Madonna is an artist that has been around for years. I am going to use her in my senior project to find out things about her life and the many things she as an artist has accomplish, and what she has plan for her future. How she had affective millions of people with her songs. Madonna has been in the music business for over 20 years now.
             Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone who is named after her mother, was born in Bay City, Michigan in August 16, 1958. Now turning the age of 43 Madonna remembers her childhood " I felt like Cinderella with a wicked stepmother. I couldn't wait to escape." (Severson 30) . Madonna was placed under the care of a housekeeper who eventually married their father. Madonna has five siblings, and as the middle child she was never home.
             In Junior high Madonna was in drama classes dance classes and took private ballet lessons. She went throughout her high school years she did fine. She graduated with a scholarship to the University of Michigan. She only went to Michigan State for two
             years then left to New York with less than a $100.00 in her pocket. Madonna who is in now in New York didn't have any clue what she was going to do. All she wanted was to get away from her house and family. Madonna went months with out a job, but then she worked as an artist's model and posed in nude pictures. " Her first professional work came with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater." (Singer 9) . In 1979- 1982 she was a back up singer to a disco star Patrick Hernandez. " Mark Kamins a deejay saw her at a night club. " (5) . Mark made a couple of phone calls and made contacts and found managers to come out and take a look at her. In 1981 Camille Barbone became her manager, and signed with Sire Records a division of Warner Brothers. With Warner Brothers she made her first album.
             Madonna is the name of her first album, which was released in 1983. The album didn't have much radio coverage until it was
             played at nightclubs....