Madonna grieves death of ‘closest human’, brother Christopher Ciccone Madonna shares heartfelt tribute after death of brother Christopher Ciccone Madonna paid a tribute to her late brother Christopher Ciccone after he died battling cancer at the age of 63 on Friday. “My brother Christopher is gone,” the Material Girl hitmaker began a lengthy caption over a post, taking to her Instagram page on Sunday. “He was the closest human to me for so long.
Its [sic] hard to explain our bond.” “But it grew out of an understanding that we were different and society was going to give us a hard time for not following the status quo.” “We took each other‘s hands and we danced through the madness of our childhood In fact dance was a kind of superglue that held us together.
Discovering Dance in our small Midwestern town saved me and then my brother came along, and it saved him too,” she added. “My ballet Teacher, also named Christopher- created a safe space for my brother to be Gay. a word that was not spoken or even whispered where we lived.
When I finally got the courage to go to New York to become a Dancer. My brother followed. And again we took each other’s hands, and we danced through the madness of New York City!” the Queen of Pop continued.
“We devoured Art and Music And Film like hungry animals we were in the epicenter of all of these things exploding. We danced through the madness of the AIDS epidemic. We went to funerals and we cried, and we went dancing.