Madonna has paid tribute to her brother Christopher Ciccone describing him as “the closest thing to me for so long” after he died at the age of 63. Her brother who was an an artist, dancer and designer, who appeared in her music videos such as Lucky Star, art directed her Blond Ambition World Tour and served as tour director for The Girlie Show tour, died on Friday in Michigan after being diagnosed with cancer. In a post on Instagram, Madonna said Ciccone was in “so much pain towards the end”.
“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. “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, 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 epicentre of all of these things exploding.
“We danced through the madness of the Aids epidemic. “We.
