d. This geared her intuition towards singing and dancing. It was only high school but already she was the star! She was given the lead role in many of her schools productions. When Madonna moved in with her grandmother she was introduced to ballet. Madonna began classes and met a guy named Christopher Flynt. She grew really close to him. She recalls "I really loved him. He was my mentor, my father, my imaginary lover, everything"(Bego 42). Madonna was only seventeen and a high school graduate in 1976. Her ambition to be noticed brought her to NYC.
             Madonna tried out for a scholarship and won at the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater. She spent the next two years of her life working hard to get noticed. She Worked in the day and danced at clubs in the night. At one club the Blue Froggie, she met Steve Bray. He was a talented musician but their relationship was more on the physical plane. A while later she met Dan Gilroy and moved in with him. With the help of Dan she discovered music and began to sing. Madonna auditioned for theater and musical parts for a play called Patrick Hernendes. They offered her a lot of pay and a recording contract. She agreed and became their lead singer. The producers found her to be very talented but they did not do anything to help her career out. When she realized this she tried to go back to NY. Every thing became even more complicated, when she came down with pneumonia and was sent to the hospital. After six months she was better and she went to NY. Once home she moved back in with Dan Gilroy.
             Dan needed a drummer for a band, so Madonna took over. Soon she realized that she was going nowhere, so she went off to form her own band. In 1980, she left the band and formed "Emmy" with her ex-boy friend Steve Bray.
             Soon Bray and Madonna began working on some dance/disco oriented tracks. Camille Barbone discovered Madonna sleep...