"""Don't Tell Me"", and ""What It Feels Like for a Girl"". The music video of ""What It Feels Like for a Girl"" depicted Madonna committing acts of crime and vandalism, and was banned by MTV and VH1. She first met director Guy Ritchie, who would later become her second husband, in the summer of 1998 and gave birth to their son Rocco John Ritchie on August 11, 2000 in Los Angeles. Rocco and Madonna suffered complications from the birth due to her experiencing placenta praevia. He was christened at Dornoch Cathedral in Dornoch, Scotland, on December 21, 2000. Madonna married"
"her Golden Globe Award-winning musical film portrayal of Eva Peron, and her high-grossing Drowned World Tour. The births of daughter Lourdes and son Rocco, and her marriage to second husband Guy Ritchie, are chronicled. American journalist and celebrity biographer John Randall Taraborrelli first met Madonna at a press conference in 1983. She spoke of her youthful struggles before the release of her debut album, and of her belief that she would someday enjoy great success as the ""century's biggest star"". Taraborrelli thought her brash, cocky, petulant, self-indulgent, and a mediocre beauty with a voice to match. Taraborrelli was proven wrong,"
"was living a calmer, more introspective and wholesome life with her husband Guy Ritchie and their children Lourdes and Rocco. According to biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli, the presence of Ritchie in Madonna's life had a calming effect on the singer, making her more matured and easing her temper. Concentrating on her music career, Madonna was busy throughout of 2001 on her Drowned World Tour. On September 11, 2001, suicide bombers hijacked two jet airliners and crashed into the World Trade Center, resulting in the death of nearly 3,000 people. The event had a profound effect on American society, with the"
"a 20-year-old man outside the Kensington home he shared with American singer Madonna, on suspicion of causing actual bodily harm. On 22 December 2000, Ritchie married Madonna at Skibo Castle in Scotland. They have a son, Rocco John Ritchie (born 11 August 2000 in Los Angeles) and adopted a Malawian baby boy in 2006, David (born 24 September 2005). Madonna eventually filed for divorce from Ritchie in October 2008, citing irreconcilable differences. On 15 December 2008, Madonna's spokeswoman announced that the singer had agreed to a divorce settlement with Ritchie, the terms of which grant him between £50–60 million ($–"
"Sister Madonna"", a book released in July 2008 by Madonna's brother Christopher, debuted at number two on ""The New York Times"" bestseller list. The book caused a rift between Madonna and Christopher, because of unsolicited publication. By fall, Madonna filed for divorce from Ritchie, citing irreconcilable differences. In December 2008, Madonna's spokesperson announced that Madonna had agreed to a divorce settlement with Ritchie, the terms of which granted him between £50–60 million ($– million), a figure that included the couple's London pub and residence and Wiltshire estate in England. The marriage was dissolved by District Judge Reid by ""decree nisi"""
"released in October 1982, and the second, ""Burning Up"", in March 1983. Both became big club hits in the United States, reaching number three on Hot Dance Club Songs chart compiled by ""Billboard"" magazine. After this success, she started developing her eponymous debut album, ""Madonna"", which was primarily produced by Reggie Lucas of Warner Bros. However, she was not happy with the completed tracks and disagreed with Lucas' production techniques, so decided to seek additional help. Madonna moved in with boyfriend John ""Jellybean"" Benitez, asking his help for finishing the album's production. Benitez remixed most of the tracks and produced"
"(1987) and the Rebel Heart Tour (2015–2016). When Madonna had started working on her third studio album, ""True Blue"" in 1985, she was already in a relationship with actor Sean Penn whom she married by the year-end. It was the first album that the singer acted in the role of a record producer and wanted to add her own ""sophistication"" to it. Her optimism assimilated in the songs created, including the title track, which she co-wrote and co-produced the song with Stephen Bray. According to Madonna, ""True Blue"" takes its title from a favorite expression of Penn and to his"
"fifth number-one release on the ""Billboard"" Top Music Videos chart, and achieved platinum certification there, as well as Australia, Brazil, France, and the United Kingdom. The Drowned World Tour was the fifth concert tour by Madonna. It supported her seventh and eighth studio albums ""Ray of Light"" and ""Music"" respectively, and visited Europe and North America. It was also her first tour in eight years, following The Girlie Show World Tour in 1993. The tour was supposed to start in 1999, but was delayed until 2001 as Madonna gave birth to her son Rocco, got married to Guy Ritchie, was"
"for giving rise to the new Madonna persona, a stronger and more intelligent sexual image of her former self which had given rise to the term Madonna wannabe. A statue of Madonna, wearing a conical bra was erected in her name, at the center of the town of Pacentro in Italy, where her ancestors used to live. ""Live to Tell"" was the first single released from the album in March 1986. The song was the second ballad for Madonna after ""Crazy for You"", and was used in the film ""At Close Range"" which starred her then husband Sean Penn. The"
"Drowned World Tour Drowned World Tour was the fifth concert tour by American singer-songwriter Madonna in support of her seventh and eighth studio albums ""Ray of Light"" and ""Music"", respectively. It was also her first tour in eight years, following The Girlie Show World Tour in 1993. The tour was supposed to start in 1999, but was delayed until 2001 as Madonna gave birth to her son, got married to Guy Ritchie, was working on ""Music"", and was busy filming ""The Next Best Thing"". When the tour was decided, Madonna appointed Jamie King as choreographer and the tour was planned"
"other artist in history. In 2008, ""Billboard"" ranked her at number two, behind the Beatles, on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists, making her the most successful solo artist in the chart's history. In 2016, the magazine listed her as the Greatest Dance Club Songs Artist of All Time. At the 40th anniversary of Germany's GfK Media Control Charts, Madonna was listed as the most successful singles artist in the chart's history. Films starred Films directed Madonna (entertainer) Madonna Louise Ciccone (; born August 16, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman. Referred to as the ""Queen of"
"It continues up to the release of the erotic coffee table book called ""Sex"", and the subsequent commercial disappointments that she faced. The third part is called ""Absolution"", and starts with Madonna giving birth to her daughter Lourdes. It continues with the release of ""Ray of Light"" (1998) and subsequent four studio albums, her worldwide concert tours, her marriage to Guy Ritchie and controversies surrounding her adoption from Malawi. It ends with the release of Madonna's 2008 album, ""Hard Candy"", and the singer reaching the age of fifty. Lucy O'Brien first came to like Madonna in 1985, when she saw"
"mostly performed by Madonna, was released as a double album. It included ""You Must Love Me"" and ""Don't Cry for Me Argentina""; the latter reached number one in countries across Europe. Madonna was presented with the Artist Achievement Award by Tony Bennett at the 1996 ""Billboard"" Music Awards. On October 14, 1996, she gave birth to Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon, her daughter with Leon. Biographer Mary Cross writes that although Madonna often worried that her pregnancy would harm ""Evita"", she reached some important personal goals: ""Now 38 years old, Madonna had at last triumphed on screen and achieved her dream"
"signed to choreograph the show. 13-year-old Christopher Finch was signed to play the part of the small boy from the ""Open Your Heart"" video, since Felix Howard, who played the original part, did not get a working license, and hence could not join the tour. Madonna wanted three backup singers, a team of male dancers and a succession of costume changes. She took inputs from her then husband, actor Sean Penn saying, ""I really respect Sean's opinion. He has great taste and is a very brilliant man. When I was putting my tour together, it was always in the back"
"Mirror"" that Madonna planned to shoot the video in Israel with actor Michael Douglas. According to Polly Graham from the newspaper, Warner Bros. executives were concerned about the singer's safety in Israel, but Madonna was adamant. ""Her record bosses are really worried about it. They are trying to talk her around, but she's having none of it. She has told them it makes sense to shoot it in Israel as the Kabbalah originates from there. Madonna is not particularly bothered about her safety and potential risks. She doesn't think it's as bad as it seems."" Her then husband Guy Ritchie"
"become pregnant with her son Rocco Ritchie, released ""Music"" that year, and married Guy Ritchie in December 2000. When Madonna finally decided to go on the tour, time was short and she had to prepare the show within three months. Jamie King was signed up as the creative director and the choreographer of the show. The tour was divided into five segments, namely punk, geisha, cowboy, Latin and ghetto. Each segment represented a phase of Madonna's career. Several changes were made to the final shows in Los Angeles after the September 11 attacks: Madonna wore an American flag kilt during"
"music compositions by Lorenzo Ferrero and synthesized sounds. It was featured at ""The Keith Haring Show"", an exhibition which took place in 2005 at the Triennale di Milano. In 2006, he was named by Equality Forum as one of their 31 Icons of LGBT History Month. In 2008, filmmaker Christina Clausen released the documentary ""The Universe of Keith Haring"". In the film, his legacy is ""resurrected through colorful archival footage and remembered by friends and admirers such as artists Kenny Scharf and Yoko Ono, gallery owners Jeffrey Deitch and Tony Shafrazi, and the choreographer Bill T. Jones"". Madonna, who was"
"everyone's significant other does. Referring to the incidents in the pub, Madonna explained her view on relationships where a man has to travel with his wife, while giving an example of her friend, actress Gwyneth Paltrow. She said that it was easier for Paltrow to tour with her then-husband, Chris Martin, who is the lead singer of the alternative rock band, Coldplay. Madonna also recalled her troubled relationship with her father and how he had e-mailed the singer with his approval, after watching the documentary. Kabbalah featured prominently towards the end and the singer wanted to embark on a spiritual"
"Other Visual Media"". In March 2000, Madonna released a cover version of Don McLean's ""American Pie"" (1971) as part of the soundtrack of the film ""The Next Best Thing"". The song received mixed reviews, and was a success in European charts. Although not released commercially in the United States, it reached number 29 on the Hot 100 chart due to strong radio airplay. By 2000, she became pregnant with her son Rocco, from her relationship with director Guy Ritchie. Wanting to distract herself from the media frenzy surrounding this news, Madonna concentrated on the development of her eighth studio album,"
"The second single, ""Ray of Light"", debuted at number five on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The 1998 edition of ""Guinness Book of World Records"" documented that ""no female artist has sold more records than Madonna around the world"". Madonna founded Ray of Light Foundation which focused on women, education, global development and humanitarian. She signed on to play a violin teacher in the 1999 film ""Music of the Heart"" but left the project, citing ""creative differences"" with director Wes Craven. She recorded the single ""Beautiful Stranger"" for the 1999 film """", which earned her a Grammy Award for Best Song"
"songs exclusively. She also collaborated with Lourdes and released the Material Girl clothing line, inspired by her punk-girl style when she rose to fame in the 1980s. In October, she opened a series of fitness centers around the world named Hard Candy Fitness, and three months later unveiled a second fashion brand called Truth or Dare which included footwear, perfumes, underclothing, and accessories. Madonna directed her second feature film, ""W.E."", a biographical account about the affair between King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson. Co-written with Alek Keshishian, the film was premiered at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in September"
"Marchant in 1955). Avril Simpson was killed in a car crash in Mexico. Simpson died suffering from throat cancer, on 30 November 1958 in London, aged 61. He was portrayed by actor David Harbour in ""W.E."", a 2011 romantic drama film about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's courtship; the movie was co-written and directed by Madonna. Ernest Simpson Ernest Aldrich Simpson (6 May 1897 – 30 November 1958) was an American-born British soldier and shipbroker, best known as the second husband of Wallis Simpson, later wife of the former King Edward VIII. Simpson served as an officer in the"
"the Drowned World Tour, her fifth concert tour, which promoted ""Ray of Light"" and its successor album. It started in June 2001 and was Madonna's first tour in eight years. The tour was to be started before the new millennium, but she had become pregnant with her son Rocco Ritchie, released ""Music"" that year, and married Ritchie in December 2000. The show was divided into five sections, ""Cyber-Punk"", ""Geisha"", ""Cowgirl"", ""Spanish"" and ""Ghetto"". The Drowned World Tour received positive reviews. The tour was a commercial success, grossing a total of US$75 million, and it was the top concert tour of"
"displeased their father. Then he debunks Madonna's story regarding her first trip to Manhattan with $35 in her pocket and a pair of ballet shoes. The book ends with an epilogue listing the singer's accomplishments and Ciccone's current life, as well as an afterword, where he detailed how Madonna supposedly wanted to stop the publishing of the book and previously unreleased family photographs. Christopher Ciccone is the fourth child of Silvio Anthony ""Tony"" Ciccone and Madonna Louise (""née"" Fortin), just below Madonna. He began his career and worked as the singer's assistant, concert tour and art director. He also worked"
"well as the controversial ""SEX"" book in 1992. Tony is also a painter and photographer and lives in Los Angeles. He is a father of three. According to People Magazine of April 15, 1991, ""Madonna and male model Tony Ward, 27, her last boyfriend of record and one of the objects of her desire in the ""Justify"" video, are no longer an item. It may be a coincidence, but he seems to have dropped from her arm at about the same time tabloids revealed that he had married an old flame, Greek-Australian photographer Amalia Papadimos, 23, in a quickie ceremony"
"rolled around suggestively on the floor. MTV retrospectively considered it one of the ""most iconic"" pop performances of all time. The second single, ""Material Girl"", reached number two on the Hot 100 and was promoted by a music video recreating Marilyn Monroe's performance of ""Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"" from the 1953 film ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"". While filming this video, Madonna started dating actor Sean Penn. They married on her birthday in 1985. Madonna entered mainstream films in February 1985, beginning with a brief appearance as a club singer in ""Vision Quest"", a romantic drama film. Its soundtrack contained"
"on the promotional concerts for ""Music"", on November 5, 2000, at New York City's Roseland Ballroom, and on November 29 at London's Brixton Academy. During the performance Madonna sat on a bale of hay while Ahmadzaï played guitar. Her wardrobe consisted of a black tank top with the name Britney Spears written on it, cowboy hat and boots. For the London performance, Madonna wore a different t-shirt, with the names of her son Rocco and daughter Lourdes printed on it. On the Drowned World Tour (2001), Madonna performed ""Don't Tell Me"" as the second song of the Western-themed third act."
"at the time as well as her relationship with Juan. The song garnered positive response from music critics, many of them highlighting Madonna's enhanced singing ability. It went on to win the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1997. It was also a moderate commercial success, becoming a top-ten hit in some countries including Finland, Italy and the United Kingdom, while reaching the top-twenty in the United States, where it achieved a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). ""Don't Cry for Me Argentina"" was released as the second single from the"
"performed the song at the Melbourne concert of her show. After the critical and commercial success of her seventh studio album, ""Ray of Light"" (1998), Madonna had intended to embark on a concert tour in autumn 1999, but due to the delay of her film, ""The Next Best Thing"" (2000), the tour was cancelled. The singer also became pregnant with her son Rocco, from her relationship with director Guy Ritchie. Wanting to distract herself from the media frenzy, Madonna concentrated on the development of her eighth studio album, ""Music"". She worked with French DJ and producer Mirwais Ahmadzaï on the"
"to the delay of her film, ""The Next Best Thing"" (2000), the tour was cancelled. She released one-off singles like ""Beautiful Stranger"" (1999) and a cover of Don McLean's ""American Pie"" (2000). The singer also became pregnant with her son Rocco, from her relationship with director Guy Ritchie. Wanting to distract herself from the media frenzy, Madonna concentrated on the development of her eighth studio album, ""Music"". In April 2000, it was announced that French musician Mirwais Ahmadzaï was creating a melding of dance and pop songs with a disco feel for the album. Later, it was also announced that"
"summit. This remains as Madonna's longest-running number-one. Her second album ""Like a Virgin"" produced three chart-toppers during 1984 — 1985: Like a Virgin"", ""Material Girl"" and ""Angel""/""Into the Groove"". ""Into the Groove"", originally recorded for the film ""Desperately Seeking Susan"", was later added to the ""Like a Virgin"" album when it was re-issued in non-U.S. territories. ""Open Your Heart"" and ""Causing a Commotion"" (from the soundtrack ""Who's That Girl"") were both number-ones in 1987. The remix album ""You Can Dance"" topped the club songs chart in 1988 (""Billboard"" policy at the time allowed full albums or EPs to chart). Madonna"
"in April; ""The Next Best Thing"", and then I am going to rehearse to go on tour. And then I'll probably play up until the millennium, New Year's Eve."" The tour was delayed until 2001, as she had, in her own words, ""been distracted by having children and filming movies"". She also began a serious relationship with Guy Ritchie in 1999. By 2000, she had become pregnant with her son Rocco Ritchie, released her eighth studio album ""Music"" that year, and married Ritchie in December 2000. When Madonna finally decided to go on the tour, time was short and she"
"Louie Louie (musician) Louie Louie (born Louis Cordero) is a Puerto Rican/American musician and record producer. He released four full-length albums (two of them on major record labels and one under his full name of Louie Cordero) in the last twenty years, as well as a number of singles, but only two of the singles, 1990's ""Sittin' in the Lap of Luxury"" and ""I Wanna Get Back With You,"" charted in the United States. He played Madonna's boyfriend in the video for ""Borderline"" and also played 'Rick' in ""House Party 2"". He and his band performed on Arsenio Hall two"