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Madonna Louise Ciccone, born on the 16th of August 1958 in Bay City, Michigan, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress dubbed the Queen of Pop. She is the best-selling female music artist of all time and is known for continual reinvention across music, songwriting, and visual presentation.
Madonna moved to New York City in 1978 with thirty-five dollars to pursue dance, taking classes at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and working jobs such as a hatcheck girl at the Russian Tea Room. She first performed in the rock bands Breakfast Club and Emmy before signing a two-single deal with Sire Records in 1982.
Madonna has had eighteen multi-platinum albums, including Like a Virgin in 1984, True Blue in 1986, and the compilation The Immaculate Collection in 1990, which has sold 30 million copies. Confessions on a Dance Floor in 2005 topped the charts in a record 40 countries.
Madonna generated controversy through works exploring sexual and religious themes, including her 1984 wedding-gown performance of Like a Virgin and the Like a Prayer video, which drew Vatican condemnation and the loss of a Pepsi deal. Her 1992 book Sex and her Erotica era drew strong public backlash.
Madonna won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy for playing Eva Peron in Evita in 1996. Many of her other films, including Shanghai Surprise and Swept Away, were poorly received, with Shanghai Surprise earning her a Golden Raspberry Award.
Madonna is the first female performer to accumulate one billion dollars from her concerts and was the world's highest-paid female musician for a record eleven years across four decades. Her Celebration Tour ended with a free Copacabana Beach concert in Rio de Janeiro that drew 1.6 million people, the highest attendance ever for a female artist.