Born Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone in August of 1958, in Detroit, U.S.A, she is the daughter of Sylvio Ciccone and Madonna Ciccone. Madonna's birth mother died of cancer when Madonna was only five years old.Her father Sylvio Ciccone employed a housekeeper named Joan Gostafson and married ... She has  3 sisters, Melanie, Paula and Jennifer (half sister) and 4 brothers Martin, Christopher, Anthony and Mario (half brother). She studied dance with a choreographer, Christopher Flyn. did some modeling and ended up in a couple of pop/dance groups before signing with Sire Records in 1982. Madonna's first album Madonna came out in 1983 and since then she's had a string of hits, been a major influence in the music industry and become an international Icon.

Father: Sylvio Ciccone, design engineer for Chrysler/General Motors
Mother: Madonna Ciccone/ died of breast cancer
Stepmother: Joan
Husband: Guy Ritchie
Brother: Martin, D.J.
Brother: Anthony, TV production assistant
Sister: Paula Mae, producer
Brother: Christopher, artist
Sister: Melanie Henry, publicist for Opal Records
Half-sister: Jennifer Ciccone
Half-brother: Mario Ciccone
Daughter: Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon
Born October 14, 1996 ( Father, Carlos Leon )
Son: Rocco Ritchie
Born August 11, 2000 ( Father, Guy Ritchie )

Education:
University of Michigan; Dance, attended on scholarship for two years
Madonna is also one of the most commercially successful artists in the History of Popular music.