Madonna Louise Ciccone Research Paper

Madonna Louise Ciccone was born in Bay City, Michigan, on August 16, 1958. Her father, Silvio Anthony Ciccone, is a first-generation Italian American (with roots in Pacentro, Italy), while her mother, Madonna Louise (née Fortin), was of French Canadian descent.[2] Her father later worked as a design engineer for Chrysler and General Motors. As Madonna had the same name as her mother, family members called her "Little Nonni".[3] The third of six children from her father's first marriage, her full-blood siblings are: Martin, Anthony, Paula, Christopher, and Melanie.[3] Madonna was raised in the Roman Catholic faith. Upon receiving confirmation, she adopted Veronica as an additional confirmation name.[4] She was raised in the Detroit suburbs of
I came here with $35 in my pocket. It was the bravest thing I'd ever done."[14] She started to work as a backup dancer for other established artists. During a late night, Madonna was returning from a rehearsal, when she was dragged up an alleyway by a pair of men at knifepoint and forced to perform fellatio at knifepoint.[15][16] Madonna had later commented that "the episode was a taste of my weakness, it showed me that I still could not save myself in spite of all the strong-girl show. I could never forget it."[17] While performing as a dancer for the French disco artist Patrick Hernandez on his 1979 world tour,[7] Madonna became romantically involved with musician Dan Gilroy. Together, they formed her first rock band, the Breakfast Club,[18][19] for which Madonna sang and played drums and guitar. In 1980[3] or
It included two new songs, "Justify My Love" and "Rescue Me".[75] The album was certified diamond by RIAA and sold over 30 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling compilation album by a solo artist in history.[76][77] "Justify My Love" reached number one in the U.S. and top ten worldwide.[37][78] Its music video featured scenes of sadomasochism, bondage, same-sex kissing and brief nudity.[79][80] The video was deemed too sexually explicit for MTV and was banned from the network.[79] Madonna responded to the banning: "Why is it that people are willing to go and watch a movie about someone getting blown to bits for no reason at all, and nobody wants to see two girls kissing and two men snuggling?"[81] The second single, "Rescue Me", became the highest-debuting single by a female artist in Hot 100 chart history at that time, entering at number 15 and peaking at number