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Bay City, Michigan
Bay City is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan located near the base of the Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron. As of the 2000 census, the city's population was 36,817, with the 2009 census estimate placing the population at 33,780. It is the county seat of Bay County and is the principal city of the Bay City Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Saginaw-Bay City-Saginaw Township North Combined Statistical Area. The city, along with nearby Midland and Saginaw, form the "Tri-Cities" region.
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Pontiac, Michigan
Pontiac is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan named after the Ottawa Chief Pontiac. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 66,337. It is the county seat of Oakland County. Considered a satellite city of Detroit, it is surrounded by affluent Metro Detroit suburbs.
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Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the Lido, Venice, Italy. Screenings take place in the historic Palazzo del Cinema on the Lungomare Marconi. It is one of the world's most prestigious film festivals and is part of the Venice Biennale, a major biennial exhibition and festival for contemporary art.
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Alan Parker
Sir Alan William Parker, CBE (born 14 February 1944) is an English film director, producer, writer and actor. He has been active in both the British film industry and Hollywood and was a founding member of the Director's Guild of Great Britain.
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Alexis Petridis
Alexis Petridis is the head rock and pop critic for UK newspaper The Guardian, as well as a regular and contributor to the magazine GQ.
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Andy Warhol
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Angela Bassett
Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress. She has become well-known for her biographical film roles portraying real life women in African American culture, perhaps most prominently as singer Tina Turner in the motion picture ''What's Love Got to Do with It, as well as her portrayal of Betty Shabazz in the films Malcolm X and Panther, Rosa Parks in the The Rosa Parks Story, Katherine Jackson in the miniseries and Voletta Wallace in the film Notorious''.
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Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as The Queen of Soul. Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B; and gospel music. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Franklin No. 1 on its list of The Greatest Singers of All Time.
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Arthur M. Sackler
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Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand ( ; born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, director, and songwriter. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, and a Peabody Award.
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Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters (born Bernadette Lazzara on February 28, 1948) is an American actress, singer and children's book author from New York City. Over the course of a career that has spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in solo concerts and recordings. She is one of the most critically-acclaimed Broadway performers, having received nominations for seven Tony Awards, winning two, and eight Drama Desk Awards, winning three. Four of the Broadway cast albums on which she has starred have won Grammy Awards.
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Bette Davis
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Bette Midler
Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, actress and comedian, also known (by her informal stage name) as The Divine Miss M. She has starred in live-action films such as Ruthless People, Beaches and Hocus Pocus, as well as featuring in animated films such as Oliver & Company and Fantasia 2000.
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Bob Dylan
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Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album in 1999. During her first decade within the music industry, she became a prominent figure in mainstream popular music and popular culture, followed by a much-publicized personal life. Her first two albums established her as a pop icon and broke sales records, while title tracks "...Baby One More Time" and "Oops!... I Did It Again" became international number-one hits. Spears was credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s.
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Camille Paglia
Camille Anna Paglia (born April 2, 1947) is an US author, teacher, and social critic. A self-described dissident feminist Paglia has been a Professor at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania since 1984. She also writes articles on art, popular culture, feminism, and politics for mainstream newspapers and magazines.
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Carlos Leon
Carlos Manuel Leon (born July 10, 1966) is a personal trainer and actor. He is most famous for his former relationship with singer Madonna, who gave birth to their daughter, Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon, on October 14, 1996.
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Carrie Fisher
Carrie Frances Fisher (born October 21, 1956) is an American novelist, screenwriter and actress. She is most famous for her portrayal of Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy, her bestselling novel Postcards from the Edge, and her autobiography Wishful Drinking.
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Cee Lo Green
Thomas DeCarlo Callaway (born May 30, 1974), better known by his stage name Cee Lo Green or simply Cee Lo, is an American hip hop, funk, neo soul, and R&B; musician. He is a singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer, best known as a member of Goodie Mob and more recently Gnarls Barkley, and has also recorded two critically acclaimed solo LPs.
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Chaka Khan
Chaka Khan (born Yvette Marie Stevens; March 23, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter who gained fame in the seventies as the front woman and focal point of the funk band Rufus. While still a member of the group in 1978, Khan embarked on a successful solo career. Her signature hits, both with Rufus and solo, include "Tell Me Something Good", "Sweet Thing", "Ain't Nobody", "I'm Every Woman", "I Feel for You" and "Through the Fire".
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Cher
Cher (; born Cherilyn Sarkisian on May 20, 1946) is an American recording artist, actress, director and record producer. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes, a Cannes Film Festival Award and a People's Choice Award for her work in film, music and television.
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Christina Aguilera
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Christopher Ciccone
Christopher G. Ciccone (born November 22, 1960 in Bay City, Michigan) is an artist, film director, artistic director, dancer, best selling author, and interior and furniture designer. He is the younger brother of Madonna, and began his career working as Madonna's assistant, dresser, backup dancer, stylist, and artistic director. His first public appearance was alongside his sister in her 1982 debut music video "Everybody". After involvement in a promo tour for her debut album, he appeared in her 1984 "Lucky Star" video. He has decorated Madonna's various former residences in New York City, Los Angeles, and Miami. He has also designed the stage for her 1990 Blond Ambition concert tour, and directed her 1993 Girlie Show concert tour.
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Danja (producer)
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David Rabe
David William Rabe (born March 10, 1940) is an American playwright and screenwriter.
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Debbie Gibson
Deborah Ann "Debbie" Gibson (born August 31, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter. She became famous at the age of 16. The following year, she was pronounced the youngest artist to write, produce, and perform a #1 single on the Billboard hot 100, with her song "Foolish Beat," and she remains the youngest female to write, record, and perform a #1 single to date.
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Don McLean
Donald McLean, Jr. (born October 2, 1945, New Rochelle, New York) is an American singer-songwriter. He is most famous for the 1971 album American Pie, containing the renowned songs "American Pie" and "Vincent".
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Ella Fitzgerald
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer-songwriter, composer and pianist. He has worked with his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
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Elvis Presley
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Eva Perón
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Fred Bronson
Fredric M. Bronson (born January 10, 1949) is an American journalist, author and writer. He is best known for the weekly "Chart Beat" column in Billboard magazine, and as the author of books related to Billboard charts.
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Fritz Lang
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Gary Barlow
Gary Barlow (born 20 January 1971) is an English singer-songwriter, pianist and producer. He is a member and frontman of the pop-rock group Take That. Barlow is one of Britain's most successful songwriters. He has had two Number 1 hits and a Number 1 album along with five other top 40 UK singles as a solo singer in the last half of the 1990s, and has had eleven Number 1 singles and seven Number 1 albums with Take That. He is a five-time recipient of the prestigious Ivor Novello Award and has been voted the greatest British songwriter of all time.
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Geordie Greig
Geordie Greig (born 1960 London) is a British journalist and newspaper editor. He is the editor of the Evening Standard newspaper. He attended Eton College and St Peter's College, Oxford.
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Guy Bourdin
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Guy Oseary
Guy Oseary (; born 1972) is an Israeli-American businessman who began his career in entertainment at 17 at what was to become Maverick Records. He is Madonna's manager.
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Guy Ritchie
Guy Stuart Ritchie (born 10 September 1968) is an English screenwriter, film maker, pub landlord and businessman.
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Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (; born September 27, 1972) is an American actress.
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Helen Hunt
Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She starred in the sitcom Mad About You for seven years, before being cast in the romantic comedy As Good As It Gets, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Some of her other Hollywood credits include Twister, Cast Away, What Women Want and Pay It Forward. She made her directorial debut in 2007 with Then She Found Me.
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Horst P. Horst
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Italian American
An Italian American ( singular, plural) is an American of Italian ancestry. The designation may also refer to someone possessing Italian and American dual citizenship. Italian Americans are the fourth largest European ethnic group in the United States.
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J. K. Rowling
Joanne "Jo" Rowling, OBE (born 31 July 1965; married name Murray), better known under the pen name J. K. Rowling (, ), is a British author best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, the idea for which was conceived whilst on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, sold more than 400 million copies and been the basis for a popular series of films, in which Rowling had creative control serving as a producer in two of the seven instalments.
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J.D. Considine
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Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22, 1958) is an American actress and author. Although she was initially known as a "scream queen" because of her starring roles in many horror films early in her career, such as Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night and Terror Train, Curtis has since compiled a body of work that covers many genres. Her 1998 book, Today I Feel Silly, and Other Moods That Make My Day, made the best-seller list in The New York Times. Curtis has appeared in advertisements for Activia since 2007, and is a blogger for The Huffington Post online newspaper. She is married to actor, screenwriter, and director Christopher Guest.
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Janet Jackson
Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American recording artist and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana, and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians. She first performed on stage with her family at the age of seven, and started her career as an actress with the variety television series The Jacksons in 1976. She went on to appear in other television shows throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, including Good Times and Fame.
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Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin (born 1949) is an American journalist. She is best known as a film and literary critic for The New York Times.
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Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer, OBE (born 8 May 1961) is a British actress.
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Jann Wenner
Jann Simon Wenner (born January 7, 1946) is the co-founder and publisher of the music and politics biweekly Rolling Stone, as well as the owner of ''Men's Journal and Us Weekly'' magazines.
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Jason Donovan
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Jennifer Lopez
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Jennifer Lynch
Jennifer Chambers Lynch (born April 7, 1968) is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for writing the book The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer and for writing and directing the 1993 feature film Boxing Helena.
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Jessica Tandy
Jessie Alice "Jessica" Tandy (7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was an English stage and film actress.
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Jimmy Harry
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John Benitez
John Benitez, better known as "Jellybean Benitez" (born November 7, 1957) is an American drummer, guitarist, songwriter, DJ, remixer and music producer of Puerto Rican descent. Benitez has produced and remixed for artists such as Madonna, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, and the Pointer Sisters.
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John Lennon
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Jon Pareles
Jon Pareles is an American journalist who is the chief popular music critic in the arts section of the New York Times. He played jazz flute and piano, and graduated from Yale University with a degree in music. In the 1970s he was an associate editor of Crawdaddy!, and in the 1980s an associate editor at Rolling Stone and the music editor at The Village Voice. He currently reviews popular music in the arts section of the New York Times.
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Julia Roberts
Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28, 1967) is an American actress. She became a Hollywood star after headlining the 1990 romantic comedy Pretty Woman, which grossed $464 million worldwide. After receiving Academy Award nominations for Steel Magnolias in 1990 and Pretty Woman in 1991, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2001 for her performance in Erin Brockovich. Her films ''My Best Friend's Wedding, Mystic Pizza, Notting Hill, Runaway Bride, Valentine's Day, The Pelican Brief, Ocean's Eleven and Twelve'' have collectively brought box office receipts of over $2.4 billion, making her one of the most successful actors in terms of box office receipts.
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Julie Andrews
Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE ( Wells; born 1 October 1935) is an English film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honours. Andrews was a former British child actress and singer who made her Broadway debut in 1954 with The Boy Friend, and rose to prominence starring in other musicals such as My Fair Lady and Camelot, and in musical films such as Mary Poppins (1964), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and The Sound of Music (1965): the roles for which she is still best-known. Her voice spanned four octaves until it was damaged by a throat operation in 1997.
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Justin Timberlake
Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is an American pop musician and actor. He has won six Grammy Awards as well as two Emmy Awards. He achieved early fame when he appeared as a contestant on Star Search, and went on to star in the Disney Channel television series The New Mickey Mouse Club, where he met future bandmate JC Chasez. Timberlake became famous in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the boy band 'N Sync, whose launch was financed by Lou Pearlman.
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Karen Carpenter
Karen Anne Carpenter (March 2, 1950 – February 4, 1983) was an American singer and drummer. She and her brother, Richard, formed the 1970s duo The Carpenters. She was a drummer of considerable skill, but it is for her vocal performances that she is best remembered.
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Kelly Osbourne
Kelly Michelle Osbourne (born 27 October 1984) is a British media personality, fashion designer, singer, actress and model, known for being the daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. She was thrust into the limelight after appearing on the reality series The Osbournes with her family, for which they won a 2002 Emmy award for Outstanding Reality Programme. She has also appeared on Dancing with the Stars, in which she and professional dance partner Louis van Amstel took third place, and has made forays into music, acting, theatre, fashion, writing, and radio agony aunt and colomnist and television presenting.
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Kylie Minogue
Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE ( ; born 28 May 1968), is an Australian pop singer, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987. Her first single, "Locomotion", spent seven weeks at number one on the Australian singles chart and became the highest selling single of the decade. This led to a contract with songwriters and producers Stock, Aitken & Waterman. Her debut album, Kylie (1988), and the single "I Should Be So Lucky", each reached number one in the United Kingdom, and over the next two years, her first 13 singles reached the British top ten. Her debut film, The Delinquents (1989) was a box-office hit in Australia and the UK despite negative reviews.
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Larry King
Lawrence Harvey "Larry" King (born November 19, 1933) is an American television and radio host.
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Lucy O'Brien
'''Lucy O'Brien''' (born September 13, 1961 in west Catford, London; grew up in Southampton, and now living in London) is an author and journalist whose work focuses on women in music.
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Marilyn Monroe
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Maripol
Maripol was brought up in France before moving to New York, USA in 1976. She is an artist, film producer, fashion designer and stylist who has had an influence on the looks of many influential artists, including Grace Jones, Deborah Harry, and Madonna. Maripol is also a Polaroid artist photographer who has exhibited her photos in art galleries all over the world. Her photographic work is being collected by museums. In 2006, Maripol had a new book of her life's photography published.
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Mark Bego
Mark Bego is a best selling author of top performers in the rock & roll and show business. By having over 10 million books in print, Mark Bego has been acknowledged as the best selling biographer in the rock and pop field. Bego has written 54 books, two of which have been New York Times Best Sellers. Bego has written biographers about some of entertainment's biggest stars, including: Elton John, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Billy Joel, Aretha Franklin, Patsy Cline, Leonardo DiCaprio and many more.
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Mark Ellen
Mark Ellen is an award winning magazine editor, journalist and broadcaster who lives in West London.
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Mark Kamins
Mark Kamins is a New York club DJ.
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Marlene Dietrich
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Martha Graham
Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American dancer choreographer regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance, whose influence on dance can be compared to the influence Stravinsky had on music, Picasso had on the visual arts, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture. Graham was a galvanizing performer, a choreographer of astounding moves. She invented a new language of movement, and used it to reveal the passion, the rage and the ecstasy common to human experience. She danced and choreographed for over seventy years, and during that time was the first dancer ever to perform at The White House, the first dancer ever to travel abroad as a cultural ambassador, and the first dancer ever to receive the highest civilian award of the USA: the Medal of Freedom. In her lifetime she received honors ranging from the key to the City of Paris to Japan's Imperial Order of the Precious Crown. She said, "I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable."
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Martin Solveig
Martin Solveig (Born Martin Picandet; September 22, 1976) is a French electronic music DJ and producer from Paris. He also hosts a weekly radio show called "C'est La Vie" on stations worldwide including FG DJ Radio in his homeland. His label is called Mixture Stereophonic.
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Marvin Gaye
Marvin Pentz Gaye, Jr. (April 2, 1939April 1, 1984), better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range. Starting as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the late fifties, he ventured into a solo career after the group disbanded in 1960 signing with the Tamla subsidiary of Motown Records. After starting off as a session drummer, Gaye ranked as the label's top-selling solo artist during the sixties.
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Matthew Rettenmund
Matthew Rettenmund (born December 25, 1968) is the author of the novels Boy Culture and , as well as the non-fiction books Encyclopedia Madonnica, ''Totally Awesome '80s, and Hilary Duff: All Access''. He is currently the Editor in Chief of Popstar! Magazine.
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Matthew Todd
Matthew Todd is a playwright, stand up comedian and journalist. He is currently the editor of the UK gay magazine Attitude and was nominated by the British Society of Magazine Editors as Best Editor of the year 2009 in the 'Men's magazines' category.
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Melanie Griffith
Melanie Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an American actress. She is an Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner for her performance in the 1988 film Working Girl. She is the daughter of actress Tippi Hedren, and the wife of actor Antonio Banderas.
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Michael Jackson
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Miranda Richardson
Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958) is an English stage, film and television actor. She has been nominated for two Academy Awards, and has won two Golden Globes (with seven nominations) and a BAFTA (with six nominations) during her career.
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Mirwais Ahmadzaï
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Nancy Sinatra
Nancy Sandra Sinatra (born June 8, 1940) is an American singer and actress. She is the daughter of singer/actor Frank Sinatra, and remains known for her 1966 signature hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" and her cover of Cher's "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" (lyrics and music by Sonny Bono), which was used as the opening sequence theme in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.
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Nathan Brackett
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Nelly Furtado
Nelly Kim Furtado (born December 2, 1978) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has sold 20 million albums worldwide. Furtado grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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Nick Kamen
Nick Kamen (born Ivor Neville Kamen, 15 April 1962, Harlow, Essex, England)
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Nicki Minaj
Onika Maraj (born December 8, 1984), better known by her stage name Nicki Minaj, is an American rapper and singer-songwriter. In August 2009, Minaj signed to Young Money Entertainment with distribution from Universal Motown.
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Nicole Kidman
Nicole Mary Kidman, AC (born 20 June 1967) is an American-born Australian actress, fashion model, singer and humanitarian.
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Patrick Hernandez
Patrick Hernandez (born 6 April 1949, Le Blanc-Mesnil, France) is a French singer who had a worldwide hit with "Born to Be Alive" in 1979.
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Patrick Leonard
Patrick Raymond Leonard (born 1955) is an American songwriter, keyboardist and music producer, known for his longtime collaboration with Madonna on many different recordings.
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Paul Clinton
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Paula Abdul
Paula Julie Abdul (; born June 19, 1962) is an American pop singer, record producer, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality.
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Paula Rodriguez Rust
Paula Claire Rodriguez Rust (born 1959) is an American sociologist who studies sexual orientation, especially bisexuality. Rust is author of Bisexuality in the United States and Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics: Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution.
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People (magazine)
People (originally called People Weekly) is a weekly American magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Time Inc. As of 2006, it has a circulation of 3.75 million and revenue expected to top $1.5 billion. It was named "Magazine of the Year" by Advertising Age in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation and advertising. People ranked #6 on Advertising Age's annual "A-list" and #3 on ''Adweek's'' "Brand Blazers" list in October 2006.
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Pharrell Williams
Pharrell Williams (born April 5, 1973), commonly known as simply Pharrell, is an American recording artist, producer, musician and fashion designer. Along with Chad Hugo, they make the record production duo The Neptunes, where they produce pop, hip hop and R&B; music. He is also the lead vocalist and drummer of rock band N.E.R.D, which he formed with Hugo and childhood friend Shay Haley. He released his debut single "Frontin'" in 2003 and followed up with his debut album In My Mind in 2006.
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Pink (singer)
Alecia Beth Moore (born September 8, 1979), better known by her stage name Pink (stylized as P!nk), is an American contralto singer-songwriter, musician, acrobat, dancer and actress, who rose to fame in early 2000. She released her first single "There You Go", on her first album, the R&B-oriented; ''Can't Take Me Home, in 2000 via LaFace Records, which garnered commercial success. Her more pop rock-oriented second studio album, Missundaztood'', which began a marked shift in the sound of her music, was released in 2001 and was a huge success worldwide, featuring the singles Get The Party Started, Don't Let Me Get Me, Just Like A Pill and Family Portrait. Pink released her third album, Try This, in November 2003, which although less successful commercially than her previous release, still managed to sell around 3 million copies and earned her a Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for the single Trouble. Her fourth album, called ''I'm Not Dead, was released in April 2006. The album generated several hit singles, including "Stupid Girls", "U + Ur Hand" and "Who Knew". Both "U + Ur Hand" and "Who Knew" went to #1 on the pop chart. Her fifth album, Funhouse'', was released in late October 2008 and was preceded by her first solo number one on the Hot 100, "So What". The album notched three other Top 20 hits; "Sober", "Please Don't Leave Me" and "Glitter in the Air"
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Prince (musician)
Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson, June 7, 1958) is a singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He has been known under the unpronounceable symbol , which he used between 1993 and 2000. During that period he was frequently referred to in the media as "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince", often abbreviated to "TAFKAP", or simply "The Artist"
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Reggie Lucas
Reginald Lucas, is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. Lucas is most famous for his production work with percussionist Mtume and for producing the majority of Madonna's 1983 self-titled debut album.
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Remedios Varo
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Renée Zellweger
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Rita Hayworth
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Rudolf Nureyev
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Saint Veronica
Saint Veronica or Berenice, according to the "Acta Sanctorum" published by the Bollandists (under February 4), was a pious woman of Jerusalem who, moved with pity as Jesus carried his cross to Golgotha, gave him her veil that he might wipe his forehead. Jesus accepted the offering and after using it handed it back to her, the image of his face miraculously impressed upon it.
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Sandra Bernhard
Sandra Bernhard (born June 6, 1955) is an American comedian, singer, actress and author. She first gained attention in the late 1970s with her stand-up comedy in which she often bitterly critiques celebrity culture and political figures. Bernhard is number 97 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest standups of all time.
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Sean Penn
Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American film actor and director, also known for his political activism. He is a two-time Academy Award winner for his roles in Mystic River and Milk, as well as the recipient of a Golden Globe Award for the former and a Screen Actors Guild Award for the latter.
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Seymour Stein
Seymour Stein (born 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an entrepreneur in the music industry who has been a part of the business since getting his first job as a clerk for Billboard Magazine in 1958. Stein is a vice president of Warner Bros. Records and a co-founder of Sire Records.
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Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born February 2, 1977), known professionally as Shakira (, or ), is a Colombian singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer, and philanthropist who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s. Born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia, Shakira revealed many of her talents in school as a live performer, demonstrating her vocal ability with rock and roll, Latin and Middle Eastern influences with her own original twist on belly dancing. Shakira is a native Spanish speaker and also speaks fluent English and Portuguese and is proficient in Italian.
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Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel are an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group Tom & Jerry in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl". As Simon & Garfunkel, the duo rose to fame in 1965, backed by the hit single "The Sounds of Silence". Their music was featured in the landmark film The Graduate, propelling them further into the public consciousness.
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Sissy Spacek
Sissy Spacek (born Mary Elizabeth Spacek; December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as country star Loretta Lynn in ''Coal Miner's Daughter'' (1980). She has been nominated a total of six times. She is also known for her role as Carrie White in Brian de Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress.
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Stephen Bray
Stephen Bray is an American songwriter, drummer, and record producer from Detroit. Bray is best known for his collaboration with Madonna.
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Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden (born July 18, 1941) is an American writer, music critic, film critic, and poet.
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Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (eight, more than any other composer) including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. His most famous scores include (as composer/lyricist) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins, as well as the lyrics for West Side Story and . He was president of the Dramatists Guild from 1973 to 1981.
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Steven Klein
Steven Klein (born in April 30, 1965) is an American photographer based in New York.
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Steven Meisel
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Sting (musician)
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, CBE (born 2 October 1951), better known by his professional name Sting, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, activist, actor and philanthropist. Prior to starting his solo career, he was the principal songwriter, lead singer and bassist of the rock band The Police.
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Stuart Price
Stuart Price (born 9 September 1977) is a British electronic musician, songwriter, and record producer whose remixing and production skills are in demand by artists including New Order, Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Take That, Missy Elliott, Scissor Sisters, The Killers, Pet Shop Boys, Brandon Flowers, Gwen Stefani, Seal, Keane and Frankmusik. His acts include British electronic pop/rock band Zoot Woman (with Adam Blake and Johnny Blake), Les Rythmes Digitales, Paper Faces, Man With Guitar, Thin White Duke, and the parodic French moniker Jacques Lu Cont, though he actually grew up in Reading, England.
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Sylvia Plath
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The Times
The Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785, when it was known as The Daily Universal Register.
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Timbaland
Timothy Zachery Mosley (born March 10, 1971), better known by his stage name Timbaland, is an American Grammy Award-winning record producer, singer-songwriter, actor, musician and rapper. He is the older brother of rapper Sebastian.
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Trudie Styler
Trudie Styler (born 6 January 1954 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England) is an actress and producer. She is married to the musician Sting.
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Vincent Canby
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Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty (, ; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director.
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Wes Craven
Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven (born August 2, 1939) is an American film director and writer, perhaps best known as the creator of many horror films, including the famed A Nightmare on Elm Street and ''Wes Craven's New Nightmare featuring the iconic Freddy Krueger character, the Scream films alongside The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes, The Serpent and the Rainbow, The People Under the Stairs, Vampire in Brooklyn and Red Eye''.
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ALBUMS
- Material Girl
- Angel
- Like a Virgin
- Over and Over
- Love Don’t Live Here Anymore
- Dress You Up
- Shoo-Bee-Doo
- Pretender
- Stay
- Like a Virgin (extended dance remix)
- Material Girl (extended dance remix)
- Everybody
- Holiday
- Lucky Star
- Like a Virgin
- Material Girl
- Crazy for You
- Angel
- Dress You Up
- Live to Tell
- Papa Don't Preach
- True Blue
- Open Your Heart
- La Isla Bonita
- Whos That Girl
- Like a Prayer
- Cherish
- Oh Father
- Justify My Love
- Hanky Panky
- Vogue
- This Used to Be My Playground
- Erotica
- Rain
- I'll Remember
- Take a Bow
- You'll See
- Don't Cry for Me Argentina
- Frozen
- Ray of Light
- The Power of Goodbye
- Beautiful Stranger
- Music
- What It Feels Like for a Girl
- Girl Gone Wild
- Gang Bang
- I'm Addicted
- Turn Up the Radio
- Give Me All Your Luvin'
- Some Girls
- Superstar
- I Don't Give A
- The Sweet Machine (intro)
- Candy Shop (medley)
- Beat Goes On (medley)
- Human Nature
- Vogue 2008
- Die Another Day 2008
- Into the Groove 2008
- Heartbeat
- Borderline
- She's Not Me
- Music 2008
- Rain/Here Comes the Rain Again
- Devil Wouldn't Recognize You
- Spanish Lesson
- Miles Away
- La isla bonita (medley)
- Me Darava/Doli Doli
- You Must Love Me
- Don't Cry for Me Argentina
- Get Stupid (medley)
- 4 Minutes
- Like a Prayer 2008
- Ray of Light
- Like a Virgin
- Hung Up (medley)
- Give It 2 Me
- Miles Away
- Take a Bow
- Live to Tell
- Beautiful Stranger
- Hollywood
- Die Another Day
- Don't Tell Me
- Cherish
- Celebration
- Drowned World / Substitute for Love
- Swim
- Ray of Light
- Candy Perfume Girl
- Skin
- Nothing Really Matters
- Sky Fits Heaven
- Shanti / Ashtangi
- Frozen
- The Power of Good-Bye
- To Have and Not to Hold
- Little Star
- Mer Girl
- Has to Be
- Burning Up
- Lucky Star
- Borderline
- Like a Virgin
- Material Girl
- Crazy for You
- Into the Groove
- Live to Tell
- Papa Don't Preach
- True Blue
- Open Your Heart
- La Isla Bonita
- Who's That Girl
- Like a Prayer
- Express Yourself
- Cherish
- Vogue
- Justify My Love
- Erotica
- Deeper and Deeper
- Rain
- I'll Remember
- Give It 2 Me
- Sorry
- Beat Goes On
- Get Together
- Me Against the Music
- Hollywod
- Love Profusion
- Music
- Ray of Light
- Nothing Really Matters
- The Power of Good-Bay
- Justify My Love
- Secret
- Vogue
- I'll Remember
- Like a Player
- La Isla Bonita
- Holiday
- Candy Shop
- 4 Minutes
- Give It 2 Me
- Heartbeat
- Miles Away
- She's Not Me
- Incredible
- Beat Goes On
- Dance 2night
- Spanish Lesson
- Devil Wouldn't Recognize You
- Voices
- Candy Shop
- Sweet Darling
- Little By Little
- Society
- The Evidence
- The Beat Goes On
- All The Things
- Britney Don't Do It
- Pharrel
- I Have The Key
- It Hurts
- My Baby
- So Lonely
- Surprise
- At-Titude
- Britney Don't Do It (Remix)
- Future Lovers / I Feel Love
- Like a Virgin
- Jump
- Confessions
- Isaac
- Sorry
- Sorry (remix)
- I Love New York
- Let It Will Be
- Music Inferno
- Erotica
- Lucky Star
- Hung Up
- The Beast Within
- Vogue
- Nobody Knows Me
- American Life
- Hollywood (remix)
- Die Another Day
- Lament
- Like a Prayer
- Mother and Father
- Imagine
- Susan MacLeod / Into the Groove
- Music
- Holiday
- I Love New York
- Hung Up (SDP's extended vocal)
- Hung Up (SDP's extended dub)
- Sorry (Man With Guitar mix)
- Get Together (Jacques Lu Cont mix)
- I Love New York (Thin White Duke mix)
- Let It Will Be (Paper Faces mix)
- Profusion (Craig J Good Vibe mix)
- Madonna (The M and F House Mixes)
- Love Profusion (Blow-Up mix)
- Bedtime Stories (Deep Dish remix)
- Beautiful Stranger (Calderone Re-remix)
- Me Against the Music (Terminal Head vocal)
- American Life (Oscar Velazquez Tribal)
- Nothing Fails (Peter Rauhofer Lost in Space)
- Love Profusion (The Passengers club mix)
- Vogue Vinyl
- Hung Up
- Get Together
- Sorry
- Future Lovers
- I Love New York
- Let It Will Be
- Forbidden Love
- Jump
- How High
- Isaac
- Push
- Like It or Not
- Fighting Spirit
- Holiday
- Lucky Star (U.S. remix)
- Borderline (remix)
- Like a Virgin
- Material Girl
- Crazy for You
- Into the Groove
- Live to Tell
- Papa Don't Preach
- Open Your Heart
- La Isla Bonita
- Like a Prayer
- Express Yourself
- Cherish
- Vogue
- Justify My Love
- Rescue Me
- American Life
- Die Another Day
- Music
- American Pie
- Beautiful Stranger
- The Power of Good-Bye
- Ray of Light
- Frozen
- Don't Cry for Me Argentina
- This Used to Be My Playground
- Vogue
- Who's That Girl
- La Isla Bonita
- Papa Don't Preach
- Borderline
- Material Girl
- Like a Virgin
- Holiday
- Nothing Fails (Nevins mix)
- Love Profusion (Headcleanr Rock mix)
- Nobody Knows Me (Mount Sims Old School mix)
- American Life (Headcleanr Rock mix)
- Like a Virgin / Hollywood Medley (2003: MTV Video Music Awards)
- Into the Hollywood Groove (The Passengerz mix)
- Your Honesty
- American Life
- Hollywood
- I'm So Stupid
- Love Profusion
- Nobody Knows Me
- Nothing Fails
- Intervention
- X-Static Process
- Mother and Father
- Die Another Day
- Easy Ride
- Vogue
- Secret
- Bedtime Story
- Erotica
- Frozen
- Human Nature
- This Used to Be My Playground
- Take a Bow
- Holiday (Stardust remix)
- What It Feels Like for a Girl (That Kid Chris Caligula 2001 mix)
- Don't Tell Me (Timo Maas mix)
- Drowned World/Substitute for Love (BT & Sasha Bucklodge Ashram mix)
- Human Nature (Bottom Heavy dub)
- Frozen (extended club mix)
- Erotica (Masters at Work dub)
- Take a Bow (Silky Soul mix)
- GHV2 Megamix (Johnny Rocks & Mac Quayle club mix)
- Deeper and Deeper (David's klub mix)
- Ray of Light (Calderone club mix)
- Beautiful Stranger (Calderone club mix)
- Bedtime Story (Luscious dub mix)
- Secret (Junior's Sound Factory dub)
- Music (HQ2 club mix)
- Cosmic Climb (extended dance mix)
- Wild Dancing (dance mix)
- Time to Dance (extended mix)
- On the Street (extended mix)
- Oh My (edit mix)
- Shake (extended mix)
- Get Down
- Papa Don't Preach
- Open Your Heart
- White Heat
- Live to Tell
- Where's the Party
- True Blue
- La isla bonita
- Jimmy Jimmy
- Love Makes the World Go Round
- True Blue (The Color mix)
- La isla bonita (extended remix)
- Deeper and Deeper (7" edit)
- Erotica (radio edit)
- Human Nature (radio version)
- Secret (edit)
- Don't Cry for Me Argentina (radio edit)
- Bedtime Story (edit)
- The Power of Good-Bye
- Beautiful Stranger (William Orbit radio edit)
- Frozen (edit)
- Take a Bow (edit)
- Ray of Light (radio edit)
- Don't Tell Me
- What It Feels Like for a Girl
- Drowned World / Substitute for Love
- Music
- Material Girl
- Angel
- Like a Virgin
- Over and Over
- Love Don’t Live Here Anymore
- Dress You Up
- Shoo-Bee-Doo
- Pretender
- Stay
- Like a Virgin (extended dance remix)
- Material Girl (extended dance remix)
- Lucky Star
- Borderline
- Burning Up
- I Know It
- Holiday
- Think of Me
- Physical Attraction
- Everybody
- Burning Up (12" version)
- Lucky Star ("New" mix)
- Beautiful Stranger
- Ray Of Light
- Like A Prayer
- You'll See
- I'll Remember
- Bad Girl
- The Power Of Good-Bye
- La Isla Bonita
- This Used To Be My Playground
- Take A Bow
- Forbidden Love
- Love Don't Live Here Anymore
- Something To Remember
- One More Chance
- Secret
- Frozen
- Be Careful (Cuidado Con Mi Corazon)
- Frozen
- Take a Bow
- Holiday
- To Have and Not to Hold
- One More Chance
- This Used to Be My Playground
- Erotica
- Vogue
- Like a Virgin
- Secret
- Papa Don't Preach
- Material Girl
- Crazy for You
- Justify My Love
- Deeper & Deeper
- Ray of Light
- La Isla Bonita (Rap Dance remix '99)
- Frozen
- Don't Cry for Me Argentina (from "Evita")
- You Must Love Me (Love Theme from "Evita")
- Love Don't Live Here Anymore
- You'll See
- Take a Bow
- Secret
- Material Girl
- Angel
- I'll Remember
- Like a Virgin
- Crazy for You
- Gambler
- The Look of Love
- Into the Groove
- Papa Don't Preach
- Don't Cry for Me Argentina (dance version)
- Give It to Me
- Shake
- Get Down
- Time to Dance
- Wild Dancing
- Let's Go Dancing
- We Are the Gods
- Cosmic Climb
- On the Street
- Oh My!
- Crimes of Passion
- Everybody '97
- Ain't No Big Deal '97
- Laugh to Keep From Crying
- Burning Up
- Ain't No Big Deal '81
- Everybody '81
- Stay '81
- Don't You Know?
- La isla bonita
- Who's That Girl
- Secret (original version)
- I Want You (orchestral)
- Justify My Love
- You'll See
- Like a Prayer
- Papa Don't Preach
- Fever
- Love Don't Live Here Anymore
- I'll Remember
- Rain
- This Used To Be My Playground
- Take a Bow
- Don't Cry for Me Argentina
- You Must Love Me
- Take a Bow
- You'll See
- I Want You
- Love Don't Live Here Anymore
- I'll Remember
- Live to Tell
- One More Chance
- Crazy for You
- Something to Remember
- This Used to Be My Playground
- Forbidden Love
- Oh Father
- Rain
- Don't Cry for Me Argentina
- Laugh to Keep From Crying
- Crimes of Passion
- Ain't No Big Deal ('97 edit)
- Everybody ('97)
- Burning Up
- Ain't No Big Deal ('81)
- Everybody ('81)
- Stay ('81)
- Don't You Know?
- Ain't No Big Deal ('97 Extended)
- I Want You (feat. Massive Attack)
- I'll Remember
- Take a Bow
- You'll See
- Crazy for You
- This Used to Be My Playground
- Live to Tell
- Love Don't Live Here Anymore (remix)
- Something to Remember
- Forbidden Love
- One More Chance
- Rain
- Oh Father
- I Want You (orchestral) (feat. Massive Attack)
- Verás
- Intro: Rescue Me (Houseboat mix)
- Vogue (12" version)
- Express Yourself (Shep's remix)
- Like a Prayer (club version)
- Causing a Commotion (Silver Screen mix)
- Deeper and Deeper (John's Classic 12" version)
- Like a Virgin (extended dance remix)
- La Isla Bonita (Chris extended dance remix)
- Erotica (Woolen-Willy-Warmers remix)
- Fever (Late-Night mix)
- Bedtime Story (Orbital remix)
- Bye Bye Baby (Erotic Saxy remix)
- Take a Bow (Steve's Sweaty Soul remix)
- Survival
- Secret
- I'd Rather Be Your Lover
- Don't Stop
- Inside of Me
- Human Nature
- Forbidden Love
- Love Tried to Welcome Me
- Sanctuary
- Bedtime Story
- Take a Bow
- Like a Virgin
- Bye Bye Baby
- I'm Going Bananas
- La Isla Bonita
- Holiday
- Justify My Love
- Everybody
- Bye Bye Baby
- Erotica
- Fever
- Bye Bye Baby
- Deeper and Deeper
- Where Life Begins
- Bad Girl
- Waiting
- Thief of Hearts
- Words
- Rain
- Why’s It So Hard
- In This Life
- Did You Do It?
- Secret Garden
- A Dick's Introduction
- Now I'm Following You, Part 2
- Now I'm Following You, Part 1
- Material Girl
- Cherish
- Into the Groove
- Vogue
- Holiday
- Keep It Together
- He's a Man
- Sooner or Later
- Hanky Panky
- I'm Going Bananas
- Cry Baby
- Something to Remember
- Back in Business
- More
- What Can You Lose?
- Now I'm Following You, Part I
- Now I'm Following You, Part II
- Vogue
- Like a Prayer
- Express Yourself
- Love Song
- Till Death Do Us Part
- Promise to Try
- Cherish
- Dear Jessie
- Oh Father
- Keep It Together
- Spanish Eyes
- Act of Contrition
- Spotlight
- Holiday
- Everybody
- Physical Attraction
- Over and Over
- Into the Groove
- Where's the Party
- Holiday (dub version)
- Into the Groove (dub version)
- Where's the Party (dub version)
- American Life
- Hollywood
- I'm So Stupid
- Love Profusion
- Nobody Knows Me
- Nothing Fails
- Intervention
- X-Static Process
- Mother and Father
- Die Another Day
- Easy Ride
- American Life (Saint Ken's Dance Mix)
- American Pie
- Music
- Nothing Really Matters
- Beautiful Stranger
- Rain
- Everybody
- Holiday
- Lucky Star
- Like a Virgin
- Material Girl
- Crazy for You
- Angel
- Dress You Up
- Live to Tell
- Papa Don't Preach
- True Blue
- Open Your Heart
- La Isla Bonita
- Who's That Girl
- Like a Prayer
- Cherish
- Oh Father
- La Isla Bonita
- Like a Prayer
- Justify My Love
- Erotica
- Bye Bye Baby
- Human Nature
- Secret
- Bad Girl
- Rain
- This Used to Be My Playground
- You'll See
- Don't Cry for Me Argentina
- You Must Love Me
- Cherish
- Take a Bow
- Dress You Up
- Open Your Heart
- Where's the Party
- Like a Virgin
- Like a Prayer
- Into the Groove
- Papa Don't Preach
- Cherish
- Vogue
- Holiday
- Sooner or Later
- Live to Tell
- Material Girl
- Introduction
- Erotica
- Fever
- Vogue
- Rain / Just My Imagination
- Express Yourself
- Deeper and Deeper
- Why's It So Hard
- In This Life
- The Beast Within
- Like a Virgin / Fallin in Love Again
- Bye Bye Baby
- Going Bananas
- La Isla Bonita
- Ray of Light (Light mix II '98)
- Candy Perfume Girl (long silent mix '98)
- Swim (Joye and Fun mix '98)
- Drowned World/Substitute for Love (mix II)
- Skin (Transformer-mix)
- Nothing Really Matters (Oriental Beat Box remix '98)
- Sky Fits Heaven (Material-mix)
- Shanti / Ashtangi (Big Game mix '98)
- Frozen (Harlem-mix)
- The Power of Good-Bye (Real Shout mix)
- Express Yourself
- Open Your Heart
- Causing a Commotion
- Like a Prayer
- Oh Father
- Papa Don't Preach
- I Always Get My Man
- Hanky Panky
- I'm Following You
- Cherish
- Vogue
- Keep It Together
- Drowned World/Substitute for Love (remix '98)
- Swim (Mellow mix '98)
- Ray of Light (Light mix '98)
- Candy Perfume Girl (Mellow remix)
- Skin (Groove mix)
- Nothing Really Matters (Funky Side mix '98)
- Sky Fits Heaven (club mix)
- Shanti/Ashtangi (Oriental mix '98)
- Frozen (Ambient mix)
- The Power of Good-Bye (Slow Hand mix)
- To Have and Not to Hold (Promo mix)
- Little Star (Quick Time remix)
- Mer Girl (Future dub mix)
- Ray of Light (Ultra Violet mix)
- Drowned World/Substitute for Love (BT and Sasha remix)
- Sky Fits Heaven (Sasha remix)
- Power of Goodbye (Luke Slaters Filtered mix)
- Candy Perfume Girl (Sasha remix)
- Frozen (Meltdown mix - Long version)
- Nothing Really Matters (Re-Funk-K-mix)
- Skin (Orbits Uv7 remix)
- Frozen (Stereo MC's mix)
- What It Feels Like for a Girl (remix)
- Don't Tell Me (remix)
- Over and Over
- Material Girl
- Dress You Up
- Like a Prayer
- Cherish
- Erotica
- Fever
- Rain
- Why's It So Hard
- La Isla Bonita
- Frozen
- The Power of Good-Bye
- Secret
- I Want You
- Don't Cry for Me Argentina
- The Erotic Mix
- Like a Prayer
- Express Yourself (Ultimix)
- Keep It Together (Ultimix)
- Heavenly Mix
- Open Your Heart (remix)
- Don't Tell Me (Timo Maas mix)
- Ray of Light (Sash's Twilo mix)
- American Life (Felix Da Housecat's Devin Dazzle mix)
- Nothing Really Matters (Club 69 Vocal mix)
- Love Profusion (Ralph Rosario House Vocal)
- Nothing Fails (Jason Nevis Lost In Space mix)
- Music (Deep Dish Dot Com mix)
- Die Another Day (Roger Sanchez 007 Vocal mix)
- American Pie
- Time Stood Still
- Beautiful Stranger
- Frozen
- American Pie (Richard 'Humpty' Vission radio mix)
- The Power of Good-Bye
- You'll See
- Nothing Really Matters
- This Used to Be My Playground
- American Pie (Victor Calderone Filter dub mix)
- Like a Prayer
- Secret
- I'll Remember
- Rain
- American Pie (Richard 'Humpty' Vission Visits Madonna)
- Substitute for Love
- Forbidden Love
- This Used to Be My Playground
- Take a Bow
- The Power of Good-Bye
- To Have and Hold
- One More Chance
- You'll See
- Rain
- Crazy for You
- Secret
- Frozen
- I Want You
- Something to Remember
- Love Don't Live Here Anymore
- American Life (radio edit)
- American Life (Oakenfold Downtempo remix)
- American Life (Felix Da Housecat's Devin Dazzle club mix)
- American Life (Missy Elliott American Dream remix)
- American Life (Peter Rauhofer's American Anthem Part I)
- American Life (DJ Saint dance mix edit)
- American Life (Nic Mercys Living the Life mix)
- American Life (DJ Saint Classic 7 Inch mix)
- American Life (Peter Rauhofer radio edit)
- Bedtime Story (X-Union Club mix)
- What It Feels Like for a Girl (club mix)
- Music (Calderone mix edit)
- Nothing Really Matters (Club 69 mix)
- Don't Tell Me (Thunderpuss club mix)
- Frozen (extended club mix)
- American Pie (Vission radio mix)
- Beautiful Stranger (Calderone club mix)
- Ray of Light (Sasha Strip Down mix)
- Power of Good-bye (Dallas' Low End mix)
- Substitute for a Love (BT remix)
- Sky Fits Heaven (Sasha remix)
- What It Feels Like for a Girl (Velvet Masta mix)
- Music (Groove Armada mix)
- Papa Don't Preach
- True Blue
- Open Your Heart
- La isla bonita
- Who's That Girl
- Causing a Commotion
- Like a Prayer
- Express Yourself
- Cherish
- Vogue
- Like a Virgin
- Material Girl
- True Blue
- Into the Groove
- Like a Prayer
- Vogue
- Crazy for You
- Open Your Heart
- Express Yourself
- Cherish
- Erotica
- This Used to Be My Playground
- Deeper and Deeper
- La Isla Bonita
- Papa Don't Preach
- La isla bonita
- Music
- Frozen
- Cherish
- Secret
- Vogue
- Erotica
- What It Feels Like for a Girl
- Like a Virgin
- Justify My Love
- Holliday
- Like a Prayer
- Papa Don't Preach
- Take a Bow
- Rain
- You'll See
- Everybody (extended version)
- Lucky Star (US remix)
- Holiday (full length version)
- Borderline (US remix)
- Physical Attraction (extended version)
- Like a Virgin (US Dance mix)
- Material Girl (Jellybean dance mix)
- Into the Groove (extended dance mix)
- Angel (extended dance remix)
- Burning Up (extended version)
- Gambler (extended dance remix)
- Dress You Up (12" Formal mix)
- Beautiful Stranger (Calderone club mix)
- American Pie (Richard "Humpty" Vission radio mix)
- Music (Calderone Anthem mix)
- Don't Tell Me (Tracy Young club mix)
- What It Feels Like for a Girl (Above & Beyond 12" club mix)
- Impressive Instant (Peter Rauhofer's Universal edit)
- Thunderpuss GHV2 Megamix
- Secret (Junior's Sound Factory mix)
- Music (Deep Dish Dot Com radio edit)
- Impressive Instant
- Don't Tell Me
- What It Feels Like for a Girl
- Gone
- Runaway Lover
- I Deserve It
- Nobody's Perfect
- American Pie
- Paradise (Not for Me)
- Amazing
- American Pie (album version)
- American Pie (Richard Humpty Vission radio mix)
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Madonna - Hung Up (video)
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- Duration: 5:27
- Published: 27 Oct 2009
- Updated: 04 Jul 2012
© 2005 WMG Hung Up (video)
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Madonna - Vogue (video)
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- Duration: 4:54
- Published: 27 Oct 2009
- Updated: 04 Jul 2012
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Madonna - Borderline
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- Duration: 3:58
- Published: 27 Oct 2009
- Updated: 03 Jul 2012
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Give Me All Your Luvin' (Feat. MIA and Nicki Minaj)
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- Duration: 3:45
- Published: 03 Feb 2012
- Updated: 04 Jul 2012
Track from Madonna's MDNA album. Download it now on iTunes: smarturl.it Music video for Madonna's Give Me All Your Luvin' single, featuring MIA and Nicki Minaj. Directed by Megaforce.
http://wn.com/Give_Me_All_Your_Luvin'_Feat_MIA_and_Nicki_Minaj
Madonna "Give It 2 Me" (feat. Pharrell)
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- Duration: 4:14
- Published: 11 Jun 2008
- Updated: 04 Jul 2012
Madonna "Give It 2 Me" (feat. Pharrell) Directed by Tom Munro and Nathan Rissman (c) 2008 Warner Bros. Records Inc. for the US and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the US
http://wn.com/Madonna_Give_It_2_Me_feat_Pharrell
Madonna - Frozen
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- Duration: 5:23
- Published: 27 Oct 2009
- Updated: 03 Jul 2012
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Madonna - Like A Virgin (video)
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- Duration: 3:50
- Published: 27 Oct 2009
- Updated: 03 Jul 2012
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http://wn.com/Madonna_Like_A_Virgin_video
Madonna - Express Yourself
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- Duration: 5:02
- Published: 27 Oct 2009
- Updated: 02 Jul 2012
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Madonna - Papa Don't Preach
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- Duration: 5:06
- Published: 30 Jun 2011
- Updated: 04 Jul 2012
From the True Blue Album - Warner Bros
http://wn.com/Madonna_Papa_Don't_Preach
Madonna - Evita - 11/19 Don't Cry for Me Argentina (1996)
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- Duration: 5:15
- Published: 03 Mar 2012
- Updated: 02 Jul 2012
It won't be easy, you'll think it's strange When I try to explain how I feel That I still need your love after all that I've done You won't believe me All you will see is a girl you once knew Although she's dressed up to the nines At sixes and sevens with you I had to let it happen, I had to change Couldn't stay all my life down at heel Looking out of the window, staying out of the sun So I chose freedom Running around, trying everything new But nothing impressed me at all I never expected it to Don't cry for me Argentina The truth is I never left you All through my wild days My mad existence I kept my promise Don't keep your distance And as for fortune, and as for fame I never invited them in Though it seemed to the world they were all I desired They are illusions They're not the solutions they promised to be The answer was here all the time I love you and hope you love me Don't cry for me Argentina Don't cry for me Argentina The truth is I never left you All through my wild days My mad existence I kept my promise Don't keep your distance Have I said too much ? There's nothing more I can think of to say to you But all you have to do is look at me To know that ev'ry word is true
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Madonna - Celebration
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- Duration: 3:50
- Published: 14 Oct 2009
- Updated: 04 Jul 2012
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MADONNA 2012 TOUR ISTANBUL FRONT VIEW HUMAN NATURE LIKE A VIRGIN FULL NIPPLE.mp4
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- Duration: 9:39
- Published: 08 Jun 2012
- Updated: 03 Jul 2012
MADONNA 2012 TOUR ISTANBUL FRONT VIEW HUMAN NATURE LIKE A VIRGIN FULL NIPPLE
http://wn.com/MADONNA_2012_TOUR_ISTANBUL_FRONT_VIEW_HUMAN_NATURE_LIKE_A_VIRGIN_FULL_NIPPLEmp4
Madonna - MDNA Tour - Express Yourself / Born This Way - Tel Aviv 5/31/12 HD
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- Duration: 2:41
- Published: 01 Jun 2012
- Updated: 30 Jun 2012
MDNA Tour - Opening Night in Tel Aviv From Front Row Video by myMDNA.com COMMENTS DISABLED BECAUSE BOTH MADONNA AND GAGA FANS ARE CHILDISH WHEN IT COMES TO FAN WARS!
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Madonna MDNA Tour - Opening - Tel Aviv 5/31/12 HD
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- Duration: 6:13
- Published: 01 Jun 2012
- Updated: 03 Jul 2012
Opening of the MDNA Tour in Tel Aviv Video by myMDNA.com
http://wn.com/Madonna_MDNA_Tour_Opening_Tel_Aviv_5_31_12_HD
Madonna - Girl Gone Wild (Lyric Video)
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- Duration: 3:20
- Published: 27 Feb 2012
- Updated: 04 Jul 2012
Lyric video for "Girl Gone Wild" by Madonna. Pre order MDNA album NOW : smarturl.it © 2012 Interscope
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Madonna - MDNA Tour Live Abu dhabi - Open Part + Girl Gone Wild HD
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- Duration: 9:03
- Published: 03 Jun 2012
- Updated: 02 Jul 2012
Madonna - MDNA Tour Live Abu dhabi - Open Part + Girl Gone Wild HD
http://wn.com/Madonna_MDNA_Tour_Live_Abu_dhabi_Open_Part_+_Girl_Gone_Wild_HD
Madonna - Live To Tell
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- Duration: 4:35
- Published: 03 Jul 2011
- Updated: 03 Jul 2012
From the True Blue album - Warner Bros
http://wn.com/Madonna_Live_To_Tell
Girl Gone Wild - Madonna (Xperimental Version by Neoclubber)
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- Duration: 3:51
- Published: 06 Apr 2012
- Updated: 02 Jul 2012
Madonna - Girl Gone Wild (Neoclubber Version/Remix) Warning! Cross genre experimental hybrid: Pop+Dance/DJ+Alternative Rock! (Amazon.com classification) Download this track on iTunes itunes.apple.com ps Live singing here www.youtube.com Composition: Girl Gone Wild Performing artist:...
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Madonna - MDNA Tour - Nobody Knows Me (Interlude) - Tel Aviv 5/31/12 HD Jaan Roose
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- Duration: 2:58
- Published: 01 Jun 2012
- Updated: 02 Jul 2012
MDNA Tour - Nobody Knows Me Interlude, Opening Night Tel Aviv Video by myMDNA.com FOLLOW US Facebook : facebook.com Twitter : twitter.com Slackline Performer : Jaan Roose
http://wn.com/Madonna_MDNA_Tour_Nobody_Knows_Me_Interlude_Tel_Aviv_5_31_12_HD_Jaan_Roose
Secret - "Madonna" (MV)
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- Duration: 3:42
- Published: 12 Aug 2010
- Updated: 03 Jul 2012
Music Video 뮤직비디오 / 뮤비 # 시크릿 - 마돈나 / Secret - Madonna *Available in High Definition (HD) ~members: - Jeon Hyo Sung (전효성) - Song Ji Eun (송지은) - Zinger (징거) - Han Sun Hwa (한선화) allkpop: "A surge of estrogen with all these releases. Shortly after the release of their newest second mini-album title track Madonna, the girls of Secret have released their MV for Madonna! With the addictive catchy tunes, the girls are showcasing their impressive choreography through the MV. Hit composers Kang Ji Won and Kim Ki Bum composed the title track Madonna, and the song is about living with confidence by becoming an icon in this generation, like the American star Madonna. The song's genre will be electronic pop dance. The girl's first comeback stage starts on M! Countdown on the 12th!"
http://wn.com/Secret_Madonna_MV
Madonna - MDNA Tour Tel Aviv Opening Night 5/31/12 HD
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- Duration: 3:29
- Published: 29 May 2012
- Updated: 02 Jul 2012
Madonna - MDNA Tour Tel Aviv Opening Night 5/31/12 HD setlist
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Madonna - Don't Tell Me
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- Duration: 4:39
- Published: 27 Oct 2009
- Updated: 04 Jul 2012
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MADONNA MDNA TOUR OPENING NIGHT EPK - pro shot footage
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- Duration: 11:15
- Published: 01 Jun 2012
- Updated: 02 Jul 2012
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| Madonna | |
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 Madonna at the premiere of I Am Because We Are in 2008 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Madonna Louise Ciccone |
| Also known as | Madge
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| Born | (1958-08-16) August 16, 1958 (age 53) Bay City, Michigan, U.S. |
| Origin | New York, New York, U.S. |
| Genres | Pop, rock, dance |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, actress, film producer, film director, fashion designer, author, entrepreneur, philanthropist |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, percussion, drums |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Labels | Sire, Maverick, Warner Bros., Live Nation, Interscope |
| Associated acts | Breakfast Club |
| Website | www.madonna.com |
Madonna (born Madonna Louise Ciccone /tʃɪˈkoʊneɪ/ chi-KOH-nay; August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. She has sold more than 300 million records worldwide and is recognized as the world's top-selling female recording artist of all time by Guinness World Records. Considered to be one of the "25 Most Powerful Women of the Past Century" by Time for being an influential figure in contemporary music, she is known for continuously reinventing both her music and image, and for retaining a standard of autonomy within the recording industry. Critics have praised her diverse musical productions which have also served as a lightning rod for controversy.
Born in Bay City, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983. She followed it with a series of albums that 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. Throughout her career, many of her songs have hit number one on the record charts, including "Like a Virgin", "Papa Don't Preach", "Like a Prayer", "Vogue", "Frozen", "Music", "Hung Up", and "4 Minutes".
Although she received generally positive reviews for her role in Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), her later film appearances received mixed commentary. She received critical acclaim and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Evita (1996), but has received harsh feedback for other performances. Her other ventures include: fashion design, writing children's books, and film directing and producing. She has been acclaimed as a businesswoman. In 1992, she founded entertainment company Maverick as a joint venture with Time Warner. In 2007, she signed an unprecedented US $120 million contract with Live Nation.
According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Madonna is the best-selling female rock artist of the 20th century and the second top-selling female artist in the United States, with 64 million certified albums. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked her at number two, behind only The Beatles, on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists, making her the most successful solo artist in the history of the chart. She was also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the same year. In 2012, she was crowned the "Greatest Woman In Music" by VH1.
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1958–81: Early life and career beginnings[link]
Madonna was born in Bay City, Michigan, on August 16, 1958. Her father, Silvio Anthony Ciccone, is a first-generation Italian American (with roots in Pacentro, Italy), while her mother, Madonna Louise (née Fortin), was of French Canadian descent.[1] Her father later worked as a design engineer for Chrysler and General Motors. As Madonna had the same name as her mother, family members called her "Little Nonni".[2][3] The third of six children from her father's first marriage, her full-blood siblings are: Martin, Anthony, Paula, Christopher, and Melanie.[3] Madonna was raised Roman Catholic. Upon receiving confirmation, she adopted Veronica as an additional confirmation name.[4] She was raised in the Detroit suburbs of Pontiac and Avon Township (now part of Rochester Hills).
Her mother died of breast cancer at the age of 30 in 1963.[5] Months before her mother's death, Madonna noticed changes in her behavior and personality from the attentive homemaker she was, although she did not understand the reason.[5] Mrs. Ciccone, at a loss to explain her dire medical condition, would often begin to cry when questioned by Madonna, at which point Madonna would respond by wrapping her arms around her mother tenderly. "I remember feeling stronger than she was," Madonna recalled, "I was so little and yet I felt like she was the child."[5] Madonna later acknowledged that she had not grasped the concept of her mother dying. "There was so much left unsaid, so many untangled and unresolved emotions, of remorse, guilt, loss, anger, confusion ... I saw my mother, looking very beautiful and lying as if she were asleep in an open casket. Then I noticed that my mother's mouth looked funny. It took me some time to realize that it had been sewn up. In that awful moment, I began to understand what I had lost forever. The final image of my mother, at once peaceful yet grotesque, haunts me today also."[6]
Madonna turned to her grandmother in the hope of finding some solace and some form of her mother in her. The Ciccone siblings resented housekeepers and invariably rebelled against anyone brought into their home ostensibly to take the place of their beloved mother.[5] In an interview with Vanity Fair, Madonna commented that she saw herself in her youth as a "lonely girl who was searching for something. I wasn't rebellious in a certain way. I cared about being good at something. I didn't shave my underarms and I didn't wear make-up like normal girls do. But I studied and I got good grades ... I wanted to be somebody."[5] Terrified that her father could be taken from her as well, Madonna was often unable to sleep unless she was near him.[5] Her father married the family's housekeeper Joan Gustafson in 1966, and they had two children: Jennifer and Mario Ciccone.[3] At this point, Madonna began to express unresolved feelings of anger towards her father that lasted for decades, and developed a rebellious attitude.[5] She attended St. Frederick's and St. Andrew's Catholic Elementary Schools, and then West Middle School. She was known for her high grade point average, and achieved notoriety for her unconventional behavior: she would perform cartwheels and handstands in the hallways between classes, dangle by her knees from the monkey bars during recess, and pull up her skirt during class—all so that the boys could see her underwear.[7]
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Rochester Adams High School, where Madonna studied
Madonna later attended Rochester Adams High School where she became a straight-A student and a member of the cheerleading squad.[8] After graduating, she received a dance scholarship to the University of Michigan.[9] She convinced her father to allow her to take ballet lessons[10] and was persuaded by Christopher Flynn, her ballet teacher, to pursue a career in dance.[11] In 1978, she dropped out of college and relocated to New York City.[12] She had little money and worked as a waitress at Dunkin' Donuts and with modern dance troupes.[13] Madonna said of her move to New York, "It was the first time I'd ever taken a plane, the first time I'd ever gotten a taxi cab. I came here with $35 in my pocket. It was the bravest thing I'd ever done."[14] She started to work as a backup dancer for other established artists. During a late night, Madonna was returning from a rehearsal, when she was dragged up an alleyway by a pair of men and forced to perform fellatio at knifepoint. Madonna had later commented that "the episode was a taste of my weakness, it showed me that I still could not save myself in spite of all the strong-girl show. I could never forget it."[15] While performing as a dancer for the French disco artist Patrick Hernandez on his 1979 world tour,[7] Madonna became romantically involved with musician Dan Gilroy. They formed her first rock band, the Breakfast Club,[16][17] for which Madonna sang and played drums and guitar. In 1980[3] or 1981[18] she left Breakfast Club and, with her former boyfriend Stephen Bray as drummer, formed the band Emmy. Their music impressed DJ and record producer Mark Kamins who arranged a meeting between Madonna and Sire Records founder Seymour Stein.[18]
[edit] 1982–85: Madonna, Like a Virgin and marriage to Sean Penn
After Madonna signed a singles deal with Sire, her debut single, "Everybody", was released on April 24, 1982, and became a dance hit.[19] She started developing her debut album Madonna, which was primarily produced by Reggie Lucas, a Warner Bros. producer. However, she was not happy with the completed tracks and disagreed with Lucas' production techniques, so decided to seek additional help. Madonna moved in with boyfriend John "Jellybean" Benitez, asking his help for finishing the album's production. Benitez remixed most of the tracks and produced "Holiday", which was her third single. The overall sound of Madonna is dissonant, and is in the form of upbeat synthetic disco, utilizing some of the new technology of the time, like the Linn drum machine, Moog bass and the OB-X synthesizer.[20][21] The album peaked at number eight on the Billboard 200, and yielded the hit singles "Holiday", "Borderline" and "Lucky Star".[22][23]
"I was surprised by how people reacted to "Like a Virgin" because when I did that song, to me, I was singing about how something made me feel a certain way—brand-new and fresh—and everyone interpreted it as 'I don't want to be a virgin anymore. Fuck my brains out!' That's not what I sang at all. 'Like a Virgin' was always absolutely ambiguous."
Gradually, Madonna's look and manner of dressing, her performances and her music videos started influencing young girls and women. Her style became a female fashion trend 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.[26] She 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.[22][27] The title track, "Like a Virgin", topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for six consecutive weeks.[23] It attracted the attention of organizations who complained that the song and its accompanying video promoted premarital sex and undermined family values,[28] and moralists sought to have the song and video banned.[29] Madonna came under further fire when she performed the song at the first MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) where she appeared on stage atop a giant wedding cake, wearing a wedding dress and white gloves. The performance is noted by MTV as an iconic performance in VMA history.[30] In later years, Madonna commented that she was actually terrified of the performance. She recalled, "I remember my manager Freddy shouting to me, 'Oh my God! What were you doing? You were wearing a wedding dress. Oh my God! You were rolling around on the floor!' It was the bravest, most blatant sexual thing I had ever done on television."[31] Like a Virgin was certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America and sold more than 21 million copies worldwide.[32][33]
Madonna entered mainstream films in 1985, beginning with a brief appearance as a club singer in Vision Quest, a romantic drama film. Its soundtrack contained her U.S. number-one single, "Crazy for You".[34] She also appeared in the comedy Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), a film which introduced the song "Into the Groove", her first number one single in the United Kingdom.[35] Although not the lead actress for the film, her profile was such that the movie widely became seen (and marketed) as a Madonna vehicle.[36] The New York Times film critic Vincent Canby named it one of the ten best films of 1985.[37] While filming the music video for the second single from Like a Virgin—"Material Girl"—Madonna started dating actor Sean Penn and married him on her birthday in 1985.[38]
Beginning in April 1985, Madonna embarked on her first concert tour in North America, The Virgin Tour, with the Beastie Boys as her opening act.[39] Madonna commented: "That whole tour was crazy, because I went from playing CBGB and the Mudd Club to playing sporting arenas. I played a small theater in Seattle, and the girls had flap skirts on and the tights cut off below their knees and lace gloves and rosaries and bows in their hair and big hoop earrings ... After Seattle, all of the shows were moved to arenas."[40] In July, Penthouse and Playboy magazines published a number of nude photos of Madonna, taken in New York in 1978. She had posed for the photographs as she needed money at the time, and was paid as little as $25 a session.[41] The publication of the photos caused a media uproar, but Madonna remained defiant and unapologetic. The photographs were ultimately sold for up to $100,000.[41] She referred to the whole experience at the 1985 outdoor Live Aid charity concert saying that she would not take her jacket off because "[the media] might hold it against me ten years from now."[42][43]
[edit] 1986–91: True Blue, Like a Prayer and the Blond Ambition Tour
In June 1986, Madonna released her third studio album, True Blue, which was inspired by and dedicated to Sean Penn.[44] Rolling Stone magazine was generally impressed with the effort, writing that the album "sound[s] as if it comes from the heart".[45] It spawned three number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100: "Live to Tell", "Papa Don't Preach" and "Open Your Heart", and two more top-five singles: "True Blue" and "La Isla Bonita".[23][34] The album topped the charts in over 28 countries worldwide, an unprecedented achievement at the time.[46] She also starred in the critically panned film Shanghai Surprise, and made her theatrical debut in a production of David Rabe's Goose and Tom-Tom, both co-starring Penn.[47] The next year, Madonna's second feature film Who's That Girl was released. She contributed four songs to its soundtrack, including the title track and "Causing a Commotion".[23] In July 1987, she embarked on the Who's That Girl World Tour which continued until September.[48] Regarding the tour, Madonna commented "I realized that I could go from being unmolded clay, and over time and with the help of people, I could turn myself into something else. This tour is the reflection of that belief and it's as if saying to me 'Who are you girl?' Hence the name, it's the new me."[49] Later that year, she released a remix album of past hits, entitled You Can Dance, which reached 14 on the Billboard 200.[50][22] Madonna and Penn filed for divorce in December 1987, citing irreconcilable differences, with Madonna's lawyer pointing to Penn's drinking problem and his abusive nature. The divorce was finalized in January 1989.[51] Of her marriage to Penn, Madonna later said, "I was completely obsessed with my career and not ready to be generous in any shape or form."[38]
"In Like a Prayer I've been dealing with more specific issues that mean a lot to me. They're about an assimilation of experiences I've had in my life and in relationships. They're about my mother, my father and my bonds with my family about the pain of dying, or growing up and letting go. [The album] was a real coming-of-age record for me emotionally ... I had to do a lot of soul-searching and I think it is a reflection of that."
In January 1989, Madonna signed an endorsement deal with soft-drink manufacturer Pepsi. In one of her Pepsi commercials, she debuted her song "Like a Prayer". The corresponding music video featured many Catholic symbols such as stigmata and burning crosses, and a dream about making love to a saint, leading the Vatican to condemn the video. Religious groups sought to ban the commercial and boycott Pepsi products. Pepsi revoked the commercial and canceled her sponsorship contract.[54] The song was included on Madonna's fourth studio album, Like a Prayer, which was co-written and co-produced by Patrick Leonard and Stephen Bray.[55] Rolling Stone wrote that it was "as close to art as pop music gets".[56] Like a Prayer peaked at number one on the Billboard 200 and sold 13 million copies worldwide, with 4 million copies sold in the U.S. alone.[22][57] Six singles were released from the album, including "Like a Prayer", which reached number one, and "Express Yourself" and "Cherish", both peaking at number two.[23][34] By the end of the 1980s, Madonna was named as the "Artist of the Decade" by media such as MTV, Billboard and Musician magazine.[58][59][60]
Madonna starred as "Breathless" Mahoney in the film Dick Tracy (1990), with Warren Beatty playing the title role.[61] To accompany the film, she released the soundtrack album I'm Breathless, which included songs inspired by the film's 1930s setting. It also featured the U.S. number-one hit, "Vogue",[62] and "Sooner or Later", which earned songwriter Stephen Sondheim an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1991.[63] While shooting the film, Madonna began a relationship with Beatty which dissolved by the end of 1990.[64][65] In April 1990 she began her Blond Ambition World Tour, which continued for nearly four months. Regarding the tour, Madonna commented "I know that I'm not the best singer and I know that I'm not the best dancer. But, I can fucking push people's buttons and be as provocative as I want. The tour's goal is to break useless taboos."[66] Rolling Stone called it an "elaborately choreographed, sexually provocative extravaganza" and proclaimed it "the best tour of 1990".[67] The tour was met with strong reaction from religious groups for her performance of "Like a Virgin", during which two male dancers caressed her body before she simulated masturbation.[48] The Pope asked the general public and the Christian community not to attend the concert.[68] A private association of Catholics calling themselves Famiglia Domani also boycotted the tour for its eroticism.[69] In response, Madonna said, "I am Italian American and proud of it ... The tour in no way hurts anybody's sentiments. It's for open minds and gets them to see sexuality in a different way. Their own and others"; she declared that the Church "completely frowns on sex ... except for procreation."[70] The Laserdisc release of the tour won Madonna a Grammy Award in 1992 for Best Long Form Music Video.[71]
The Immaculate Collection, Madonna's first greatest-hits compilation album, was released in November 1990. It included two new songs, "Justify My Love" and "Rescue Me".[72] The album was certified diamond by RIAA and sold over 30 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling compilation album by a solo artist in history.[32][73] "Justify My Love" reached number one in the U.S. and top ten worldwide.[34][74] Its music video featured scenes of sadomasochism, bondage, same-sex kissing and brief nudity.[75][76] The video was deemed too sexually explicit for MTV and was banned from the network.[75] Madonna responded to the banning: "Why is it that people are willing to go and watch a movie about someone getting blown to bits for no reason at all, and nobody wants to see two girls kissing and two men snuggling? ... MTV has been good to me, and they know their audience. If it's too strong for them, I understand. Although, half of me thought I was going to get away with it."[77] The second single, "Rescue Me", became the highest-debuting single by a female artist in Hot 100 chart history at that time, entering at number 15 and peaking at number nine.[72]
In December 1990, Madonna decided to leave Jennifer Lynch's film Boxing Helena, which she had previously agreed to star in, without any explanation to the producers.[78] From late 1990 to early 1991, Madonna dated Tony Ward, a model and pornography performer who appeared in her music videos for "Cherish" and "Justify My Love". She also had an eight-month relationship with rapper Vanilla Ice.[79] Her first documentary film Truth or Dare (known as In Bed with Madonna outside North America) was released in mid-1991. The documentary chronicled her Blond Ambition World Tour.[18]
[edit] 1992–96: Maverick, Sex, Erotica, Bedtime Stories and Evita
In 1992, Madonna had a role in A League of Their Own as Mae Mordabito, a baseball player on an all-women's team. She recorded the film's theme song, "This Used to Be My Playground", which became a Hot 100 number one hit.[34] The same year, she founded her own entertainment company, Maverick, consisting of a record company (Maverick Records), a film production company (Maverick Films), and associated music publishing, television broadcasting, book publishing and merchandising divisions. The deal was a joint venture with Time Warner and paid Madonna an advance of $60 million. It gave her 20% royalties from the music proceedings, one of the highest rates in the industry, equaled at that time only by Michael Jackson's royalty rate established a year earlier with Sony.[80] The first release from the venture was Madonna's book, entitled Sex. It consisted of sexually provocative and explicit images, photographed by Steven Meisel. The book caused strong negative reaction from the media and the general public, but sold 1.5 million copies at $50 each in a matter of days.[81][82] At the same time she released her fifth studio album, Erotica, which debuted at number two on the Billboard 200.[22][82] Its title track peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100.[34] Erotica also produced five further singles: "Deeper and Deeper", "Bad Girl", "Fever", "Rain" and "Bye Bye Baby".[83]
The provocative imagery that was her trademark continued in the 1990s with the erotic thriller Body of Evidence, a film which contained scenes of sadomasochism and bondage. It was poorly received by critics.[84][85] She also starred in the film Dangerous Game, which was released straight to video in North America. The New York Times described the film as "angry and painful, and the pain feels real."[86] In October 1993, she embarked on The Girlie Show World Tour, in which she dressed as a whip-cracking dominatrix surrounded by topless dancers.[87] The show faced negative reaction, specifically in Puerto Rico where she rubbed the island's flag between her legs on stage.[48] In March 1994, she appeared as a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman, using profanity that was required to be censored on television and handing Letterman a pair of her underwear and asking him to smell it.[88] The releases of her sexually explicit films, albums and book, and the aggressive appearance on Letterman all made critics question Madonna as a sexual renegade. She faced strong negative publicity from critics and fans, who commented that "she had gone too far" and that her career was over.[89]
According to biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli, the ballad "I'll Remember" (1994), was an attempt to tone down her provocative image. The song was recorded for Alek Keshishian's film With Honors.[90] She made a subdued appearance with Letterman at an awards show and appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno after realizing that she needed to change her musical direction in order to sustain her popularity.[91] With her sixth studio album, Bedtime Stories (1994), Madonna employed a softer image to reconnect with the general public.[91] The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 and produced four singles, including "Secret" and "Take a Bow", the latter topping the Hot 100 for seven weeks.[34] At the same time, she became romantically involved with fitness trainer Carlos Leon.[92] Something to Remember, a collection of ballads, was released in May 1995. The album featured three new songs: "You'll See", "One More Chance", and a cover of Marvin Gaye's "I Want You".[34][93] In later years, Madonna commented that she was very fond of the albums between Like a Prayer and Something to Remember, "though I would agree that all of these albums were watershed moments for me".[94]
"This is the role I was born to play. I put everything of me into this because it was much more than a role in a movie. It was exhilarating and intimidating at the same time. And it was the farthest I've ever had to push myself creatively. At every level, I had a great education. And I am prouder of Evita than anything else I have done."
—Madonna talking about Evita and her role as Eva Perón.[95]
The following year saw the release of Evita in which she played the title role of Eva Perón.[96][97] For a long time, Madonna had desired to play Perón and even wrote to director Alan Parker, explaining how she would be perfect for the part. After securing it, she underwent vocal training and learned about the history of Argentina and Perón. During shooting she fell sick many times, commenting that "The intensity of the scenes we have been shooting and the amount of emotional work and concentration needed to get through the day are so mentally and physically exhausting that I'm sure I will need to be institutionalized when its over." It was on the set of Evita Madonna found out that she was pregnant, which further complicated the shooting for her.[98] Evita was a period drama and almost 6,000 costumes were needed for the scenes. Madonna herself wore 370 different costumes, earning her a Guinness World Record for the most costume changes in a film.[97] After its release, the film garnered critical appreciation. Zach Conner from Time magazine commented "It's a relief to say that Evita is pretty damn fine, well cast and handsomely visualized. Madonna once again confounds our expectations. She plays Evita with a poignant weariness and has more than just a bit of star quality. Love or hate Madonna-Eva, she is a magnet for all eyes."[99][100] Madonna won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for the role.[101] She released three singles from the Evita soundtrack album including "You Must Love Me" (which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1997) and "Don't Cry for Me Argentina".[102] On October 14, 1996, Madonna gave birth to Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon, her daughter with Leon.[103]
[edit] 1997–2002: Ray of Light, Music and Drowned World Tour
After Lourdes' birth, Madonna became involved in Eastern mysticism and Kabbalah. She was introduced to Jewish mysticism by actress Sandra Bernhard in 1997.[104] Her seventh studio album, Ray of Light, (1998) reflected this change in her perception and image.[105] She commented: "This record, more than any other records, covers all the areas of life. I had recently joined Kabbalah and I had left off partying—but I had just had a baby, so my mood was complete, and I was incredibly thoughtful, retrospective and intrigued by the mystical aspects of life."[106] The album garnered critical acclaim and Slant Magazine declared it as "one of the great pop masterpieces of the '90s".[107] Ray of Light was honored with four Grammy Awards, and listed as one of Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".[108][109] Topping the charts in Australia, Canada, UK and mainland Europe, the album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200—held off from the top spot by the soundtrack to the film Titanic—and sold over 20 million copies worldwide.[22][110] The album's first single, "Frozen", became Madonna's first single to debut at number one in the UK, while in the U.S. it became her sixth number-two single and set another record for Madonna as the artist with the most number two hits.[34][111] The song was banned in Belgium, however, adjudicated to be plagiarized from Belgian songwriter Salvatore Acquaviva's 1993 song "Ma Vie Fout L'camp".[112] The second single, "Ray of Light", debuted at number five on the Billboard Hot 100.[113] Madonna's relationship with Leon ended in December 1998; she declared that they were "better off as best friends."[114] Following their break-up, Madonna signed to play a violin teacher in the film Music of the Heart but left the project, citing "creative differences" with director Wes Craven.[115] She followed the success of Ray of Light with the single "Beautiful Stranger", recorded for the 1999 film Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. It reached number 19 on the Hot 100 solely on radio airplay and earned Madonna a Grammy Award for "Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media".[34][71]
In 2000, Madonna starred in the film The Next Best Thing, and contributed two songs to the film's soundtrack: "Time Stood Still" and the international hit "American Pie", a cover version of Don McLean's 1971 song.[116] She released her eighth studio album, Music, in September 2000. It featured elements from the electronica-inspired Ray of Light era, and catered to her gay audience.[117] Collaborating with French producer Mirwais Ahmadzaï, Madonna commented: "I love to work with the weirdos that no one knows about—the people who have raw talent and who are making music unlike anyone else out there. Music is the future of sound."[117] Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic felt that "Music blows by in a kaleidoscopic rush of color, technique, style and substance. It has so many depth and layers that it's easily as self-aware and earnest as Ray of Light."[118] The album took the number-one position in more than 20 countries worldwide and sold four million copies in the first ten days.[108] In the U.S., Music debuted at the top, and became her first number-one album in eleven years since Like a Prayer.[119] It produced three singles: the Hot 100 number one "Music", "Don't Tell Me" and "What It Feels Like for a Girl".[34] The music video of "What It Feels Like for a Girl" depicted Madonna committing murders and involved in car accidents, and was banned by MTV and VH1.[120]
Around the same time of the Music album, Madonna became involved in a relationship with Guy Ritchie, whom she had met in 1999 through mutual friends Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler. On August 11, 2000, she gave birth to their son, Rocco Ritchie.[121] In December, Madonna and Ritchie were married in an exclusive ceremony in Scotland.[122]
Her fifth concert tour, entitled Drowned World Tour, started in April 2001.[48] The tour visited cities in the U.S. and Europe and was the highest-grossing concert tour of the year by a solo artist, earning $75 million from 47 sold-out shows.[123] She also released her second greatest-hits collection, entitled GHV2, to coincide with the home video release of the tour. GHV2 debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200.[124] Madonna starred in the film Swept Away, directed by Ritchie. Released direct-to-video in the UK, the film was a commercial and critical failure.[125] Later that year, she released "Die Another Day", the title song of the James Bond film Die Another Day, in which she had a cameo role. The song reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and was nominated both for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and a Golden Raspberry for Worst Song.[34][126]
[edit] 2003–06: American Life and Confessions on a Dance Floor
Following Die Another Day, Madonna collaborated with fashion photographer Steven Klein in 2003 for an exhibition installation named X-STaTIC Pro=CeSS. It included photography from a photo shoot in W magazine, and seven video segments. The installation ran from March to May in New York's Deitch Projects gallery. It then traveled the world in an edited form.[127] Madonna released her ninth studio album, American Life, which was based on her observations of American society, and received mixed reviews.[128] She commented, "[American Life] was like a trip down memory lane, looking back at everything I've accomplished and all the things I once valued and all the things that were important to me."[129] Larry Flick from The Advocate felt that "American Life is an album that is among her most adventurous and lyrically intelligent ... It is like the flip side to 2000's Music, and turns out to be a lazy, half-arsed effort to sound and take her seriously."[129][130] The title song peaked at number 37 on the Hot 100.[34] Its original music video was canceled as Madonna thought that the video, featuring violence and war imagery, would be deemed unpatriotic since America was then at war with Iraq.[131] With only four million copies sold worldwide, American Life was the lowest-selling album of her career.[132] She gave another provocative performance later that year at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, while singing "Hollywood" with Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Missy Elliott. Madonna kissed Spears and Aguilera suggestively during the performance, triggering a tabloid frenzy.[133][134] In October 2003, Madonna provided guest vocals on Spears' single "Me Against the Music".[135] It was followed with the release of Remixed & Revisited. The EP contained remixed versions of songs from American Life and included "Your Honesty", a previously unreleased track from the Bedtime Stories recording sessions.[136] Madonna also signed a contract with Callaway Arts & Entertainment to be the author of five children's books. The first of these books, entitled The English Roses, was published in September 2003. The story was about four English schoolgirls and their envy and jealousy of each other.[137] Kate Kellway from The Guardian commented "[Madonna] is an actress playing at what she can never be—a JK Rowling, an English rose."[138] The book debuted at the top of The New York Times Best Seller list and became the fastest-selling children's picture book of all time.[51]
The next year, Madonna and Maverick sued Warner Music Group and its former parent company Time Warner, claiming that mismanagement of resources and poor bookkeeping had cost the company millions of dollars. In return, Warner filed a countersuit alleging that Maverick had lost tens of millions of dollars on its own.[139][140] The dispute was resolved when the Maverick shares, owned by Madonna and Ronnie Dashev, were purchased by Warner. Madonna and Dashev's company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music, but Madonna was still signed to Warner under a separate recording contract.[139] In mid-2004 Madonna embarked on the Re-Invention World Tour in the U.S., Canada and Europe. It became the highest-grossing tour of 2004, earning $125 million.[141] She made a documentary about the tour named I'm Going to Tell You a Secret.[142] Rolling Stone ranked her at number 36 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".[143] In January 2005, Madonna performed a cover version of the John Lennon song "Imagine" at Tsunami Aid.[144] She also performed at the Live 8 benefit concert in London.[145]
"I tried several different things when Stuart [producer Stuart Price] brought me music. And it was like divine inspiration. It just clicked, like: 'This is the direction of my record.' That's what we intended, to make a record that you can play at a party or in your car, where you don't have to skip past a ballad. It's nonstop."
—Madonna talking about Confessions on a Dance Floor.[146]
Her tenth studio album, Confessions on a Dance Floor, was released in November 2005. Musically the album was structured like a club set composed by a DJ. The songs on the album started out light and happy, and as it progressed, it became intense, with the lyrics dealing more about personal feelings, hence "Confessions."[147] Keith Caulfield from Billboard commented that the album was a "welcome return to form for the Queen of Pop."[148] The album won a Grammy Award for "Best Electronic/Dance Album".[71] Confessions on a Dance Floor and its lead single, "Hung Up", went on to reach number one in 40 and 41 countries respectively, earning a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.[149] "Sorry", the second single, became Madonna's twelfth number-one single in the UK.[35] She embarked on the Confessions Tour in May 2006, which had a global audience of 1.2 million and grossed over $194.7 million, becoming the highest-grossing tour to that date for a female artist.[150] Madonna used religious symbols, such as the crucifix and Crown of Thorns, in the performance of "Live to Tell". It caused the Russian Orthodox Church and the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia to urge all their members to boycott her concert.[151] The Vatican protested the concert, as did bishops from Düsseldorf.[152] Madonna responded: "My performance is neither anti-Christian, sacrilegious or blasphemous. Rather, it is my plea to the audience to encourage mankind to help one another and to see the world as a unified whole."[153] In the same year, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry announced officially that Madonna had sold over 200 million copies for her albums alone worldwide.[154] In June 2006, Madonna was voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends online Hall of Fame.[155]
While on tour, Madonna participated in the Raising Malawi initiative by partially funding an orphanage in and traveling to that country.[156] On October 10, 2006, she filed adoption papers for a boy from the orphanage, David Banda Mwale. He was later renamed David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie.[157] The adoption raised strong public reaction, because Malawian law requires would-be parents to reside in Malawi for one year before adopting, which Madonna did not do.[158] She addressed this on The Oprah Winfrey Show, saying that there were no written adoption laws in Malawi that regulated foreign adoption. She described how Banda had been suffering from pneumonia after surviving malaria and tuberculosis when she first met him.[159] Banda's biological father, Yohane, commented, "These so-called human rights activists are harassing me every day, threatening me that I am not aware of what I am doing ... They want me to support their court case, a thing I cannot do for I know what I agreed with Madonna and her husband."[160] The adoption was finalized on May 28, 2008.[161]
A clothing line titled M by Madonna, in collaboration with Swedish clothing retailer H&M, was launched internationally in 2006.[162] The collection consisted of leather trench coats, sequined shift dresses, cream-colored calf-length pants and matching cropped jackets. H&M said the collection reflected Madonna's "timeless, unique and always glamorous style."[163]
[edit] 2007–09: Live Nation, Hard Candy and the Sticky & Sweet Tour
Madonna released the song "Hey You" for the Live Earth series of concerts. The song was available as a free download during its first week of release. She also performed it at the London Live Earth concert.[164] Madonna announced her departure from Warner Bros. Records, and a new $120 million, ten-year contract with Live Nation. She became the founding artist for the new music division, Live Nation Artists.[165] She produced and wrote I Am Because We Are, a documentary on the problems faced by Malawians. The documentary was directed by Nathan Rissman, who worked as Madonna's gardener.[166] She also directed her first film Filth and Wisdom. The story of the film was about three friends and their aspirations. Madonna commented that it was Ritchie who inspired her to develop the screenplay for the film. "The fact of the matter is that all the work I do is very autobiographical, directly or indirectly, because who do I know better than me?"[167] The Times said she had "done herself proud" while The Daily Telegraph described the film as "not an entirely unpromising first effort [but] Madonna would do well to hang on to her day job."[168][169] In December 2007, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced Madonna as one of the five inductees of 2008.[170] At the induction ceremony on March 10, 2008,[171] Madonna did not sing but asked fellow Hall of Fame inductees and Michigan natives The Stooges to perform her songs "Burning Up" and "Ray of Light". She thanked Christopher Flynn, her dance teacher from 35 years earlier, for his encouragement to follow her dreams.[172]
Madonna released her eleventh studio album, Hard Candy, in April 2008. Containing R&B and urban pop influences, the songs on Hard Candy were autobiographical in nature and saw Madonna collaborating with Justin Timberlake, Timbaland, Pharrell Williams and Nate "Danja" Hills.[173] Rolling Stone complimented it as an "impressive taste of her upcoming tour."[174]
"Probably in many respects most of the songs [on Hard Candy] are [autobiographical]. But in more of an unconscious way. I don't really think about telling personal stories when I'm writing music. It just comes. And then a lot of times, six months later, eight months later, I go, 'Oh, that's what I wrote that song about.' But that's when I play the song for lots of people and they all go, 'Oh, I can totally relate to that.'"
— Madonna talking about the inspiration behind Hard Candy[175]
The album debuted at number one in 37 countries and on the Billboard 200.[176][177] It received generally positive reviews worldwide though some critics panned it as "an attempt to harness the urban market".[178][179] Its lead single, "4 Minutes", reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was Madonna's 37th Hot 100 top-ten hit—it pushed Madonna past Elvis Presley as the artist with the most top-ten hits.[180] In the UK, she retained her record for the most number-one singles for a female artist; "4 Minutes" becoming her thirteenth.[181] At the 23rd Japan Gold Disc Awards, Madonna received her fifth "Artist of the Year" trophy from Recording Industry Association of Japan, the most for any artist.[182] To further promote the album, Madonna embarked on the Sticky & Sweet Tour; her first major venture with Live Nation. With a gross of $280 million, it became the highest-grossing tour by a solo artist, surpassing the previous record Madonna set with the Confessions Tour.[183] It was extended to the next year, adding new European dates, and after it ended, the total gross was $408 million.[183][184]
Life with My Sister Madonna, a book by Madonna's brother Christopher Ciccone, debuted at number two on The New York Times Bestseller List.[185] It was not authorized by Madonna, and led to a rift between them.[186] Problems also arose between Madonna and Ritchie, with the media reporting that they were on the verge of separation. Ultimately, Madonna filed for divorce from Ritchie, citing irreconcilable differences, which was finalized in December 2008.[187][188] She decided to adopt again from Malawi. The country's High Court initially approved the adoption of Chifundo "Mercy" James;[189] however, the application was rejected because Madonna was not a resident of Malawi.[190] Madonna appealed, and on June 12, 2009, the Supreme Court of Malawi granted Madonna the right to adopt Mercy James.[191] She also released Celebration, her third greatest-hits album, and the closing release with Warner. It contained the new songs "Celebration" and "Revolver" along with 34 hits spanning her career.[192] Celebration reached number one in the UK, tying her with Elvis Presley as the solo act with most number one albums in the British chart history.[193] She appeared at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards on September 13, 2009, to speak in tribute to deceased pop star Michael Jackson.[194] Madonna ended the 2000s as the best-selling single artist of the decade in the U.S. and the most-played artist of the decade in the UK.[195][196] Billboard also announced her as the third top-touring artist of the decade—behind only The Rolling Stones and U2—with a gross of over $801 million, 6.3 million attendance and 244 sell-outs of 248 shows.[197]
[edit] 2010–present: W.E., MDNA and business ventures
Madonna performed at the Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief concert in January 2010.[198] In April she released her third live album, Sticky & Sweet Tour. It was her first release under Live Nation, but was distributed by Warner Bros.[199] Madonna granted American TV show Glee the rights to her entire catalogue of music, and the producers planned an episode featuring Madonna songs exclusively.[200] Titled "The Power of Madonna", the episode was approved by her, telling Us Weekly that she found it "brilliant on every level", praising the scripting and the message of equality.[201] The episode also received positive reviews from critics. Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly called it "one of the best hours of TV you're likely to see all year", writing that the episode pays Madonna "the highest compliment possible".[202] Glee: The Music, The Power of Madonna, an EP containing eight cover versions of Madonna songs featured in the episode, was released afterward and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.[203]
Madonna released the "Material Girl" clothing line, which she designed with her daughter, Lourdes.[204] The 1980s inspired clothing line, borrowed from Madonna's punk-girl style when she rose to fame in the 1980s, was released under the Macy's label.[204] Soon after the clothing line went on sale, apparel manufacturer L.A. Triumph Inc. sued her saying that they have been using the name Material Girl and selling clothes under that name since 1997. They demanded that Madonna's clothing line be halted from selling and the profits be returned.[205] The Material Girl clothing was first fronted by Taylor Momsen but she was later replaced by Kelly Osbourne.[206] Madonna also opened a series of fitness centers around the world. Named Hard Candy Fitness, the gyms are a partnership between Madonna, her manager Guy Oseary and Mark Mastrov, the founder and CEO of 24 Hour Fitness.[207] The first of the gyms was opened at Mexico City in November 2010, as Madonna believed that the city served as "a great test market before bringing the gyms to cities around the world."[208] In November 2011, Madonna and MG Icon announced the release of a second fashion brand called Truth or Dare by Madonna to include footwear, underclothing, and accessories. The brand represents a second partnership between MG Icon and Macy's.[209]
Madonna directed her second feature film, W.E., a biopic about the affair between King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson; it was co-written with Alek Keshishian.[210] The film premiered out of the main competition at the 2011 Venice Film Festival, where it received mixed reviews.[211] Critical respones to the film has been negitive.[212][213] Madonna also contributed the ballad "Masterpiece" for the film's soundtrack, which won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.[214] In December 2011, it was revealed that the singer had signed a three-album deal with Interscope Records, who would act as the distributor in partnership with her 360 deal with Live Nation.[215] Her twelfth studio album, MDNA, was released in March 2012. Reuniting with her long-time collaborator William Orbit, Madonna also worked with a variety of producers such as Martin Solveig, The Demolition Crew, Benny Benassi, Alle Benassi, Indiigo and Michael Malih.[216] The album was well-received by music critics.[217] Priya Elan from NME called the album "a ridiculously enjoyable romp", citing its "psychotic, soul-bearing stuff" as "some of the most visceral stuff she's ever done."[218] The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and many other countries worldwide.[219] Madonna surpassed Elvis Presley's record for the most number-one album by a solo artist in the United Kingdom.[220] The lead single "Give Me All Your Luvin'", featuring guest vocals from Nicki Minaj and M.I.A., became Madonna's record-extending 38th top-ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100.[221] Prior to the album's release, Madonna performed at Super Bowl XLVI during the Bridgestone Halftime Show.[222] The performance was visualized by Cirque Du Soleil and Jamie King and featured special guests LMFAO, Nicki Minaj, M.I.A. and Cee Lo Green. It became the most-watched Super Bowl halftime show in history with 114 million viewers, higher than the game itself.[223] The MDNA Tour, which will further promote the album, is set to begin in May 2012 in Tel Aviv, Israel.[224]
Artistry[link]
Musical style[link]
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Madonna's music has been the subject of much analysis and scrutiny by critics. Robert M. Grant, author of Contemporary Strategy Analysis (2005), commented that what has brought Madonna success is "certainly not outstanding natural talent. As a vocalist, musician, dancer, songwriter, or actress, Madonna's talents seem modest."[225] He asserts Madonna's success is in relying on the talents of others, and that her personal relationships have served as cornerstones to the numerous reinventions in the longevity of her career.[225] Madonna's approach was far from the music industry wisdom of "Find a winning formula and stick to it." Her musical career has been a continuous experimentation with new musical ideas and new images and a constant quest for new heights of fame and acclaim. Grant concluded that "having established herself as the queen of popular music, Madonna did not stop there, but continued re-inventing."[226] Conversely, Rolling Stone has named Madonna "an exemplary songwriter with a gift for hooks and indelible lyrics, and a better studio singer than her live spectacles attest."[18][not in citation given] Mark Bego, author of Madonna: Blonde Ambition, called her "the perfect vocalist for lighter-than-air songs", despite not being a "heavyweight talent."[227] Madonna has always been self-conscious about her voice, especially in comparison to her vocal idols such as Ella Fitzgerald, Prince and Chaka Khan.[228]
Throughout her career, Madonna has written or co-written most of her own materials, as well as songs of other artists such as Nick Kamen's "Each Time You Break My Heart" and Gary Barlow's "Love Won't Wait".[229] According to Freya Jarman-Ivens, Madonna's talent for developing "incredible" hooks for her songs allows the lyrics to capture the attention of the audience, even without the influence of the music. As an example, Jarman-Ivens cites the 1985 single "Into the Groove" and its line "Live out your fantasy here with me, just let the music set you free; Touch my body, and move in time, now I know you're mine."[230] From 1983 to 1986, Madonna's musical productions were often girlish and naïve in nature, focusing primarily on love, romance, passion and boy-meets-girl relationships.[230] This changed with the album Like a Prayer, when the lyrics became much more personal, as in "Promise to Try", which references Madonna's lingering pain at the loss of her mother.[230] Madonna's lyrics often suggest an identification with the gay community. Santiago Fouz-Hernández believes that when Madonna sings "Come on girls, do you believe in love?" in "Express Yourself", she is addressing both the gay audience and the heterosexual female.[230] Even in the Erotica era, with its often adult-oriented lyrics, the songs appear free-flowing and gullible ("So won't you go down, where it's warm inside" — "Where Life Begins" from Erotica). Madonna's songwriting ability has been criticized, with Rolling Stone's Maria Raha calling her lyrics "flighty and not sophisticated. Madonna can only bring a trunk full of trite lyrics on the long standing tradition of pop music, love; when she wasn't singing about love, she was singing about partying and dancing."[231] Her lyrics were considered banal, and her songwriting capability was largely ignored by critics until the release of Ray of Light and Music. According to Jarman-Ivens, lyrics such as "You're frozen, when your heart's not open" ("Frozen", 1998) and "I can't remember, when I was young, I can't express if it was wrong" ("Paradise (Not for Me)", 2000) reflected an artistic palette, "encompassing diverse musical, textual and visual styles in its lyrics."[230]
Madonna has a mezzo-soprano vocal range.[232] She started her musical career with songs that she described as "soulful pop music". Madonna recalled in a 1983 interview with Island magazine that she had wanted to grow up as a black kid.[233] "First of all, all the black girls in my neighborhood had these dances in their yard where they had these little turntables with 45 records and they'd play all this Motown stuff and they would dance, just dance, all of them dancing together and none of the white kids I knew would ever do that. They were really boring and stiff. And I wanted to be part of the dancing. I didn't like my friends. I had to be beaten up so many times by these little black girls before they would accept me and finally one day they whipped me with a rubber hose till I was like, lying on the ground crying. And then they just stopped doing it all of a sudden and let me be their friend, part of their group."[233] On her 1983 debut album, Madonna's vocal abilities and personal artistry were not fully formed. Her vocal style was similar to other pop stars of that period like Paula Abdul, Debbie Gibson and Taylor Dayne.[228] The songs on Madonna reveal several key trends that have continued to define her success, including a strong dance-based idiom, catchy hooks, highly polished arrangements and Madonna's own vocal style. In songs such as "Lucky Star" and "Borderline", Madonna introduced a style of upbeat dance music that would prove particularly appealing to gay audiences. The bright, girlish vocal timbre of the early years became passé in Madonna's later works, the change being deliberate, since Madonna was constantly reminded of how the critics had once labelled her as "Minnie Mouse on helium", because of her early voice.[228] Her second album, Like a Virgin (1984), foreshadowed several trends in Madonna's later works. It contained references to classical works (pizzicato synthesizer line that opens "Angel"); potential negative reaction from social groups ("Dress You Up" was blacklisted by the Parents Music Resource Center); and retro styles ("Shoo-Bee-Doo", Madonna's homage to Motown).[228] Madonna's early style, and the change that she ushered in it, is best evident in the song "Material Girl". It opens with Madonna using a little-girl voice, but following the first verse, she switches to a richer, more mature voice in the chorus.[228] This mature artistic statement was visible in True Blue (1986). The song "Papa Don't Preach" was a significant milestone in her artistic career. The classical introduction, fast tempo and the gravity in her voice were unprecedented in Madonna's œuvre at that time.[228]
With Like a Prayer (1989), Madonna again entered a new phase, musically. The album introduced live recorded songs and incorporated different genres of music, including dance, R&B and gospel music.[53] Madonna continued to compose ballads and uptempo dance songs for Erotica (1992) and Bedtime Stories (1994). She tried to remain contemporary by incorporating samples, drum loops and hip hop into her music. Her voice grew much deeper and fuller, evident in the tracks like "Rain" and "Take a Bow".[234] During the filming of Evita, Madonna had to take vocal lessons, which increased her range further. Of this experience she commented, "I studied with a vocal coach for Evita and I realized there was a whole piece of my voice I wasn't using. Before, I just believed I had a really limited range and was going to make the most of it."[235] Continuing her musical evolution with Ray of Light, the track "Frozen" displayed her fully formed vocal prowess and her allusions to classical music. Her vocals were restrained and she sang the songs in Ray of Light without vibrato. However, the intake of breath within the songs became more prominent.[228] With the new millennium came her album Music in which Madonna sang in her normal voice in a medium range, and sometimes in a higher register for the chorus.[228] A change was also noted in the content of the songs, with most of them being simple love songs, but with an underlying tone of melancholy. Her next record, American Life, was infused with thumping techno rhythm, liquid keyboard lines, acoustic choruses and a rap on the title track. The unconventional rock songs of the album were intermingled with dramatic lyrics about patriotism and composition, including the appearance of a gospel choir in the song "Nothing Fails".[236] Musically, things changed with Confessions on a Dance Floor, which returned Madonna to pure dance songs, infusing club beats and retro music, but the lyrics continued to be about paradoxical metaphors and reference to her earlier works.[237] In her studio album, Hard Candy, she mixed R&B and hip hop music with dance tunes. The album also had songs whose lyrics were autobiographical and expressed support for helping Africa.[175] Fouz-Hernández commented that "Throughout her career, Madonna's manipulation of her voice shows us that, by refusing to be defined in one way, she has in fact opened up a space for new kinds of musical analysis."[228]
Influences[link]
According to Taraborrelli, "Almost certainly, the defining moment of Madonna's childhood—the one that would have the most influence in shaping her into the woman she would become—was the tragic and untimely death of her beloved mother."[5] Psychiatrist Keith Ablow suggests that her mother's death would have had an immeasurable impact on the young Madonna at a time when her personality was still forming. According to Ablow, the younger a child is at the time of a serious loss, the more profound the influence and the longer lasting the impact. He concludes that "some people never reconcile themselves to such a loss at an early age, Madonna is not different than them."[5] Conversely, author Lucy O'Brien feels that the impact of the rape is, in fact, the motivating factor behind everything Madonna has done, more important even than the death of her mother: "It's not so much grief at her mother's death that drives her, as the sense of abandonment that left her unprotected. She encountered her own worst possible scenario, becoming a victim of male violence, and thereafter turned that full-tilt into her work, reversing the equation at every opportunity."[238]
As they grew older, Madonna and her sisters would feel deep sadness as the vivid memory of their mother began drifting farther from them. They would study pictures of her and come to think that she resembled poet Anne Sexton and Hollywood actresses. This would later raise Madonna's interest in poetry with Sylvia Plath being her favourite.[5] Later, Madonna commented: "We were all wounded in one way or another by [her death], and then we spent the rest of our lives reacting to it or dealing with it or trying to turn into something else. The anguish of losing my mom left me with a certain kind of loneliness and an incredible longing for something. If I hadn't had that emptiness, I wouldn't have been so driven. Her death had a lot to do with me saying—after I got over my heartache—I'm going to be really strong if I can't have my mother. I'm going to take care of myself."[5] Taraborrelli felt that in time, no doubt because of the devastation she felt, Madonna would never again allow herself, or even her daughter, to feel as abandoned as she had felt when her mother died. "Her death had taught [Madonna] a valuable lesson, that she would have to remain strong for herself because, she feared weakness—particularly her own—and wanted to be the queen of her own castle."[5]
In 1985, Madonna commented that the first song to ever make a strong impression on her was "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" by Nancy Sinatra; she said it summed up her own "take-charge attitude".[239] As a young woman, she attempted to broaden her taste in literature, art, and music, and during this time became interested in classical music. She noted that her favorite style was baroque, and loved Mozart and Chopin because she liked their "feminine quality".[240] Other musical influences included artists Karen Carpenter, The Supremes, Led Zeppelin, and dancers such as Martha Graham and Rudolf Nureyev.[241] Madonna's Italian-Catholic background and her relationship with her parents were reflected in the album Like a Prayer.[56] It was an evocation of the impact religion had on her career.[242] Her video for the title track contains Catholic symbolism, such as the stigmata. During The Virgin Tour, she wore a rosary, and also prayed with it in the music video for "La Isla Bonita".[243] The "Open Your Heart" video sees her boss scolding her in the Italian language. On the Who's That Girl World Tour, she dedicated the song "Papa Don't Preach" to the Pope.[243][244]
During her childhood, Madonna was inspired by actors, later saying, "I loved Carole Lombard and Judy Holliday and Marilyn Monroe. They were all incredibly funny ... and I saw myself in them ... my girlishness, my knowingness and my innocence."[239] Her "Material Girl" music video recreated Monroe's look in the song "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend", from the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She studied the screwball comedies of the 1930s, particularly those of Lombard, in preparation for the film Who's That Girl. The video for "Express Yourself" (1989) was inspired by Fritz Lang's silent film Metropolis (1927). The video for "Vogue" recreated the style of Hollywood glamour photographs, in particular those by Horst P. Horst, and imitated the poses of Marlene Dietrich, Carole Lombard and Rita Hayworth, while the lyrics referred to many of the stars who had inspired her, including Bette Davis, described by Madonna as an idol.[70][245] Influences also came to her from the art world, most notably through the works of artist Frida Kahlo.[246] The music video of the song "Bedtime Story" featured images inspired by the paintings of Kahlo and Remedios Varo.[247] She is also a collector of Tamara de Lempicka's art deco paintings and has included them in her music videos and tours.[248] Her 2003 video for "Hollywood" was an homage to the work of photographer Guy Bourdin; Bourdin's son subsequently filed a lawsuit for unauthorised use of his father's work.[249] Pop artist Andy Warhol's use of sadomasochistic imagery in his underground films were reflected in the music videos for "Erotica" and "Deeper and Deeper".[250] However, Madonna's film career has been largely received negatively by the film critic community. Stephanie Zacharek, critic for Time magazine, stated that, "[Madonna] seems wooden and unnatural as an actress, and it's tough to watch, because she's clearly trying her damnedest."[251] According to biographer Andrew Morton, "Madonna puts a brave face on the criticism, but privately she is deeply hurt."[251] After the 2002 box office bomb Swept Away, Madonna vowed that she would never act in a film, hoping that her repertoire as a bad actress will never be discussed again.[251]
Madonna is dedicated to Kabbalah and in 2004, she adopted the name Esther which in Persian means "star".[252] She has donated millions of dollars to New York and London schools teaching the subject.[252][253] She faced opposition from rabbis who felt Madonna's adoption of the Kabbalah was sacrilegious and a case of celebrity dilettantism. Madonna defended her studies, saying "It would be less controversial if I joined the Nazi Party", and that her involvement with the Kabbalah is "not hurting anybody."[254] The influence of the Kabbalah was subsequently observed in Madonna's music, especially albums like Ray of Light and Music.[252] During the Re-Invention World Tour, at one point in the show, Madonna and her dancers wore t-shirts that read "Kabbalists Do It Better".[252]
Music videos and performances[link]
In The Madonna Companion, biographers Allen Metz and Carol Benson noted that more than any other recent pop artist, Madonna had used MTV and music videos to establish her popularity and enhance her recorded work.[255] According to them, many of her songs have the imagery of the music video in strong context, while referring to the music. The media and public reaction towards her most-discussed songs such as "Papa Don't Preach", "Like a Prayer" or "Justify My Love" had to do with the music videos created to promote the song and their impact, rather than the song itself.[255] Morton felt that "artistically, Madonna's songwriting is often overshadowed by her striking pop videos."[256] Madonna's initial music videos reflected her American and Hispanic mixed street style combined with a flamboyant glamor.[255] She was able to transmit her avant-garde downtown New York fashion sense to the American audience.[257] The imagery and incorporation of Hispanic culture and Catholic symbolism continued with the music videos from the True Blue era.[258] Author Douglas Kellner noted, "such 'multiculturalism' and her culturally transgressive moves turned out to be highly successful moves that endeared her to large and varied youth audiences".[259] Madonna's Spanish look in the videos became the fashion trend of that time, in the form of boleros and layered skirts, accessorizing with rosary beads and a crucifix as in the video of "La Isla Bonita".[260][261] Academics noted that with her videos, Madonna was subtly reversing the usual role of male as the dominant sex.[262] This symbolism and imagery was probably the most prevalent in the music video for "Like a Prayer". The video included scenes of an African-American church choir, Madonna attracted to a statue of a black saint, and singing in front of burning crosses. This mix of the sacred and the profane upset the Vatican and resulted in the Pepsi commercial withdrawal.[263] Madonna has been honored with 20 MTV Video Music Awards—the most for any artist—including the lifetime achievement "Video Vanguard Award" in 1986.[264] In 2003, MTV named her "The Greatest Music Video Star Ever" and said that "Madonna's innovation, creativity and contribution to the music video art form is what won her the award."[265]
Madonna's emergence occurred during the advent of MTV, and, according to Chris Nelson from The New York Times, "with its almost exclusively lip-synced videos, ushered in an era in which average music fans might happily spend hours a day, every day, watching singers just mouth the words."[266] The symbiotic relationship between the music video and lip-syncing led to a desire for the spectacle and imagery of the music video to be transferred to live stage shows. He added, "Artists like Madonna and Janet Jackson set new standards for showmanship, with concerts that included not only elaborate costumes and precision-timed pyrotechnics but also highly athletic dancing. These effects came at the expense of live singing."[266] Thor Christensen of the Dallas Morning News commented that while Madonna earned a reputation for lip-syncing during her 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour, she has subsequently reorganized her performances by "stay[ing] mostly still during her toughest singing parts and [leaves] the dance routines to her backup troupe ...[r]ather than try to croon and dance up a storm at the same time."[267] To allow for greater movement while dancing and singing, she was one of the earliest adopters of hands-free radio-frequency headset microphones, with the headset fastened over the ears or the top of the head, and the microphone capsule on a boom arm that extended to the mouth. Because of her prominent usage, the microphone design came to be known as the "Madonna mic".[268][269] Metz noted that Madonna represents a paradox as she is often perceived as living her whole life as a performance. While her big-screen performances are panned, her live performances are critical successes.[270] Madonna was the first artist to have her concert tours as reenactment of her music videos. Author Elin Diamond explained that reciprocally, the fact that images from Madonna's videos can be recreated in a live setting enhances the realism of the original videos. Thus her live performances have become the means by which mediatized representations are naturalized.[271] Taraborrelli said that encompassing multimedia, latest technology and sound systems, Madonna's concerts and live performances are deemed as "extravagant show piece, a walking art show."[272]
Legacy[link]
See also: List of awards and nominations received by Madonna, Madonna as gay icon, Madonna wannabe, and Madonna Studies
Madonna has been considered to be one of the greatest figures in music and one of the most influential women in history.[273] She is featured in the book 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century, published in 1998 by Ladies' Home Journal.[273] In 2010, Time magazine included Madonna in the elite list of the "25 Most Powerful Women of the Past Century", where she became one of the only two singers included, alongside Aretha Franklin.[274] Madonna also placed at number one on VH1's "100 Greatest Women in Music" and "50 Greatest Women of the Video Era".[275][276] Authors Ros Horton and Sally Simmons documented Madonna on their 2007 book Women Who Changed the World, which "pays homage to fifty of the most influential and admired women of all time."[51] She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 10, 2008—her first year of eligibility—for "influence and significance on rock and roll music."[277] Additionally, Madonna ranked seventh on VH1 and People magazine's list of the "200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons of All Time."[278] In 2006, a new water bear species, Echiniscus madonnae, was named after her.[279][280] The zoologists commented: "We take great pleasure in dedicating this species to one of the most significant artists of our times, Madonna Louise Veronica Ritchie."[281] Aside from her critical acknowledgement, Madonna has also earned overwhelming commercial accomplishments. She has achieved multiple Guinness World Records citations, including world's top-selling female recording artist and most successful female recording artist of all time.[149] Madonna has sold more than 300 million records worldwide.[282][283] According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she is the best-selling female rock artist of the 20th century and the second top-selling female artist in the United States, behind Barbra Streisand, with 64 million certified albums.[284][285] Madonna is also one of the top-touring artist in history and her Sticky & Sweet Tour remains the highest-grossing tour of all time by a solo artist.[286] In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked Madonna at number two, behind only The Beatles, on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists, making her the most successful solo artist in the history of American singles chart.[171] She has also scored many hits on major international charts, including 13 number one singles in the United Kingdom, 11 in Australia, and 25 in Canada—all of which are more than any other female artist.[287][288][289]
Caryn Ganz from Rolling Stone wrote that "Madonna is the most media-savvy American pop star since Bob Dylan and, until she toned down her press-baiting behavior in the nineties, she was the most consistently controversial one since Elvis Presley." According to her, Madonna's self-celebrating dance music and outré videos provided feminism with a makeover. Throughout the eighties she broke down sexual boundaries, making eroticism a crucial pop-song element, and challenging social and religious mores. Ganz felt that one fact was rarely disputed: "At nearly every turn, Madonna has maintained firm control over her career and image."[18] Madonna became a leader in the Third Wave Feminism movement. Third Wave Feminism seeks to challenge and expel the "essentialist" definition of femininity. For her part, Madonna was a leading figure in encouraging sex-positivity. Madonna's music and videos celebrated women's sexuality as an exhilarating aspect of life, rather than oppressing and male-dominated. According to Camille Paglia, a New York Times journalist, Madonna's music and videos have shown women to be fully female and completely sexual, all the while maintaining complete control of their lives.[290] For her part, Madonna has stated, "I may be dressing the typical bimbo, whatever, but I'm in charge. You know. I'm in charge of my fantasies. I put myself in these situations with men, you know, and people don't think of me as a person who's not in charge of my career or my life, okay. And isn't that what feminism is all about, you know, equality for men and women? And aren't I in charge of my life, doing the things I want to do? Making my own decisions?"[291]
Throughout her career the singer has repeatedly reinvented herself through a series of visual and musical personas, earning her the nickname "Queen of Reinvention".[292] In doing so, "she exploited her sexuality to fashion herself into a cultural and commercial icon who, for more than a decade, was unchallenged as the reigning Queen of Pop music."[293] Fouz-Hernández agrees that these reinventions are one of her key cultural achievements.[294] Madonna reinvented herself by working with upcoming talented producers and previously unknown artists, while remaining at the center of media attention. According to Freya Jarman-Ivens, "In doing so Madonna has provided an example of how to maintain one's career in the entertainment industry."[294] Such reinvention was noted by scholars as the main tool in surviving the musical industry, for a female artist.[295] As Ian Youngs from BBC News commented, "Her ability to follow the latest trends and adapt her style has often been credited with preserving her appeal."[296] Madonna's use of shocking sexual imagery has benefited her career and catalyzed public discourse on sexuality and feminism.[294] The Times stated, "Madonna, whether you like her or not, started a revolution amongst women in music ... Her attitudes and opinions on sex, nudity, style and sexuality forced the public to sit up and take notice."[297] Rodger Streitmatter, author of Sex Sells! (2004), commented that "from the moment Madonna burst onto the nation's radar screen in the mid-1980s, she did everything in her power to shock the public, and her efforts paid off."[298] Shmuel Boteach, author of Hating women (2005), felt that Madonna was largely responsible for erasing the line between music and pornography. He stated: "Before Madonna, it was possible for women more famous for their voices than their cleavage, to emerge as music superstars. But in the post-Madonna universe, even highly original performers such as Janet Jackson now feel the pressure to expose their bodies on national television to sell albums."[299]
A quarter century after Madonna emerged, artists still use her ideas and seem modern and edgy doing so. Beyond the obvious Madonna wannabe 1980s singers, Madonna's influence is felt in artists from Gwen Stefani to Britney Spears to boy bands, who found in the 1990s there was an audience beyond the old rock crowd. It's worth noting that before Madonna, most music mega-stars were guy rockers; after her, almost all would be female singers. When The Beatles hit America, they changed the paradigm of performer from solo act to band. Madonna changed it back — with an emphasis on the female. With female artists everywhere these days, it's easy to forget how revolutionary her success was.[300]
—Tony Sclafani from MSNBC talking about Madonna's impact on music.
Madonna has influenced numerous music artists throughout her career. Mary Cross, in her book Madonna: A Biography, wrote: "Her influence on pop music is undeniable and far-reaching. New pop icons from Nelly Furtado and Shakira to Gwen Stefani and Christina Aguilera (not to mention Britney Spears) owe Madonna, a debt of thanks for the template she forged, combining provocative sexiness and female power in her image, music, and lyrics."[301] According to Fouz-Hernández, female pop performers such as Spears, the Spice Girls, Destiny's Child, Jennifer Lopez, Kylie Minogue and Pink were like "Madonna's daughters in the very direct sense that they grew up listening to and admiring Madonna, and decided they wanted to be like her."[302] Among them, Madonna's influence was most notable in Spears, who has been called her protégé.[297] Madonna has also been credited with the introduction of European electronic dance music into mainstream American pop culture, and for bringing European producers such as Stuart Price and Mirwais Ahmadzaï into the spotlight.[243] In K-Pop music, South Korean band Secret named a song after Madonna.[303] Kang Jiwon and Kim Kibum, the composers who wrote "Madonna" highlighted that the inspiration behind the song is about living with confidence by becoming an icon in this generation, like the American singer Madonna.[303]
Madonna has received acclaim as a role model for businesswomen in her industry, "achieving the kind of financial control that women had long fought for within the industry", and generating over $1.2 billion in sales within the first decade of her career.[304] As Taraborrelli noted, she already showed strong business sensibilities early in her career when she signed Freddie de Mann, Michael Jackson's former manager, to manage her career.[305] As she said to Smash Hits magazine, "I thought, who's the most successful person in the music industry and who's his manager? I want him." Since it was Jackson, Madonna wanted de Mann more than anything else, and chance came when she learned that they had parted ways. After signing de Mann, Madonna's associates had expressed their apprehension as to whether that was a good business decision by her. Madonna was adamant that since de Mann was free he would be able to devote all his time into his career. True to her, Madonna's popularity increased significantly, being asked to do more promotional tours and media appearances.[306] Her seriousness towards her business was also portrayed in the Truth or Dare documentary, in a scene where Madonna throws out the cameraman as she has a business meeting. This led Taraborrelli to comment that "she always knew the importance of the outcomes of these discussions with her associates. And she wanted the element of surprise."[307] After its establishment, Maverick Records became a major commercial success from her efforts, which was unusual at that time for an artist-established label.[308] Music journalist Robert Sandall said that while interviewing Madonna, it was clear that being "a cultural big hitter" was more important to her than pop music, a career she described as "an accident". He also saw a contrast between her anything-goes sexual public persona and a secretive and "paranoid" attitude toward her own finances; she fired her own brother when he charged her for an extra item.[309] Professor Colin Barrow of the Cranfield School of Management described Madonna as "America's smartest businesswoman ... who has moved to the top of her industry and stayed there by constantly reinventing herself". He held up her "planning, personal discipline and constant attention to detail" as models for all aspiring entrepreneurs.[310] London Business School academics called her a "dynamic entrepreneur" worth copying; they identified her vision of success, her understanding of the music industry, her ability to recognize her own performance limits (and thus bring in help), her willingness to work hard and her ability to adapt as the key to her commercial success.[311] Morton commented that "Madonna is opportunistic, manipulative and ruthless—somebody who won't stop until she gets what she wants—and that's something you can get at the expense of maybe losing your close ones. But that hardly mattered to her."[312] Taraborrelli felt that this ruthlessness was visible during the shooting of the Pepsi commercial in 1989. "The fact that she didn't want to hold a Pepsi can in the commercial, clued the Pepsi executives that Madonna the pop star and Madonna the businesswoman were not going to be dictated by somebody else, she will do everything in her way—the only way."[313] Conversely, reporter Michael McWilliams commented: "The gripes about Madonna—she's cold, greedy, talentless—conceal both bigotry and the essence of her art, which is among the warmest, the most humane, the most profoundly satisfying in all pop culture."[314]
Discography[link]
- Madonna (1983)
- Like a Virgin (1984)
- True Blue (1986)
- Like a Prayer (1989)
- Erotica (1992)
- Bedtime Stories (1994)
- Ray of Light (1998)
- Music (2000)
- American Life (2003)
- Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005)
- Hard Candy (2008)
- MDNA (2012)
Tours[link]
Main article: List of Madonna concert tours
- The Virgin Tour (1985)
- Who's That Girl World Tour (1987)
- Blond Ambition World Tour (1990)
- The Girlie Show World Tour (1993)
- Drowned World Tour (2001)
- Re-Invention World Tour (2004)
- Confessions Tour (2006)
- Sticky & Sweet Tour (2008–09)
- MDNA Tour (2012)
See also[link]
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- Honorific nicknames in popular music
- List of unreleased Madonna songs
- Madonna bibliography
- Madonna filmography
- Mononymous persons
- List of best-selling music artists
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| Name | Madonna |
| Alternative names | Ciccone, Madonna Louise |
| Short description | American musician, singer, songwriter, actress, author |
| Date of birth | August 16, 1958 |
| Place of birth | Bay City, Michigan, United States |
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| Nicki Minaj | |
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 Minaj at 2010 MTV Music Awards |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Onika Tanya Maraj |
| Born | (1982-12-08) December 8, 1982 (age 29)[1] Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago |
| Origin | South Jamaica, Queens, New York, U.S. |
| Genres | Hip hop, R&B, pop |
| Occupations | Rapper, singer-songwriter |
| Years active | 2002–present |
| Labels | Cash Money Records, Young Money Entertainment, Universal Republic Records, Universal Motown |
| Associated acts | Young Money |
| Website | mypinkfriday.com |
Onika Tanya Maraj (born December 8, 1982), known by her stage name Nicki Minaj (
/mɪˈnɑːʒ/), is a Trinidadian-born American rapper and singer-songwriter. She was born in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago and when she was 5 years of age she moved to the New York City borough of Queens, where she grew up.
After releasing three mixtapes between 2007 and 2009 and being signed to Young Money Entertainment in August 2009, Minaj released her debut album, Pink Friday, in November 2010. It quickly became a commercial success, peaking at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 and being certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) a month after its release.[2][3] She became the first female solo artist to have seven singles on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time.[4] Her second single, "Your Love", reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot Rap Songs chart, making Minaj the first female artist to top the chart unaccompanied since 2002.[5] She also became the first female artist to be included on MTV's Annual Hottest MC List.[6] Minaj was named the 2011 Rising Star by Billboard.[7] Her second studio album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded was released on April 3, 2012.
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Early life[link]
Maraj was born in 1982[1][note 1] in Saint James, a suburb of Trinidad and Tobago's capital city Port of Spain.[8][9][10] Her parents are of mixed Indian and Afro-Trinidadian ancestry[11][12] and she lived in Saint James with her grandmother until age five, because her parents were looking for a place to live in the Queens borough of New York City at the time. Her mother would occasionally visit, and one day, when Minaj was five, her mother picked her up to move to Queens.[13] According to Minaj, her father drank heavily, took drugs, and once tried to kill her mother by setting the house on fire.[14]
She attended Elizabeth Blackwell Middle School 210, where she played the clarinet.[13] She graduated from LaGuardia High School.[15][16] At LaGuardia, a school specializing in music and the visual and performing arts, Minaj participated in the drama program.[15] She had initially planned to sing at LaGuardia but lost her voice on the day of the audition.[15]
Career[link]
2007–09: Mixtapes and Young Money[link]
Minaj released her first mixtape in 2007 after releasing Playtime Is Over with Dirty Money Records. She released another mixtape on July 7, 2008, titled Sucka Free, under the label Be. On April 18, 2009, Minaj released a third mixtape and appeared in XXL magazine.[17] She won the Female Artist of the Year award at the 2008 Underground Music Awards.[18] Minaj released Beam Me Up Scotty, another mixtape, in April 2009 under the label of Trapaholics Records; it received positive coverage on both BET and MTV.[19][20]
In August 2009, Minaj signed a record deal with Young Money Entertainment, with distribution from Universal Motown Records, after fellow American rapper Lil Wayne discovered her and secured the record deal.[17][21] She then had a solo rap verse in their single "BedRock," which became a commercial success, reaching number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Minaj also appeared on "Roger That", which charted at number 56. The song, and in particular Minaj, received positive reviews from critics.[22] Both songs were included in Young Money Entertainment's debut collaborative studio album We Are Young Money, which was released in December 2009. The album charted in the top ten on the Billboard 200, reaching number 9 and later receiving a Gold Certification by the RIAA. She was then chosen by Mariah Carey to be featured on her single and music video for "Up Out My Face". Critics praised her collaboration for helping to maintain Carey's feminine image and providing a polite track for the female R&B singer.[23]
[edit] 2010–11: Pink Friday
Main article: Pink Friday
After a major record label bidding war, Young Money Entertainment announced on August 31, 2009 that Minaj had been released from a 360 deal with the label in which she retains and owns all of her 360 rights – including merchandising, sponsorships, endorsements, touring and publishing.[24] In an interview with 95.8 Capital FM, Rihanna stated that after the two collaborated on "Raining Men" from her album Loud that the duo would be teaming up together for a possible second collaboration on Minaj's Pink Friday.[25] Hip-hop rap artist and producer Kanye West was also confirmed for the album.[26] On August 3, 2010 Minaj revealed on a Ustream.tv channel that the album's name would be Pink Friday, in reference to Black Friday.[27]
Pink Friday was released on November 19, 2010 in both standard and deluxe versions.[28][29] A buzz single, "Massive Attack", was released in April.[30] In August, Minaj released "Your Love" as the first official single from her debut album. The single peaked at 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, 7 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and topped the Rap Songs chart. Minaj became the first female artist to be included on MTV's Annual Hottest MC List[6] and the first female artist to top the chart unaccompanied since 2002.[31] In October 2010, Minaj became the first artist to have seven songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart simultaneously.[4] Minaj released a joint single with The Black Eyed Peas front man, will.i.am titled, "Check It Out", which is Minaj's most successful single to date in Europe. "Right thru Me" was released September 24, 2010; the music video was released in late October. "Moment 4 Life" was released as the fourth single. The track featured Canadian rapper Drake and was released on December 7, 2010, becoming a success on the Billboard Hot 100. The single peaked at number 5 on the Hot Rap Songs.[32] The album gained a Platinum certification in the United States a month after the release.[3]
On January 29, 2011, Minaj appeared on Saturday Night Live as the musical guest, performing "Right Thru Me" and "Moment 4 Life". On February 9, 2011, it was announced that Pink Friday had reached number one on the Billboard 200 in its eleventh week on the chart.[33] It was hinted by Simon Cowell that Minaj would join the judging panel of the American version of the The X Factor.[34] Starting in June 2011, Minaj will be supporting Pink Friday by serving as an opening act along with Jessie and the Toy Boys and Nervo on Britney Spears' sixth concert tour, the Femme Fatale Tour, in support of her seventh studio album, Femme Fatale.[35] She also was featured on the official remix of Spears' track "Till the World Ends" along with Spears and singer Kesha, which charted at number 3 in the US in April 2011.[36] "Super Bass" was released from Pink Friday in May 2011, the single charted within the top 10 in many countries including; United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Canada and more.[37] The song gained positive reviews from critics.[38][39] Minaj will voice a character in the 3D animated film, Ice Age: Continental Drift, as an unknown character.[40][41] Minaj is also featured on French DJ David Guetta's 2011 album, Nothing but the Beat on "Where Them Girls At" and "Turn Me On".
[edit] 2011–present: Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
Main article: Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
Minaj's second studio album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, was first announced through Twitter in November 2011 and was released on April 2, 2012 in the United Kingdom and April 3, 2012 in the United States. The album features collaborations with producers Hit-Boy, Dr. Luke, Rico Beats, Kenoe, RedOne and Oak. Cash Money A&R Joshua Berkman told HitQuarters that Minaj was extremely particular about the beats and music she used saying: "She wouldn't just rap or sing on anything – I could give her a thousand tracks and she may only like one or two."[42] Preceding the album's release, three promotional singles were released: Roman in Moscow (which didn't make the final cut of the album), "Stupid Hoe," and "Roman Reloaded." The album's first single, "Starships", was released on February 14.[43] "Starships" became Minaj's best-peaking single in the United Kingdom, when it reached a peak of 2. It has also peaked at number 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100, making it her second top 10 arrival following, "Super Bass" in 2011. The music video was released on April 26th, 2012.[44]
On February 12, 2012, Minaj debuted her song "Roman Holiday" at the 54th Grammy Awards. It was the first song ever performed on the Grammy stage by a solo female rapper.[45] The exorcism-themed performance drew a mixed response online.[46][47]
She was featured on Madonna's twelfth studio album, titled MDNA, alongside M.I.A. on its lead single "Give Me All Your Luvin'", for which a music video has been directed by Megaforce.[48] The trio performed the song for the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show.[49] She was also featured on a song called "I Don't Give A", another track from the album.
She released her second single, "Right by My Side", which features Chris Brown, on March 27, 2012, after premiering on Minaj's website on March 20, 2012.[50] Following the album's release, it peaked at number 24 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart. It also peaked in the lower regions of the UK singles chart, at position #101. The third single, "Beez in the Trap", which features 2 Chainz was released to U.S. Urban radio on April 24, 2012. It was premiered on DJ Flex's radio show at Hot 97 on March 20, 2012. It has peaked at number 24 on the US Billboard Rap Songs Chart.[51] The video was premiered on April 6, 2012 on Minaj's official VEVO account.[52]
Artistry[link]
Image[link]
Minaj has been noted by the media for her curvaceous figure.[53][54][55][56] In an interview with Vibe Minaj discussed her sexual image stating, "[w]hen I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot... and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing."[57] In an interview with Interview, Minaj commented on her sexual image again stating, "I made a conscious decision to try to tone down the sexiness, I want people—especially young girls—to know that in life, nothing is going to be based on sex appeal. You’ve got to have something else to go with that.”[58] Minaj has a tattoo in Chinese characters that reads "上帝與你常在" (shàngdì yǔ nǐ cháng zài)[59] on her left arm, meaning, "God is always with you."[60]
Alter egos[link]
While growing up, Minaj's home life was often chaotic, with her parents constantly fighting.[61] As a means of escape, she would create characters and live her life through them.[61] In an interview with New York she stated, "To get away from all their fighting, I would imagine being a new person. 'Cookie' was my first identity – that stayed with me for a while. I went on to 'Harajuku Barbie,' then 'Nicki Minaj'. Fantasy was my reality."[61]
On November 18, 2010, Minaj assumed a different alter-ego named "Nicki Teresa".[62] Wearing a colorful scarf around her head, she went around as the "healer to her fans" as she visited them at The Garden of Dreams Foundation at Fuse studios in New York City.[62] Minaj made an appearance on Lopez Tonight on December 6, 2010 and presented a different alter-ego for the Spanish-inspired occasion, named "Rosa" (pronounced Rrrrrosa).[63]
In April 2012, Minaj was asked if Roman, Martha and Rosa come out in the bedroom saying “No, they don’t come out in the bedroom, but other people come out in the bedroom,” she told Big Boy during his “Backstage Breakfast,” adding, “And there’s only one person that would know who that personality is". Minaj did not name her alter-ego.[64]
For her debut album, Minaj created another alter-ego named "Roman Zolanski".[65] She stated that in songs like "Bottoms Up" with Trey Songz it is not Minaj rapping, but instead Roman Zolanski, and claims that Roman is her "twin brother". She claims that he was born inside her, out of rage, and becomes him when she is angry. She has also said 'He is a demon inside her'. Roman has been compared to Eminem's alter ego Slim Shady, and on the song "Roman's Revenge" from Pink Friday, Minaj and Eminem collaborate, using these alter egos.[66] On the collaboration, she said "The new album is going to have a lot of Roman on it ... And if you're not familiar with Roman, then you will be familiar with him very soon. He’s the boy that lives inside of me. He's a lunatic and he's gay and he'll be on there a lot."[67] Roman also has a "mother" called "Martha Zolanski",[68] who also appeared on the song "Roman's Revenge", with a British accent,[69] and on "Roman Holiday", singing for the first time.[70][71] Martha appears in the video for "Moment 4 Life" where she appears to be Minaj's magical Godmother. In songs such as "All I Do Is Win (Remix)" it is Minaj rapping.[65] Minaj stated that on her debut album, fans will get to "meet" Nicki, Roman and Onika.[65]
Influences[link]
Minaj has stated that artists who have influenced her musical style include Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Lil Wayne, Lauryn Hill, Jadakiss, Natasha Bedingfield, Foxy Brown, Lil' Kim and Missy Elliott.[72][73] She was also inspired by Janet Jackson,[74] Madonna, Britney Spears, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Jones,[75] M.I.A. and Cyndi Lauper.[76][77][78]
Product and endorsements[link]
During her career, Minaj has signed contracts with a variety of corporate interests. Companies she contracted with include soft drink manufacturer Pepsi;[79] Mattel, which produced a custom a Nicki Minaj-themed Barbie;[80] and MAC Cosmetics, as part of an AIDS-awareness campaign in Latin America.[81]
Personal life[link]
Minaj is a Christian, and on Christmas Day in 2011, she indicated her faith in Jesus by tweeting John 3:16.[82][83] In addition, she states that after her father went to rehab and started attending church, "he got saved and started changing his life."[84] Minaj states that her heroes are "God. And my mother."[85][86]
While some songs and interviews have implied that Minaj is bisexual,[87][88] she has said that she does not date nor have sex with women,[15] but added in an interview with Out magazine, "I don’t date men either."[89] In an interview with Vibe she commented, "I just embrace all people of all lifestyles and I don’t tell them they are bad people. And I say girls are beautiful and girls are sexy and they need to be told that, and if they don’t have anyone to tell them that and mean it, I’m gonna tell them that. But I feel like people always wanna define me and I don’t wanna be defined."[90] She reiterated her dislike of being labeled in an interview with Out, saying: "The point is, everyone is not black and white. There are so many shades in the middle, and you’ve got to let people feel comfortable with saying what they want to say when they want to say it."[89]
During an interview in the May 2010 issue of Details, Minaj was asked if she felt hip-hop was becoming more gay-friendly. She responded, "I think the world is getting more gay-friendly, so hip-hop is too. But it's harder to imagine an openly gay male rapper being embraced, people view gay men as having no street credibility. But I think we'll see one in my lifetime."[88]
In July 2011, Minaj's cousin Nicholas Telemaque was murdered near his home in Brooklyn, New York City.[91] Telemaque was referenced in Minaj's song "Champion" in her second studio album.[92]
Discography[link]
Main article: Nicki Minaj discography
- Pink Friday (2010)
- Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (2012)
Touring[link]
- Pink Friday Tour (2012)
See also[link]
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- ^ Minaj's birthyear has been reported in various media outlets as being 1984. The most definitive source, however, is the official Dallas Police Report from July 2011 which states her birthdate is 12/08/1982.
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Girl Gone Wild - Madonna (Xperimental Version by Neoclubber)
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Girl Gone Wild - Madonna (Xperimental Version by Neoclubber)
Madonna - Girl Gone Wild (Neoclubber Version/Remix) Warning! Cross genre experimental hybrid: Pop+Dance/DJ+Alternative Rock! (Amazon.com classification) Download this track on iTunes itunes.apple.com ps Live singing here www.youtube.com Composition: Girl Gone Wild Performing artist:...
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Madonna - MDNA Tour - Nobody Knows Me (Interlude) - Tel Aviv 5/31/12 HD Jaan Roose
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Madonna - MDNA Tour - Nobody Knows Me (Interlude) - Tel Aviv 5/31/12 HD Jaan Roose
MDNA Tour - Nobody Knows Me Interlude, Opening Night Tel Aviv Video by myMDNA.com FOLLOW US Facebook : facebook.com Twitter : twitter.com Slackline Performer : Jaan Roose
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Secret - "Madonna" (MV)
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Secret - "Madonna" (MV)
Music Video 뮤직비디오 / 뮤비 # 시크릿 - 마돈나 / Secret - Madonna *Available in High Definition (HD) ~members: - Jeon Hyo Sung (전효성) - Song Ji Eun (송지은) - Zinger (징거) - Han Sun Hwa (한선화) allkpop: "A surge of estrogen with all these releases. Shortly after the release of their newest second mini-album title track Madonna, the girls of Secret have released their MV for Madonna! With the addictive catchy tunes, the girls are showcasing their impressive choreography through the MV. Hit composers Kang Ji Won and Kim Ki Bum composed the title track Madonna, and the song is about living with confidence by becoming an icon in this generation, like the American star Madonna. The song's genre will be electronic pop dance. The girl's first comeback stage starts on M! Countdown on the 12th!"
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