The second part of the conversation with Madonna was held in the Royal room at the hotel in Budapest, and singer, who rarely returns to his past, suddenly burst into memories. Independent life of the Madonna, who grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, began almost six years old when her mother died. Already then it was clear that the girl is a complete extrovert: in his first contest of young talents she has performed with the makeup that is applied directly on the body. After his scandal with his father, Madonna threw the University of Michigan, where he studied modern dance, and in 1978 he moved to new York to become a model and to dance in clubs like CBGB. On the debut album of 1983 "Madonna" were hits - "Holyday" and "Lucky Star," and appeared a year later drive "Like A Virgin" catapulted her to the top League. Performance in stockings on the MTV Video Music Awards secured success, and it became clear that this girl need to be considered.
After a quarter-century Madonna continues to work on our own image. Recently appeared on the shelves of a collection of her best hits "Celebration" - a double CD compilation with a thirty-six singles (starting with "Everybody", was released in October of 1982) and two new songs, one of which is collaboration with Lill Wayne "Revolver". Starts the record with the number "Hung Up". "Because it's a hole song", explains Madonna. But not only so: it is "Hung Up" is the most successful recording of the singer's career - the single topped the charts in forty-five countries. When Madonna appears in front of me for the first time, her face still seems flushed after exercise. She is dressed in blue-black top with a pentagram-heart. Left hand blonde adorns the famous Kabbalistic ribbon. On the face of the singer is no trace of makeup, and speech can be traced only a weak notes that British accent, which she had found in the last ten years. Perhaps, now is the perfect English pronunciation Madonna no longer good for anything: a year ago, she divorced guy Ritchie and bought a new official residence in new York - a massive townhouse in the Upper East side. Twenty years ago, with the singer was unable to talk, say, about the breakup of her marriage to Sean Penn. But now everything has changed, and, on the assurances of the Madonna, emotional calm, she should thank Kabbalah. "I don't think I was particularly cruel and heartless in the past, but in those days I could gossip about people or just say things without thinking, " says the blonde. - Kabbalah completely changed my perspective on things, and I learned otherwise look at the world. Now I am responsible for my words and no longer look at people from the point of view of the victim". Of course, I am interested in, as I call her: Madonna? miss Ciccone? Madge? "All who know me, come to me Em, " says singer. - Madge is, for example, the British press. I've heard two versions of the origin of this moniker. The first is that the Brits want to call me, as it is called Housewives, although I never was a housewife. The second - which is short for "majesty" ("Majesty"). Needless to say, the second option appeals to me much more".
- You grew up in Pontiac, a suburb of Detroit, where they listened to music mostly at parties with BBQ facilities, and most people on these holidays were African Americans. Remember those times?
"Then in Vogue was Motown. He sounded almost everywhere. Stevie wonder, Diana Ross, The Jackson 5 - that's where I grew up. But when I went into high school, we moved to another suburb, where lived mostly white clerks. There were all these home parties and music that could rattle from the open door of the house opposite. Of course, I immediately became lonely and I started to build its own world. So I became more closed, but chose a new craft dancers and began to walk available on my concerts.
"I wonder what kind of concerts do you mean?
- I came to David Bowie in Detroit Cobo Hall, when I was fifteen. Together with him were mimes. It was just amazing. The second show was Elton John, and the third is Bob Marley. Not so bad, right? Pretty funny to know that you inspired exactly Bowie. This is all because many perceive me as a child of the disco era. And my older brothers in the cellar listened to The Who, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin. Oh and I'm with them at the same time.
- Speaking of The Who - you've played them a number of "Baba O Riley" at the contest of young talents.
Then I asked her to paint me a fluorescent body paint - flaming hearts, flowers. I had on shorts and tops that barely covered Breasts. In General, on the stage I have slightly gone mad: I never blinded spotlights and strobe. I think everybody in the hall quickly became clear that with me something not globally. It was my debut on the stage. Think of the times I started my career as a provocateur. After this performance girlfriend with me stopped talking, and the boys watched as analisando. What to do - that was my purpose.
- You moved to new York, leaving the University of Michigan to become a dancer. And the role of the singer when he decided to test myself?
Circumstances dictated terms. I was a dancer and began auditioning for musical theatre, and there I was asked to sing. Most people on these auditions sang much more professional than I am: they come with notes and gave them to the accompanist. As for me, I could only sing something from what I heard on the radio. Well, for example, a song Aretha Franklin - I can imagine how bad I was.
In 1979 you lived in Queens with Dan and ed Gilroy who had a band called Breakfast Club. In the end you joined. At the same time you wrote your first song...
- It was called "Tell The Truth". And although it was only four chord, for me, this event has become almost a religious revelation. The guys just left the drummer, and I took his place. Once at CBGB I persuaded the boys to let me sing a song with guitar. At the microphone I liked it.
- Three years later you signed a contract with Sire Records. The first time you heard yourself on the radio?
Then I lived in the Upper East side, at the corner of 99 St and riverside. It was seven o'clock in the evening, I just listened to disco station KTU, and here was my first single "Everybody". Then I said to myself: "Oh my God, I'm singing from the receiver! "
- You, probably, the father immediately called?
"No, of course. Very much doubt that it would greatly impressed.
But the celebration surely took place?
At that time I was constantly hanging out with artists, graffiti artists, among them were Futura 2000, Keith Hering, Jean-Michel Basquiat. Jean-Michel introduced me to Andy Warhol. I remember we were in a Japanese restaurant between Second Avenue and Seventh Street, where the whale had just painted the walls, and Basquiat said he was jealous of my success on radio. Because he thought that I had found a more accessible form of art to impress more people. Warhol then said to Jean-Michel stop whining.
- Hering died of AIDS in 1990, Basquiat from an overdose in 1988 M. Both were the brightest artists of his generation. It is hard to believe that you spoke. As it happened acquaintance?
- Keith introduced me guy, with whom we rented an apartment, but by the time I have seen the works of Jean-Michel on the walls of the city, in the subway and on buildings. Since we started clubbing - Danceteria, Mudd Club, The Roxy. We danced, we hung guys from the art group of The Rock Steady on the streets we watched breakdancers. Steep time was.
- And you yourself graffiti was doing?
- On the walls, in the subway, on the sidewalk...
- Do you have a nickname, probably was?
- Accurately. I called the Fight -.
- Wow! And who invented it?
It could only be Futura. Very clever fellow. He was completely covered with drawings my bedroom from the inside, when I lived on the 99 th. The landlord barely I was not killed. We had the whole gang - Debi of Mazar (Hollywood actress - approx. RS) including. We called ourselves "Web Girls", from the Spanish word "huevos" - "eggs". A very precise definition: girls with eggs.
- You probably have a picture of Warhol, häring and Basquiat?
A few paintings each. Keith and Andy did four paintings for me as a wedding gift when I was getting married to Sean. They took the paintings for the first band of the New York Post. Then just walked out my Nude photos in Playboy and Penthouse, and carrying on the page with my face said, "I'm not ashamed". They started to draw directly on top of these pages. Pictures are still stored in my house in Los Angeles. I still have my leather jacket, painted by Keith Herring, with him I will never part with in life.
- Few people know that to create a "Material Girl" and "Like A Virgin" you really had nothing. What did you think when you first heard the demo?
They both liked me: ironic, provocative, but personally to me they do not really fit. The material side of the question I was interested not primarily a virgin I was not, and indeed did not understand what was meant by this phrase: "Like a virgin". But I liked the play on words, and I thought that in these songs, they are not stupid. Even abstruse, very cool.
- So you were not materialista?
I would be happy to buy the paintings of Frida Kahlo and live in a luxurious house, but then I understood that I can do without it. I had enough internal resources, and if I was even in a forest hut, I was able to turn a situation to their advantage. Happiness does not depend on the objective world.
- In the text of the song "Devil Wouldn't Recognize You" with "Hard Candy" has the words: "I should just go away / over and over Again I must go back". It's about your divorce with guy Ritchie?
For me, last year was a year of trials. I think that really saved me, and thank God that I had something to do. I could throw out the window. Life is a constant adaptation. It is always different. My sons now not with me, they cared for the father, and it is not too good. There are many "pros" and "cons", but I definitely will solve their problems.
- You once said: "there Were times when I thought that if I knew what the taste of glory, you did not try so hard to achieve it". What do you now think about this?
When you're all the world begin to understand, it means that your career has come to an end. My work has allowed me to do a bunch of things that music does not have any relation. Why I should be uneasy about his career, if, say, my work has helped many people in Africa to change your life for the better? I'll tell you what: yesterday I felt that I got up on the wrong foot. And thank God that interview with us today.
- So you are grumpy?
- Every day I have there are moments when I feel that my words and actions can really hurt people. This usually happens when I Wake up in the morning and when I go to bed. Then I think: "What am I going to do with your day? " - and then: "Well, what have I done with my day? "
- Probably, for the most part you are satisfied?
-Sometimes Yes, but sometimes I feel humiliated or feel that you did not bring in the lives of others is nothing but emptiness and chaos. But I'm still a real person. And when I make mistakes, I always need to learn to forgive yourself.
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