返程票英语故事-Madonna Louise Ciccone

2021年1月11日发(作者：明若山)
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Madonna Louise Ciccone


麦当娜早年的音乐历程

Madonna Louise CicconeMadonna Louise Ciccone was born on 16
August 1958, in Bay City, Michigan, USA. An icon for female
pop stars thanks to her proven ability to artistically reinvent
herself while still retaining complete control of her career,
Madonna is also one of the most commercially successful artists
in the history of popular music.
The young Ciccone excelled at dance and drama at high
school and during brief periods at colleges in Michigan and
North Carolina. In 1977, she went to New York, studying with
noted choreographer Alvin Ailey and taking modelling jobs. Two
years later, Madonna moved to France to join a show featuring
disco singer Patrick Hernandez. There she met Dan Gilroy and,
back in New York, the pair formed club band the Breakfast Club.
Madonna played drums and sang with the band before setting up
Emmy in 1980 with Detroit-born drummer and former boyfriend,
Steve Bray. Together, Madonna and Bray created club tracks
which led to a recording deal with Sire Records. With leading
New York disc jockey Mark Kamins producing, she recorded
“Everybody”, a US club hit in 1982. Madonna broke out from
the disco scene into mainstream pop with “Holiday”, written
and produced by Jellybean. It reached the US Top 20 in late
1983 and was a Top 10 hit across Europe the following year.
By now, her tough, raunchy persona was coming across to
international audiences and the attitude was underlined by the
choice of Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg’s catchy “Like a
Virgin” as a 1984 single. The track provided the singer with
the first of her subsequent 11 US number 1s. The follow-up,
“Material Girl”, included a promotional video which
introduced one of Madonna’s most characteristic visual styles,
the mimicking of Marilyn Monroe’s “blonde bombshell” image.
By the time of her appearance at 1985’s Live Aid concert and
her high-profile wedding to actor Sean Penn on 16 August the
same year, Madonna had become an internationally recognized
superstar, known to millions of tabloid newspaper readers
without any interest in her music. Among the fans of her work
were a growing number of “wannabees”, teenage girls who aped
her independent and don’t-care stance.
From 1985–87, Madonna turned out a stream of
irresistibly catchy transatlantic Top 5 singles. “Crazy for
You”, her second US chart-topper, was co-written by ex-
Carpenters collaborator John Bettis, while she co-wrote her
first UK number 1, “Into the Groove”, with Steve Bray. These
were followed by “Dress You Up”, “Live to Tell”, and the
transatlantic chart-topper, “Papa Don’t Preach”. “True
Blue”, “Open Your Heart” and “La Isla Bonita” were further
successes taken from 1986’s True Blue. Like an increasing
number of her songs, “Who’s That Girl” (her second
transatlantic number 1) and “Causing A Commotion” were
tied-in to a movie — in this instance, a poorly received
comedy in which she starred with Sir John Mills. Madonna’s
film career had begun with a minor role in the b-movie A Certain
Sacrifice before she starred in the acclaimed Desperately
Seeking Susan. The following year she appeared with husband
Penn in her first real failure, Shanghai Surprise. She
separated from Penn in 1988, the same year she appeared on
Broadway in David Mamet’s play Speed the Plow. Back on the
music scene, the singer continued to attract controversy when,
in 1989, the video for “Like a Prayer” (her third
transatlantic chart-topper), with its links between religion