Madonna (Madonna album) Madonna (Madonna album) Madonna (retitled Madonna: The First Album for the 1985 re-release) is the debut album by American singer Madonna, released on July 27, 1983 by Sire Records. After having established herself as a singer in downtown New York City, Madonna was signed by Sire president Seymour Stein, due to the success of her debut single, "Everybody" (1982). She became the sole writer for most of the album's tracks, and chose Reggie Lucas as its primary producer. Unhappy with Lucas's production outputs, she invited John "Jellybean" Benitez to complete the album, who remixed three tracks and produced "Holiday". "Madonna"
Holly Hunter Hunter's being cast in Henley's plays "Crimes of the Heart" (succeeding Mary Beth Hurt on Broadway), and Off-Broadway's "The Miss Firecracker Contest". "It was like the beginning of 1982. It was on 49th Street between Broadway and Eighth [Avenue] ... on the south side of the street," Hunter recalled in an interview. "[We were trapped] 10 minutes; not long. We actually had a nice conversation. It was just the two of us." Hunter made her film debut in the 1981 horror movie "The Burning". After moving to Los Angeles in 1982, Hunter appeared in TV movies before being cast in