Madonna

Madonna Louise Ciccone was born in Bay City, Michigan, and grew up in the suburbs of Detroit before moving to New York to dance. She came out of the downtown club scene there, and her early singles on Sire, "Holiday" among them, were built for the dancefloor. "Like a Virgin", "Like a Prayer" and "Vogue" followed, each with a video and an image that drew as much attention as the song.

Her later records leaned into whoever was moving dance music forward at the time: William Orbit's electronic textures on Ray of Light, and Stuart Price's continuous club mix on Confessions on a Dance Floor, which carried the ABBA-sampling "Hung Up". Madonna's tours, from Blond Ambition to the career-spanning Celebration Tour, are staged as choreographed productions with costume changes, set pieces and reworked arrangements of the hits.