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Madonna (born Madonna Louise Ciccone; August 16, 1958) is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance. After performing as a member of the pop musical groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her self-titled debut album Madonna in 1983 on Sire Records.

A series of hit singles from her studio albums Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986) gained her global recognition, establishing her as a pop icon for pushing the boundaries of lyrical content in mainstream popular music and imagery in her music videos, which became a fixture on MTV. Her recognition was augmented by the film Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) which widely became seen as a Madonna vehicle, despite her not playing the lead. Expanding on the use of religious imagery with Like a Prayer (1989), Madonna received positive critical reception for her diverse musical productions, while at the same time receiving criticism from religious conservatives and the Vatican. In 1992, Madonna founded the Maverick corporation, a joint venture between herself and Time Warner. The same year, she expanded the use of sexually explicit material in her work, beginning the release of the studio album Erotica, followed by the publishing of the coffee table book Sex, and starring in the erotic thriller Body of Evidence, all of which received negative responses from conservatives and liberals alike.

In 1996, Madonna played the starring role in the film Evita, for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy. Madonna’s seventh studio album Ray of Light (1998) became one of her most critically acclaimed, recognized for its lyrical depth. During the 2000s, Madonna released four studio albums, all of which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Departing from Warner Bros. Records, Madonna signed an unprecedented $120 million dollar contract with Live Nation in 2008.

Madonna has sold more than 200 million albums worldwide. She is ranked by the Recording Industry Association of America as the best-selling female rock artist of the 20th century and the second top-selling female artist in the U.S., with 64 million certified albums. Guinness World Records listed her as the world’s most successful female recording artist of all time. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked Madonna at number two, behind only The Beatles, on the “Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists”, making her as the most successful solo artist in the history of Billboard Hot 100 chart. She was also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the same year. Considered to be one of the most influential women in contemporary music, Madonna has been known for continually reinventing both her music and image and for retaining a standard of autonomy within the recording industry. She is recognized as an influence among numerous music artists.

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Lee Hyori (Korean: 이효리), born May 10, 1979, is a singer and actress in Korea. Been a member of the highly successful Pop Fin.KL girl, but she shines when pursuing a solo career.

Solo career

Since splitting from Fin.KL girl group and solo career in 2005, Lee Hyori has quickly become one of the hottest names in music theater young Korean.

Lee attract young audiences by performing sexy style, beauty boast shown on the full integrity of fashion magazines, music, South Korea’s leading same video clip hot. Therefore, the Asian press not hesitate to donate just 28 years old singer for her nickname “Britney Spears of Asia.

To date, the album was released three years turn, Lee Hyori is considered one of the richest female singer country kimchi. November last year, Lee has signed a three year contract with entertainment company M-Net and become the “most expensive female artist of Korea” After this agreement, Lee has been working to work, she appeared on many magazines, participated in a drama series (Like these love with Lee Dong Gun) and launching new single, Toc Toc Toc, on 25/2 just then. Once Toc Toc Toc was broadcast SBS, the song was captured vibrant sympathy of young music fans.

Along with back stage music young, Lee Hyori also promises to bring a new image – the bright, cute different brands “her sexy” that the press has given her this long then.

Currently she unfinished jewelry market access music in Japan – a major market for the majority of Korean artists.
Fashion

Lee Hyori is considered one of the leading Asian stars in fashion. Lee Hyori separated from the girl group to develop Fin.KL solo career in 2003, the singer was giving her a mark of its own: it is brown leather ball, regular full body, with the S-curve full of charm.
Album

First album in the career of Lee is the catalog number Stylish E consumption and reached more than 170,000 copies in Korea alone. To create a completely different image – boost your gear skin with water attractions, and a sexy style performances – Lee Hyori conquered the young music fans. The album also brought back to Lee music awards most prestigious, with more than 7 Daesangs Entertainment Awards “Female artist of the year” other.

Second solo album, titled Dark Angel of Hyori made feedback and launched in February 2006.

Acting

This year, Lee Hyori cheer and promise a return to the small screen impression as an actress in TV drama If In Love … Like Them with actor Lee Dong Gun. This is the second TV movie of her career after the dramas of three leaves of grass KBS (2004) not very successful. This year, she will participate as guest series On Air.Mot series famous SBS about the lives of celebrities and the truth about entertainment industry in Korea.