Madonna

She was incredibly flirtatious. Apart from being a flirtatious rebel, Madonna was very good at her schoolwork. Madonna remembers I was really competitive in school with my grades and stuff coz my father used to give us rewards if we got A on our report cards. It wasnt so much that I was interested in learning. my father gave us 25 cents for every A that we got so I wanted to earn the most amount of money. Not so surprisingly Madonna shone in the schools theatre department, where she was given the lead role in several of their productions. After Madonna left school she attended the University of Michigan on a dance scholarship, where she studied under ballet school owner, Chris Flynn. She recalls I really loved him. He was my mentor, my father, my imaginary lover, everything. Pretty soon after studying some time in the university of Michigan Madonna wanted to go to New York to chase her dreams. Everyone was against the idea but her dance teacher said, Go for it! - and luckily for us she did! So there she was, finally in New York, standing in the middle of Times Square (on arriving in the big city she had asked the taxi driver to take her to the middle of everything), with just thirty five dollars, a satchel full of tights, dance shoes under one arm and a giant doll under the other. Madonna remembers: When I came to New York it was the first time Id ever taken a plane, the first time Ive ever gotten a taxi-cab, the first time for everything. And I came here with 35 dollars in my pocket. It was the bravest thing Id ever done. My goal was to conquer the city and I feel I have. And also Although I took to New York straight away I was really lonely.

Never letting an opportunity to make a fast buck pass her by, Madonna set up her own Wazoo clothing label. Among other things, Wazoo manufactured rubber bracelets and Boy Toy belt buckles. It wasnt long before millions of girl fans the world over took on the raggy clothes of their number 1 pop heroine. But it wasnt just the clothes that were developing Madonnas raunchy reputation. Her music was about to take a new and controversial turn.

The new album Like A Virgin (1984) established Madonna as a popular artist and soon nearly everyone had a copy of this album. It gained 3X platina status in the US charts immediately! Interesting is, that Madonnas first album Madonna (1938) was still doing pretty good at the charts when new album was released. The year 1985 was VERY busy for Madonna. The music video Material Girl came out on the 1st of February, the movie Vision Quest on February 15th and the movie Desperately Seeking Susan on March 29th. Her role in Desperately Seeking Susan added a significant facet to her image.

Madonnas singles: Material Girl and Crazy For You (from Vision Quest movie soundtrack) were both top five hits. Crazy for you gave Madonna her first Grammy nomination. Madonnas first big tour (she traveled trough whole US) was named ...