In what city does Madonna live? Iron mother. Madonna's parenting rules

Madonna (born 1958) is an American superstar, she is rightfully considered the queen of pop music, she has made an invaluable contribution to world culture. She is an eccentric and shocking, persistent, hardworking singer and talented actress.

How many children does Madonna have?

The singer Madonna has four children, two of her own are older children, and two younger adopted ones. Second official ex-husband, famous director Guy Ritchie, firmly believes that she is very good mother, she loves her children, but raises them in strictness. They were forbidden to watch TV, and much attention was paid to reading; it is worth noting that Madonna herself successfully composed fairy tales. She respects the freedom of her children and gives them independence, e.g. eldest daughter- in creating your own. Despite numerous breaks with men, the children of the very busy Madonna always remained with her, in her family, and she firmly defended this right in court.

Madonna's own children

So at what age did Madonna give birth to her children? Madonna gave birth to her first daughter, Lourdes, in 1996, when she was 38 years old, from Cuban athlete Carlos Leon, he was her boyfriend. Lourdes Leon is now an adult. She and her mother still practice the teachings of Kabbalah and are also partners in general business- They produce their own clothing line.

In 1998, the singer met the British, talented and famous director Guy Ritchie at a reception with Sting. It was he who greatly influenced the personal life of Madonna and her future children, becoming her legal second and last spouse. Having moved to her husband, she enjoyed living at home and became acquainted with the new country and its traditions. In 2000, baby Rocco was born. Currently, he is actively interested in breakdancing and even managed to perform as a dancer at the concert of Madona’s mother.

In 2006, Madonna and Guy Ritchie gave birth to a black boy, David Banda, from a poor African family in Malawi, when he was only 13 months old. He loved his people very much foster parents and was very worried about their divorce. Not long ago he had a meeting with his biological father Johan Banda, and they even had a friendly conversation for about 3 hours.

The fourth child in Madonna's family was Mercy James. In 2009, she, like David, was taken from the Malawi orphanage. Her father, James Kambewa, makes his appearance at times. He either wants to meet Mercy or asks for her photo. Madonna constantly refuses him, since at present his paternity in relation to Mercy has not been proven.

The 59-year-old posted on her Instagram page very rare shot, in which all of her children are present: Lourdes, 20, Rocco, 17, David and Mercy, 11, and Stella and Esther, 4. She celebrated her birthday with them in the Italian town of Lecce on the Salentina Peninsula.

Never before has a celebrity published all six children on social networks, so this photo can be considered one of the most valuable in the singer’s account. In June, Madonna had a photograph showing her with Lourdes, Rocco, David and Mercy, but without the dark-skinned babies from Malawi. To make the shot seem complete, the singer resorted to Photoshop help and added a frame with Stella and Esther to the same picture with the rest of the children.

Birthday,

This is how the star laconicly signed the latest photo.

The reaction of fans was very predictable: they immediately began leaving thousands of comments and continued to congratulate Madonna on the holiday.

The singer celebrated her birthday for two days. During this time, she and her children managed to walk around the neighborhood, attend a concert and even perform two of her hits, ride a horse and have a noisy costume party. By the way, Madonna's daughters wore matching Dolce & Gabbana floral print dresses.

Let us remind you that Stella and Esther were in February of this year. Since then, girls have constantly appeared in The singer's Instagram. The star does not hide that she is happy next to them. And the other children seem to be very happy for their mother.

Madonna's eldest daughter, Lourdes, was born in 1996. Her biological father is Cuban athlete Carlos Leon, with whom the celebrity was dating at the time. When the singer married director Gaia Ritchie, Rocco was born in 2000. Six years later, the couple adopted 13-month-old David. In 2009, Madonna, having already separated from her second husband, adopted Mercy, whom she took from the same orphanage in Malawi as David.

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Today Madonna Louise Ciccone is one of the richest and influential women world show business. In 2018, her fortune was estimated at $580 million.

Childhood and family

Madonna became the third child and first daughter in a family that later had two more sons and a daughter. As the first daughter, according to Italian traditions she got her mother's name.

When Madonna Jr. turned 5, her mother died of breast cancer. The 30-year-old woman was carrying her sixth child, and chemotherapy meant an inevitable miscarriage. Being a religious woman, she could not do this. The child was born, and a few months later the mother died. The father remarried the family's maid, Joan Gustafson. This is how the girl got a half-brother, Mario, and a sister, Jennifer.

Madonna grew up in a devout Catholic family in the suburbs of Detroit. As the singer admits, she was not everyone’s favorite in childhood; everyone considered her a “hello” girl.

“They treated me cruelly, but I did not allow them to wipe their feet on me and only emphasized my foreignness.

But at the age of 14, the good girl's reputation was destroyed: at school competition talent, she came in a bikini, and her body was painted with fluorescent paints. After a cheeky dance to “Baba O’Riely” by The Who, her father became furious and put Madonna under house arrest, and at school they remembered this performance for a long time, calling her a “whore.” The girl herself, being on stage, finally felt like who she was. And the concept of “virgin/whore” has been a leitmotif through her work ever since.

The mother of the future celebrity loved to dance. Her daughter followed in her footsteps and convinced her father to sign her up for ballet lessons. Later, in high school, she competed on the cheerleading team. After graduating from school as an external student, Madonna received choreographic education at the University of Michigan. One of the teachers convinced her not to waste time studying, but to build a career as a dancer. So in 1958, Madonna dropped out of college and moved to New York with a couple of dozen dollars in her pocket.

She barely made ends meet, lived in poverty, worked at Dunkin' Donuts and collaborated with a number of dance groups. Now Madonna recalls that period of her life as the most desperate:

– When I arrived in New York, it was the first time I flew on an airplane, the first time I even called a taxi - everything was for the first time. And I arrived with 35 dollars in my pocket. This was my most courageous act in my life.

First steps to success

That same year, for a fee of one hundred dollars, she starred in the film Specific Victim, playing a sex slave. Years later, Madonna tried to buy the rights to the film in order to destroy all reminders of this shame, but she never succeeded.

Madonna in the movie Specific Victim

In 1981, Madonna broke up with Gilroy and began singing in the Emmy group with drummer and Stephen Bray. At the same time, the girl signed a contract with Gotham Records, but the collaboration was short-lived - the aspiring singer’s manager did not share her views on creativity. Soon, with Bray's support, she recorded a demo tape of four "street" tunes ("Ain't No Big Deal", "Stay", "Burning Up" and "Everybody"), which she distributed independently.

Madonna's demo recording impressed DJ and producer Mark Kamins, who played at the Danceteria club, where Madonna often visited. Kamins introduced the rising star to Sire Records founder Seymour Stein. The result was a contract for the release debut single"Everybody" Kamins and Bray began to fight for the right to be called Madonna's agent, while both were her lovers. The choice was not easy, but in the end the singer settled on Mark.

"Everybody", Madonna's very first video

Before recording and releasing her debut album, Madonna's producers decided to test the waters and understand whether the singer's success was accidental or not. For this purpose the second maxi-single was written. If it becomes a hit, then they will give the go-ahead to record the album, the producers said. A more experienced producer, Reggie Lucas, was selected to replace Cumings. In collaboration with him, Madonna recorded the single “Burning Up” with the composition “Physical Attraction” on side B. A video was released for the first song, which was included in MTV rotation.

Madonna's first music video was simply a choreographed number on the dance floor. But "Burning Up", replete with inviting angles of an uninhibited blonde writhing in languid ecstasy, was a real breakthrough in the music industry. Before Madonna, no singer had dared to exploit sexual themes so openly in music videos. Today this is the absolute norm in the pop industry.

Madonna – Burning Up

Madonna's debut album was called "Madonna" and hit the shelves of music stores in July 1983. It included 8 compositions in the synthetic disco genre. The album started on the Billboard 200 chart at position 190. The record took a year to reach number eight. Reviews from critics were mixed. Many music experts accused Madonna of being overly sexy and deliberately “girlish” and gave her her “minute of fame” for at most six months. But Ciccone just chuckled, declaring that she knows perfectly well what image her work has created, but this does not mean that this is the only thing she has to offer: “I keep everything under control and am waiting for people to understand it and be confused.”

Worldwide success

Madonna performed the lead single “Like a Virgin” at the very first MTV Video Music Awards. The singer took to the stage wedding dress and a belt with the inscription “Boy Toy”, and during the performance she rolled on the floor, showing the audience stockings with garters and white panties. For the time, the performance was shockingly sexy. Many years later, eyewitnesses recalled: “It was this moment that became a powerful impetus for the release feminine power. This is one of the most significant musical numbers of the 20th century."

Madonna – Like a Virgin (MTV VMA 1984)

In the wake of her first success in 1985, Madonna starred in two films. She got her first role in the film “Visual Search”, where Madonna cameo role The singer performed the track “Crazy For You” in the club. Next, the singer appears in the film “Desperate Search for Susan,” which introduced “Into The Groove” to the world and revealed Ciccone as an actress. Many film critics believe that Suzanne is the only successful role in Madonna’s filmography.

That same year, Madonna embarked on her first American tour, “The Virgin Tour,” with the Beastie Boys. Later, a video for the song “Material Girl” is recorded, and Madonna begins a relationship with actor Sean Penn. At the same time, Penthouse and Playboy magazines showed on their pages black and white photographs nude singer, which were taken back in 1979. Madonna sued for the rights to ban the publication of photographs.

Madonna released her third studio album, True Blue, in 1986. It was described by Rolling Stone as "sounding from the heart." The disc contained the ballad “Live to Tell,” which the singer wrote for the film “Point Blank,” where her husband Sean Penn starred. And the name is a direct reference to Penn; Madonna gave him the nickname true blue, which means “devoted.”

The album made Madonna a global star and topped the charts in 28 countries. The Guinness Book of Records called this disc absolutely unprecedented. At the same time, the singer took part in the filming of the film “Shanghai Surprise” and played for the first time in the theatrical production “Goose and Tomtom” along with Sean Penn.

Queen of shocking

Madonna – Papa Don't Preach

In 1987, Madonna appeared on film set tape "Who's That Girl" and recorded four songs for its soundtrack, including "Causing a Commotion".

In 1988, in the city of Pacentro, where the singer’s ancestors lived, a four-meter tall statue of Madonna was erected.

Madonna – Like a Prayer

In 1989, an album of the same name to the scandalous video was released, which the singer dedicated to the memory of her deceased mother and all members of her family. The lyrics touched on Madonna's childhood and personality development, the impact of her mother's death on her worldview, relationship with her father and, of course, female sexuality - this is the song "Express Yourself", for which the video was directed by David Fincher.

1990 was marked by the release of a video for the song “Justify My Love,” co-written with Lenny Kravitz. MTV management banned the broadcast of the video on the channel due to its erotic content, references to homosexuality and sadomasochism. The decision was supported by a number music channels in other countries. Madonna found a way out - she was the first in the music industry to release a video on the market in the “video single” format.

Madonna – Justify My Love

Next year is another scandal. Truth or Dare is a documentary filmed during the Blond Ambition World Tour, during which Toronto police were intent on arresting Madonna for simulating masturbation on stage.

In 1992, Madonna founded her own company, Maverick, which was engaged in entertainment, in particular, producing films, releasing music discs and books. First of all, the company released a book by Madonna entitled “Sex” with revelations and sexual fantasies of the singer, who appears in the text under the name Dita. Along with the book, the single "Erotica" was sold, accompanied by a photograph of Madonna holding a whip. Despite the mixed reaction from society, the book became a bestseller. In the first week, more than 500 thousand people purchased a copy of Sex, and a total of 1.5 million books were sold.

The book's release was part of a deliberate campaign to promote the fifth album, Erotica, which was entirely dedicated to sex. However, the PR campaign also had reverse side: The disc was a commercial success, but listeners perceived it more as an addition to the book, so “Erotika” did not make it to the top of the charts.

On March 31, 1994, Madonna came to the studio " Evening show with David Letterman." During the broadcast, she said the word “fuck” 14 times, handed the presenter her panties and offered to sniff them, and when he refused, she said: “Money has made you weak-willed.” In short, in the entire history of the program, this episode was recognized as the most censored.

Passion for Kabbalah

Shortly before this, Madonna played the main role in the musical “Evita,” dedicated to the biography of the Argentine singer and subsequently the wife of dictator Juan Peron, Eva Duarte. Filming took place in South America, and the woman’s partner on the set was Antonio Banderas. During preparation for filming, Madonna took vocal lessons, which, by the way, is clearly visible in the album “Ray of Light” released a year later, recognized as the most successful since “Like a Prayer”.

The record symbolized spiritual rebirth singer, which was influenced by many factors - from the birth of her daughter (after filming Evita, Madonna became pregnant and soon gave birth to a daughter, Lourdes, from dancer Carlos Leon) to an affair with screenwriter Andy Bird. Madonna's songs were no longer about delights intimate life, but called to pay attention to the environmental catastrophe, talked about the universe and metaphysical categories. The 39-year-old woman gave up provocative outfits and began wearing a sari and covering her face with a veil.

The public favorably accepted the new image, and in 1999 Madonna received three Grammys at once. Before this, there was only one similar figurine in her collection - received in 1991 in the category “best video clip”. Overall, the album was able to compete even with boy bands and young singers like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera that had flooded the music market.

Pop queen of the world

Madonna – What It Feels Like For A Girl

At the same time, her attempts to realize herself in big cinema failed. In 2000, Ciccone starred in the romantic comedy Best Friend alongside Rupert Everett. Reviews for her acting work were devastating. A year later, the film “Swept Away,” directed by Guy Ritchie, Madonna’s husband at the time, received five Golden Raspberry anti-awards, including the most offensive nominations for “worst actress,” “worst film,” and “worst director.” Since then, Richie has sworn off starring his wife in his films, and the singer only agreed to small roles, for example, in “Die Another Day” with Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry.

But 2003 brought Madonna her first failures in the musical field. The disc “American Life”, in which the singer touched on a number of pressing political issues and opened up emotional abscesses, no longer wanting to tolerate being treated as a “mercantile wench.” The album was not a failure from a commercial point of view, but was still inferior to the previous ones.

The tenth studio album “Confessions on a Dance Floor” (2005) rehabilitated Madonna in her own eyes. It is worth noting that the first song “Hung Up” became Madonna’s main hit throughout her career.

Madonna – Hung Up

On March 26, 2012, Madonna's twelfth album, MDNA, was released. This album topped all the UK and US charts on its first day. But everything turned out to be not so rosy. Critics called the album very dark, linking this with the singer's painful breakup with Jesus Luz. The video for the second album, single Girl Gone Wild, is subject to a censorship ban due to explicit scenes. The album, devoid of a promotional tour in support, becomes the worst-selling album in the singer's career, breaking the American Life anti-record of 2003.

The singer goes on the MDNA Tour, which starts on May 31 and becomes the most successful tour of 2012. Concerts are causing public outcry in the US over the use of imitation weapons on stage. Billboard names Madonna as the record holder for the music industry's earnings - $34.6 million for the year. In 2013, Madonna received 3 Billboard Music Awards. In August 2013, Forbes magazine named the singer the top celebrity earner of the year with earnings of $125 million.

madonna ft. Nicki Minaj – Bitch, I'm Madonna!

In December 2014, 13 demo versions of compositions that were recorded while working on Madonna's thirteenth studio album were leaked onto the Internet. Furious at what happened, the artist recorded several threatening messages addressed to the pirates. A few days after the leak, on December 20, Madonna officially announced her thirteenth album, called Rebel Heart. The album was released on March 10, 2015.

Fashion designer and entrepreneur

Among other things, Madonna opened a chain of fitness clubs called “Hard Candy” - in honor of her 11th album.

Madonna's personal life

During her life, she often started relationships with non-public men and was never embarrassed by the large age difference.

Very soon married life disappointed Ciccone. It turned out that both spouses have a violent temperament and an innate tendency to constant rivalry. The situation was aggravated by Penn's drinking. By 1988, their marriage was practically over. In 1989, the artist demanded a divorce.

One night, Penn broke into her house, tied her to a chair, and beat her for several hours. By cunning, the girl got out of the house and got to the police station. Penn denied everything, although the policemen, horrified by the pop idol disfigured by bruises and bruises, had no doubts. However, the case did not go to court - Madonna asked not to open a criminal case against ex-spouse. “He always had problems controlling his anger,” she later said.

Madonna spent the next few months recovering from the psychological trauma. In 1990, the singer began an affair with Warren Beatty, whom she met on the set of “Dick Tracy,” and in 1991 she remembered a short affair with model Tony Ward, who starred in her explicit video for “Justify My Love.”

In 1992, she dated rapper Vanilla Ice. After their breakup, the man’s career began to decline, and the press revealed a pattern that every man who met Madonna suffered a professional collapse or personal tragedy after breaking up with her. This is also true of rapper Tupac Shakur and basketball player Dennis Rodman, with whom Madonna had affairs in 1994.
When Lourdes was one year old, the paparazzi caught Carlos in the company of another woman. Like a real man, he did not talk about the details of the breakup and rejected all the multimillion-dollar offers from journalists who inquired about the ins and outs of their romance. He did not disappear from the lives of Madonna and Lourdes, and always tried to carry out free time with daughter.

The singer then had a short relationship with screenwriter Andy Bird, which ended in 1998 after he carelessly told reporters: “Well, we have a passionate relationship, but we need to work on it.” After the breakup, she realized that she was pregnant. The woman immediately refused an abortion. A dilemma arose: to tell Byrd about the pregnancy or not. But fate decided it itself - a miscarriage occurred.

That same year, at Sting's party, Madonna met British director Guy Ritchie. In a matter of days they became close. The director was 10 years younger than the artist and had just brilliantly presented his debut film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels to the public. As it turned out later, Richie was aware that Madonna would be at the party, and went there with one purpose - to meet her.

At the same time, he always treated the singer not as a star, but as a to an ordinary person. “He called me Madge and made me wash his car,” she recalled. Their romance developed rapidly. In 1999, Richie, having accidentally met Madonna's ex-lover, Bird, in the park, hit him in the face with all his might.
Kevin Sampaio - new lover Madonna

Madonna now

There are rumors that she will play the lead role of silent film star Norma Desmond in the musical Sunset Boulevard.

Biography, life story of Madonna

Childhood

Madonna was born on August 16, 1958 in Rochester, Michigan, USA. Her family lived in Pontiac, as Michigan was known at the time, but the decision to open up to the world came to her when they visited her grandmother in Bay City. Madonna was named Madonna Louise Ciccone, but her family called her "Little Nonnie." When she was just five years old, her mother died of breast cancer. According to Madonna, “One of the hardest things I've faced in life was the death of my mother and I definitely haven't come to terms with that day.”. Madonna learned early to be strong and independent, but she always remembered her mother's courage: “She tried to hide her fear deep inside herself so that we wouldn’t know - she never complained.”.

After the death of his mother, the Ciccone family fell apart. Madonna and her brothers were sent to live with various relatives, and a couple of years later, to Madonna's horror, her father Tony married their housekeeper Joan Gustafson - a guardian strict order. The father forced the children to call her mother, but Madonna found it extremely difficult to do this. In fact, she never called her mother. Madonna was the oldest of eight children, so it was on her shoulders that the greatest burden of responsibility was placed. Madonna recalled: “As the oldest child in the family, I felt like my entire youth was spent caring for children. How I wanted to escape from all this then... I was the most typical Cinderella.”. Madonna said about her father: “If we didn’t have schoolwork, he would give us homework—he was extremely adamant about forcing us to be useful.”. And: “But if he weren’t so strict, I wouldn’t be who I am now.”.

When Madonna was little, she loved to sing along to songs on the radio while she helped with housework. She recalled: “There was always music playing in our house - either gramophone records, or the radio, or someone humming in the shower.”. Soon her father wanted her to take piano lessons, since most of her family played the piano. musical instruments, and her father was really obsessed with it. But this was not destined to come true - Madonna was her father’s favorite and persuaded him to let her take dance lessons instead of the piano.

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As mentioned earlier, she wanted to do everything that she was forbidden to do. She turned her uniform skirt into a miniskirt, ran to the bathroom to put on makeup and put on tights. She flirted all the time. But when she wasn't flirting, she devoted herself entirely to her studies. Madonna recalled: “I tried so hard to study at school because my father rewarded us if we got straight A’s in our diaries. I wasn't as interested in studying as I was in wanting to save a lot of money with the 25 cents my dad gave us.". It's no surprise that Madonna shone in school theater, where she played leading roles in productions. After high school, she took dance classes at the University of Michigan. Her teacher was Chris Flynn. As she recalled: “I truly loved him. He was my mentor, my father, my imaginary lover, everything.".

Youth

Almost immediately after the University of Michigan, Madonna decided to go to New York to fulfill all her dreams. Everyone was against this idea, but her dance teacher said "Drive" and, fortunately for us, she went. So she was finally in New York, standing in the middle of Times Square (upon arriving in the city she asked the taxi driver to take her to the middle of everything) with $35 in her pocket, a bag full of tights and dance boots in one armpit and big doll to another. Madonna recalled: “When I arrived in New York, I flew on an airplane for the first time, drove a taxi for the first time, in general, did everything for the first time. And I arrived there with 35 dollars in my pocket. It was the bravest thing I've ever done. My goal was to conquer the city and I felt that I would have to". And also: “Even though I quickly got used to New York, I was really lonely.”.

“I could take anything in a taxi wherever I went. I took a deep breath, gritted my teeth, wiped away my tears and said, “I will do it - I have to do it, there is no other way.”. This was the beginning of Madonna's difficult times. She lived in a terrible house - there was no money for a better house. She recalled: “When my father first visited me, he was stunned. Cockroaches were crawling everywhere. There were drunks lying around in the corridor and everything smelled of spoiled beer.”. Then she won a scholarship to the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, where she spent two years working hard during the day and even harder at night without losing her job at the fast food restaurant where she worked part-time.

She also occasionally attended the Blue Froggie Club, where she met Steve Bray. He was talented musician, but his relationship with Madonna was more physical. A little later, Madonna realized that the path to the top for her was not the end of pure modern dancing. It was not the competition that hindered her, but the lack of prospects. There were so many people trying for so few professions. She auditioned for theatrical and musical roles and was taken to Paris to take part in a revue, standing behind Patrick Hernade. Hernade's administration realized that they had gotten their hands on something valuable, but they were too slow - when she asked for an increase in her fee, they refused. So, goodbye Paris and hello New York.

The desire to sing

Madonna returned to New York with a burning desire to succeed in the music industry. She returned to live with her old boyfriend, Dan Gilroy. He and a couple of friends he met at dance school formed The Breakfast Band and needed a drummer - just for Madonna. Then she persuaded Dan to write a couple of songs for her as the singer of the group.

After a few months of being in the group, she realized they were going nowhere and formed her own group with herself as the main singer. Over the next few months, they performed constantly in dubious New York clubs so that their name would become known in musical circles. That was not easy. Her group went through many changes in its composition and name. The clubs were more interested in punk and new wave acts, but Madonna was poring over her goal. She was invited to model a little and take part in a short (one-hour) art film, A Certain Sacrifice.

Madonna finally landed a deal with Gotham Records, earning $100 in a week. Steve Bray went with her as drummer and songwriter. She continued to persist and finally landed a deal with Sire Records for just $5,000 and released her first single, Everybody. When it was first released to radio, many fans confused Madonna with the African-American disco diva. Music companies also didn't put Madonna on the cover - they wanted people to think she was black to sell more disks. The song Everybody sold over 250,000 copies and peaked at number three on the charts. John Jellybean Benitez found Madonna the song Holiday, which became an immediate hit, but she won first place with Borderline. There were rumors that her voice had been mechanically altered to sound like a girl's. Her first album, Madonna, released in 1983, received a huge reception and won the hearts of millions of fans, as well as invitations to star in films.

Success

Madonna not only set the tone for music style, she also created new fashion. IN music video Lucky Star she showed off her Boy Toy image. Madonna's style was so popular that world famous lingerie store Fredericks of Hollywood reported a 40% increase in sales, which they attributed to the Down to Earth Girl look.

Never one to miss an opportunity to make a quick buck, Madonna sets up her own label, Wazoo. Among other things, Wazoo produced rubber bracelets and Boy Toy belt buckles. It wasn't long before millions of female fans around the world snapped up the rags of their No. 1 pop heroine. But it wasn't just the clothes that raised Madonna's sex reputation. Her music was about to take a turn in the other direction. New album Like A Virgin made Madonna popular and soon everyone at home had their own disc with the album.

It instantly achieved triple platinum status on the American charts. Interestingly, Madonna's first album was still popular on the charts. 1985 was a very busy year for Madonna. The Material Girl video was released on February 1st, the Vision Quest film was released on the 15th, and the Desperately Seeking Susan film was released on March 29th. Her role in Desperately Seeking Susan added a significant dimension to her character. Madonna's singles Material Girl and Crazy For You were in the top five. Crazy For You won Madonna her first Grammy. Madonna's first big tour (she traveled all over America) was named after her album The Virgin Tour (1985).

Love

From small places to packed stadiums – it was a matter of a couple of months. While she was filming Material Girl, she met . And after the phrase "I wouldn't want to be Mr. Madonna anyway", she married him. Madonna recalled: “We were jumping on my bed, doing our usual morning ritual, and suddenly this look appears... I suddenly understand what he is thinking about.”.

“I said, no matter what you think, I’ll say yes!”. This was his chance and he took it. On August 16, 1985, they got married at the Malibu media circus, 13 helicopters with paparazzi flew in a circle during the ceremony, and the groom tried to beat up those photographers who were sitting in the bushes. Madonna recalled: “I didn’t think that I would get married with 13 helicopters above my head, it all turned into some kind of circus. At first I was outraged, but then I laughed.".

Incredible popularity

Since 1985, Madonna has been known as a person who can do everything: she is a singer, an actress, a composer, a stage director, and an official. Madonna was successful everywhere. She broke all records on every possible radio broadcast, video, sales and box office record, with more than 29 of her singles in the top ten, 11 of which were in 1st place. This is a world record! Take A Bow was at number one for 7 weeks, breaking the previous record of Madonna's hit Like A Virgin, which held number one for 6 weeks.

Madonna's No. 1 and No. 2 singles stayed at the top of the charts for 40 weeks - almost a full year of non-stop hits! Every studio album that contained her songs was in the top 15. All but one were in the top ten, and seven of them were in the top five. Madonna's international album sales are estimated at 120,000,000. Besides the main thing - music, to the unparalleled success of Madonna - she has more videos and roles than any artist in the history of MTV. Having been awarded many times for these videos, Madonna made a significant contribution to the video art model as her endless musical tours, combining music, stagecraft, performance and dazzling charisma, filled stadiums for the next three weeks.

These huge breakthroughs mean huge amounts of money, which is why Madonna is the richest woman in the world, followed by Oprah Winfrey. At the beginning of the 2000s, Madonna earned $13,000,000 a year. All the upcoming albums, singles, videos and films kept Madonna on the crest of a wave.

As if she hadn't been busy before. Madonna gave the world another piece of joy in September 2000. No, not another child. Madonna devoted this time to Music, her first full album since Ray of Light, which won a Grammy. It was, of course, a hit, but one that no one expected. Music entered first place in the sales charts, and not only in the United States, but also in 22 other countries, such as in Madonna's new home - England. It sold 420,000 copies in the first week alone, in the US alone. Music was Madonna's first album to hold the top position.

Throughout her hectic career, Madonna has released more than ten albums, starred in more than ten films and written (yes, she is also a writer) seven books. Madonna is a person who incredibly combines caring for her family and friends, and an incredible career, and social life, and charity. Her achievements are truly amazing. Many journalists claim that all people are divided into two types: those who love Madonna and those who hate her. The only way. There are no and cannot be indifferent to its activities.

Personal

Madonna, an incredibly beautiful and sexy woman, had many men, all of them completely handsome. However, not every one of them managed to reach the heart of the star. After a divorce from

Singer Madonna is the real queen of American pop music. Moreover, she can boast not only that she sings. Madonna is also a fashion designer, director, producer and acclaimed writer. It is true what they say: a talented person is talented in everything. And the very story of this woman’s life, one might say, is a direct embodiment of a dream. Madonna's story shows that self-confidence and hard work will help you rise to the top, even if you are at the very bottom. One of the main facts about her is that Madonna was able to become a real sex symbol of the last century.

Currently, the outrageous singer has not lost her popularity and charisma. Thanks to which she was and remains one of the richest women in the world, with a corresponding level of influence.

Madonna is a singer with character. And even despite her not very young age, this versatile creative personality still has an impressive army of fans, not only among men, but also among women. The latter, by the way, are most often interested in what the performer’s height, weight, and age are. How old is Madonna is one of the most popular questions regarding the singer. Especially considering how popular plastic surgery is among American stars.

We inform you that this year Madonna is going to celebrate her sixtieth birthday. But the fact that she was able to maintain this level of activity is not surprising. After all, in her youth she was a cheerleader, even despite her small height. With a height of 163 cm, she now weighs 54 kg. Photos of Madonna in her youth are still easy to find on the Internet - she was and remains a very beautiful woman.

Biography and personal life of Madonna

The singer's full name is Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone. She was born in August 1958. Her father, Silvio Ciccone, worked as a design engineer at the Chrysler automobile plant. And my mother, Madonna Louise Ciccone, took x-rays.

The girl was a modest excellent student, but this role was shattered at a school talent competition when Madonna turned 14. She went on stage in a swimsuit, and her body was smeared with fluorescent paint. The dance to the song of The Who turned out to be very cheeky. She lost the competition, was put under house arrest at home, and at school she was called a whore for a long time. Madonna herself recalled that then on stage she “found herself” and realized who she should be. And the concept of a “modest whore” stuck with her in her career.

The debut album “Madonna” was released in the summer of 1983 and received mixed reviews from critics. Most of them reproached the aspiring singer for being too sexy and argued. That she won't last long on stage.

Madonna's biography and personal life have always attracted a lot of attention from fans. The woman is already famous for the fact that she had a huge amount romantic relationships, and she was married only twice. Moreover, often the men were younger and even much younger than herself. Madonna never had a happy and strong relationship.

Filmography: films starring Madonna

The actress’s filmography expanded quite rapidly, but this part of her career did not develop as well as the musical one.

Madonna can be seen in such films as “Visual Search”, “Shanghai Surprise”, “Broadway Bloodhounds”, “Dangerous Game” and others.

Madonna's family and children

In Madonna's life there were countless affairs with different men - public and not. Some were even a few years younger, but the age difference never bothered the singer, and she calmly appeared with her boyfriends in front of the camera. Madonna's family and children are a rather sensitive topic. Officially, the artist was married to actor Sean Penn and director Guy Ricci. But both marriages ultimately ended in painful breakups.

Meanwhile, Madonna gave birth to only one of her two natural children while married. She gave birth to a son from Guy Ricci, but her daughter became an “illegitimate” child from her personal trainer Carlos Leon. The singer was in a relationship with him several years before her marriage to Ricci.

Madonna's son - Rocco John Ricci

Madonna's son, Rocco John Ricci, is the singer's own son and second child, whom she gave birth to in 2001, while in her second marriage to director Guy Ricci. The boy grew up like all children and studied well at school. But, as with many children of famous parents, Rocco began to have behavior problems as he grew older. Booze, nightclubs and everything that goes with it. Until, in the end, it all ended in a huge scandal, the reason for which was that Rocco was a drug addict.

It is now known that seventeen-year-old Rocco found work as a courier, lives separately from his mother and even entered into a relationship with a girl named Kimberly Turnbull.

Madonna's adopted son – David Banda Malave Ciccone-Ricci

Madonna's adopted son, David Banda Malave Ciccone-Ricci, was adopted by the couple in 2005. A dark-skinned boy from Malawi immediately attracted attention from the press. And the reason was that the process of adopting a child from Africa turned into a real scandal.

When all the documents were prepared and Madonna was about to take the child, the boy’s relatives suddenly showed up and wanted in every possible way to prevent the singer from taking David away from Malawi. But in the end everything ended well, David Ciccone-Ricci still found for himself new house and a big family.

Madonna's daughter - Lourdes Maria Ciccone

Madonna’s own daughter, Lourdes Maria Ciccone, became the artist’s first-born and her “illegitimate” child. The singer gave birth to a girl from her personal trainer Carlos Leon, with whom she was simply in a relationship at that time. But the wedding, although unplanned, still did not take place. As a result, the girl remained with her mother.

Now she is already 21 years old. Like her older brother, the girl attracts the attention of the press for a not very pleasant reason. The previously beautiful and extravagant girl, who was even called a “mini-Madonna,” completely stopped taking care of her own appearance, thereby becoming a real find for the yellow press.

Madonna's adopted daughter - Mercy James Ciccone

Another one stepdaughter Madonna - Mercy James Ciccone was also cast in an opera from Malawi, Africa. Let us remember that the artist’s adopted son, David, is also from there. But the registration of guardianship over the girl began after the singer’s divorce from her last husband.

It is worth noting that even in this case there were scandals. In many newspapers, the news of another unexpected guardianship was called a “case of selling children.” And the whole point is that in Malawi at that time it was forbidden to place children under the care of foreign “parents”. However, Mercy also left with Madonna for America and now lives with her star mother.

Madonna's ex-husband - Sean Penn

Madonna's ex-husband Sean Penn and the singer herself met back in 1985, when the performer was in a relationship with the singer Prince. This happened on the set of one of the artist’s videos, and the woman quickly became interested in the actor, who was a couple of years younger than her. They got married that same year, but the marriage fell apart four years later.

It is known that some time later Penn sneaked into the singer’s house and brutally killed her. But Madonna managed to escape and get to the police station. Penn denied the beating, although the woman's injuries spoke for themselves. The singer asked not to open a criminal case, since her ex always had poor anger control.

Madonna's ex-husband - Guy Ricci

Madonna's ex-husband, Guy Ricci, met his future one in 1998, at a party with singer Sting. During the conversation, it turned out that the aspiring director was ten years younger than the artist, and he came to the party just to meet Madonna, since he knew in advance that she would be there.

They got married in 2000, and very soon the singer gave birth to a son, Guy. Five years later, the couple adopted a boy from Africa. Their marriage lasted eight years. The true reason for the divorce still remains unknown, but there are rumors that the man was simply fed up with his wife’s strong passion for bondage. But there were no official statements.

When the singer was just starting her career, none of the fans thought to doubt natural beauty this woman. But the years passed, and the woman still did not age. Hot photos of Madonna before and after plastic surgery are easy to find on the Internet.

Photos in a swimsuit, for example, or photos allegedly leaked online where the singer is naked. Although officially fans were only presented with Madonna’s almost bare breasts. The performer herself completely denies the fact of surgical intervention, but medical specialists agreed that the singer had a facelift and nose job. In addition, he does not disdain the famous “beauty injections”.

Madonna's Instagram and Wikipedia

Instagram and Wikipedia of Madonna exist in full. The singer’s official Instagram profile publishes photographs from magazine covers, photos with her children, nature shots and announcements of future performances. In total there are about 3.5 thousand photos and videos. And 11.5 million fans subscribed to the performer’s page.

As for Wikipedia, there you will see brief information about herself and her family, as well as a complete list of awards and quite a lot of information about the development of her career. Up to the chronology of music album releases. In any case, this information will be interesting and useful to all fans of this outrageous artist.