 Born Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone, on August 16, 1958, in Bay City, Michigan. Madonna won a scholarship in high school to study dance at the University of Michigan. She left in the late 1970s and moved to New York City where she studied and danced with Alvin Ailey and Pearl Lang, acted inunderground films, and performed with rock bands. Her albums Madonna (1983) and Like a Virgin (1984) sold over a million copies each and included severalhit singles. Her movie performances, except for Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) and Evita (1996), were less well-received. Known for herprovocativestage and video performances, a somewhat ambiguous symbol of a newfeminismin her combination ofvulgarityandshrewdness, she was arguably the best-known woman in the world at the height of her popularity.
 Madonna released her album Music in the fall of 2000. Driven by the success of the title track, Music received severalGrammmy Award nominations, including Record of the Year and Best Vocal Pop Album. In the summer of 2001, she kicked off her first world tour in eight years, the Drowned World Tour.
Madonna was married to actor Sean Penn from 1985 to 1989. She has a daughter, Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon, by former companion Carlos Leon. Her current boyfriend is the British film director Guy Ritchie, best known for the 1998 hit Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The couple had a son, Rocco Ritchie, on August 11, 2000. Madonna and Ritchie were married on December 22, 2000, at a castle in Dornoch, Scotland.
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underground film:這里是非主流電影的意思
hit singles：成名單曲
provocative：刺激的
feminism：女權(quán)主義
vulgarity：粗俗
shrewdness：精明，機(jī)靈
Grammmy Award nominations：格萊美大獎(jiǎng)提名
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Updated: 2001-09-17 01:00
