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Madonna was born on the 16th of August 1958 at 7:05 A.M. in Rochester, Michigan, USA. Her family lived in Pontiac, Michigan at the time, but were visiting grandmother in Bay City when Madonna decided to come to the world. She was christened Madonna Louise Ciccone, but her family used to called her 'Little Nonni'. When she was only five years old the mother she loved died of breast cancer. Madonna talks: "One of the hardest thing I`ve faced in my life was the death of my mother and that`s something I really haven`t got over to this day." Madonna learnt to be strong and independent early in life and she carries a clear memory of her mother's courage: "She tried to keep her fear deep down inside and not let us know - she never complained". When the mother died the Ciccone family was torn apart. Madonna and her brothers and sisters were sent to live with various relatives until, after a couple of years to Madonna's horror, her father Tony married their housekeeper Joan Gustafson- a real disciplinarian. Her father insisted that the children have to call his new wife 'mother' but Madonna found that very hard to do. Infact, she never called Joan mother. Madonna was the oldest girl of eight children and that is the reason she caught most of the responsibility. Madonna remembers: "As the oldest girl in my family, I felt like all my adolecence was spent taking care of babies. I think that`s when I really thought about how I wanted to get away from all that.I saw myself as the quintessential cindrella." And about his father Madonna says: "If we didn`t have school homework then father find us something do to around the house - he was very adamant about us being productive." And also, "If my father hadn`t been so strict I wouldn`t be who I am today." When Madonna was small, she loved to hum along to songs on the radio as she helped with the housework.She remembers: "There was always music in our house,either records or the radio or someone singing on the bathtub." Soon her father wanted her to take piano lessons, because most of the family played an musical instrument and his father was really big on that. This was not to be, Madonna was her father's favourite and persuaded him to let her take dance lessons instead!
