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About Madonna(på engelska)

Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone was born in August 16th, 1958 in Bay City, Michigan, a city next to Detroit. Little Nonni, as she was called in childhood, remembers a warm and loving home life up until the severe illness and death of her mother, in 1963 w hen she was only five years old, for whom she is named. Madonna has beatfic, tender memories of her namesake, and her eyes still well up with tears when she speaks of her. Also unforgettable for her is the depth of love her father had for her mother; it wa s into this void, in her mother's absence, that Madonna stepped as eight-year-old, suddenly "the main female in the house, the one closest to my father". A good student ("My father rewarded us with money for good grades, so I always got the best report ca rd in the family"), Madonna soon assumed much of the mothering role with her siblings: "I feel like all my adolescence was spent taking care of babies and changing diapers and baby-sitting. I have to say I resented it, because when everybody was out playi ng, I was stuck with all these adult responsabilities". That resentment, however, gave birth to something important. rebel by nature, Madonna was set on finding her way out of Cinderella-like drudgery. And because sh e loved to dance, she convinced her father that, instead of taking piano lessons like her brothers and sisters, she should study ballet. Madonna won a scholarship to the University of Michigan, where she studied for five semesters under Christopher Flynn, who owned a ballet school in nearby Rochester. He became her mentor encoraging her dedication and discipline. She recalls, "I really loved him. He was like a brother and a friend, an imaginary lover, and my first taste of what I wanted to do, that I shoul d go to New York and try for it." Madonna saved enough money for one-way 'plane ticket. In 1977 she landed in the city of her dreams, with $37 in her pocket and no place to stay. She took a taxi, and she asks for the taxi driver: "Take me to the center of everything", then, he took her to Manhatan. There, she was a waitress in a snak bar, but she didn't make much money. When she was looking for another job, she saw an announcement in a journal for nude model. And then she discovered that it was the only wa y to make money fast, because she needed to make it fast. She posed for Art Photographers in N.Y. in 1977 and 1978. When she went to New York, she was decided to be a dancer, but after months of tiresome classes of ballet , she didn't want to be a dancer anymore. She just know that she wanted to be very famous." I wanted to dance in New York, but all the good companies were full, they didn't need me. I couldn't wait five years to get a breake, so I started going to musical theatre auditions". And then she knew a man who had a band called "The Breackfast Club", she started to play drums, because they had already a singer, played guitar, and she wrote some lyrics to her band too. In one of her musicals theatre auditions she k new two french managers that loved listen Madonna singing and see her way to sing a song. They promise the best things to Madonna, fame and money, so she decided to go to France and leave "The Breakfast Club", and when she went there she saw that it doesn ' t seem like she would like, she said that the things when are get too easy doesn't take too many time, so she said to the French managers she was visit her familyin New York and never came back to France, she said she would come back to France only when s he bacame famous.When she came back to New York, she goes on to "The Breakfast Club", she convinced them she could sing song, and she sung "Everybody".It's not necessary to say that this music was a fenomenal sucess after this. But it wasn't too easy for Madonna, she broke up to her first band, "The Breakfast Club", she had a lot of other bands a lot of demo tapes recorded, until one of this demo tapes was listen to a manager called Camile Barbone. Camile loved one of her songs. Madonna signs a contract w i th her. But Camile isn't too fast for Madonna, then she knew a DJ called Mark Kamis and convinced him to play one song of her demo tapes in a disco. He played, and the song was a success in the disco. The song was "Everybody".Mark Kamis knew the president of Sire Records, who was sick in a hospital, then Madonna went to the hospital to talk with him. Madonna, who was brunette decided paint herself hair blonde and convinced the sick man, that loved her and now she is the most famous person in the world. Her first single was "Everybody" of course, and her first album was entitled simply "MADONNA". Her second album took her to the top of the charts music, number one in Bilboard with the song "Like a Virgin", and million of copies solded with the album with the same tittle. In her third album "True Blue", appears the first polemic in you career, where she sungs "Papa don't preach", talking about abortion. It's not necessary to say that after this polemic, emerged a lot of other ones, like the video for "Like a Prayer", the "Bold Ambition World Tour", her third world tour, where she sungs a hot version of "Like a Virgin", her video for "Justify my love" her movies "In bed with Madonna - Thurth or Dare", "Body of Evidence", her album and video "Erotica", her book SEX, her fourth tour "The Girlie Show" .....and a lot of other polemic things. But now, Madonna looks like a different person, a new Madonna, very calm and behave. It's because now she is the mother of a beautiful child , Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon, and because she is EVITA in her movie of Alan Parker, with Antonio Banderas as Ch'e Guevara, Jonattan Pryce as Juan Peron, and on the principal role, Madonna!