Madonna

Pop singer, born in Rochester, Michigan, USA. She trained as a dancer at Michigan University before moving to New York City, where she began her professional career as a backing singer to a number of New York groups. She hired Michael Jackson's manager prior to releasing Madonna (1983), an album which included five US hit singles. Subsequent albums have included Like a Virgin (1984), True Blue (1986), Ray of of Light (1998), Music (2000), American Life (2003), and Confessions on a Dancefloor (2005). She has also acted in films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) and Shanghai Surprise (1986). Her defiant and raunchy stage appearances became an important role model for teenagers in the 1980s and 1990s, and her international success has been secured by clever promotion and image-making. This was reinforced in several media in the early 1990s, with the publication of a controversial collection of erotic photographs of herself in Sex (1992), alongside an album, Erotica. Later films include Body of Evidence (1993) and Evita (1996). She made her London West End stage debut in 2002 in Up for Grabs. In a new departure, her first children's book, The English Roses, was published in 2003. She was inducted into the inaugural UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004.

Madonna may refer to:

The Madonna, Roman Catholic title for Mary, mother of Jesus Madonna (art), a medieval Italian term for a noble or otherwise important woman

People:

Madonna (entertainer), an American pop megastar and actress Madonna Wayne Gacy, the current keyboard player for Marilyn Manson

Places

Madona, Latvia, a town in Latvia House of the Black Madonna, a cubist building in Prague, Czech republic Madonna del Ghisallo, a hill close to Lake Como in Italy Madonna Inn, a motel of flamboyant style in San Luis Obispo, California Madonna of the Trail, a series of historical monuments along the National Old Trails Highway, from Maryland to California Madonna Oriente, a Moon goddess that was worshipped in a cult that developed in Milan towards the end of the 14th century Madonna University, a private, non-profit, Catholic Franciscan college located in Livonia, Michigan

Other

Madonna lily, a plant in the genus Lilium, a "true lily", that is native to Asia Minor Black Madonna, a statue or painting of Mary in which she is depicted with black skin A song of the same name by Noe Venable Madonna (skateboarding trick) Madonna (Madonna album), a 1983 album by the American pop singer of the same name Madonna (Trail of Dead album), a 1999 album by the band …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Lady Madonna, a song by The Beatles Madonna (Edvard Munch), a painting by Edvard Munch Madonna, the top F1 team in the video games Super Monaco GP and Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II on Sega Mega Drive, Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear

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