Madonna, (full name: Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone) is an American singer, actress and director. Madonna is also the ever-transforming called Queen of Popand is the best selling female artist of all time. According to Interscope Records Madonna has more than 300 million albums sold.
Upon receiving her Confirmation, a Catholic sacrament, Madonna chose the name Veronica as a second Christian name. Her father, Sylvio (or Tony) Ciccone, is of Italian descent. Her mother, Madonna Fortin Ciccone, is of French-Canadian descent. In addition to Madonna's daughter gave them five children: Anthony, Martin, Paula, Christopher and Melanie.
Madonna grew up in Rochester Hills and Pontiac, both in the shadow of Detroit in the U.S. state of Michigan. At age five she lost her mother (30), who died in 1963 of cancer. Sylvio Ciccone remarried later with the family housekeeper, Joan Gustafson. Sylvio was still with her two children, Jennifer and Mario.
As a child, Madonna took piano and ballet lessons. At school she actively participated in the artistic activities. After high school she got a scholarship to the University of Michigan and attended classes at the Christopher Flynn Ballet School, he was Madonna's mentor in the first years of her career. He died in the nineties, however, from AIDS. Madonna paid his medical expenses and cared for him when he was in New York for an alternative treatment which also paid for by Madonna. After two years in 1976 she left the university with $ 35 in a taxi and the driver steps on to ask her a place to put it where it all happens, the driver dropped her off at Times Square in the heart of New York. That's at least the version that Madonna was sold to the press. It is said that the real story they adjusted a bit, because Madonna does not come from a poor family as she does believe the press, but from a good family from the middle class. She would never have lived in shacks, but in a small but comfortable studio at the Music Building in New York. The full truth of the matter is not yet discovered.
Madonna sang in various punk bands including Emmy and the Emmys. Moreover, she also worked for a while as a saleswoman at Dunkin 'Donuts (she did not last long because she thought it was too dirty). In 1978 she worked as a background singer with the French singer Patrick Hernandez who had a hit with "Born To Be Alive". They even played it in 1979 in a student film "A Certain Sacrifice 'which was released only in 1985.
In 1982, Madonna gets her first recording contract after being on the corner of the bedside of Seymour Stein, the director of record label Sire Records, a song was sung. This song Is not No Big Deal appears years later on the B-side to their single Papa Do not Preach. Moreover, in 1998, released on the (unofficial) album In The Beginning.
Madonna's first single is called Everybody, a song she wrote herself. Many people think that time that the song is sung by a blacksinger, partly because on the cover of the single photo of Madonna not to see.
Thanks MTV Madonna manages to quickly build an image. In 1983,Madonna released her debut album comes out. The first big hit of this album is Holiday. This album is a worldwide hit. Other hits fromthis album Borderline and Lucky Star. Also Everybody insists. In this phase of her career, her former friend John Jellybean Benitez a great support.
In 1984, Madonna comes with the album Like a Virgin, produced by Nile Rodgers of Chic known. The album is both well received byfans and critics, and attracts attention including the provocative titleand cover. The album will be three hits: Like A Virgin, Dress You Upand Material Girl.
In 1985, Madonna makes her first foray into Hollywood. In the filmVision Quest plays a club singer. This film delivers its two hits: Crazy For You and Gambler. Later that year she plays an importantrole in the film Desperately Seeking Susan. For this role she received good reviews. This movie is the song Into The Groove thatlater editions of the album Like A Virgin as an extra number is added.
On July 13, 1985 Madonna appears on stage at the Philadelphia Live Aid. That week before appeared in several media nude pictures of Madonna from the time she posed for kunstad acemie extra income students in New York. Bette Midler announced Madonna at Live Aid as "the woman drew herself up to her brastraps, and also known about them that they occasionally let down."Madonna sang three songs: Holiday, Into The Groove and LoveMakes The World Go Round.
On 16 August 1985, her 27th birthday, Madonna married actorSean Penn. With him she plays in 1986 in the film Shanghai Surprise, a big flop. The couple quickly became a negative reputation because of their attitude towards the media, especially because of Penn's aggression against paparazzi.
In the fall of 1985, Madonna begins her first tour, The Virgin Tour,just in the United States (in 1987 she will begin her first world tour).
After a quiet period of several months surprisingly Madonna comesback with a new album and a new look: short blond hair, and all thelingerie and bracelets seem to have disappeared. This new imageshe presents for the first time in the video for the song Papa Do not Preach, anticipating the appearance of her third album, True Blue.This album would be released in June 1986 and is dedicated to the coolest guy in the universe: husband Sean Penn. This album contained the hits Open your heart, True Blue, the ballad Live to Tell (from the movie At Close Range in which Sean Penn plays a role), La Isla Bonita and Papa Do not Preach. Unlike her first two albumshas Madonna this time to the texts of the songs co-written and co-produced the album himself.
While the singles True Blue individually dominate the charts,Madonna still finds time for a movie to take: Who's That Girl. The film is very successful, but does Madonna in the summer of 1987 itagain hits on some of the world: Who's That Girl, Causing acommotion and The look of love. These singles are from the soundtrack album Who's That Girl - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Besides the three aforementioned singles is also the Madonna Can not Stop number can be found on the album and tracks such as Club Nouveau and Scritti Politti.
In 1987, Madonna begins her first world tour: the Who's That Girl World Tour 1987. On this tour, she first accompanied by backing vocalists and dancers Donna Delory and Niki Harris (the latter later also sang along to songs of Snap!). Also in August 1987 Madonna gave two sold out concerts at De Kuip in Rotterdam. Her concert in Turin (Italy) on September 4, 1987 broadcast live on television and attracted millions of viewers worldwide.
Also she came this year with the album You Can Dance. This contains remixes of well-known singles, but album tracks,continuously mixed together. There is also a new track: Spotlight.This number was deleted at the last moment for the album True Blue,and in Japan as still single. The album sells less than Madonna'sprevious albums. If the film Who's That Girl flops, is that for somereason critics to claim that the career of Madonna on the peak.
In 1988, Madonna takes a short break, which they include in a playon Broadway plays (Speed The Plow) and small roles in the filmsBloodhounds of Broadway and Shadows and Fog (Woody Allen).
In 1989, Madonna again changed her appearance and image. This time no bleached hair, but her own color: dark. She brought in March from the album Like A Prayer. The video for the title song caused great commotion. In the video clip shows how Madonna accidentally witnesses a rape and murder for which another passerby wrongly accused and arrested. Madonna visited this church, where a statue of St. Martin of Porres comes to life and her passionate coast.Madonna supports that the real offender, and the wrongly accused man (who is represented by the statue of St. Martin of Porres) is released. The Vatican called it a blasphemous video because of the mixture of eroticism and Catholic symbols. Pepsi said a million contract with Madonna. Despite (or because of) this controversy was the single worldwide number 1 hit. The song is a hit again in 2002 in the version of Mad'House, and then added into the mix went to Sensation Anthem 2004 by DJ Paul Elstak and Neophyte.Recently (March 2010) Like a prayer re-released by Meck ft. Dino and governs the Sticky & Sweet Tour Version (2008-2009).
The album Like A Prayer, which is dedicated to her mother who taught me to pray, gives Madonna a few big hits, including Express Yourself (with at that time the most expensive music video ever), Cherish, Dear Jessie (dedicated to the daughter of producer Pat Leonard), Oh Father (the relationship with her father) and Keep It Together (about her relationship with her family). Promise To Try telling about losing her mother at a young age. There is also a duet with Prince on: Love Song and the song Till Death Do Us Part that about her failed marriage to actor Sean Penn narrates. On January 4, 1989 she divorced him. The album closes with act of contrition (exercise of repentance), which denounces them as the music of the song Like A Prayer back is turned. If the song is played backwards at the end of the text "what do you think I'm saying weirdo" to hear.
Madonna in 1990 alongside Warren Beatty played the role of Breathless Mahoney in Dick Tracy movie and gets good reviews on there. Furthermore, she scored a hit with Vogue, from the album I'mBreathless (referring to its role in the film) that "music from and inspired by the" Dick Tracy movie contains. The album is also the song Hanky Panky, a modest hit. Vogue was not initially intended tobe released as a single. Madonna wrote the song together with Shep Pettibone specifically for the B-side of the (then still vinyl) single Keep It Together. When she did hear the song to music executives of Warner Music, everyone agrees: this song was too good for a B-side. It was decided to bring it as a single and the song was added to the soundtrack for Dick Tracy (even though it had nothing to do with the film). Thanks to the iconic Vogue clip grows into one of Madonna's greatest hits. Moreover Vogue marksthe beginning of a collaboration with producer Shep Pettibone (with whom she later makes the album Erotica).
Also in 1990, Madonna begins her second world tour, the BlondAmbition Tour. A perfectly orchestrated, tight show. On Tuesday, July 24, 1990 she performed, almost three years after her Who's That Girl World Tour, just not in a sold-out Kuip in Rotterdam. The show was characterized by much cursing and sexual acts. Thus, "complained" they instance in Rotterdam that it is still too lightoutside so its light show is not easily seen. Madonna in Toronto threatens arrest if they do not adjust her show. Some visitors of the show after seem to have complained because of obscene behavior Madonna on stage. This is the infamous execution of the oriental version of the song Like a Virgin meant. Madonna touched her during the song (covered) breasts, grabs her crotch and at the end of the song she simulates an orgasm by violently amok on the bed while she is fondled by two background dancers. Madonna refused to dial to adjust or remove her show and just enter the number. The police arrested her, once the concert is over, Madonna is already on his way to the airport to fly to the next town for a gig the next day.
The show was considered controversial because of the use of Catholic symbols like the cross and priest and non nenhabijten whilethe show also a high content of sexuality and contains profanity. This is the reason for Pope John Paul II to the people of Italy calling to boycott the concert in Rome. Madonna must indeed be one of her shows in Rome to cancel and was furious that someone so couldjudge without having seen the show. She invited the pope therefore one of her shows in Rome to attend. As expected, he refused this offer.Her next album is apparently dedicated to him. Since then, relations between Madonna and the Vatican has not improved.
At the end of 1990, Madonna and her first "Greatest Hits" album, The Immaculate Collection (the immaculate collection), an album whichshe dedicates to the Pope (which is also the nickname for her brother Christopher's). The CD is the first album ever that is mixed in Q-sound, the listener that the music in 3-dimensional style allows experienced. The songs on the album are all remixed by ShepPettibone. The album also included two new tracks, both of which arebig hits (Rescue Me and Justify My Love, a collaboration with LennyKravitz). The video for the last song by MTV boycotted because of its explicit nature. Madonna therefore brought the videocassette releaseof the first video single ever. From the video, 400,000 copies sold.The clip is also former friend Tony Ward to see that as a birthday present she ever received. He was primarily known as a nude model for gay magazines and movies.
In 1991, Madonna played the starring role in a documentary about her life during the Blond Ambition Tour in 1990, titled Truth or Dare. In Europe, gives the film the title In bed with Madonna. In the documentary, Madonna emerges as an ambitious, sexy and demanding woman, but soft features of her character come forward. We see that they visit the grave of her mother. Madonna visits theCannes Film Festival for her documentary to give the necessarypublicity. The film was a worldwide success and is still in the top 5 highest Grossing documentaries of all time with an income of $ 29 million.
A year later, Madonna in the film A League of Their Own, a women's baseball team. Critics are raving about Madonna's acting performance. This film is the single This Used To Be My Playground,in the United States Madonna's tenth number 1 hit was, but strangely not on the soundtrack of the movie.
In 1992, brings the album Erotica Madonna on her new record label, Maverick, which also include Alanis Morissette, Deftones and a contract signed. On the singles stand Erotica Erotica, Deeper and Deeper, Fever (a cover of Peggy Lee), Bye Bye Baby, Bad Girl and Rain. The album, produced by Shep Pettibone, Madonna is a bit onthe techno side. For the cover of the album she wanted tocompletely naked in the picture, but record company Warner Musicwent did not agree. Therefore, a detail of one of the selected photographs from the book Sex, which they shortly after the release of the album released and her erotic fantasies in which image andinto words. The public seemed temporarily to have enough of Madonna's erotic, because the album sells (to Madonna-standards) is disappointing. The book Sex makes many tongues wagging. It is,with its metal plates, today a much sought after and hard to findcollector's item. The book would initially receive Title X. When Madonna, however, learned that around the same period a movie would appear on the life of Malcolm X with the same title, she decided to book another title.
In 1993, Madonna began her new tour, entitled The Girlie Show, aconcert featuring many circus-like elements and even a toplessdancer who opens the show. The show also includes elements such as sexual orgies and SM. Madonna is doing time outside London and Paris are not European cities and the Netherlands is about beaten. She focuses this time round for the first time Australia and South America, Israel and Turkey.
In 1994 Madonna falls to her critics in the song Human Nature. It says they did not know they are not allowed to talk about sex andcould give her opinion. Her words at the end of the video for Human Nature which speak for themselves: Absolutely No Regrets. Human Nature is on the 1994 released album Bedtime Stories, that otherhits include such as Secret, Take A Bow (with the backgroundsinger / producer Babyface, this number was seven weeks at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard charts) and the co-written by Björk BedtimeStory.
In 1995, Madonna a compilation CD titled Something ToRemember (also the title of one of the tracks from the album I'mBreathless, 1990). It shows Madonna's favorite ballads and three new songs: You'll See (she later also in Spanish inzong Veras), andOne More Chance I Want You (a cover of Marvin Gaye, recorded with Massive Attack).
In 1996 she plays in the film Evita about Eva Peron, wife of Argentine dictator Juan Peron from which the hit Do not Cry For Me Argentina comes. Also from this film is the single You must love me,that gets an Oscar for best film song. The third single was Another Suitcase In Another Hall released. Madonna got himself a Golden Globe for best actress. The movie and the soundtrack are a huge success.
The movie does during recording a lot of controversy. The fact that Madonna plays a key role gets the anger of many Evita-haters on the neck. If the movie is off once they surprised many by herremarkable voice and performances. Madonna gives himself to a lot of her voice worked.
During the recording of Evita Madonna comes out she is pregnant.In October 1996, like Madonna with her first child, daughter Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon of her former friend and fitness trainer Carlos Leon. Madonna brings out the 1997 largely by publicity.
In March 1998, the album Ray of Light, Frozen which is the first single and worldwide hit. This CD Madonna strikes a new path interms of sound, but also lyrically. Producer William Orbit is responsible for the electronic sound of the album and presented together with Patrick Leonard Madonna writes her most spiritual texts so far, including inspired by Judaism Kabbalah. Critics praise the sound and the voice of Madonna, who after singing for the movie Evita strikingly stronger. Also from this album hits the Ray Of Light, Drowned World / Substitute For Love, The Power ofGood-bye and Nothing really matters.
In 1999 she sang the soundtrack for the Austin Powers movieAustin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. This makes her one ofher biggest hits of the 90 on: Beautiful Stranger.
In 2000, Madonna plays a key role in the movie The Next Best Thing alongside Rupert Everett. For this film she takes two numbers; Time Stood Still and American Pie, a cover of Don McLean's classic.
In September 2000 her album Music also appears that newtechnical electronic music to sound produced by Mirwais and William Orbit. Besides the title track, Music, and also appear Do not Tell Me What It Feels Like for a Girl a single. As a bonus, in Europethe previous hit American Pie added to the album, a decision by herrecord company that Madonna was not happy in retrospect.
In December of that year she married director Guy Ritchie. Ritchie was the remix of the single What It Feels Like for a Girl Madonna witha controversial video in which a grandmother tough on the road andeventually explodes against a tree. They also make together for theBMW commercial Star in which she is a spoiled, brat-like star plays(a parody of himself).
In August of the same year Madonna for the second time motherafter a difficult birth son Rocco Ritchie was in Los Angeles in the world. The father is director Guy Ritchie.
Since 2001 Madonna for the first time in eight years going back totouring. Her Drowned World Tour starts in Barcelona on June 9.She plays many songs from the albums success-Ray Of Light andMusic. Again she does not meet with this tour Netherlands. Well, she plays the guitar for the first time and surprised her fans by somerough passages.
At the end of 2001, Madonna brings her second compilation CD, titled GHV2 (Greatest Hits Volume 2). Unlike her first compilation The Immaculate Collection, GHV2 contains no new songs.
2002 was a relatively quiet year for Madonna. A large part of the yearshe is working on a new album. She still plays a minor role in the latest James Bond, which she also sings title song Die Another Day.Aided by the accompanying video packed with special effects is thenumber one hit in the autumn of the year.
In 2003, brings Madonna from the album American Life. This is one of her most personal albums ever, as she sings in Mother AndFather about the loss of her mother, and Intervention is dedicated to her son Rocco. The overall theme of the album is that materialisticthings man is not happy. The first single is American Life Madonna but the video resolution at the last moment to withdraw. In the video his war images and the clip has openly criticized President Bush.Because at that time the war in Iraq breaks out, the clip findsMadonna inappropriate. Other voices claim that her motivation towithdraw the clip, commercial, given the patriotic mood in America at that time because they ran the risk to be boycotted. Other singles from this album Hollywood, Nothing Fails and Love Profusion (also used as supporting music and video for a perfume by EsteeLauder). Although the album American Life comes in at No. 1 on the U.S. album charts, selling is ultimately disappointing.
During the MTV Awards in September 2003 causing Madonna,Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears global uproar by giving each other a tongzoen during the rendition of a medley of Like A Virginand Hollywood. This "cooperation" seems like good, because Britney's album In The Zone, they take on a duet that appears on single: Me Against The Music.
In 2004 the Re-Invention Tour instead. During this tour, Madonna occurs mainly in America, but she does after 14 years in the Netherlands again. In Europe she has appeared in Arnhem (Wednesday 8 and Thursday, September 9, Gelredome), Ireland, Lisbon, London and Paris. Both concerts in Arnhem in a sold out.The war in Iraq, peace, the electric chair, a skateboarder, a bagpiper, John Lennon's Imagine, Madonna is back on the audience. These are all elements of this world tour. Unlike her previous show - the Drowned World Tour - she sings during the Re-Invention Tour countless hits. From every album she released, she sings at least one number. For the first time since the Who's That Girl World Tour in 1987 is a background singer Niki Harris not count. She has just given birth to a child and also wants some more attention to her own career to spend. If replacement is required Siedah Garrett, a singer who is best known for her duet with Michael Jackson in 1987, I Just Can not Stop Loving You. They also provided background vocals on all of Madonna's third album True Blue in 1986.
The concert began with a video screening of The Beast Within (a remix of the song Justify My Love, 1990) which Madonna verses from Revelation mumbles, accompanied by images from X-Static Process, a video and photo impression, shot by photographerSteven Klein for his exhibition. That the then 46-year-old Madonna still lasts several years, which is evident when, after opening the video screens comes the stage: Strike A Pose; a handstand cost her little trouble as they bet with the song Vogue. The audience response was crazy. The documentary that Madonna makes with Jonas Åkerlund about her life during the Re-Invention Tour, accompanied by a live CD, released on DVD under the title I'm Going To Tell You A Secret.
On July 2, 2005 shall Madonna in London's Hyde Park during the biggest rock concert of all time, Live 8, for a 200,000-strong audience, and another 3 billion TV, internet and mobile viewers. She sang her hit Like a Prayer, Ray Of Light and a long version of Music. After the concert, she announced that her new album Confessions on a Dance Floor will be called.
The album showed a return to her musical roots: dance. The disc is in November 2005 and contains the hit Hung Up, a catchy and danceable track around a sample of the ABBA song Gimme!Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight). With Hung Up in the Netherlands she scores her third number 1 and also the thirtieth top10-hit. This success continues with the release of the singles Sorry (number 2 in the Netherlands), Get Together and Jump. OnTuesday, August 16, 2005, her 47th birthday, Madonna broke a collarbone, hand and three ribs in a fall from her horse on hercountry estate in Wiltshire (England). A month later she returned to work. With a heavy dose of painkillers she takes on the music video for Hung Up.
On Friday, November 18, 2005 Madonna is in Belgium convicted ofplagiarism. The first four bars of her song Frozen (1998)correspond to the song Ma vie error le camp (1993) by Belgian composer Salvatore Acquaviva from Mouscron. The result of thisconviction is that in Belgium, CDs and DVDs containing Frozen is heard from the shelves to be achieved and the number there should no longer be played on radio and television.
Early 2006 Madonna puts two new world records to her name. She is the first artist with an album, Confessions on a Dance Floor, in 40 countries achieved the number one position. Hung Up did the same in the single charts in less than 41 countries.
In May 2006 Madonna to a new world tour, the Confessions Tour.The tour starts on May 21 in Los Angeles. The show has been praised by critics. The performance was also controversial: ifMadonna rides horses and her dancers as she mimics after a crucifixion. After several stops in the U.S. and Canada, she willarrive in Europe in late July. The Netherlands is also affected. On 3and 4 September 2006 the show was staged in the Amsterdam ArenA. Tickets for these two concerts in the Netherlands had quickly sold out. Before the concerts run opponents of the concert (in particular the organization Cry for Life) around the entrances whileleaflets will be distributed with the text "Madonna, Jesus loves you".During the concert itself - and especially during the controversialexecution of the song Live to tell - walk the believer activists around the ArenA in a symbolic reference to the fall of the Biblical Jericho(Joshua 6).
Furthermore, she plays in England, Wales, Germany, Italy, Denmark, France, Czech Republic and Russia. After Europe aremid-September the last four concerts planned in Japan. On November 3, appears the 4th single from the album Confessions on a Dance Floor: Jump. On the B-side not previously appeared,History.
On 22 November 2006 the U.S. television network NBC sends a concert of Madonna's Confessions Tour off. Under pressure fromChristian organizations sent the sender's crucifixion scene "during Live to Tell not. Instead, other images displayed during the song. In the Netherlands the end of 2006 or the full kruisigingsact broadcast.Just before the concert in Amsterdam was a priest in vain a false bomb threat to the concert (and thus the crucifixion scene) to avoid.In January 2007 the concert registration on DVD and got the 2nd place in the top 100 album).
Madonna makes a lot of commotion in 2006 by the Malawian boy David, 13 months old to adopt. Madonna took the boy in sight, when she visited Malawi in the context of a project where they cooperate.The singer donated much money to build two orphanages for orphans whose parents died of AIDS. David was another orphan child, two weeks after birth in an orphanage ended. His mother isdeceased from AIDS, his father is still alive. David was the first encounter with Madonna very ill, he suffered from malaria and scurvy. David's father has given his consent to the adoption. Yet not everyone is happy with the adoption. Madonna adoption rules wouldhave patched her boot. The singer denies this in an interview withOprah Winfrey and certifies that the adoption of David is perfectly legal. In early 2008, the adoption legally declared by a court in Malawi and David should definitely stay with her.
2007 starts relatively quietly for Madonna. The DVD The Confessions Tour: Live from London appears in late January.Rumors are circulating about recording a new album include Stuart Price, Timbaland and Pharrell Williams, but nothing is officially confirmed. Price says is news to E! Madonna's new album will have a completely new sound. In the spring appears under intense media attention the clothing on the market that Madonna has also designed for H & M. In 2006 she appeared in all advertisements for this store.
On May 16, 2007 A new Madonna song Hey You. The song has Madonna written especially for Live Earth, the benefit concert to make people aware that the global warming with the current way of life very quickly. Producer of the song is Pharrell Williams. The song is free to download and will not be single. Unlike the dance music of her latest album, Confessions On A Dance Floor, Hey You is a ballad. Madonna sang the song on 7 July at Wembley Arena during Live Earth. To finish in London she also sang Hung Up, Ray of Light, La Isla Bonita. During that last song, she was strengthened by two members of the Romano-gypsy band Gogol Bordello, this show quickly took the top 10 most viewed videos on YouTube. Gogol Bordello is also featured in Madonna's directorial debut Filth & Wisdom, where in the summer of 2007 working on. The film premiered on 13 February 2008 at the Berlin Film Festival. Madonna was here to present themselves and also gives a press conference about her directorial debut. Madonna also makes a documentary about the life of the population in Malawi, under the title I am Because we are. During her press conference at the premiere of Filth & Wisdom, Madonna said that perhaps this documentary will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
Madonna also has success as a writer. There appear 4 new children's books from The English Roses series.
Most of the time in 2007, Madonna in the record studio, where she worked on her new album Hard Candy. Long before the appearance of the album leaked in the summer of 2007 for two songs. A bit of a demo called Candy Shop leaked out, but Madonna's spokeswoman did not say about the song, what did Madonna's fans wonder if the song was real. Around August 22, 2007 leaked a second song titled Beat Goes On, a collaboration with Pharrell Williams. The album will eventually become a completely different version of the song appear, including a rap by Kanye West. This collaboration arose spontaneously when they encountered each other in the studio. The album will be released in Europe on 25 April 2008 and 3 days later in America and the rest of the world. The album gets good reviews and is largely produced by Madonna along with Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Pharrell Williams and Danja. Madonna makes a small club tour in New York, Paris and at Maidstone (Kent) to the album. Remarkably, her backing band is almost completely renewed over its last two tours.Stuart Price, her former producer and musical director of her tours since 2001 she has been sidelined and she has hired Kevin Atunes, on the corresponding Sticky & Sweet Tour is complemented by DJ Enferno. Stuart would not have to cooperate because he just became a father (mother of the baby Madonna's former assistant, Angela also be seen in the documentary I'm going to tell you a secret). In the fanbase, however, speculated that Madonna Stuart's work was just too corny.
The first single from the new album, titled 4 Minutes (to save the world) is a collaboration with Justin Timberlake & Timbaland. The song cracked the Mega Top 50, the Single Top 100 and Top 50 Download in the Netherlands at number 1. In Belgium it immediately and actually the number 1 everywhere in the world the new number 1. Except in America, where rapper Lil 'Wayne does it slightly better. His song is a hit single in America so Madonna has 4 Minutes delivered the biggest hit of 2008. The video, directed by Jonas & Francis, reaches 60 million viewers online.
For the second single (Give It 2 Me) Madonna takes a video with director / photographer Tom Munro and her former gardener Nathan Rissman and friend of the family. Also, Pharell Williams (of NERD and The Neptunes) in that video. The number is an international hit, but smaller than 4 Minutes. In the Netherlands, however, the summer hit and the weeks-long No. 1 in the Top 40. In Belgium, Madonna achieved first place in the digital music store iTunes, but in the Ultratop reached its maximum point number on the 3rd place. The third single Miles Away Madonna brings out a quieter but still up tempo song with backing vocals by Justin Timberlake. The track was produced by Timbaland. The single with dance remixes will be launched worldwide in November 2008. The song gets no video, why it is not clear. Despite the fact that Miles Away is the top 10 in the Netherlands took, the world no single big hit.
In the autumn of 2008, Madonna begins her massive tour, titled Sticky & Sweet Tour. The tour starts on August 23 in Cardiff, Wales and doing on September 2 at the Amsterdam ArenA. The show has been a spectacle, Madonna wears suits from Givenchy and Stella McCartney boots and give their best. Also in this show are a few elements that are world news. Madonna has asked for a girlfriend Britney Spears to record video with Steven Klein, a respected and well known photographer / video artist. In the video, Spears is seen in an elevator while she is crazy and actually breaks down the elevator. The video should be shown during Madonna's rendition of Human Nature and confrontational to mention. The video was an instant hit on YouTube, which already 24 hours after the beginning of the tour drew 300,000 viewers. Two weeks later, Spears makes her comeback at the MTV VMA Awards.
But Madonna also showed another video during the concert, which she compares McCain with Hitler. At the end of the video, also filmed by Klein, Madonna praises the U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama. This caused a riot in America and made the tour even more sold out on. It also maintains its worldwide hit again Madonna Vogue, which is completely reinvented with beats and pieces from her latest smash hit 4 Minutes, it became an instant fan favorite. Madonna is seen in an oldschool car, extreme jumping rope in a Givenchy outfit oldschool and Moshino with her gypsy friends and build a strong party on stage. They "hypet" the "nerdy" glasses that back in and finally 'ride' them Justin Timberlake, who is on tour digitally.
After the completion of the European part of Madonna's tour starts in America. During her concerts in New York she scolds U.S. Vice President candidate Sarah Palin out. She calls her a trut and a "fucker" who not welcome is on her show (of Madonna is known that them a Democrats-trailer is and it is nothing has on George Bush and candidate president McCain). In the same speech mentions Madonna also agree that everyone should get up and dance because "this show is not stupid Barbra Streisand."
The Sticky & Sweet Tour ended in São Paulo (Brazil) and thus has broken several records (already owned by Madonna) including: Total attendance: 2,350,282 fans . During the tour, on October 15, 2008, was officially announced that Madonna, after nearly eight years of marriage, divorced her second husband Guy Ritchie. The final separation was accomplished on 21 november. There is no action be deleted and she also refers to any time during a show.
On 27 January 2009 announced that the Sticky & Sweet Tour will get a sequel. Under the name Sticky & Sweet Tour II will in the summer of 2009 Europe be re inflicted. Only London and Paris get the show again to see the other cities are all new. For the first time in her career she will perform in Belgium, on 11 July 2009 on the festival site. Her tour will change little in itself: it changes three songs on her setlist and some videos and costumes are adapted (as the song Candy Shop she with a completely new outfit and background video staging).
On 23 July 2009 is known that Madonna's third verzamelalbum Celebration goes are called and that rule should two new songs come to stand. The single would Celebration on August 3 from 14:00 on the Dutch radio be turned, on 4 August, the download single release. The clip for this song was recorded in Milan and Barcelona fans could sign up to participate in the video.Furthermore, the dancers of the Sticky & Sweet Tour, and even her daughter Lourdes to see. On July 30, the song leaked out and it spread worldwide. Same day became the single frequently rotated on Dutch radio. Madonna's record company Warner Music has been showing the download single on July 31 officially released and given permission to turn the song on the radio. The release date for the CD single is 11 september 2009. On September 18, comes out of the album, both in the form of a single and double. This is a week earlier than planned. On 9 November 2010 was Madonna with Ellen Degeneres announced that after her movie will go into the studio again.
Thursday, December 15, 2011 it was announced that a contract for three albums Madonna has signed with Interscope Records. Her first album on this label and also her first album in four years will be released in March 2012. The first single will be called 'Give me all your luvin' and is released in late January, just before Madonna'sscheduled performance at the Super Bowl. The single will NickiMinaj and M.I.A. be heard. The video for the single was recorded in mid-December in New York along with Nicki Minaj and MIA by Megaforce.
The second single from the album will be Girls Gone Wild. This hasMadonna on February 10, 2012 announced on the radio.
With the announcement of her new album she broke several records. Her new album in 50 countries stood at No. 1 on iTunesbefore it appeared.
On January 11, 2012 Madonna made via her Facebook pageannounced that its twelfth studio album MDNA will be called. Also, the singer back rows: 7 and 8 July 2012 the Netherlands to do it andshe gives a concert in the Ziggo Dome. The first performance wassold out within half an hour, because of the great interest, a secondconcert scheduled. On February 20, 2012 Perez Hilton showed thatthe 15-year-old Lourdes life as a dancer. It is the first time herdaughter with her mother on stage will stand.
The American singer Madonna is widely regarded as one of the most controversial person in pop history. For more than 30 years she knows the attention of the public to hold new, for some, shocking images and looks. She takes itself so frequently the anger of one or more (often Christian) organizations on the neck and even the Pope had made themselves heard when the video for Like a Prayer was released in which she is dancing for burning crosses and kissed by a "dark "Jesus. Other infamous video clips are those of Express Yourself (SM and bondage), Justify my love (the first clip ever on MTV just after 23.00 should be transmitted) and erotica that shows images of her project, the book Sex in which she is naked in different settings that the erotic fantasies of alter-ego "Dita" portray.
Sex and religion form a guiding principle throughout her career. In 1990, after Madonna's Blond Ambition concert in Toronto almost arrested in the execution of a masturbation scene Like a Virgin SatThe Blond Ambition Tour will be processed later in the documentary In Bed with Madonna in which she gives us a look behind the scenes of the tour and include shows how she gives a blow-job on the basis of a bottle.
In 2003, the clip that she initially had made for American Life withdrawn by Warner Brothers after images were leaked. There was a riot in America, where Madonna was vilified by the media for anti-patriotism. A simple version that only the singer for international flags show was subsequently released. The original clip was an indictment of the war in Iraq and the policies of then-President Bush and showed such Iraqi, Palestinian and Jewish children between soldiers on the catwalk. The clip ends with Madonna, which throws the public in a hand grenade which is picked up by Bush. The next row is formed by the tongzoen with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera during the opening of the MTV Awards.
Critics say Madonna is no more than an attention-getter that makes ingenious use of the media to her position of Queen of Pop to keep.But she also used her popularity to draw attention to the problems in the world, again using controversy and shocking images. As with the implementation of "Live To Tell" during her Confessions Tour, where they hung a cross glitter complete with crown of thorns sings while images of children and AIDS Bible texts in the background can be seen. Religious organizations around the world have protested and called it blasphemy, according to the artist himself was a call to the global AIDS problem under the spotlight.
For Live Earth, an organization against global warming, in 2007 she took the free download single, Hey You and provided to the clip of shocking images of natural disasters, famine, AIDS, etc. and exchanged it with positive images of children playing and flowering nature. The song and the clip became the theme song for the Live Earth concerts around the world.
In 2008, shares Madonna during her Sticky & Sweet Tour again put forward to him by President Bush in a video montage to depict in the same breath with dictators and even Hitler, while Obama is compared with the Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso).
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