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Madonna

Profession: Singer
Place/Date of Birth: Michigan USA
Associated with: Guy Ritchie

Madonna banned her daughter from auditioning to be in ’Harry Potter’ - Jan 17, 2021
Madonna reportedly banned her daughter from auditioning to be in the next ’Harry Potter’ film. The star stopped Lourdes, 9, from joining hundreds of other girls who tried out for the role of Luna Lovegood in new movie’Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’.

Lourdes, who is also known as Lola, was said to be desperate to audition after film bosses issued an open call for a new star. But sources say Madonna wants her daughter to wait until she is older to decide what she wants to do with her future. An insider is quoted in the Daily Star newspaper as saying: "Lola printed off all the information and showed it to her mum. She’s convinced she has the other-worldly qualities Warner Brothers are looking for. "But Madonna pointed out they’re looking for girls aged between 13 and 16, so she is much too young." The source added: "Lola had a massive sulk and complained that producers would overlook her age because she looks and acts much older than her years."

Last year, the 47-year-old singer revealed she is convinced Lourdes and her five-year-old son Rocco will both follow in her footsteps to become chart-topping musicians. She revealed: "They are both very musical. But Lourdes sings quite well and she’s an incredible ballerina."

Madonna has banned her children from having mobile phones - Dec 16, 2020
Madonna has banned her children from having mobile phones. The sexy singer - who is married to film director Guy Ritchie - insists she would never buy daughter Lourdes, nine, and five-year-old son Rocco phones because it’s unnecessary. She told Radio One: "There’s no way they will be getting phones. That’s not going to be happening."

Earlier this year, Madonna revealed she is a strict parent - and even banned her children from watching TV and eating junk food. The pop diva admits she’s a tough mum and says Rocco and Lourdes live by strict rules. The youngsters have to earn their treats, and if they leave clothes on the floor they end up in the bin. Madonna, 47, said: "My kids don’t watch TV. We have televisions but they’re not hooked up to anything but movies. TV is trash.

I was raised without it. We don’t have magazines or newspapers in the house either. "My daughter has a problem picking things up in her room. So if you leave your clothes on the floor, we put them in a bin bag. She has to earn them back by being tidy."

Madonna and Guy are planning a romantic wedding anniversary - Dec 12, 2020
Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie are planning a romantic wedding anniversary - at the Scottish castle where they tied the knot. The couple are jetting to swanky Skibo Castle - which boasts thousands of acres of stunning countryside in the Scottish Highlands - to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary next week. The pair are reportedly leaving Madonna’s daughter Lourdes, nine, and Rocco, her five-year-old son with film director Guy, with relatives so they can focus on each other.

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Biography

Madonna Louise Ciccone was born in Michigan USA in 1958., the third of eight children. During her school years she was a cheerleader, excelled in dance and drama classes which gave her the love of performing that she is famous for. Moving to New York in 1977 to pursue her dream, (with a rumoured $35 dollars to her name) Madonna worked as a model and studied dance under notorious choreographer Alvin Ailey. Two years later she formed a band, The Breakfast Club and met boyfriend Steve Bray who recognised her talents immediately and helped her to create the solo dance tracks which saw her signed by Sire Records, releasing her first single, Everybody, with DJ Mark Kamins, in 1982.

The following year Madonna broke away from Kamins and recorded Holiday which went straight in to the American top 20 and was a hit across Europe. She cemented her raunchy image with Like A Virgin, her first US number one, and Material Girl with it’s iconic video. By this time Madonna was becoming one of the most emulated and best loved artists in the world and she became even more popular thanks to her part in Live Aid and a high profile marriage to Sean Penn.

The pop diva followed up her success with several singles from the True Blue album and turned her hand to acting for the first time in the poorly received A Certain Sacrifice and of course, Desperately Seeking Susan. Her first real flop was alongside her husband in the laughable Shanghai Surprise. Her failure’s in the film department didn’t stop David Mamet from casting her in a Broadway production of Speed the Plow - by this time talent or no, Madonna’s was name that guaranteed attention.

1989 saw the singer court controversy with the video for Like A Prayer, featuring a black Jesus, which outraged and shocked the Catholic church and caused Pepsi to cancel a sponsorship deal. But far from ruining her career, this stunt saw her become the icon that we know today. The 1990s were the pinnacle of Madonna’s success, her divorce from Sean Penn pushing her further in to the lime light, beginning with a part in Dick Tracy opposite Warren Beatty and a fantastic soundtrack album alongside featuring hit song Vogue. Documentary film Truth or Dare and her Blonde Ambition tour (with that pointy bra) followed with further controversy.

In 1992 she signed a multi million pound deal with Time Warner guaranteeing the release of music, films and books through her own record label, Maverick. She made the most of the deal with picture book Sex, which caused another controversy but rocketed up the bestsellers charts nonetheless. Erotica was her first album for years though not to generate a US number one. People thought that perhaps Madonna had gone too far with her need to shock, and perhaps she had realised it too as her next album was far mellower and a part in Evita in 1996 made her bankable again.

Later that year she fell pregnant with Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon, daughter of her personal trainer. But far from slowing her work, having a child only seemed to spur Madonna on, she released the runaway success, Ray of Light which produced hit after hit and recorded Beautiful Stranger for the second Austin Powers movie. she also starred alongside Rupert Everett in romantic comedy The Next Best Thing.

It was around this time that Madonna met British director Guy Ritchie - the man who would change her life. They had son Rocco in 2000 and they married in 2002 after Madonna moved permanently to England, took to wearing flat caps and drinking tea. The title track of her album Music gave her a transatlantic number one hit. Collaborations with Ritchie, especially their film Swept Away, have generally been unsuccessful but Madonna’s music career continues to go from strength to strength, her latest album American Life has been a worldwide hit and she has even found time to pen a children’s book, The English Roses. Now, an honorary Brit and devout follower of Kaballah, Madonna lives with her family in Marylebone and Wiltshire. She also owns a ?4 million Spanish-style villa in Beverly Hills, a house in Miami and a duplex overlooking Central Park in New York.
(Updated April 04)
December 2007