{"id":10830,"date":"2015-02-18T16:24:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T15:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/?p=10830"},"modified":"2015-02-19T15:13:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T14:13:14","slug":"madonna-as-4-new-york-iconic-celebrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/2015\/madonna-as-4-new-york-iconic-celebrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna as #4 New York Iconic Celebrity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in January we told you about 1010 WINS<\/a><\/strong> celebrating 50 years as New York\u2019s iconic all-news station, and asking for their listeners’ help to choose the most iconic<\/strong> news makers, movies & TV shows, sports figures, celebrities and foods from the past 50 years.<\/p>\n

The results are now in – CBS New York are revealing the most voted celebrities in a daily count-down which has so far revealed up to the list’s third place, with Madonna<\/strong> starring at #4!<\/p>\n

#2: Liza Minnelli
\n#3: Bette Midler
\n#4: Madonna<\/strong>
\n#5: Frank Sinatra
\n#6: Billy Joel
\n#7: Joan Rivers
\n#8: Robert De Niro
\n#9: Jerry Seinfeld
\n#10: Woody Allen<\/p>\n

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Here is their portrait of the Queen of Pop:<\/p>\n

Known for her ever-changing, chameleon-like persona, Madonna is as much a brand as an individual. A media\u2013savvy trendsetter, Madonna\u2019s uncanny business sense is matched only by her talent. A veritable force of nature, Madonna\u2019s ability to control her image, career and destiny was honed from an early age.<\/p>\n

A Little Girl Grows Up Too Fast<\/h4>\n

The third child to Michigan residents and Italian immigrants Madonna and Tony Ciccone, Madonna Louise Ciccone was nicknamed Nonni to differentiate her from her young mother. When Madonna was 6 years old, her mother lost a battle with breast cancer, leaving the young girl confused and bereft of a maternal figure.
\nDespite her early heartbreak, Madonna excelled in school, getting good marks and gravitating towards dance studies in high school. Madonna\u2019s dance talent was undeniable, and she was awarded a dance scholarship to study at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. She did not graduate, instead choosing to come to New York and study with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.<\/p>\n

An Unkind Welcome to City Life<\/h4>\n

Life in New York was difficult. She began waitressing at Dunkin\u2019 Donuts, but she was unable to pay the bills. Already quite at ease with her physical self, Madonna opted to earn rent money by posing for art students in the nude.
\nShe lived in ramshackle and dangerous apartments and was raped on a rooftop by two men at knifepoint She was also held-up at gun point and was the victim of several apartment robberies. All of this understandably left her shell shocked. However, she was undeterred from her professional goals.<\/p>\n

Turning Hardship Into Triumph<\/h4>\n

Madonna took up the drums and started to sing pop music in the band Breakfast Club. During that time, Madonna also made the rounds as a backup singer and dancer in the New York club and then-thriving disco scene. Eventually, Madonna started to craft her own lyrics, writing songs in partnership with an old college flame. Mark Kamins, a popular DJ, was spinning at New York\u2019s trendy Danceteria club and played her tapes for the crowd, who went wild. Kamins then brought Madonna to the attention of record producer and founder of Sire Records, Seymour Stein, who helped jump start Madonna\u2019s wild ride to stardom. Kamins would produce her first hit, the dance anthem, \u201cEverybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Controlling Her Destiny<\/h4>\n

Madonna continued to record hits and was working on her first album, \u201cMadonna,\u201d for Warner Brothers, when she expressed discontent with the production techniques used on multiple tracks. She turned to then romantic partner, John \u201cJellybean\u201d Benitez, for guidance, and ultimately worked with him on remixing a number of songs and recording her first global monster hit, \u201cHoliday.\u201d She continued to ruffle feathers, feed the industry machine and carve out hit after hit with songs like \u201cMaterial Girl\u201d and \u201cLike a Virgin.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Style Is Born<\/h4>\n

Film roles followed, but it was her upstaging of star Rosanna Arquette in the sleeper film \u201cDesperately Seeking Susan\u201d that brought the full thrust of Madonna\u2019s ability to rule a room, and create trends, to the forefront. \u201cDesperately Seeking Susan\u201d showcased a tantalizing combination of Madonna\u2019s iconic fashion sense and New York City\u2019s coolest, downtown neighborhoods. The combination proved irresistible. Sweet, young teeny boppers competed with their mothers to out-Madonna Madonna\u2019s look, making fingerless lace gloves and crucifixes the go-to accessories of the era.<\/p>\n

Cementing An Ever-Changing Persona<\/h4>\n

Madonna\u2019s music and fashion style continued to morph over the next decade, following nothing other than her own uncanny ability to discern the next big thing and be the first one to create it. Unafraid of controversy, Madonna recorded and released the \u201cLike a Prayer\u201d video, which was condemned by the Vatican for its use of stigmata and sexual content, costing her a contract with Pepsi. Undeterred, Madonna\u2019s music broadened its range, vacillating between spunky pop ballads and dark, edgy sexual melodies. Her Who\u2019s That Girl Tour was all but banned by the Pope in Italy, who urged the faithful to stay away.
\nMadonna\u2019s personal life was also ever changing. A screen collaboration and early marriage to actor Sean Penn delighted fans, but dissolved after four years. A later marriage to director Guy Ritchie, following the birth of their son, Rocco, lasted longer but also dissolved, after eight years.
\nAfter many years of controversy as a performer, her motherly side shone through and Madonna made headlines for a new reason, with the controversial adoptions of two children from Malawi, Africa.<\/p>\n

An Icon, a Legacy and a Woman<\/h4>\n

Currently, Madonna continues to turn heads, make trends and she\u2019s doing it all her way. A clothing line, Material Girl, is designed with her daughter, Lourdes, and her health clubs, Hard Candy Fitness, have expanded internationally.
\nShe has sold over 300 million records throughout her career and paved the way for generations of women new to the music business.
\nHer social conscience has expanded, leading to benefit performances for Malawi and Haiti.
\nIn her 50s and still astonishingly gorgeous, Madonna\u2019s love life also continues to sizzle. Her current beau is 26-year-old dancer Timor Steffens.<\/p>\n

Read more at 1010 WINS<\/a><\/strong>
\nThanks to MadonnaTribe friend and contributor digitalfreaknyc<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in January we told you about 1010 WINS<\/a><\/strong> celebrating 50 years as New York\u2019s iconic all-news station, and asking for their listeners’ help to choose the most iconic<\/strong> news makers, movies & TV shows, sports figures, celebrities and foods from the past 50 years.<\/p>\n

The results are now in – CBS New York are revealing the most voted celebrities in a daily count-down which has so far revealed up to the list’s third place, with Madonna<\/strong> starring at #4! Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/1010WINS.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5eFGP-2OG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10830"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10868,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830\/revisions\/10868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}