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Biography of Madonna
Name: Madonna
Birth Date: August 16, 1958
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Bay City, Michigan, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: entertainer, singer, dancer
Madonna
Singer and dancer Madonna (Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone, born 1958) is a master marketer and sensational self-promoter who propelled herself to stardom, dominating pop charts, concert halls, film, and music video. She has been called "an outrageous blend of Little Orphan Annie, Margaret Thatcher, and Mae West," and "narcissistic, brazen, comic ... the Goddess of the Nineties."Born in August 1958, Madonna Ciccone was the third child of six in a Catholic family living in Bay City, Michigan. Her father, Tony, a design engineer for Chrysler/General Dynamics, was a conservative, devout Roman Catholic and a first-generation Italian American. Madonna's mother and namesake was of French-Canadian descent. She died of breast cancer when Madonna was five years old.Tony Ciccone moved the family to Pontiac, Michigan, and married one of the women hired to care for the Ciccone household. The adjustment was difficult for Madonna as the eldest daughter. She had considered herself …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…I am lucky to be in the position of power that I am in and to be intelligent.... It's not my nature to just kick back."True to her word, she did anything but "kick back." Instead she collected her family and embarked on a 48-stop Drowned World Tour throughout much of 2001, playing to sellout audiences and grossing an estimated million per performance. Further Reading For a retrospective look at Madonna's career through interviews, critical essays, and reviews, see The Madonna Companion: Two Decades of Commentary (1999). Most of the published information on Madonna is found in newspapers and magazines. See New York Daily News (May 31, 1985); People (May 13, 1985); The Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock and Soul (1989); USA Today (April 21, 1992); New Yorker (October 26, 1992); New York Times Book Review (October 25, 1992); Newsweek (November 2, 1992); Nation (December 14, 1992); Entertainment Weekly (April 15, 1994; September 22, 1995); Esquire (August, 1994); People (April 29, 1996; October 28, 1996; December 30, 1996); Billboard (November 16, 1996; December 16, 1995); New York Times (March 24, 1997); and Forbes (September 23, 1996).
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