Madonna reflects on how her elder brother Anthony Ciccone inspired her following his passing. After Ciccone died at age 66, the Grammy Award winner, 64, praised her late brother for “blowing my mind” Monday on her Instagram Story, sharing a black-and-white throwback photo from the ’80s of the two of them with all their siblings.
“Thank you for blowing my mind as a young girl,” wrote Madonna, adding: “You planted many important seeds.” She gave Anthony credit for introducing her to Miles Davis, Charles Bukowski, Richard Brautigan, Jack Kerouac, Buddhism, Taoism, and broad thinking.
Madonna’s brother-in-law Joe Henry — who is married to her sister Melanie Ciccone — announced Anthony’s death Saturday on Instagram. “My brother-in-law, Anthony Gerard Ciccone, exited this earthly plane last evening,” he wrote in the caption.
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“I’ve known him since I was 15, in the spring of our lives in Michigan so many years now gone. As brother Dave Henry (who took this photograph) notes here, Anthony was a complex character; and god knows: we tangled in moments, as true brothers can.
“But I loved him, and understood him better than I was sometimes willing to let on,” he continued. “But trouble fades; and family remains— with hands reached across the table. Farewell, then, brother Anthony. I want to think the god your blessed mother (and mine) believed in has her there, waiting to receive you. At least for today, no one shall dissuade me from this vision.”
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