Madonna is a singer, songwriter, actress and businesswoman , recognized since the 1980s as the queen of pop. She was born on August 16, 1958, in Bay City , Michigan.
She is the best-selling singer in music history, with more than 300 million records sold worldwide, and the artist with the most number one songs in chart history.
– I will turn the world into a dance floor –
Madonna Biography
Madonna was born and raised in Bay City, Michigan . She comes from a family of Italian immigrants , her paternal grandparents were from Pacentro, Italy , while her mother is of French Canadian descent.
The singer has two older brothers, Anthony and Martin, and three younger siblings, Paula, Christopher, and Melanie. The family grew up in suburban Detroit, where the singer attended St. Patrick’s and St. Frederick’s Catholic schools, Madonna was recognized at her school for her rebellious attitude.
Madonna attended Rochester Adams High School where she became a member of the cheerleading squad. Upon graduation, she received a dance scholarship to the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater and Dance.
She convinced her father to allow her to take ballet classes and was persuaded by Christopher Flynn, her ballet teacher, to allow her to pursue a career in dance.In 1978 she dropped out of college and moved to New York City, where she worked as a waitress.
Madonna ‘s music has been characterized by its reinvention and its social impact, dealing with controversial issues such as politics, sex, religion and gender.
Her film career includes such classics as A League of Their Own (1992) and Evita (1996), the latter earning her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress .
Her role as a businesswoman includes the formation of the group Maverick, an entertainment company founded in 1992, through which she published her books De Ella Sex and Erotica in 1992.
Madonna Career
Madonna is the most influential singer in history, the reason for the viralization of pop through conventional media, long before the arrival of social networks.
In a recent Instagram image, the queen of pop remembers how she arrived in New York in the 80s: without YouTube, without Vine, without American Idol or Disney, only with 35 dollars in her pocket and the illusion of becoming a star.
Madonna changed the meaning of what it meant to be a pop star , and has been compared to a phenomenon like postmodern art, an event that happened once in history, and may never happen again.
The legacy of the material girl in music is accompanied by the meaning that her image and public voice had in the face of the revolution of women in the music industry. 
Considered an icon, Madonna opened with her career a free conversation about sex, sensuality and freedom of expression; allowing women inside and outside music, to be irreverent before a system that sought to pigeonhole them.
As an artistic current, or a social movement, Madame X provoked the church and the conservatives, confronted the censorious and oppressive governments, and made it inevitable for the public to take lessons from the female occupation in the entertainment industry .
Scholars agree that Madonna ‘s influence and legacy has much more cultural relevance than just being a pop icon . They describe the singer as a timeless myth, and universal in scope, who has been credited with creating the contemporary conception of fame, so any star after Madonna has a bit of the queen of pop in her .
The artists who have come after Madonna (Britney Spears, Christina and even Latin figures like Shakira and Paulina) grew up listening to her, she created the standards by which all new starsThey had to be measured.
Her career is unparalleled and unattainable, and the timing of her arrival on the scene was the perfect setting for her to gain such prominence.
Madonna ‘s relationship with the avant-garde is symbiotic, she has made reinvention her form of artistic expression, and made her life a kind of performance art.
With the same authority that a curator possesses to manipulate valuable pieces, Madonna was the object of creation of the most important fashion trends of the past decades. She authoritatively defined the ’80s aesthetic , and as Anna Wintour puts it: ‘she makes fashion happen’. 
Thanks to Madonna there were moments like Jean Paul Gaultier’s corsets and the introduction of capri pants to streetstyle, each new reinvention of the queen of popit became a trend.
Madonna has questioned the limits of the genre, opening a space for its free expression and exploration. She has been the face of contemporary feminism, without leaving aside the notes of feminists of the past, which serve as an inspiration for herself.
Madonna and the events of the 80’s currently allow us to have a broader understanding about sexuality, a broad vision of inclusion and define the true influence of postmodernity in current times. Madonna is a symbol of the new woman , a concept that maintains its validity over time, and that includes as many meanings as reinventions the queen of pop has had .
She starred in Desperately Seeking Susan (1985). She worked on Broadway with a play titled Speed the Plow , with notable success. Together with Sean Penn (whom she married on August 16, 1985), she starred in a new movie, Shanghai Surprise , which was a flop. In 1988 she released Whos that girl followed by You can dance . She started a new tour with great success.
She is recognized worldwide for the provocation that her video clips and shows arouse, as well as for the versatility of her shows. In 1990 she starred in the film Dick Tracy , alongside Warren Beatty ., with whom he had an affair, also released the Dick Tracy soundtrack. Two years later she participated in the film A league of her own .
During 1992 she released Erotica and in 1994 Bedtime Stories , with which she turned her career around as well as achieving great sales success.In 1996, she starred in Evita , alongside Antonio Banderas , with which she won the Golden Globe for best actress. 
She edited the album with the soundtrack of the film and in October of the same year her daughter Lourdes María Ciccone was born, the fruit of her relationship with the Cuban Carlos León.In 1998 she appeared Ray of Light and in 2000Music.
Her performances in the cinema, with the exception of Desperately Seeking Susan and Evita, did not achieve great notoriety.
Her appearance on movie screens was a hit at the box office in the United States in 2002. Swept Away , the high-budget film in which she starred and directed by her husband, Guy Ritchie, did not find favor with the public.
Produced by Madonna herself and Mirwais Ahmadzai , the album American Life was released in early 2003 , once again mired in controversy. A few days before the release of the first single, she withdrew the video for its war content and criticism of the US.
American Life is the title of her next work, which, as usual in Madonna’s career, goes on sale in a special limited edition in a deluxe format, with an embroidered leather cover and other extras.In 2003 the second book of her for children of her appeared.
After the lackluster success of The English Roses , Madonna returned with Mr. Peabody’s Apples .In November 2003, she released Remixed and Revisited , an EP with seven tracks, including her collaborations with Britney Spears , Christina Aguilera and Missy Elliott, as well as various remixes and a previously unreleased track, Your Honesty .
In June 2004, the controversial pop star changed her name to Esther -of Hebrew origin-, thus assuming a new public image of modesty, more in line with that of a young Jewish girl than with that of a materialistic girl.
Raised in a Catholic background, she claimed in an interview with ABC News’ 20/20 program that her identification with the biblical queen is due in part to her study of Jewish mysticism known as the Kabbalah.
In March 2012, her album titled MDNA was released, which seems to play with words, halfway between her name, Madonna, and the English name of the drug MDMA (ecstasy).
In April the singer launched the perfume Thruth or Darethat he designed in memory of his mother’s smell and with which he culminates one of his oldest projects.The album, Rebel Heart , was presented on March 10, 2015, and from August to December of the same year was dedicated to its promotion.
Madonna Net Worth
Madonna is not only a pop music icon, who paved the way for so many female stars today, she is also an actress, songwriter, producer and author. When it comes to her music, few artists are in the same sphere as her.
The Material Girl has sold over 300 million albums and their tours have grossed over $1 billion. According to Forbes , Madonna’s net worth in 2019 is $570 million.
Madonna is still touring these days and in 2017 told Harper’s Bazaar that she has no plans to stop anytime soon.
Madonna Childrens
In addition to Lourdes María, she had another child born on August 11, 2000, Rocco Ritchie, son of film director Guy Ritchie , whom she married in December 2000. She also has four adopted children: Chifundo Mercy James, David Banda Mwale and the twins Estere and Stella.
