Madonna Biography and Works.

Madonna was born on August 16, 1958. She is an American singer songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Throughout her career, many of her songs have hit number one on the record charts, including “Like Virgin”, “Papa Don’t Preach”, “Like a Prayer”, “Vogue”, “Frozen”, “Music”, “Hung Up”, and “4 Minutes”. Critics have praised Madonna for her diverse musical productions, while at the same time serving as a lightning rod for religious controversy.

She won critical acclaim and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her role in Evita (1996), but has received harsh feedback for her other film roles. Madonna’s other ventures include being a fashion designer, children’s book author, film director and producer. Madonna has been acclaimed as a businesswoman. In 1992, she founded the entertainment company Maverick as a joint venture with the ‘Time Warner’. In 2007, she signed an unprecedented US $120 million contract with Live Nation.

Madonna has sold more than 300 million records worldwide and is recognized as the world’s top-selling female recording artist of all time by the ‘Guinness World Records’, according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA),

In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked Madonna at number two, behind only The Beatles, on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists, making her the most successful solo artist in the history of the Billboard chart. She was also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the same year.

Trivia

Madonna owns a chihuahua named Chiquita.

Quote

“Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.”