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...

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...

Madonna returned Tuesday to the orphanage where she found David Banda, the young Malawian boy she hopes to adopt. The pop star was also accompanied by her 9-year-old daughter, Lourdes.Children at the church-run Home of Hope orphanage in Mchinji, a village near the Zambian border,...

Malawi is preparing for a return visit by pop star Madonna, whose efforts to adopt a Malawian toddler last fall sparked an international controversy.The singer's New York-based publicist, Liz Rosenberg, said Madonna was going to Africa to continue her work with the Raising Malawi organization,...

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