Madonna (Madonna album) the single. He took her to his boss Chris Blackwell, who owned Island Records, but Blackwell refused to sign Madonna so they approached Sire Records. Michael Rosenblatt, who worked in the artists and repertoire department of Sire, offered Madonna $5,000 in advance, plus $1,000 in royalties, for each song she wrote. Madonna was ultimately signed for two 12" singles by the President of Sire, Seymour Stein, who was impressed by her singing, after listening to "Everybody" at a hospital in Lenox Hill where he was admitted. The 12" version of "Everybody" was produced by Mark Kamins at Blank Tapes Studios
Grupo Taller de Estocolmo Grupo Taller de Estocolmo The Grupo Taller de Estocolmo (Stockholm Workshop Group) was an assembly of Chilean writers founded in 1977, in Sweden, by the poets Sergio Infante, Adrián Santini, Carlos Geywitz, Sergio Badilla Castillo and the prose writer Edgardo Mardones. The Grupo Taller de Estocolmo had a leading role in the diffusion of Chilean and Hispano-American Literature during the final decades of the 20th century in Scandinavia. It was supported by the Swedish writer Sun Axelsson, who served as a link with the intellectual circles in the Nordic countries for the exiled writers who had arrived in the Swedish