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Papa don't preach, says
'Material' girl
MADONNA Louise Ciccone, was born in a Catholic family on August 16, 1958, at Bay City, Michigan, USA. She was five when her mother died of cancer. She was an ambitious child who worked hard to achieve her ambitions. Madonna was a brilliant student. She secured scholarships for her University education. She decided to become a dancer for which she left college early and moved on to New York. After some time she realised that it could take years to make name in the world of dance. At the age of 21 she shifted to singing and music. In 1977 she began her training under an acclaimed choreographer Alvin Ailey in New York. After performing in a number of pop and dance events she was signed in 1982 as a solo performer. Her first single, "Everybody," became a hit at the end of 1982; her second single, 1983's "Physical attraction," was another major hit. In June 1983 she had her third hit "Holiday". Madonna's debut album was released in the end of 1983; "Borderline" came in March 1984, which was also a hit. Madonna began working on her first starring role in a feature film, Susan Seidelman's "Desperately Seeking Susan". In August 1987 she wed actor Sean Penn, but the marriage didn't last for more than two years. In 1996 Madonna gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Lourdes. Then her album, Ray of Light, came in early 1998. The album featured 13-tracks of dance music mixed by British DJ William Orbit. 2000 proved to be a successful year for Madonna. In August, she announced the birth of her son, Rocco Ritchie, fathered by her current husband, English film director Guy Ritchie. On December 22, Ritchie and Madonna married at Skibo Castle in Scotland. She bagged a Grammy award for her song Ray of Light. The song was declared the best pop album; best short-form video, best dance recording and best recording package. In 2000 Beautiful Stranger brought her another Grammy as the 'Best song from a motion picture' and in the same year "Music" got Billboard award for the "Best video-clip of the year" Today Madonna is one of the most commercially successful artists in the history of pop music. She is popular worldwide and is known as true performer and singer. Music has sold over 2 million units in the USA and another 8 million internationally, which shows that she is famous globally. This site is her official site. It is a well-built site and can be viewed in two forms, Flash and HTML. The site provides news about her latest events and shows. The site has a separate section of achieved news. Songs and videos are available on the site for listening to the music. One should have Macromedia Flash Player 6 installed on the system. One cannot download the songs and video but songs can be heard online. Image gallery provides loads of photos. Lyrics of songs are also available on this site. www.mp3miracle.com/ and http://www.mp3dimension.com You can download almost any song sung by Madonna in MP3 format from these two sites. Both the sites are good for downloading and searching of song is easy because only thing available in the sites are songs. Just write the name of the singer or name of the song in the search box. Both sites have more than 70 songs sung by Madonna. www.beautifulmadonna.com/eng.html This site is for downloading songs and videos. Songs are available in MP3 and Windows Media format. Many of her famous songs are available for download like "Tell me", "Papa don't preach", "Music" etc.
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