Madonna 1998-1999: Ray Of Light

In 1998, to 40 years, public Madonna its seventh album Ray of Light, co-produced from William Orbit. The album, that it receives optimal critics and it comes applauded like better the album from the times of Like to Prayer, sell beyond 17 million copies and come certifyd 4 platinum discs in the USA.

Frozen, single that anticipates the escape of the album and that it comes introduced in world-wide preview to the Festival di Sanremo of that year, catches up American Top 5 like the single second Ray of Light thus for which three Madonna gains Grammy Awards.

The third single one extracted is Drowned World/Substitute for Love that but does not come published in the USA. The video of the song comes heavy criticized for the likeness in the events that the dead women of Lady Diana remember. The other single ones extracted from the album are The Power of Good-Bye and Nothing Really Matters in whose Madonna video dresses the cloth of a geisha.

In the same year it participates to other album beneficial, To Gift of Love, for which it interprets Bittersweet, a poetry of the Persian poet Rumi Gialal al-Din.

In the 1999 public Madonna top the 20 hit Beautiful Stranger, written and interpreted for the sonorous column of the film Austin Powers: The spy who tried to us, and records Be Careful (Cuidado With Me Corazón) with Ricky Martin, published on homonymous the album of the singer.

After to be adjudicated an other Grammy Award for the piece Beautiful Stranger, Madonna makes from testimonial for the advertizing campaign of the Max Factor, turning the famous one spot in which Italian actor Raoul Bova kisses.

At the end of 1999 it comes published the collection of videoclip The Collection Video 93:99, an ideal continuation of the video The Immaculate Collection of 1990, containing 14 videoclip from Rain till Beautiful Stranger.

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