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Madonna
Madonna Louise Ciccone is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Dubbed the "Queen of Pop", she is known for her continual reinvention and versatility in music production, songwriting, and visual presentation. Her works, which concern social, political, sexual, and religious themes, have generated both controversy and critical acclaim. Regarded as one of the most influential musicians of all time, Madonna broke gender barriers in popular music and has had a significant socio-cultural impact across her career.
entertainment · American singer and songwriter (born 1958) · singer · songwriter · actor · film director · film producer · writer · dancer · entrepreneur · record producer · businessperson · also Madonna, Madonna Ciccone, Madonna L. Ciccone, Madge
Born 16 August 1958 · Q1744
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...Madge was doing that when I was doing it, you know? I saw Madonna outside the Music Machine before she even made it. I was doing a gig with the band in like '79. There was this chick outside from New York going 'I'm going to be a star' and it was her! And she's got some fucking balls you know?
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“No man can have sex with anyone but me and since I don't have that kind of time on my hands, you might as well all be gay!”
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“...Madge was doing that when I was doing it, you know? I saw Madonna outside the Music Machine before she even made it. I was doing a gig with the band in like '79. There was this chick outside from New York going 'I'm going to be a star' and it was her! And she's got some fucking balls you know?”
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“I think I have a dick in my brain. I don't need to have one between my legs.”
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“I’ve learned so much from working with her – the power aspect about how to use what you have is an amazing thing. I learn more stuff about myself as I go along.”
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“I performed at Mom and Dad's party when I was four. Oh my gosh, I was singing a Madonna song and I peed myself.”
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“Straight men need to be emasculated. I'm sorry. They all need to be slapped around. Women have been kept down for too long. Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once.”
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“She's done as much as Dietrich did for fucking Hollywood stars. She's gone in and said 'Alright. I've been raped. Someone fucking stuck his dick in my gob in a back alley. I got up from that and I went in there and I had a big fight. And I won.' She fucking won, good luck to the woman.”
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“She was very down to earth. It was nice to see after all her success, she's still very grounded. It was cool to see her interaction with Lourdes. She's a cool mom. She shot a couple of the photographs herself at the end. She definitely has a vision and was very hands-on. It was really easy working with her. She's very comfortable to be around — very professional but a lot of fun.”
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“I'll flirt with anyone from garbagemen to grandmothers.”
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“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.”
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“When I first started working with her I just wanted to be like her – I think I misinterpreted a lot of things. The fame. I just tried to be like her and didn’t do things my own way. It was funny looking back on it.”
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“I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.”
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“I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.”
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“Then there are guys who say 'I have never fantasized about being with a man.' They are lying. And the least offensive men I've been with in terms of their sexual politics and how they view me as a woman, have been men who have either slept with men, or at least kissed or held a man once. It opens up your thinking. You don't think that women are less-than you are.”
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“If you don't like my attitude, then you can fuck off, just go to Texas and suck George Bush's dick!”
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“One set of circumstances does not complete you. Maybe nothing ever does. So you work on your life and you work on your 'work' and you try to live every single day like it's your last. And you try to be better, to yourself and to others. I don't always succeed. But I try and it's my goal.”
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“I just want to say how much I enjoyed Madonna's performance. She is an absolute professional and she makes us all look like amateurs.”
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“She has this ability to have you in the palm of her hand again. I went to see her last year in the Confessions on a Dance Floor and it was brilliant, it was really inspiring.”
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“Madonna gave me some great advice about my own career and really helped me to go for what I wanted to do – not what a record company told me. She always said I could do it.”
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“Madonna is a funny person, respectful and collaborative. I've been aware for a year that Madonna was a Gogol Bordello fan and in the end, we met trough mutual friends and we spoke a lot.”
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“I'm not going to compromise my artistic integrity.”
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“Hey you! Don't be silly! Put a rubber on your willie!”
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“Come on girls! Do you believe in love? Cause I got something to say about it.”
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“The cross is a very powerful symbol and it symbolizes suffering, but it also is connected to a person who was loving and sharing and his message was about unconditional love. I tried to take a powerful image and use it to draw attention to a situation that needs attention. For me, we all need to be Jesus in our time. Jesus' message was to love your neighbor as yourself and these are people in need.”
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“I was sacked from Dunkin' Donuts for squirting the donuts jelly all over the customers.”
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“I love horses. I think I may have been one of Henry VIII’s knights in another life, riding through a great forest.”
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“Now that I got everyone's attention, what do I have to say?”
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“Maybe I'm just a gay man inside a woman's body!”
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“Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.”
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“I went to New York. I had a dream. I wanted to be a big star. I didn’t know anybody. I wanted to dance. I wanted to sing. I wanted to do all those things. I wanted to make people happy. I wanted to be famous. I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard and my dream came true.”
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“I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.”
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“I just popped my cherry kissing a guy. I thought of you. I don”
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milb.com: Truitt Madonna homers (4) on a fly ball to left field.
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CNN en Español: Madonna cumple 68 años: momentos en los que demostró por qué es la Reina del Pop
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Jenesaispop: Madonna y Kylie logran un top 8 en UK gracias a los CD singles
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The Guardian: Madonna will not be playing Glastonbury in 2027, Emily Eavis says
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Interview Magazine: Every Madonna Interview That’s Ever Been Published in Interview
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ELLE: How Madonna Made Pink, Purple, and Vintage Corsets the Defining Look of Summer
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upi.com: In photos: Pop icon Madonna turns 68 - All Photos
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Official Charts: Madonna extends Official Singles Chart record with Kylie collaboration Love Sensation
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Political Science Now: Lisel Hintz, Feyda Sayan-Cengiz, Madonna Kalousian, and Devrim Yavuz Receive the 2026 APSA-PSA International Partnerships Award
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dw.com: Can a giant Madonna help slow secularization in Poland?
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dw.com: Can a massive Madonna help slow secularization in Poland?
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ELLE: La mujer detrás de las pelucas de Madonna, Rihanna, Gisele Bündchen e Irina Shayk
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Charlestown Patriot-Bridge: Madonna Della Cava Feast - Charlestown Patriot-Bridge
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Forbes: Madonna Helps Another Pop Superstar Rise To A New Career Peak
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LOS40: La lucha por ser la canción del verano continúa en #Del40al1CocaCola: Quevedo, Shakira, Lola Índigo y Madonna quieren el Nº1
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ABC: Se alquila, por 10.000 euros al mes, la casa londinense donde vivieron Madonna y Guy Ritchie
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GQ España: Madonna: sus 20 mejores canciones, según GQ
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lansingstatejournal.com: Madonna Jeanne Fedewa Obituary
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Published video “Madonna & Kylie - Love Sensation (Afterhours Radio Edit) Official Lyric Video”.
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Yahoo: William Orbit, Madonna ‘Ray Of Light’ Producer, Dies At 69
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Plásticos y Decibelios: BLUR CONOCIERON A MADONNA CUANDO GRABABAN "13" CON EL "GENIO" WILLIAM ORBIT
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RockFM: Graham Coxon recuerda la inesperada visita de Madonna durante la grabación de ‘13’ de Blur
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Revelio Labs: Madonna Rehab Hosp Number of Employees 2026 | Employee Count & Headcount Data
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miarevista.okdiario.com: Los 2 perfumes que Madonna combina para conseguir un olor a rosas único
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milb.com: Truitt Madonna doubles (21) on a sharp fly ball to left fielder Hayden Yost. Jorge Quintana scores. Joe Tiroly scores.
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Published video “Madonna & Kylie - Love Sensation (Afterhours Mix) Official Lyric Video”.
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Published video “Madonna & Kylie - Love Sensation (Afterhours Radio Edit)”.
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Published video “Madonna & Kylie - Love Sensation (Afterhours Mix)”.
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Published video “Madonna - Danceteria (The Making Of)”.
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Public attention spiked: 187,176 Wikipedia readers in one day, 12.2× the usual 15,282, with 9 article edits. Editors noted: 2022–present: Remix albums and Confessions II overlink
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Published video “Danceteria lyric video out now!”.
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Published video “Madonna - Danceteria (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Public attention spiked: 52,826 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.5× the usual 15,282, with 3 article edits. Editors noted: Reverted 2 edits by Despechi.ro (talk): Don't cut off article titles like that, and we shouldn't make it seem like the names are shorter than they really are
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Published video “CONFESSIONS II - OUT NOW!”.
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Published video “Madonna - Everything (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Madonna - Fragile (Official Audio)”.
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Released album “CONFESSIONS II”.
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Released ep “Into The Groove”.
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Released album “Jump (Remixes)”.
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Released ep “Bedtime Stories: The Untold Chapter”.
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Released album “Veronica Electronica”.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “A video shared on social platforms shows Greta Thunberg dancing to Madonna's "La Isla Bonita"” Not Greta.
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Snopes rated the claim “A video authentically shows people inside a church singing Madonna's "Like a Prayer" around Christmastime.” Miscaptioned.
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Madonna released the remix album Veronica Electronica and the extended play Bedtime Stories: The Untold Chapter, both of which contain previously unreleased demos
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Released ep “Deadpool & Wolverine: Madonna's "Like a Prayer" EP”.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Pop singer Madonna's birth name is Madonna.” True.
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Released album “In the City of Angels”.
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Snopes rated the claim “Actor Mark Wahlberg once said, "If you don't like the USA, please leave and take your comrades Alec Baldwin, Cher, Madonna, Rosie [O'Donnell], Jennifer Lawrence, Miley Cyrus, Mark Ruffalo, Sean Penn, Robert De Niro, Barbra Streisand, Matt Damon, Oprah [Winfrey], Colin Kaepernick and the whole lot…” Incorrect Attribution.
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Released album “Breathless In Texas (Live 1990)”.
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THIP Media rated the claim “recent Madonna death claim on social media is true” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Pop star Madonna was hospitalized in June 2023 due to complications from getting a COVID vaccination.” False.
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Released album “Live in Dallas 1990 (The Second Chapter)”.
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Released album “American Life Mixshow Mix”.
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Released album “Finally Enough Love”.
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Snopes rated the claim “A photograph shows a 12-year-old Madonna getting an autograph from Elvis Presley in 1970.” False.
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Released album “The Party's Right Here Live vol. 2”.
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Released album “Madonna Music Video DVD – Volume2”.
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Released album “Madonna Music Video DVD – Volume3”.
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To mark the fortieth anniversary of her recording career
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Released album “Madame X: Music From the Theater Xperience”.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “President Trump confused Madonna and Maradona in a tweet” Fake Tweet.
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fact checker rated the claim “US President Donald Trump sentcondolences for the death of Maradona but actually hinted at Madonna and her music.” fake.
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The Quint rated the claim “Donald Trump confuses Diego Maradona with Madonna” False.
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After the French government prohibited large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Released album “Australia Sydney Broadcast 1993 Volume Two”.
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Released album “Australia Sydney Broadcast 1993 Volume One”.
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Reported net worth: $550M (as of 2020).
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Published video “Madonna - Crave (Dan De Leon & Anthony Griego Remix/Audio) ft. Swae Lee”.
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Released album “The Girlie Show Live”.
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Released album “Madame X”.
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And Madonna produced it with various musicians, primarily her longtime collaborator Mirwais and Mike Dean
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Published video “Madonna - Crave (feat. Swae Lee) ft. Swae Lee”.
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Alt News rated the claim “Madonna sings Hanuman Chalisa” False.
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India Today rated the claim “American pop star Madonna singing Hanuman Chalisa.” Mostly false.
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Released album “Madonna Tokyo 1987”.
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Released album “Australia”.
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Published video “MADONNAVEVO Live Stream”.
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Published video “Madonna - Deeper And Deeper (Rebel Heart Tour)”.
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Published video “Madonna - Living For Love (Rebel Heart Tour / Sydney, 2016)”.
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Released album “Rebel Heart Tour”.
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Published video “Madonna - Material Girl (Rebel Heart Tour)”.
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Released album “Live on Stage FM Broadcasts - Reunion Arena 7th May 1990”.
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Released album “The Very Best Of - Radio Waves 1984–1995, Vol. 1”.
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Released album “The Very Best Of - Radio Waves 1984-1995, Vol. 2”.
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Three months after thirteen demos leaked online
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Released album “Rebel Heart”.
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Published video “Madonna - Living For Love (57th GRAMMYs)”.
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Published video “Madonna - Living For Love”.
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Released album “Revolutionary Heart”.
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“100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time”
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2016, and 2017, and was ranked number fifty-six on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time" (2015)
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Released album “MDNA World Tour”.
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Published video “Madonna - Vogue (MDNA World Tour)”.
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for Masterpiece (2012).
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Published video “Girl Gone Wild - UMF Mix (Live From Ultra Music Festival)”.
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To generally favorable critical reception
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Released album “The Complete Studio Albums (1983-2008)”.
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Released album “Original Album Series”.
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Released album “MDNA”.
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Career landmark: Super Bowl XLVI halftime show.
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Attended meetings and services at an Opus Dei center, a Catholic institution that promotes sanctity through daily life
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Released album “Sticky & Sweet Tour”.
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Released album “Celebration: The Video Collection”.
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Released album “Celebration”.
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Released album “Superpop”.
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Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2008).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Music Film for The Confessions Tour (2008).
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Hard Candy debuted atop the charts of 37 countries, including the US Billboard 200
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Released album “Hard Candy”.
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Madonna was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, becoming the second female solo artist to achieve it in her first year of eligibility, after Janis Joplin in 1995
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“Not only does society suffer from racism and sexism but it also suffers from ageism. Once you reach a certain age you're not allowed to be adventurous, you're not allowed to be sexual. I mean, is there a rule? Are you supposed to just die?”
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“I really love 'Like a Prayer' because it was the first one I learned every word to.”
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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“Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.”
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“One must dare to show what he wants. You have to go and ask for things rather than wait for them to happen.”
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“I just like the idea of pills. I like to collect them but not actually take them. When I fell off my horse, I got tons of stuff: Demerol and Vicodin and Xanax and Valium and Oxycontin, which is supposed to be like heroin. And I'm quite scared to take them. I'm a control freak.”
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“I pay attention to what’s going on around me. I’m always looking for new energy, new talent, new voices. When you do that I think it’s easier to come up with fresh ideas. It's not that my career has been based on surprising people, but it’s been about challenging myself — to constantly do new things that are going to broaden my own mind and in the process, hopefully, connect with other people.”
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“I must have been Japanese in a previous life. I'm pretty sure I was a warrioress. I can't explain it, I just know. I'm good at fighting - fighting with a big sword.”
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“This is a historical evening. This is fucking important evening... We are lucky to be sharing it with each other. This is the beginning of a whole new world. Open your fucking head!”
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album for Confessions on a Dance Floor (2007).
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Released album “The Confessions Tour”.
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Released album “Candy Shop”.
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Released album “My Paradise Lounge Albums”.
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Released album “I’m Going to Tell You a Secret”.
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Awarded Echo Pop Award for the Hit of the Year (2006).
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Released album “Confessions Remixed”.
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“When I came to New York it was the first time I'd ever taken a plane, the first time I'd ever gotten a taxi-cab, the first time for everything. And I came here with 35 dollars in my pocket. It was the bravest thing I'd ever done.”
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Released album “Confessions on a Dance Floor”.
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“I don't care if you have a small dick, as long as you know how to use that stick.”
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“I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
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Released album “House: The Music of Club”.
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“100 Greatest Artists of All Time”
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Released ep “Remixed & Revisited”.
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Released album “American Life”.
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Was met with mixed reception and debuted atop the US Billboard 200
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Released album “Into The Hollywood Groove”.
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Madonna worked with fashion photographer Steven Klein on an exhibition installation titled X-STaTIC Pro=CeSS
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“That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure.”
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Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple/Ensemble for Swept Away (2002).
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Madonna starred in Ritchie's Swept Away, a remake of Lina Wertmüller's 1974 film
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Released album “GHV2: Greatest Hits, Volume 2”.
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Released album “Music Mix 2001 Part 3”.
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Released album “Music Mix 2001 Part 2”.
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Released album “Drowned World Tour 2001”.
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Released album “Music Mix 2001 Part 4”.
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And Madonna married Ritchie the following day at nearby Skibo Castle
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Released album “Music”.
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Madonna released her eighth studio album, Music, to critical acclaim
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media for Beautiful Stranger (2000).
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Released album “Music (Remixes)”.
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199914 items
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Music Video for Ray of Light (1999).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Recording for Ray of Light (1999).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album for Ray of Light (1999).
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“Phallic symbols. You know Catholics. I used to draw people naked all the time in my art class and my nun teachers used to tell me I had to put clothes on them. So I just drew lines around their bodies. See-through clothes.”
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Released album “X-Ray Mixes”.
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Released album “The Immaculate Collection / You Can Dance”.
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“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”
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“I am attracted to a thug. I like that quality, but I like the other side of it, too. Because all guys who go around behaving in macho ways are really scared little girls. So you have to look beneath the surface. There's a difference between my ideal man and a man that I'm sexually attracted to, believe me. Therein lies the rub.”
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“Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. there's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.”
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“What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego. How will I know when I've succeeded? When I stop caring what anyone thinks.”
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“For me, a male image that I'm really moved by is somewhere between of Oscar Wilde type of a male: the fop, the long hair, the suits, too witty for his own good, incredibly smart, scathingly funny - all that. But then my other ideal is more like the Buddhist monk - the shaved head, actually someone who sublimates their sexuality.”
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“I have the most perfect belly button. When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine.”
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Undertook three months of violin training to prepare for a role as a violin teacher in the film Music of the Heart (1999), but withdrew from the project before filming
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Released album “The Video Collection: 93:99”.
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19987 items
Released album “Ray of Light”.
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Madonna established the Ray of Light Foundation, a non-profit for women, education, global development, and humanitarian aid
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“(en) Sick and perverted always appeals to me.”
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“I've always known that Catholicism is a completely sexist, repressed, sin- and punishment-based religion.”
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And Raising Malawi in 2006, and advocates for gender equality and LGBT rights
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“A lot of people are just really confused by me; they don’t know what to think of me, so they try to compartmentalize me or diminish me. Maybe they just feel unsafe. But any time you have an overtly emotional or irrational, negative reaction to something, you’re fearing something that it’s bringing up in you.”
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“I'd like to think I am taking people on a journey; I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave.”
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19973 items
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Evita (1997).
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Released album “Gold”.
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Released album “Best Ballads”.
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19961 item
Gave birth to her daughter, Lourdes "Lola" Maria Ciccone Leon, with fitness trainer Carlos Leon
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19955 items
Released album “Something to Remember”.
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Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress for Four Rooms (1995).
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Released album “Total Satisfaction”.
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And later supported exhibitions of Basquiat's paintings at London's Serpentine Gallery and Cindy Sherman at New York's Museum of Modern Art
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Released album “Wild Dancing”.
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19945 items
The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 and produced two Billboard Hot 100 top-three singles: "Secret" and "Take a Bow"; the latter spent seven weeks atop the chart, making it her longest-running number-on
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Released album “Bedtime Stories”.
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Released album “1st Time Out of Manhattan”.
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Career landmark: Madonna on the Late Show with David Letterman in 1994.
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Released album “12″ Singles Collection (Gold Box Set)”.
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19936 items
Released ep “Rain EP”.
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Released ep “Deeper and Deeper EP”.
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Released album “Boy Toy”.
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Released album “The Girlie Show: Live Down Under”.
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Released album “The Best of & the Rest of, Volume 2”.
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Released album “Erotica Blues”.
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In the US, and published her coffee table book Sex a day later
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Released album “Erotica”.
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Music Film for Blond Ambition World Tour Live (1992).
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Madonna co-sponsored the first museum retrospective of her former partner, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York
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Released album “Cosmic Climb”.
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“I wanted to be a boy when I was growing up because I was in love with all of the male dancers I knew and they were all gay. And I thought, Well, if I was a boy, they'd love me. So I got into role-playing then. That's where it began. I remember when I was still in high school, I had cut my hair off really short, and I was totally anorexic - I had no boobs - and I would dress like a boy and go to gay clubs and my goal was to trick men into thinking I was a boy.”
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Madonna appeared in the film A League of Their Own as a member of an all-women's baseball team
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19913 items
Released ep “The Holiday Collection”.
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“Fame is a by-product. Fame is something that should happen because you do work that speaks to people and people want to know about your work. Unfortunately the personality of people has taken over from the work and the artistry and it's this thing now that stands on its own. I don't think one should ever aspire to being famous.”
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Released album “Give It to Me: The Early Years”.
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19906 items
Released album “Blond Ambition World Tour Live”.
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Released album “The Immaculate Collection”.
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Released album “I’m Breathless”.
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“Madonna has been incredibly important to the 1980s, musically... a little disco queen who... became an icon.”
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Released album “Justify My Love (Remixes)”.
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Released ep “1983 - 1990”.
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19895 items
Released ep “Remixed Prayers: Mini Album”.
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Released album “Like a Prayer”.
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And reportedly requested the following week that no criminal charges be pursued
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Released album “The Early Years”.
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Released album “1983 - 1989”.
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19882 items
Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for Who's That Girl (1988).
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Released album “Ciao Italia: Live From Italy”.
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19878 items
Released album “You Can Dance”.
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Released album “Who’s That Girl: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
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Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for Shanghai Surprise (1987).
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Released ep “In the Beginning”.
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Released You Can Dance, a remix album with reworked versions of songs from her earlier releases
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Released album “You Can Dance: Single Edits of Album Remixes”.
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Starred in the film Who's That Girl and contributed four songs to its soundtrack, including "Who's That Girl" and "Causing a Commotion", which peaked at numbers one and two on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively
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Released album “It's That Girl”.
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19861 item
Released album “True Blue”.
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19853 items
Released album “The Virgin Tour Live”.
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Released ep “Dance Mix”.
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Released ep “Crazy for You”.
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19842 items
Released album “Like a Virgin”.
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And became her first number-one album in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, the UK and the US
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19832 items
To generally favorable reviews, and peaked at number eight on the US Billboard 200
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Released album “Madonna”.
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19821 item
Madonna visited nightclubs to persuade disc jockeys (DJs) to play her demo, leading Mark Kamins at Danceteria to take an interest in her music and begin a romance with her
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19802 items
After leaving the Breakfast Club and ending her relationship with Gilroy, Madonna reunited with drummer Stephen Bray, whom she had previously dated in Michigan, and together they formed the band Emmy
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Released ep “Madonna”.
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19792 items
Madonna entered a romantic relationship with musician Dan Gilroy
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And was the sole writer of five tracks on her debut studio album
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19781 item
Madonna left college and moved to New York City
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19671 item
From a heart defect), Jennifer, and Mario
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19661 item
Adopted Veronica as a confirmation name upon receiving the sacrament in the Catholic Church
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19651 item
“These Boots Are Made for Walkin'”
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Born 1958-08-16.
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Awarded BRIT Awards.
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Awarded American Music Award for Artist of the Year.
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Awarded Amadeus Austrian Music Awards.
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Career landmark: Participated in Live Aid (tournament / event).
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Studied at University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance.
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Career landmark: Paradise Papers.
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Studied at Rochester Adams High School.
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