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Madonna Biography
After a star reaches a certain point, it's easy to forget what
they became famous for and concentrate solely on their persona. Madonna
is such a star. Madonna rocketed to stardom so quickly in 1984 that it
obscured most of her musical virtues. Appreciating her music became
even more difficult as the decade wore on, as discussing her lifestyle
became more common than discussing her music. However, one of Madonna's
greatest achievements is how she manipulated the media and the public
with her music, her videos, her publicity, and her sexuality. Arguably,
Madonna was the first female pop star to have complete control of her
music and image.
Madonna moved from her native Michigan to New York in 1977, with dreams
of becoming a ballet dancer. She studied with choreographer Alvin Ailey
and modeled. In 1979, she became part of the Patrick Hernandez Revue, a
disco outfit that had the hit Born to Be Alive. She traveled to Paris
with Hernandez; it was there that she met Dan Gilroy, who would soon
become her boyfriend. Upon returning to New York, the pair formed the
Breakfast Club, a pop/dance group. Madonna originally played drums for
the band, but she soon became the lead singer. In 1980, she left the
band and formed Emmy with her former boyfriend, drummer Stephen Bray.
Soon, Bray and Madonna broke off from the group and began working on
some dance/disco-oriented tracks. A demo tape of these tracks worked
its way to Mark Kamins, a New York-based DJ/producer. Kamins directed
the tape to Sire Records, which signed the singer in 1982.
Kamins produced Madonna's first single, Everybody, which became a
club and dance hit at the end of 1982; her second single, 1983's
Physical Attraction, was another club hit. In June of 1983, she had
her third club hit with the bubbly Holiday, which was written by
Jellybean Benitez. Madonna's self-titled debut album was released in
September of 1983; Holiday became her first Top 40 hit the following
month. Borderline became her first Top Ten hit in March of 1984,
beginning a remarkable string of 17 consecutive Top Ten hits. While
Lucky Star was climbing to number four, Madonna began working on her
first starring role in a feature film, Susan Seidelman's Desperately
Seeking Susan.
Madonna's second album, the Niles Rodgers-produced Like a Virgin, was
released at the end of 1984. The title track hit number one in
December, staying at the top of the charts for six weeks; it was the
start of a whirlwind year for the singer. During 1985, Madonna became
an international celebrity, selling millions of records on the strength
of her stylish, sexy videos and forceful personality. After Material
Girl became a number two hit in March, Madonna began her first tour,
supported by the Beastie Boys. Crazy for You became her second number
one single in May. Desperately Seeking Susan was released in July,
becoming a box office hit; it also prompted a planned video release of
A Certain Sacrifice, a low-budget erotic drama she filmed in 1979. A
Certain Sacrifice wasn't the only embarrassing skeleton in the closet
dragged into the light during the summer of 1985 -- both Playboy and
Penthouse published nude photos of Madonna that she posed for in 1977.
Nevertheless, her popularity continued unabated, with thousands of
teenage girls adopting her sexy appearance, being dubbed Madonna
wannabes. In August, she married actor Sean Penn; the couple had a
rocky marriage that ended in 1989.
Madonna began collaborating with Patrick Leonard at the beginning of
1986; Leonard would co-write most of her biggest hits in the '80s,
including Live to Tell, which hit number one in June of 1986. A more
ambitious and accomplished record than her two previous albums, True
Blue was released the following month, to both more massive commercial
success (it was a number one in both the U.S. and the U.K., selling
over five million copies in America alone) and critical acclaim. Papa
Don't Preach became her fourth number one hit in the U.S. While her
musical career was thriving, her film career took a savage hit with the
November release of Shanghai Surprise. Starring Madonna and Sean Penn,
the comedy received terrible reviews, which translated into disastrous
box office returns.
At the beginning of 1987, she had her fifth number one single with
Open Your Heart, the third number one from True Blue alone. The title
cut from the soundtrack of her third feature film, Who's That Girl?,
was another chart-topping hit, although the film itself was another box
office bomb. 1988 was a relatively quiet year for Madonna as she spent
the first half of the year acting in David Mamet's Speed the Plow on
Broadway. In the meantime, she released the remix album You Can Dance.
After withdrawing the divorce papers she filed at the beginning of
1988, she divorced Penn at the beginning of 1989.
Like a Prayer, released in the spring of 1989, was her most ambitious
and far-reaching album, incorporating elements of pop, rock, and dance.
It was another number one hit and launched the number one title track
as well as Express Yourself, Cherish, and Keep It Together, three
more Top Ten hits. In April 1990, she began her massive Blonde Ambition
tour, which ran throughout the entire year. Vogue became a number one
hit in May, setting the stage for her co-starring role in Warren
Beatty's Dick Tracy; it was her most successful film appearance since
Desperately Seeking Susan. Madonna released a greatest-hits album, The
Immaculate Collection, at the end of the year. It featured two new
songs, including the number one single Justify My Love, which sparked
another controversy with its sexy video; the second new song, Rescue
Me, became the highest-debuting single by a female artist in U.S.
chart history, entering the charts at number 15. Truth or Dare, a
documentary of the Blonde Ambition tour, was released to positive
reviews and strong ticket sales during the spring of 1991.
Madonna returned to the charts in the summer of 1992 with the number
one This Used to Be My Playground, a single featured in the film A
League of Their Own, which featured the singer in a small part. Later
that year, Madonna released Sex, an expensive, steel-bound soft-core
pornographic book that featured hundreds of erotic photographs of
herself, several models, and other celebrities -- including Isabella
Rossellini, Big Daddy Kane, Naomi Campbell, and Vanilla Ice -- as well
as selected prose. Sex received scathing reviews and enormous negative
publicity, yet that didn't stop the accompanying album, Erotica, from
selling over two million copies. Bedtime Stories, released two years
later, was a more subdued affair than Erotica. Initially, it didn't
chart as impressively, prompting some critics to label her a has-been,
yet the album spawned her biggest hit, Take a Bow, which spent seven
weeks at number one. It also featured the Björk-penned Bedtime
Stories, which became her first single not to make the Top 40; its
follow-up, Human Nature, also failed to crack the Top 40.
Nevertheless, Bedtime Stories marked her seventh album to go
multi-platinum.
Beginning in 1995, Madonna began one of her most subtle image makeovers
as she lobbied for the title role in the film adaptation of Andrew
Lloyd Webber's Evita. Backing away from the overt sexuality of Erotica
and Bedtime Stories, Madonna recast herself as an upscale sophisticate,
and the compilation Something to Remember fit into the plan nicely.
Released in the fall of 1995, around the same time she won the coveted
role of Evita Peron, the album was comprised entirely of ballads,
designed to appeal to the mature audience that would also be the target
of Evita. As the filming completed, Madonna announced she was pregnant
and her daughter, Lourdes, was born late in 1996, just as Evita was
scheduled for release. The movie was greeted with generally positive
reviews and Madonna began a campaign for an Oscar nomination that
resulted in her winning the Golden Globe for Best Actress (Musical or
Comedy), but not the coveted Academy Award nomination. The soundtrack
for Evita, however, was a modest hit, with a dance remix of Don't Cry
for Me Argentina and the newly written You Must Love Me both
becoming hits.
During 1997, she worked with producer William Orbit on her first album
of new material since 1994's Bedtime Stories. The resulting record, Ray
of Light, was heavily influenced by electronica, techno, and trip-hop,
thereby updating her classic dance-pop sound for the late '90s. Ray of
Light received uniformly excellent reviews upon its March 1998 release
and debuted at number two on the charts. Within a month, the record was
shaping up to be her biggest album since Like a Prayer. Two years later
she returned with Music, which reunited her with Orbit and also
featured production work from Mark Spike Stent and Mirwais, a French
electro-pop producer/musician in the vein of Daft Punk and Air.
The year 2000 also saw the birth of Madonna's second child, Rocco, whom
she had with filmmaker Guy Ritchie; the two married at the very end of
the year. With Ritchie as director and Madonna as star, the pair
released a remake of the film Swept Away in 2002. It tanked at the box
office, failing to crack seven digits, making it one of the least
profitable films of the year. Her sober 2003 album, American Life,
fared a little better but was hardly a huge success. That same year she
released a successful children's book, The English Roses (it was
followed by several more over the coming years). Confessions on a Dance
Floor marked her return to music and to the dance-oriented material
that had made her a star; released in late 2005, it topped the
Billboard charts, and was accompanied by a worldwide tour in 2006, the
same year that I'm Going to Tell You a Secret, a CD/DVD made during her
Re-Invention Tour, came out. In 2007 Madonna released another CD/DVD,
Confessions Tour, this time chronicling her controversial tour of the
same name. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
Written by Stephen Thomas Erlewine