Madonna Louise
Ciccone
(born on August 16, 1958).
IS an American singer-songwriter, actress, director, dancer, and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern
dance and performed in the music groups Breakfast
Club and Emmy.
Madonna
is known for continuously reinventing both her music and image, and for
retaining a standard of autonomy within the recording industry. She attained
immense popularity by pushing the boundaries of lyrical content in mainstream
popular music and imagery in her music videos, which became a fixture on MTV. Critics have praised her diverse
musical productions which have also been known to induce controversy. Madonna
released her self-titled debut
album in 1983, and followed it
with a series of successful albums, including the the Grammy Award winners Ray of Light (1998) and Confessions on a Dance
Floor (2005).
Many of her songs peaked atop record charts, including "Like a Virgin", "Into the Groove", "Papa Don't
Preach", "Like a Prayer", "Vogue", "Frozen",
"Music", "Hung Up",
and "4 Minutes".
Madonna's look and manner of dressing, her performances, and her music
videos influenced young girls and women and her style became one of the female fashion trends of the 1980s. It was created by stylist and jewelry designer Maripol and the look consisted of lace tops, skirts over capri pants, fishnet
stockings, jewelry bearing the crucifix, bracelets, and bleached hair. Madonna achieved global
recognition after the release of her second studio album: Like a Virgin in
1984. It topped the charts in several countries and became her first number one
album on the Billboard 200.
The title track, "Like
a Virgin", topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for six consecutive weeks. It attracted the
attention of organizations who complained that the song and its accompanying
video promoted premarital sex and undermined family values, and moralists sought to have the song and video banned.
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