Madonna is an influential and best-selling recording artist. Madonna, whose birth name is Madonna Louise Ciccone, has sold over 250 million records worldwide to date. She began a career as a professional singer and recorded her first hit album "Madonna", in 1983. She would eventually go on to release a total of 12 major studio albums that contained dozens of hit singles. Her early albums helped catapult Madonna to worldwide fame. Her image and style became a hallmark of the 1980s and helped Madonna land her first acting role in the 1985 movie Desperately Seeking Susan. Madonna has frequently operated on the edges, pushing sexual boundaries in her recordings and public performances. She even released a coffee table book that was actually called Sex. The Recording Industry Association of America has ranked Madonna as the Best-Selling Female Rock Artists of the 20th century. She is also the Number Two best-selling female artist in the U.S. with 64 million certified albums sold.
- ISBN10 1304794113
- ISBN13 9781304794116
- Publish Date 13 January 2014
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 March 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook (OEB)
- Language English