Iconic pop star Madonna has dedicated a tribute to her brother Cristopher Ciccone, who passed away recently and said that before his death the two had met after a long estrangement, reported E! Online. The two shared a close bond and Christopher died on October 4 from cancer before releasing a tell-all book about their relationship. ADVERTISEMENT took to her Instagram handle and wrote an emotional post dedicated to her brother and posted several pictures of the two.

"My brother Christopher is gone. He was the closest human to me for so long. It's 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." Talking about their bond, she shared, "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. 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." The ace singer continued, "And again we took each other's hands, and we danced through the madness of New York City! 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.