In 1985 Madonna debuted in cinema, playing the leading part in the picture titled Desperately Seeking Susan. In 1984, the singer's popularity got so huge after the Like A Virgin disc with the eponymous lead single that the press did not manage to hesitate the audience's love for Madonna even printing her naked photos, shot in the period of her modeling. Fishnet stockings, platinum blonde hair, heavy make up – all the things that contributed to Madonna's sexual image became the essentials of that time fashion. The very first artist's album Madonna was sold out in huge amounts, making her a youth icon. The rest has become a legend long time ago. Her recordings came to the hands of DJ and producer Mike Kamins, and finally, in 1982, the promising vocalist was signed to the Sire Records. She left that group for the Emmy collective in 1980. This meeting was of great significance for the girl, as she and Gilroy formed the band called Breakfast Club, in which Madonna started singing. With the show of dancer Patrick Hernandez Madonna moved to Paris, where she met musician Dan Gilroy. She had to work as a model and in cafes in order to pay for her living. The city met the girl without anticipation. Flying on a plane for the first time in her life, Madonna headed to New York. The reason for such a risky decision was her will to become a ballet-dancer. Having finished the high school, Madonna entered the dance department of the University Of Michigan, but quit her studies in 1977.
However, the girl knew how to amuse herself – she attended ballet classes, got only A-marks at school and was a member of the local cheerleader team. In such surroundings in the suburbs of Detroit the childhood of the future star passed.
The second marriage resulted in two more children, bringing their total number to eight.
Madonna's mother died in 1963, and widowed father married again. According to the genealogical tree of the family, Madonna is a remote relative of Camilla Parker Bowls, the Duchess of Cornwall. Madonna Louise Ciccone, who became Ciccone Ritchie in 2000, was born in Bay City into a many children family of an Italian immigrant and an American woman of French-Canadian descent.