Singer-songwriter known for reinventing her music and image across four decades — photos, style and news
Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, author, director, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance and performed in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy. In 1982 she signed with Sire Records and released her self-titled debut album the following year. She has since released a series of successful albums, including the Grammy Award winners Ray of Light (1998) and Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005). Madonna is known for continuously reinventing both her music and image, and for retaining a standard of autonomy within the recording industry.
This biography makes the fashion point in one sentence: the reinvention applied to image as much as to music. Each album cycle in the list — the debut, Ray of Light, Confessions on a Dance Floor — arrived as a new look as well as a new sound, and the music videos that became a fixture on MTV were the delivery system. Critics have praised the diverse musical productions while noting they induced controversy; the autonomy she retained within the recording industry is what kept the image changes self-directed rather than label-imposed. “Vogue”, a chart-topper named for a dance drawn from fashion culture, is the neatest single example.
This page gathers Madonna photos, videos, news and blog posts, with search routes to each. The M directory files her first, as the letter's celebrity musician, and her profile is the natural starting point for the section's whole argument: that what a famous person wears, era by era, is news in itself.
After moving to New York City in 1977 to pursue modern dance and performing in the groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, Madonna signed with Sire Records in 1982 and released her self-titled debut album the following year.
Madonna is known for continuously reinventing both her music and image, and for retaining a standard of autonomy within the recording industry. She attained immense popularity by pushing the boundaries of lyrical content in mainstream popular music and imagery in her music videos, which became a fixture on MTV.
Many of her songs peaked atop record charts, including “Like a Virgin”, “Into the Groove”, “Papa Don't Preach”, “Like a Prayer”, “Vogue”, “Frozen”, “Music”, “Hung Up” and “4 Minutes”. Her Grammy Award-winning albums include Ray of Light (1998) and Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005).
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