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  Madonna - Picture - MSN Encarta
Madonna has entertained and often shocked her fans during her controversial career in music and film.
The success of her first album, Madonna (1983), was due largely to her music videos on the cable-television music channel known as MTV.
In 1991 Madonna released the documentary Truth or Dare, an explicit behind-the-scenes account of her global concert tour.
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  Madonna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Madonna Oriente, a Moon goddess that was worshipped in a cult that developed in Milan towards the end of the 14th century
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 Madonna (1983 album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Madonna is the self-titled debut album by singer Madonna, released on July 27, 1983.
Most importantly though, Madonna's navel is prominent on the inner sleeve of the album, which became one of her trademarks.
Madonna herself has been openly critical of the record, citing displeasure with the production and unhappiness at her lack of control- "I went to London when the record was being recorded, I wasn't around for a few weeks".
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 Madonna (entertainer) - MSN Encarta
The showing of Madonna’s music videos on MTV (see Music Television), a cable television music channel, was a major factor in her tremendous success in the pop music scene over the next few years.
Madonna later appeared in the films Shadows and Fog (1992), directed by American filmmaker Woody Allen; A League of Their Own (1992); Body of Evidence (1993); Four Rooms (1995); The Next Best Thing (2000); and Swept Away (2002), directed by her husband, Guy Ritchie.
Madonna lives in England with her husband, her daughter Lourdes, born in 1996, and her son Rocco, born in 2000.
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 Madonna | Biography | MTV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Madonna moved from her native Michigan to New York in 1977, with dreams of becoming a ballet dancer.
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.
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.
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 Madonna Biography | Bio | Like a Virgin | Maverick Records | VMA | Britney Spears | Kiss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone moved from Michigan to New York in 1977 with dreams of becoming a ballet dancer.
Madonna studied dance with a choreographer, did some modeling and ended up in a couple of pop/dance groups before signing with Sire Records in 1982.
Madonna's first album, Madonna, came out in 1983 and since then she's had a string of hits, been a major influence in the music industry and become an international icon.
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 Madonna Biography
Madonna was born on 16 August 1958 in Michigan.
Madonna's debut album, imaginatively titled Madonna was released in 1983, and although it sold 3 million copies it was with her next album, Like a Virgin that she made most impact.
Madonna has been a hugely succesful singer, but she is a woman of many talents.
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Madonna began with aspirations to be a ballerina.
Madonna's eponymous debut album was released in the fall of 1983; "Holiday" became her first Top 40 hit the following month.
Madonna landed a co-starring role in Warren Beatty's 1990 remake of Dick Tracy.
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 Everybody (English)
Madonna liked dancing clubs and the night, and she often went to the most famous discos in New York, and met all the important dj's at that time.
People thought Madonna was a fl singer, a fact supported by her not appearing in the single cover, and the rhythm and blues radio stations where the ones which aired the single most.
Madonna used to go to "Danceteria" very often, when she hadn't even begun to sing, and there was where she met dj and producer Mark Kamins, the one who first realized about her great potential, and opened Madonna the doors to "Sire Records" and her first contract as a singer.
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(Madonna's mother died of cancer when she was six.) The plucky girl exhibited a showbiz flair at a young age and signed up for such artistic outlets as school shows, the cheerleading squad, piano lessons, and ballet classes.
Madonna's eponymous debut album was released to zero fanfare in 1983.
Nowhere was Madonna's newfound state of meditative reserve and self-awareness more readily in evidence than on her 1998 release Ray of Light, a moody, introspective (yet danceable!) album she created with the express intent of affecting people "in a quieter way," as she related to one interviewer.
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 Dancing as fast as she can - Salon
Madonna emerged from the New York dance club scene of the early 1980s as a reinterpreter of disco music, which had been declared dead after the Bee Gees juggernaut of the late '70s but was still thriving in the gay and fl worlds.
Her superb 1983 song "Burning Up" (recently covered by Boston's the Rudds) was the first step in her monumental creative renewal of disco, which would surge forward and by the late '80s and early '90s start to splinter and proliferate into the dozens of still-booming subforms of techno and trance music.
Last summer, Madonna described her forthcoming CD as "future disco" -- which raised the hopes of all die-hard disco fans that "Confessions on a Dance Floor" would be a masterpiece, a return to roots but also a visionary breakthrough.
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 Madonna (pop star) - MSN Encarta
Born Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone in Bay City, Michigan, Madonna later moved to New York, where she formed a band and began to write songs.
Her first album, Madonna (1983), generated three hit singles that reached the top of the pop music charts in 1984.
Her next album, GHV2, was released in 2002, the same year that she recorded the chart-topping single “Die Another Day” from the James Bond film of the same title.
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 Madonna (Madonna album) Information
Madonna is the self-titled debut album by singer Madonna, released on July 27th, 1983 (see 1983 in music).
Though New York DJ Mark Kamins had discovered Madonna and produced "Everybody", she decided to work with Warner producer Reggie Lucas for the rest of the album.
Most importantly though, Madonna's navel is prominent on the inner sleeve of the album, which became one of her trademarks.
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 Lucky Star (English)
It was Madonna's first top five in the american charts (#4 in August, 1984) and the fifth and last single from that album.
Madonna changes her voice from the deepest sounds, to many double register higher notes.
It was released in Europe in september 1983, and it didn't appear in the charts, until its reedition in march 1984, which made it reach a number 2.
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 BRIT Awards • Artists • Madonna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Madonna Louise Ciccone was born in 1958 and brought up in Bay City, Michigan.
Madonna is a household name around the globe, having sold a massive 200 million albums so far.
Madonna will be the voice of Princess Selinia in the Luc Bresson animation Arthur and The Minimoys, to be released in 2006.
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 And We Danced - Madonna Profile
Madonna has been a leader in development of Dance music and also incorporated influences from a wide range of other artists to keep her own music fresh and invigorating.
Madonna Louise Ciccone was born August 16, 1958 in Bay City, Michigan.
Madonna is currently at work on a 3rd album with Mirwais and has rarely seemed more in touch with her first and primary audience, the Dance community.
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 Album Reviews for Madonna - no popups!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Madonna, she's called, and the word is that she's basically all image; she went through a put-your-hands-all-over-my-body phase, then she got spiritual, and then she started wearing cowboy hats.
Madonna is right on form and this became one of her most successful songs, and ensured that her chart reign continued into a third decade.
Madonna knew she had to include this song on this album, for it caused her to be praised by her hateful critics.
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 Madonna (album) Music Guide - WikiMusicGuide, the Music Wiki
Madonna, known as The First Album outside of the United States, is the first studio album by pop singer Madonna, released by Sire Records in 1983.
In 1983, after the successful release of two singles, "Everybody" and "Burning Up", Warner Bros. Records gave Madonna the greenlight to record her first album.
Madonna received mostly positive reviews from critics, but also drew many comments on a "girlish hiccup" in her voice.
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Her albums Madonna (1983) and Like a Virgin (1984) secured her position as a sexual and pop icon.
Madonna was the first female artist to exploit fully the potential of the music video.
Madonna became the head of Maverick, a subsidiary of Time-Warner created by the entertainment giant as part of a $60 million deal with the performer.
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Madonna was born in Bay City, Michigan on August 16, 1958.
Madonna has only married once and that was to actor Sean Penn on her 27th birthday, Aug. 16, 1985.
When Madonna hit the big time, he remixed the songs to bring Madonna's voice out to the front of the mixes and released them on the UK label, Receiver Records which is now marketed as the package "Madonna (and Otto Von Wernherr) In The Beginning" and features extended dance mixes of the songs.
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 Amazon.com: Madonna: Music: Madonna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Madonna first album was a dance album with a sound typical of the early '80s.
Madonna started off slowly when it was released in 1983, in fact it took 58 weeks to crack the top ten, but it laid the groundwork and foundation for her next release Like A Virgin that would take her from rising star to mega-star.
Madonna's debut album "Madonna" clearly would be the album that would play a role in bringing this "underground" movement back to the surface as well as catapult her own career.
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Madonna is one of the most successful female singer-songwriter of all-time.
MTV was a major factor in her tremendous success in the pop music career.She won her first Grammy in 1998 with her single Ray of Light.She has taken an active business role in shaping her career and now.
She gave birth to a baby daughter on 14 October 1996 and the father is 'Carlos Leon', Madonna's fitness trainer.
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 Compact disc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The main parameters of the CD (taken from the September 1983 issue of the compact disc specification) are as follows:
The first letter represents how the album was recorded, the second how it was mixed, and the third how it was transferred (inevitably a D, as the CD is a digital medium).
A few examples of DAD recordings exist, mostly of works that were originally recorded digitally but later remixed by artists who preferred to work with analog technology.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Madonna: the First Album/Remastered: Music: Madonna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Madonna the album has gone on to become one of the artists biggest selling to date, 19 million in sales since its release in 1983, more important however is that this is the perfect snapshot of an artist who even at the start of her career inspired and defined a generation and many to come.
A bubble gum pop album so perfect in every sense of the word and a firm favorite among many of her fans even celebrities such as the Pet Shop boys cite this as the defining dance album of the 80's, you cant say fairer than that, simple effective and fun.
It's hard to say why, perhaps it's Madonna's undeniable charisma, perhaps it's the fact that this was genuinely edgy, groundbreaking music in 1983, or it could just be that it is obvious Madonna really put everything she had into it.
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After performing in a number of pop/dance outfits including the Patrick Hernandez Revue, The Breakfast Club and Emmy, she was signed to Sire in 1982 as a solo performer.
That same year Madonna released a successful children's book, The English Roses, which was followed by four more over the coming years.
The album Confessions on a Dance Floor from 2005 was her return to music and to the dance-oriented material that had made her a star.
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 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | New Madonna album tops US charts
Madonna has achieved her sixth number one in the US pop album charts with new release Confessions on a Dance Floor.
The album, which sees Madonna return to her disco music roots, has earned the singer some of the best reviews of her 22-year career.
Some Hearts, the first album from Carrie Underwood, the winner of the TV talent show American Idol, was a new entry at number two in the US charts, with sales of nearly 315,000.
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 CD Baby: MADONNA: Pre Madonna
Madonna repeats the phrase (she more says it than sings it) : "Reach out, reach out!", and I have to admit I found this part rather funny to listen to.
Madonna obviously has something to bring to the table, because she's brought together hit after hit with many different producers, but it must be said.
this album was funkadelic all the fuckin way!it has a disco kind of flow to it.it was a very rare cd due to the fact it had a different vocal to it.like,a younger madonna with the original back-up singers from her new york city days when madonna played gigs at studio 54 and danceteria!
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 A Madonna , portrait painting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
I did not realize they were both by a new singer " Madonna".
I bought her album as cds were still not out.
This photograph for this album was on the inner sleeve.
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