Madonna was born on the 16th of August 1958 in Rochester, Michigan, USA. Her family lived in Pontiac, Michigan at the time, but were visiting grandmother in Bay City when Madonna decided to appear in the world. She was christened Madonna Louise Ciccone, but her family used to called her 'Little Nonni'. When she was only five years old the mother she loved died of breast cancer. One of the hardest thing she’’s had to be faced with in her life was the death of her mother and that's something

insisted that the children have to call his new wife 'mother' but Madonna found that very hard to do. She never called Joan mother. Madonna was the oldest girl of eight children and that is the reason she caught most of the responsibility. Madonna remembers as the oldest girl in her family, she felt like all her adolescence was spent taking care of babies. When Madonna was small, she loved to hum along to songs on the radio as she helped with the housework. She remembers: "There was always music in our house, either records or the radio or someone singing on the bathtub."( Krupp 144 ) Soon her father wanted her to take piano lessons, because most of the family played an musical instrument and his father was really big on that. This was not to be, Madonna was her father's favorite and persuaded him to let her take dance lessons instead.

g out that Madonna uses her body to promote herself. Madonna is not your average sex symbol. She is a brilliant woman who has used a patriarchal society which takes advantage of women and manipulated it so that it works to her advantage. ( Rose A-4 ).

that she has never got over till this day. Madonna learned to be strong and independent early in life and she carries a clear memory of her mother's courage: "She tried to keep her fear deep down inside and not let us know - she never complained" ( Worell 175 ).When the mother died the Ciccone family was torn apart. Madonna and her brothers and sisters were sent to live with various relatives until, after a couple of years her father Tony married their housekeeper Joan Gustafson. Her father !

) in admitting and expressing pleasure: it is (was) a sexual-physical pleasure that has (had) nothing to do with men...(Fiske 285)." While this may have been an impression of Madonna in the 1980’’s, she has evolved into what society deems as the epitome of bad ass woman: utterly independent. This sense of independence has opened the eyes of growing Americans, especially the younger generation that listens to her music, and had inspired them to live lives more open to sex.

The ideas of Madonna have shone a bright light on the dark world of sexism and issues of that sort. Madonna has made her own distinctive mark in her generation. She attracts many types of audiences, not only the ones who appreciated the new, more liberal style of her entertainment, but also the ones who felt obligated to publicly make a stand against it. Marilyn Monroe tested the boundaries of her generation repeatedly. It is quite possible that the very image that caused severe controversy during her time is the singular most vivid image that glorifies her in today’’s culture.

In 1977, she went to New York, studying with noted choreographer Alvin Ailey and taking modeling 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 ( Leonard 138). 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

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