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I remember a young Madonna in the early eighties and the beginning of the MTV era. Her debut album "Madonna" was released on April 24, 1982, her songs like Holiday, Borderline and Lucky Star made the top 100 singles. Her album had sold three million copies worldwide. In 1984, Madonna would perform "Like a Virgin" at the first MTV Video Music award show. She was wearing a wedding gown and lacy stockings laying on the stage looking sexy and being provocative. Madonna would continue to be provocative through most of her career.

Madonna was born on August 16, 1958. Her full name is Madonna Louise Ciccone. She was born in Bay City, Detroit. She was very intelligent young girl in high school, a straight "A" student. She later attended the University of Michigan for a couple of years. Madonna quit college and went to New York to become a dancer. She would come to New York City with thirty five dollars in her pocket, stating that it was the bravest thing she has ever done. Madonna's early jobs in New York were working at "Dunkin Donuts" and a nude model. She also would perform for several dance companies in New York.

Madonna would form her first a rock band "The Breakfast Club" she already knew how to sing, play the guitar and drums before she started her band. Madonna and her former boyfriend Stephen Bray would write and produce dance songs which caught the interest of the New York clubs. Madonna demo recordings amazed record producer Mark Kamin, who let the founder of Sire Records Seymour Stein listen to the recording. This was the break Madonna needed and she would rule the eighties with her music. Her albums in the eighties included; "Madonna" (1983), "Like a Virgin" (1984), "True Blue" (1986) "You Can Dance" (1987) and "Like a Prayer". (1989) she also did the soundtrack for "Who's That Girl".

The early nineties seem to be about Madonna's sexuality, her freedom of expression. Her music video in 1990 "Justify My Love" a black and white film with sexual material, bondage with gays and lesbians with a crucifix to add to the controversy of video. MTV would show it late at night, but eventually it was banned from the music channel. In 1992, Madonna was not done with controversial music videos. Madonna's "Erotica" music video would only be shown three times on MTV because of the strong sexual content. The album "Erotica" would label a porn album with most of the tracks having songs with sexual contents. A couple years later would be no more controversy just good music.

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