WATCH: An emotional new look at Madonna’s early days & relationship with her late brother
George Michael: Outed docu-series), Becoming Madonna will premiere on the British network Sky on Dec. 30, telling “one of the greatest origin stories in pop.”As any fan will tell you, Madonna’s beginnings are the stuff of legend.
Born a small-town Michigan girl, she eventually packed her bags and moved to the big city with little more than $35 a dream: To become a superstar.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Ogden’s unofficial doc begins in 1978, right as she first steps foot in NYC, and tracks her stratospheric assent up through 1992, fashioning herself into the It Girl, who was never afraid to reinvent herself again and again and again, from promising ingenue to reigning pop provocateur.Madonna’s self-titled debut album was released exactly 40 years ago and the world has never been the same since.But Becoming Madonna also boasts recently uncovered audio recordings previously unheard by the public, featuring the then-rising starlet musing on her life and career thus far, and laying out her ambitious (yet as we know now, ultimately achievable) hopes and dreams.Per a report from Attitude, the film will also incorporate “intimate recordings” from many who were closest with the icon during her early days in New York, including a few who apparently have never been featured in a documentary before.Though the specifics of who, exactly, that might be are yet to be revealed, a close listen at the new trailer for Becoming Madonna provides some clues:For one, that’s most definitely the voice of Madonna’s late brother Christopher Ciccone recounting, “She was our mother’s namesake.
It either crushes you or it elevates you.”Ciccone followed in his sister’s footsteps in 1982, moving to NYC to support her burgeoning career and even becoming a backup dancer in some of her earliest music videos.
