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| | Pop singer Madonna never has endorsed a candidate for U.S. president during the primaries ... until now. She has endorsed retired General Wesley Clark for president. There is possibility that Madonna will host a fund raiser for Clark at her home in Los Angeles. The possible fund raiser has not been confirmed, however.
Madonna biography:
The childhood and career:
Madonna was born in Bay City, Michigan, USA. Her mother, Madonna Louise (maiden name is Fortin) was of French Canadian descent; her father, Silvio “Tony” Ciccone, the Italian American, worked as the design-engineer at factory Chrysler/General Motors. Madonna is the third of six children in a family.
Madonna has grown in a Catholic family in the Detroit suburbs. She is a distant relative of Duchess of Cornwall Camilla. Mother of Madonna has died of breast cancer at age 30 years in 1963. Her father married the family housekeeper, Joan Gustafson, and they had two children, Jennifer and Mario. Madonna convinced the father to let her to take ballet lessons. Being the girl Madonna attended school St. Frederick's Elementary School, St. Andrew's Elementary School and West Middle School. She attended Rochester Adams High School, becoming a full-fledged student and a member of the cheerleading squad. Madonna has got dancing education at University of Michigan after the higher school graduation.
After her ballet teacher convinced her to continue career of the dancer, Madonna left the university at the end of 1977 and moved to New York City. She had little money and some time she lived in squalor, working at Dunkin' Donuts and with dancing troupes. In interview Madonna told:
“It was the first time I'd ever taken a plane, the first time I'd ever gotten a taxi cab. I came here with $35 in my pocket. It was the bravest thing I'd ever”.
While performings as a dancer for the French disco artist Patrick Hernandez on his 1979 world tour, Madonna fell in love with the musician Dan Gilroy, with whom she later formed her first rock group, the Breakfast Club.
In this group she sang and played drums and guitar before forming the group Emmy in 1980 with the drummer and former boyfriend Stephen Bray. She with Bray wrote and produced dance songs that brought local attention of New York night clubs. The DJ and producer Mark Kamins was impressed by her demo-records, and he has acquainted Madonna with Sire Records founder Seymour Stein.
The career beginning
At the beginning of the next year Madonna recorded new demo-records in dancing style and tried to extend them with the help of “Gotem productions”. Madonna left the company soon, decided to begin all over again and made one more demo record with help of Bray. There were four their “street” dancing melodies: “Everybody”, “No Big Deal”, “Stay” and “Burning Up”. Madonna started the campaign to be heard by the necessary people. For this purpose she selected “Danceteria” on Manhattan which continued traditions of places, where ways of the press were crossed, such as “Studio 54”, “Mad Klub” and “Xenon”. was opened in 1981 by Rudolf, one of the impresarios of the night life and quickly became famous as an supermodern place about which most of all spoke and wrote. The most considerable Madonna’s acquaintance in “Danceteria” was Mark Kamins which was there an unique DJ, and soon his inflammatory style won for him glory of the king of DJs of the New wave. In some days of their life together Madonna was not ashamed to palm off to Kamins the demo-record. He has not simply heard it – he played back the tape in “Danceteria”. The crowd caught alight, and Kamins was convinced, that Madonna has all star bents.
Kamins already looked for executors for repertoire-performing department of “Island Records”. He suited for it the contract with Irish group “U2” shortly before, whose records spread in the mid-eighties with the greatest numbers from all issued by this firm. He carried her cassette of Madonna to Chris Blackwell, the “Island Records” Chief Executive, which has turned down this cassette at once. Then Kamins has undertaken the following step and delivered the cassette in “Warner Bros”. He made friends with Michael Rosenblatt who was the promising artist and responsible person for repertoire in “Warner Sire”. While the major label pushing away from each other, chased for any next roaring punk-roker, tightened in a skin, Rosenblatt cultivated such dancing commands, as “B-52” or English duet “Wham!”. Kamins called Rosenblatt and invited him to come in “Danceteria” to get acquainted with a young singer, from whom, as Kamins has promised, Michael “will be stunned”. In some days Rosenblatt as the owner has led arrived from England “Wham!” in “Danceteria”; the leading group vocalist George Michael has noticed the nice young woman (which light hair have already started to darken at roots) in a stylish cap and evident unpaired stockings. Still before Kamins has acquainted them, Rosenblatt understood, that this woman of “an unimaginable look” is Madonna. He introduced himself, presented stunned George Michael and invited her to come into his office with the demo cassette . |
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