A few days ago, Madonna worried her fans by having to be admitted to the ICU for a serious bacterial infection. At 64 years old, the artist has had an intense work and family life.
Behind the great star that she is, the vulnerabilities of a woman who has had to face very dramatic moments are also hidden. Madonna has been very concerned these days when it emerged that she had been admitted to the ICU as a result of a serious bacterial infection that has led her to modify her tour schedule. At the moment, she is recovering at her house and is following medical recommendations. She needs to rest, and once her full recovery is clear, her world tour dates will be relocated.
At 64, Madonna was preparing to give it her all on her Celebration Tour, in which she would take a tour of her 40-year hit-filled career. The queen of pop started in Vancouver on July 15 and was scheduled to land in Barcelona on November 1 and 2, but for now, everything is up in the air.
It has been a hard setback for the artist, who has always been characterized by her perfectionism and self-demand. On her previous tour, Madame X Tour, she also had to deal with some physical problems. In December 2020, she shared the scars from a hip operation, which was interpreted as a message of strength for a woman who has denounced ageism in the music industry and has been harshly criticized for her aesthetic interventions.
The death of her mother when she was a child left an indelible mark on her
Madonna is a self-made woman who had to overcome the loss of her mother to cancer when she was only five years old, and a complicated relationship with her father, who remarried. Even so, nothing and no one clipped her wings and she left Michigan with 35 dollars in her pocket and the desire to conquer the world in New York. There she would suffer one of the worst experiences of her life, because she was raped by two strangers in an alley, and she lived in very precarious material conditions.
The pure incarnation of the American dream, Madonna has been one of the most disruptive figures in 20th-century music, since its inception with The First Album, which was released in 1983. A year later, she consecrated herself with Like A Virgin, where s- begins to emerge as a central theme of his discography, to, in 1986, give way to a more vulnerable woman with True Blue, an album in which he sings, among other things, a young woman who became pregnant and did not consider abortion in Papa Don't Preach, or heartbreak with her first husband, Sean Penn, in Live to Tell.
In 1989, Madonna met with outright rejection from the Vatican with the publication of Like a Prayer, in whose video clip she kisses a saint who gets off his stand and becomes flesh and blood, and on The Blond Ambition tour, she simulates female masturbation, with a hypers- wardrobe by Jean-Paul Gaultier, with corsets with the conical and threatening breasts of an empowered woman who advises others not to be conformists in Express Yourself.
She has adopted four children in Malawi who are still minors
Madonna, who has adopted four children in Malawi, David Banda, 17; Mercy James, 16; Stelle and Estere Ciccone, 10, has continued to release albums with varying degrees of success. We're talking about Confessions on a Dance Floor, in which she swept away with a sample of Abba on Hung Up; Hard Candy, for which she recruited Justin Timberlake; MDNA, where she dared to become a cheerleader in the Give Me All Your Luvin' video; Rebel Heart, where she collaborated with the now disgraced Kanye West and the remembered Avicii, and Madame X, where Maluma invited her to Medellín.
One of the hardest moments for Madonna in recent years was the death of her older brother, Anthony Ciccone, last February. He was 66 years old and was the victim of pharyngeal cancer. For years she struggled against alcoholism, ended up homeless, and separated from her family, but months later it emerged that the artist had taken care of her medical expenses at the Michigan hospital where she died.
