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Madonna – Like A Virgin [Extended Dance Mix] (HQ AV)

1984’s major successful-hit “Like A Virgin” by Madonna. This is the “Extended Dance Mix” version in my own video-mix (re-edited) tribute from the original 12inch Maxi-single classic remix. Hope you’ll enjoy with the “Material Girl”.

Review until 1984s Like A Virgin.- Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone Fortin (born August 16, 1958 in Bay City, MI), better known as Madonna, is an American dance-pop singer-songwriter, dancer, record, film producer and actress. She is a multiple Grammy and Golden Globe-award winner, known for her ambitious music videos, stage performances and use of political, sexual, and religious themes in her work.

Madonna was the third of eight children (her siblings are Martin, Anthony, Christopher, Paula, Melanie, Mario, and Jennifer)born into a large Italian family in Michigan. Her father, Sylvio Ciccone, [a.k.a. Tony] an Italian-American Chrysler engineer whose parents originated from Pacentro, and Madonna Louise Fortin, who was of French-Canadian descent.

She was raised in a Catholic family in the Detroit suburbs of Pontiac and Avon Township (now Rochester Hills). Madonna’s mother died of breast cancer at age 30 on December 1, 1963 when she was only 6 years old.

Madonna convinced her father to allow her to take ballet classes. Her ballet teacher, Christopher Flynn, exposed Madonna to gay discotheques. She attended Rochester Adams High School, where she was a straight-A student and a member of the cheerleading squad.

She left the University of Michigan at the end of her sophomore year, in 1977, and moved to New York City to pursue a dance career.
She had little money and for some time lived in squalor, working low-paying jobs including a stint at Dunkin’ Donuts. She also worked as a nude model. She studied with Martha Graham and Pearl Lang, and later performed with several modern dance companies, including Alvin Ailey and the Walter Nicks dancers.
While performing as a dancer for the French disco artist Patrick Hernandez, on his 1979 world tour, Madonna became involved with the musician Dan Gilroy, with whom she later formed her first rock band, the Breakfast Club. In it, she sang and played drums and guitar before forming the band Emmy in 1980 with drummer and former boyfriend Stephen Bray. She and Bray wrote and produced dance songs that brought her local attention in New York dance clubs. DJ and record producer Mark Kamins was impressed by her demo recordings, so he brought them to the attention of Sire Records founder Seymour Stein.
In 1982, Madonna signed a singles deal with Sire Records, a new wave label belonging to Warner Bros. Records, that paid her $5,000 per song. Her first release, on April 24, 1982, was “Everybody”, a self-written song produced by Mark Kamins. It became a hit on the Billboard Hot Dance/Club Chart but failed to “Physical Attraction” followed in 1983, and was a success on the U.S. dance charts. These results convinced Sire Records’ executives to finance an album.

Her debut album, Madonna, a collection of dance songs, was primarily produced by Reggie Lucas, but in the process both realized they could not work well together. After initial production on the album was completed, Madonna took the record to her then boyfriend, John “Jellybean” Benitez, who remixed and rearranged it. It reached number eight on the U.S. albums chart and contained three successful Hot 100 singles, “Holiday”, “Borderline”, and “Lucky Star”. At the time of its release, Madonna sold three million copies worldwide, one million of those in the U.S. It has since been certified with current sales of 8 million worldwide.

As Madonna rose to fame, her signature look portrayed in photographs, live performances and music videos, became increasingly influential among young women. Defined by lace tops, skirts over Capri pants, fishnet stockings, jewelry bearing the Christian cross, and bleached hair, this distinctive style became an iconic female fashion trend in the 1980s.
Her follow up album, Like a Virgin, became her first number one album on the U.S. albums chart. Buoyed by the success of its title track, Like a Virgin, which reached number one in the U.S. with a six week stay at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart, as well as hit singles with “Material Girl” (#2 US, kept out of the number one spot by USA for Africa’s “We Are the World” single), the Grammy-nominated #1 ballad “Crazy for You”, “Angel”, and “Dress You Up”,(both reached #5) the album sold twelve million copies at its time of release and currently stands at 19 million copies worldwide. It produced four top-five singles in the U.S. and the UK. In 1985 later that year, she appeared in Desperately Seeking Susan. The film introduced the dance song “Into the Groove”, which was released as a B-side to her single “Angel”, peaking at number five in the U.S. and became an international hit, her first number one in the UK.

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