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No doubt, losing Madonna to Live Nation in what's quickly become regarded as a historic deal (worth a reported $120 million), was a huge blow to Warner Bros. Records, her home for the last 25 years.
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Madonna embarked on a new creative venture as a children’s book author with the publication of The English Roses in 2003. It and her subsequent books drew on themes and lessons from the Kabbalah, a Jewish mystical tradition in which Madonna has taken an interest since 1997. Madonna lives in England with her husband, her daughter Lourdes, born in 1996, and her son Rocco, born in 2000. In 2006 she adopted a one-year-old boy in Malawi, where she planned to fund a center for AIDS orphans.
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In October, 2007 Madonna announced her departure from record company Warner Bros. and a new $120 million, 10 year contract with pop concert promoters Live Nation. She will be the founding recording artist for the new music division, Artist Nation, and the deal will consist of albums, tours, merchandise and promotion.[117] The Warner Bros. deal will be completed with her 2008 forthcoming studio album and compilation album due at the end of the year.
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In 1985 Madonna released her second #1 single Crazy For You, included as part of the soundtrack for the wrestling flick Vision Quest. The film ... featured a brief appearance by the singer, foreshadowing her more prominent role later in the year opposite Rosanna Arquette in Susan Seidelman's Desperately Seeking Susan; Susan also made use of her track Into the Groove, previously released as the flipside of the Angel single and giving the record an added boost in sales. It was for this role that she would earn her most positive criticial notices -- something that would remain elusive throughout her subsequent acting career. Madonna's enormous commercial success continued to grow in response to her third effort True Blue (1986), which spent 5 weeks at the top of the US album charts and launched three more #1 singles (Live to Tell, Papa Don't Preach, Open Your Heart) and two more top 5 singles (La Isla Bonita and the title track). It also continued the tradition of controversy established with Like a Virgin -- this time centering around her paen to teenage pregnancy Papa Don't Preach.
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Set for release March 9th is Madonna's "CIAO ITALIA: LIVE FROM ITALY," a platinum-certified home video first released on VHS in l988. Considered one of Madonna's most spectacular and provocative live performances, the concert takes place at an outdoor stadium in Turin, Italy, and features such Madonna favorites as "Material Girl," "Open Your Heart," "Like A Virgin," "Live To Tell" and "Holiday."
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Madonna crisscrossed the globe last year for her tour, 'Confessions,' which drew over 1 million fans and grossed $194 million, making it the top-earning tour by a female artist in history. NBC cut the Material Girl a hefty check to broadcast the 'Confessions' tour live last November, though ratings proved disappointing. In March, the always-fashion-forward singer linked up with retailer H&M for her own clothing line, M. (Rhinestones a-plenty, but no cone bras.) Generated a maelstrom of negative publicity last year for her adoption of a baby in Malawi.
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