Singer and dancer Madonna (Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone, born 1958) is a master marketer and sensational self-promoter who propelled herself to stardom, dominating pop charts, concert halls, film, and music video. She has been called "an outrageous...

In late 1983, an unfamiliar, high, piercing female voice emerged on American pop radio with increasing and puzzling frequency. Shortly thereafter, a sexually obsessed, self-involved, and irregularly clad young woman writhed on music video screens in...

Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie (born August 16 1958) is an American pop singer-songwriter, dancer, record producer, film producer, actress and author. She is a multiple Grammy and Golden Globe-award winner, known for the use of sexual, social and...

Madonna, at age 42 older, but no wiser, embarked on her first tour in eight years. Tickets in Philadelphia and New York went for hundreds of dollars a pop, and that part of the world that pays attention to such things gaped at...

Byline: Marilyn Beck Tribune Media Services Stacy Jenel Smith contributed to this report. The deal could be closed within the week - for Madonna and Goldie Hawn to team in the film version of Chicago. Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein reveals that...

Malawi's chief social welfare official has paid a visit to Madonna's London home, part of a long-delayed assessment into whether the pop idol can adopt a little boy from the African country.Simon Chisale was spotted leaving the singer's home Wednesday afternoon clutching a blue binder,...

Madonna and her 9-year-old daughter, Lourdes, visited a center for street children that benefits from the charity work the pop star is doing in this impoverished southern African country.Madonna, wearing her now familiar straw hat, and Lourdes arrived at the center Wednesday and were whisked...

An analysis of Madonna's personality, using sensation-seeking theory and motivational-needs theory