This
is the Madonna's biography: Madonna was born
Louise Veronica Ciccone on 16th August, 1958,
in Bay City, Michigan. She was the oldest
of eight children. Her mother died of cancer
when she was six years old. She was brought
up by her father, who was an engineer. He
remarried, and Madonna's stepmother was called
Joan.
She
started singing and dancing when she was eight,
participating in school shows and being a
cheerleader. She also had piano and ballet
lessons.
She
went to the University of Michigan, where
she studied dance, but she put aside her studies
after two years and went to New York, because
she had dreams of becoming a star.
She
had no money, so she worked in shops and as
a model. She decided to start singing, and
found work as a backing vocalist. She wrote
songs, and performed at local discos. She
signed a contract with Warner Brothers in
1982, and inmediately her career took off.
She had her first number one hit in 1984 with
Like a Virgin. In 1985 she appeared as the
lead in the film "Desperately Seeking
Susan".
Around
this time she married Sean Penn. Unfortunately
the marriage only lasted for four years.
In
1992 she founded her own record company called
Maverick. In 1996 she starred in the film
Evita, and she was awarded the Golden Globe
for Best Actress. In the same year she had
her first child, Lourdes Marķa. The father
was her personal trainer, Carlos Leon. She
currently lives in London with her English
husband, Guy Ritchie, with whom she had a
second child, a boy called Rocco.
She
has eleven number one hits - more than any
other female artist.
