“While Madonna holds the title of Pop’s Queen, she first and foremost identifies as a mother. As the ‘Vogue’ singer approaches her eightieth performance during her ‘Celebration’ tour, she took some time to honor the talents that kept her going after experiencing a severe bacterial infection prior to kicking off this massive journey onstage in 2022. On Instagram Thursday afternoon Madonna lauded each of her six children for contributing their own unique flair and unbridled enthusiasm throughout every practice leading up to what ultimately proved as quite an ill-timed scare in late summer ’21 that necessitated hospitalization for weeks on end while also putting rehearsals at a near standstill.
The singer’s daughter Mercy James, now 18 years old and playing the piano during her mother’s midshow rendition of “Bad Girl” from the artist’s seminal 1992 ‘Erotica’ release proves Madonna has no shortage of family members with musical chops. Meanwhile, David Banda (also 18) joins in by way of electric guitar for her ongoing show as well, while six-year old twins Estere and Stella help add flair during the tour’s ‘Vogue’ sequence via DJing duties and runway modeling respectively.
In Madonna’s previous concert trek, 2019’s “Madame X,” her eldest daughter Lourdes Leon served as a solo dancer in an elaborate video centerpiece set to the singer’s ‘Frozen.’ The pop icon also shares son Rocco Ritchie (age 23) with director Guy Ritchie.
Rehearsals for this tour began over one year ago, but were put on hold while Madonna made her recovery back from that terrifying hospital stint at the close of summer last season which threatened to derail everything she had planned in terms of getting ready for what would ultimately become a highly-anticipated world jaunt. Thankfully however all those rehearsals resumed as scheduled and both David Banda & Mercy James managed to finish their studies while simultaneously putting on the sort of practice that has truly paid off now, given Madonna’s praise this week alone for what they accomplished throughout her most recent preparatory process leading up to today.
As we get ever-closer in the immediate present tense as the legendary diva closes yet another chapter with a performance scheduled for Friday evening at Mexico City’s Auditorio Nacional, she can look back on all that hard work and dedication from each of her children over these past many months with pride.
In fact Madonna even went so far this week to suggest in one post alone as saying ‘If they decide to take a different path later down the line (referencing David Banda & Mercy James)…they’ll never forget this year of sweat, tears and hard work – neither will I.’”
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