Madonna English biography
St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. The history of her life is the embodiment of the American dream, she proves that with amazing hard work, one can carry out a rapid take -off from the bottom to the very top. But most importantly, Madonna became a symbol of the sexual revolution of the 20th century. American singer Madonna Today Madonna Louise Chicone is one of the richest and most influential women of the world show business.
The mother of the celebrity, Madonna Louise Fortin, came from the family of Canadian French, worked as a technician on X -ray. Father, an American of Italian descent Silvio Tony Chikonon, was a design engineer at the Chrysler car factory. Parents of Madonna: Silvio and Madonna Chicone Madonna became the third child and first daughter in the family, where two more sons and a daughter were born later.
As the first daughter, in accordance with Italian traditions, she received the name of her mother. Madonna in childhood when Madonna Jr. turned 5, her mother died of breast cancer. Being a religious woman, she could not go for it. The child was born, and a few months later the mother died. Father re -married a maid family, Joan Gustafson. So the girl got the half -brother of Mario and sister Jennifer.
Madonna in the center with brothers and sister grew Madonna in a devout Catholic family in a suburb of Detroit. As the singer admits, she was not a universal favorite in childhood, everyone considered her a girl “with greetings”. Madonna was an exemplary excellent student, for which she was not loved by classmates, but the teachers adored. She did not shake her hair with armpits and did not paint, took the lessons of the game on the piano and jazz choreography.
The house in which the childhood of Madonna passed, but at the age of 14, the reputation of the share-girl was destroyed: she came to the bikini at the school contest, and her body was painted with fluorescent paints. The girl herself, being on the stage, finally felt like who she was. Madonna in high school year of the future celebrity loved to dance. The daughter followed in her footsteps and convinced her father to record her for ballet lessons.
Later, in high school, she performed in the team of chirliders. After graduating from exterm, Madonna received a 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 the year, Madonna threw the college and moved to New York with a couple of tens of dollars in her pocket. Now Madonna recalls that period of her life as the most desperate:-When I arrived in New York, this was the first time when I flew by plane, for the first time even called a taxi,-everything was the first time.
And I arrived with 35 dollars in my pocket. It was my most brave act in life. Madonna danced the first steps to success in the year with the French artist Disco Patrick Eronandes during his world tour and went crazy from the musician Dan Gilroly. With the last later, the pop diva created its first rock band called Breakfast Club. Madonna played shock and guitar, as well as sang.
At the dawn of her career, Madonna sang in a rock band in the same year she starred in a hundred dollars in the film “A specific victim”, playing a woman there, forced to obey the man. Years later, Madonna tried to redeem the rights to the film in order to destroy all the reminders of this shame, but she did not succeed. Madonna in the film “Specific Sacrifice” in the year Madonna broke up with Gilroots and began to sing in the Emmy group along with the drummer and Stefen Brayy.
At the same time, the girl signed a contract with Gothham Records, but the cooperation was short -lived - the manager of the novice singer did not share her views on creativity. Madonna in his youth year of the demonna demonna impressed the DJ and producer Mark Kamins, who played in the Danceeteria club, where Madonna often visited. The fireplace introduced the ascending star with the founder of Sire Records Samur Stayne.
The result was the contract for the release of the Evebody's debut single. The fireplace and Bray began to fight for the right to be called an agent of Madonna, while both were her lovers. The choice was not easy, but in the end the singer stopped at the brand. The clip published after which the label allocated only dollars to this. Before writing down and releasing the debut album, the producers of Madonna decided to feel the soil and understand whether the singer’s success is accidental or not.
For this, the second maxi-syngol was written. If he becomes a hit, then the album will be given good, producers said. A more experienced producer, reggae Lucas was selected in the place of Kamings. A clip was released for the first song, which fell into the MTV rotation. One of the first images of the singer for the year the first musical video of the Madonna was just a staging number on the dance floor.
But Burning Up, replete with the draft angles of a relaxed blonde, wriggling in languid ecstasy, was a real breakthrough in the musical industry. Before the Madonna, none of the singers dare to so openly exploit the sexual theme in the clips. Today it is an absolute norm in pop industry.Madonna - Burning Up Madonna's debut album was called "Madonna" and got to the shelves of music stores in July.
It included 8 compositions in the genre of synthetic disco. The album launched in the Billboard chap. The plate took a year to get to the eighth line. Critics reviews were mixed. Many musical experts accused Madonna of excessive sexuality and deliberate “girl’s” and gave her “minute of glory” for six months. But Chikon only chuckled, saying that she knew very well what image her work has developed, but this does not mean that this is the only thing she could offer: “I keep it under control and wait for it to understand and confuse.” The cover of the first album of the Madonna World Success of the second album of the Madonna “Like a Virgin” “Like a Virgin”, dedicated, according to the liner on the cover, all the virgins of the planet, went out in the year.
On the stage, the singer went out in a wedding dress and a belt with the inscription “Boy Toy”, and in the process of execution, she rode the floor, showing the audience stockings with garters and white panties. For that time, the performance was shocking sexy.
Many years later, eyewitnesses recalled: “It was this moment that became a powerful impetus for the release of female power. This is one of the most significant musical numbers of the XX century. ” She got the first role in the “Visual Search” tape, where the Madonna in the episodic role of the singer in the club played the track “Crazy for You”. Further, the singer appears in the film “The desperate search for Susan”, which introduced the world “Into the Groove” and revealed Chicone as an actress.
Many film critics believe that Suzanne is the only successful role in the filmography of Madonna. Later, the video is recorded on the composition "Material Girl", and Madonna begins with actor Shane Peny. Then, Penthouse and playboy magazines showed black and white photographs of a naked singer on their pages, which were made in Madonna, sued the right to ban publication of pictures. Madonna released those same photos the third studio album “True Blue” in the year.
He was characterized by the Rolling Stone publication as “sounding from the heart”. On the disk there was a Live to Tell ballad, which the singer wrote for the “point blank” tape, where her husband Sean Penn was shot. And the name is a direct reference to the Penn; Madonna gave him the nickname True Blue, which means “devotee”. The frame from the film "Shanghai Surprise" album made a Madonna of a global star and occupied the tops of the hit parades in 28 countries.
The Guinness Book of Records called this disc absolutely unprecedented. Then the singer took part in the filming of the film "Shanghai Surprise" and played for the first time in the theatrical production of "Goose and Tom" along with Shona Peny. Her lyrical minor heroine wants to give birth to a child from a loved one. Suddenly, the song was the reason for the conflict between the Catholics and Prostens of the opponents of abortion.
The Catholics blamed Madonna for the propaganda of an illegitimate relationship, the pro-Lifers saw in her song an anti-car. Madonna herself claimed that this song is about protest against any patriarchal authoritarian, whether it be a father, church or society. In the year in the city of Pacocentro, where the singers lived, they put a statue of Madonna four meters high.
At the beginning of the year, the singer signed a 5 millionth contract with Pepsi, and the new composition of Like a Prayer was presented just in the advertising company of Gazirovka. The clip for the song, however, like the advertisement itself, provoked outrage among religious spectators: crosses were burning in the background. The video shocked the Vatican and called for the boycott Pepsi, and the holding had no choice but to break the sponsorship contract with pop-brow.
However, Madonna received its 5 million, and the erupted scandal filed the interest of the public for a long time. Madonna - Like a Prayer in the year came out the scandalous clip of the album, which the singer devoted to the memory of the deceased mother and all members of her family. The lyrics affected the childhood and the formation of Madonna’s personality, the influence of mother’s death on her worldview, relationship with her father and, of course, female sexuality is the song “Express Yourself”, which was shot by the clip David Fincher.
The frame from the “Express Yourself clip” was marked by the release of the clip for the song “Justify My Love”, recorded in co -authorship with Lenny Kravitsa. The MTV management prohibited the video on the air of the channel due to erotic content, references to homosexuality and sadomasochism. The decision was supported by a number of music channels in other countries.
Madonna found a way out - she was the first in the musical industry to release a clip in the market in the video "Singeal". Madonna - Justify my love next year is another scandal. The documentary “Truth or Call”, shot during the world tour of the Blond Ambition World Tour, during which the Toronto police intended to arrest Madonna for imitation of masturbation on stage. In the year, Madonna founded her own company Maverick, which was engaged in entertainment, in particular, the production of films, release of music discs and books.First of all, the company released on the shelves the book of the authorship of the Madonna called “Sex” with the revelations and sexual fantasies of the singer, appearing in the text under the name Dita.
Together with the book, the single “Erotica” was sold, accompanied by a photograph of the Madonna, holding the whip in her hands. Despite the ambiguous reaction of society, the book became a bestseller. Over the first week, more than thousands of people acquired a copy of “sex”, and 1.5 million books were sold. The frame from the Erotica clip was part of the well -thought -out campaign to promote the fifth album “Erotica”, which was completely dedicated to sex.
However, the PR campaign also had the opposite side: the disk was waiting for a commercial success, but the listeners perceived it more like an addition to the book, so the “erotica” did not break into the first lines of the charts.