How Madonna turned ‘mourning into music’ and ‘hunkered down’ to write No. 1 album after devastating losses
Madonna turned devastating personal losses into one of the most successful albums of her career. “She was really locked in,” a source close to the music icon told Page Six exclusively about the making of “Confessions II,” as she and Stuart Price — who co-produced ‘Confessions II’ and 2005’s ‘Confessions on a Dance Floor’ — “really hunkered down in the studio and wrote the album.” In 2024, the singer’s stepmother, Joan Ciccone, died from “very aggressive cancer,” aged 81.
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Madonna turned devastating personal losses into one of the most successful albums of her career. “She was really locked in,” a source close to the music icon told Page Six exclusively about the making of “Confessions II,” as she and Stuart Price — who co-produced ‘Confessions II’ and 2005’s ‘Confessions on a Dance Floor’ — “really hunkered down in the studio and wrote the album.” In 2024, the singer’s stepmother, Joan Ciccone, died from “very aggressive cancer,” aged 81. Just weeks later, her brother Christopher Ciccone died of cancer at 63. In response to the deaths, the Queen of Pop turned “mourning into music.” The siblings once had an incredibly close relationship at the start of her career when Christopher was one of her backup dancers.
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- Madonna turned devastating personal losses into one of the most successful albums of her career. “She was really locked in,” a source close to the music icon told Page Six exclusively about the making of “Confessions II,” as she and Stuart Price — who co-produced ‘Confessions II’ and 2005’s ‘Confessions on a Dance Floor’ — “really hunkered down in the studio and wrote the album.” In 2024, the singer’s stepmother, Joan Ciccone, died from “very aggressive cancer,” aged 81.
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