write some songs again with Dan Gilroy and his brother Ed. Madonna says that it was one of the happiest times in her life and that she really felt loved.They founded the band Breakfast Club but she leeves the band after a disagreement about their music. Aftetr that she and Steve Bray started a new band that was renamed all the time: The Millionaires, Madonna, Modern Dance and Emmy. It did´nt work out this time eather but Madonna and Bray continue to work together.In the time to come Madonnawas experimented with some ways of making money.She posed naked for photographs and as she pointed out the money was alot better than what you could earn working on Burger King, which had been another of the parttime job´s she had to take to earn her self a few dollars.Madonna allso responded to an ad in
1980 and she was given a role in John Lewickis so called soft- core sex film, A Certain Sacrifice.In her music career the formula still wasn´t right. Madonna managment wanted her to play rock music but she knew that time was changing and that funky dance records were played on the radio everywhere. And in 1981 Madonna began a systematic tour of all the night clubs and discos in New York, she was looking for music business people who would help her get a record deal and make her the star she so baddly wanted to be.At the night club ...
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1980 and she was given a role in John Lewickis so called soft- core sex film, A Certain Sacrifice.In her music career the formula still wasn´t right. Madonna managment wanted her to play rock music but she knew that time was changing and that funky dance records were played on the radio everywhere. And in 1981 Madonna began a systematic tour of all the night clubs and discos in New York, she was looking for music business people who would help her get a record deal and make her the star she so baddly wanted to be.At the night club Danceteria Madonna met DJ Mark Kamins who had contact with serveral record companies, so Madonna gave him a tape of four songs that she and Steve Bray had written and recorded. Kamins played the songs at the club and people danced to Madonnas music. Kamins got in touch with Seymour Stein who was the boss of Sire Records. Stein was in hospital at the time but he had made an appointment for Madonna to come and see him and he was impressed.In 1982 Madonna released her first single, "Everybody", which was a big club hit but failed to sell big. Her next single was "Burning Up" and again it was very popular but faild to sell big.Madonna first album, called "Madonna" was released in july 1983. Some singles was released from the album of which "Holiday" goes to number one in the Dance Charts.By the end of 1984 Madonna had completed the work on her first major movie role as Susan in Susan Seidelman´s New York comedy "Desperately Seeking Susan". When the movie hit the screens in the middle of 1985 her career exploded in all directions at once.Madonnas second album "Like A Virgin" was sold in the amazing 11 million copies worldwide.Playboy and Penthouse discover her early nude - photograhies and publish them in earley 1985. Many critics said that this would riun Madonnas career but the opposite happend. Madonna was unstoppable.While shooting the video for her second single from "Like A Virgin " Madonna gets to know the young but allready famous actor Sean Penn.They become a couple after som dates and are soon the most gossip targeted people in show business.From april - june, 1985 Madonna takes her Virgin Tour trough the United States, playing 38 cocerts in 28 cities. The tour is a huge success and shows Madonnas abilities on stage.On august 16 (Madonnas birthday) she and Sean Penn marries in Malibu Beach, California. But the wedding was a disaster because of the many paparazzis who were trying to get pictures of the wedding from helicopters. Sean gets furious and writes a big Fuck Off in the beach in front of the house.With the release of her third album in June 1986, Madonna changes her style from head to toe. She allso produces an album called True Blue, for the first time by herself (togheter with Steve Bray and Pat Leonard). The album goes number one in 28 countries at the same time!In june 14, 1987 Madonna starts her first world tour, the "Who´s That Girl- Tour, in Japan. The tour is sold out everywhere.1987 is a big year for Madonna, she not only tours around the world, she allso releases new film and according to the film a soundtrack album which includesfour songs performed by herself. Film and soundtrack allso called "Who´s That Girl", are big hits.In march, 1989, the release of "Like a Prayer" showed a different Madonna. She was stronger, had a clear attitude anda vulnerability that she had´nt showed the years before. She was now divorced from Sean and she was back in her full effect.With the release of Madonnas title track video for Like A Prayer the reactions from both audience and fans was shocked. Church called the video a desecration, and Pepsi, a sponsor of Madonnas upcoming tourwithdraw the TV- commercial and dropped Madonna from her contract. Madonna was still a winner, she kept the millions from her Pepsi deal and watched how Like A Prayer rose in the charts.The next shock was to come in June 1989 when the second single from Like A Prayer, Express Yourself, was released. Sweaty workers and Madonna whos in charge of them and her own sexuality. Further to this Madonna introduced her famous croth grab, inspired by Michael Jackson.The year 1990 started calmand Madonnas next project was a world tour, the biggest at that time and she called it, Blond Ambition.This tour shows Madonnas real talent as a performer and a singer. She took the audience on a journey which was provoking, sensual and higly entertaining.Blond Ambition was sold out everywhere in the world.Madonna allso allowed a film team to film her on stage and backstage, which ended as "Truth or Dare", released in cinemas in 1991. But first Madonna had to fightwith the Toronto´s police for not getting arrested on stage and had to cancel a few shows in Italy because the pope had called for a boycott, everything to see in Truth or Dare.In November 1990 Madonna released her first ever Greateast Hits called "The Immaculate Collektion" The album which was dedicated to the pope allso included two new songs, "Justify my love" and " Rescue Me".Right after the release of the collection Madonna presented the video for the single "Justify my love". The video was full of sexual fantasies, different people doing it togheter and what really heated up the controversy was Madonna kissing another woman. Because of the sexual and lesbian thing the video was banned from MTV and even European TV stations did´nt show the video before midnight. In march 1991 Madonna was accompanied by Michael Jackson to the Annual Academy Awards. Madonnas song "Sonner or later", from the movie Dick Tracy, was nominated as best song from a motion picture, and she won.The time was ready for the international release of Madonnas first concert/documention movie, Truth or dare. This happend at the Mocie Festival in Cennes, France. Madonna had an idea how to caught peoples attention for her movie. While standing on the top of the big staircase she accidently drop her jacket, which reveals only her underwear. The result was top coverage of this moment in all TV shows around the world, fans and critics loved truth or dare, which not only showed Madonna on stage, it allso took a close look at her personal life off stage during the Blond Ambition tour.Madonna used the rest og 1991 to work on a new film and a new album. She was signed to star opposite Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in the movie " "A league of their own".In october 1992 Madonna was everywhere, she not only released a new single, a new video and a new album, she allso released her most controversial art of work: Sex- The book. The book sold out worldwide in just a few days.Madonnas next step in the movie business was "Dangerous games". Critics were against Madonna but her performance in this movie remains as one of her best.The year to come was not a good year for Madonna, so she decided to do what she can do best, a tour. The name she chose was "The Girlie Show" and it was started om September 25, 1993 in London, England. She performed for the first time in Australia but she allso had to cancel a few shows in other parts of the world because of nudity in her show.After being on the road for nearly five months, Madonna took a deserved break for some months in early 1994.In october 1994 was the release of Madonnas next album, "Bedtime stories". Now with a new image, a change in style and she changed from sex to romance.After being speculated for the role for over 10 years, Madonna gets the role of Evita Peron in Andrew Loyd Webbers mucial "Evita". During 1995, Madonna had an affair with the basketball star Dennis Rodman.While their time together Madonna send him som faxes in which she said that she wants to have a baby from him. Later, he released these faxes to the public and tells some intimate details about his affair with Madonna in his first book - Madonna is furious. Filming for Evita starts in March 1996 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Madonna get to know many people who knew the real Evita and she is more sure than ever that she is the only person who can play Evita Peron.But after a time it shows that filming the movie in Buenos Aires can be a real tough thing, many Argentine poeple are against Madonna to play their Saint Evita and they want her to leave the country. But in the end filming is a success.While filming Evita, Madonna gets to know that she is pregnant from her boyfriend Carlos Leon, her former fitness trainer. She is very concerned about filming Evita so she kept the pregnancy a secret at first. After the filming is over, Madonnas publicist Liz Resenberg let the world know that Madonnas is pregnant. In October 14, 1996 in Los Angeles Madonna gave birth to her daughter Lourdes Maria.Evita gets nominated many times for Golden Globe Awards in eary 1997 and Madonna take one trophy home herself as Best Actress.Madonna returns to the spotlight after a break with her new album "Ray Of Light" in march 1998m which was produced by Madonna herself. Critics were sceptical because if the new electronica sound, but Ray Of Light in a world wide success.Madonna is nominated to nine awards at the Annual MTV Music Awards. She performes Ray Of Light and takes six of the nine nominations home.In february 1999, Madonna performs "Nothing really mathers" in her famous geisha outfit and she wins four awards out of six nominations.She met Ricky Martin at the Grammy´s and she decides later to record a duet with him for his first English song album called " Ricky Martin".Madonna records a song called "Beutiful Stranger" for the movie "Austin Powers - the spy who shagged me". The song becomes one of Madonnas biggest hits ever and it is the most played song on radioa ever in England.In early 1999 Madonna do a appearance in a new line of cosmetic commercials for Max Factor.While "Beutiful stranger" is still on the top of the charge Madonna started shooting for a new movie in june 1999 called "The next best thing". By the end of 1999 Madonna started recording her new album in London. Rumours are saying that she is not only in London to record her album, she had a new man in her life.The new Millenium is near and everyone is making their top list about the past century, Madonna is ont he top of all the lsts and even MTV honers her work in videoclip history. Michael Jackson´s "Thriller" in MTV´s number 1 video of all time, but Madonna is number 2.More rumours was saying that Madonna and Guy Ritchie, who was a young and successfully movie director, was a couple. But they hade´nt been seen together officially that far. Madonna has a new single "American Pie" from "The next best thing". The video to the single is shot in London by the end of January 2000. By early february its official, Madonna and Guy are a couple and they are maddly in love with eachother."The next best thing" is a big flop and Madonna is the one who is beeing blamed by critics.Madonna remains in England to finish her album when the big bomb blows up in march, Madonna is three moths pregnant by her boy friend Guy Ritchi. Her new album is called "Music" and the video for the song "music" had allreadybeen shot in early 2000, the director, Jonas Akerlund , who did the success video "Ray of Light" allso did this video. The video premiers worldwide on the first of august and gives a first clue on how Madonnas new album will sound like.On august 11 Madonna gave birth to a boy named Rocco Ritchi, it was allmost three weeks prior to the expected birthdate.While Madonna and her new baby are recovering, her single "Music" is climbing up the charts. The "Music" album get released worlwide on september 19. Madonna gives a big album launch party in Los Angeles with 600 guests, which was her first appearance ince the birth of Rocco.Not a month later, the "Music" album is number 1 in more than 40 countries, including the United Kingdom and even the USA, her first number 1 album since Like a Prayer in 1989.I think that the main reason why Madonna still are in the bussiness is because her intelligence, she´s a smart business woman and she knowes exactly what she is doing.It was fun to do this work about Madonna, she´s some of a legend in music bussiness.The hard part was to get all the importent facts about her into one work, that was not easy and if it was up to me this work would be around 15 - 20 pages.
