Facts about Madonna

1. Marie Louise Ciccone, the future queen of pop, was the third child of eight children in a family of French Canadian Madonna Louise Fortin and Italian Silvio Ciccone. And the name of Louise, and her nickname to get the baby from the mother. Father of Madonna as a child called his beloved eldest daughter "little Noni." 2. In their own school Rochester Adams High School Madonna was not the best student, so in the 19 years she had to drop out. But I remember well the teachers and their pupils are still happy to talk about how she was doing well in the dance class and in the school drama circle. 3. In the early 80s Madonna had longed to be a singer, but first be trained percussionist. She played the drums in the composition of an unknown band Breakfast Club, had an affair with guitarist Dan Gilroy and performed with him in the shabby little clubs in New York. 4. His first film role played by Madonna in the 1979 film "The specific victim". Her heroine named Bruno - inhabitant of a crime neighborhoods in New York, who lives with a transvestite and suffered from its perversions. Becoming famous singer regretted his first kinoopyte and even tried to court to ban the film to be shown under the pretext of an abundance of explicit scenes of violence, but it has lost. And the film's director Stephen Lewicki is now enthusiastically told reporters that the future star in tears, begging him this role and won for her entire $ 100.

5. Madonna was supposed to play the role of Rachel Marin, the beloved hero Kevin Costner, in the famous melodrama "The Bodyguard", but the director of the film, Mick Jackson made a choice in favor of another famous singer - Whitney Houston. 6. According to the singer's brother Christopher, Madonna in cooking not really succeeded. Christopher said that the only thing she can cook in the kitchen - it is rice cakes. Christopher debunks another popular myth about her sister - the story of how she came to conquer New York with $ 35 in his pocket. He asserts that at the time, Madonna has had a few decent contracts and fees for provincial girl. 7. The key to its success - eccentricity. In 1989, after the release of the video for the song «Like A Prayer», where Madonna sings on a background of burning crosses, it was officially cursed by the Vatican and the Pope personally. For this reason, the company Pepsi broke it the most profitable at the time the advertising contract. The result was not long in coming - the song «Like A Prayer» became the best-selling music and stayed on the top lines of the charts for a long time record 8. Madonna does not suffer from lack of self-esteem. When reporters asked her to comment on her charity work in Africa, where it helps children, the singer said: "I want to be like Mahatma Gandhi or Martin Luther King, but stay alive» .

9. Madonna managed to retrain in time designer. The singer created her collection name for the Swedish brand H & M and Gap to the US in collaboration with Missy Elliott. According to rumors, the experience of creating clothes Madonna remained dissatisfied and decided to more to him not to return. 10. Name of the Madonna appears in the Guinness Book of Records: there she was named the most successful female singer of all time. Her condition today totals $ 400 million, she honestly earned after selling 200 million copies of their albums worldwide. For 25-year career, she has released 64 hit that entered the English hits UK Top 40. See also: 30 facts about Lady Gaga. 10 facts about Paris Hilton. 40 facts about Eminem. 20 facts about Steve Jobs. / p

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