Madonna took to her Instagram Tales on Monday (Feb. 27) to recollect her older brother Anthony Ciccone, who died over the weekend at age 66.
“Thanks for blowing my thoughts as a younger woman and introducing me to Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Buddhism, Taoism, Charles Bukowski, Richard Brautigan, Jack Kerouac, Expansive Considering, Outdoors the Field,” the Queen of Pop wrote alongside a photograph of herself sitting at a desk together with her brother and their group of mates. “You planted many essential seeds.”
See the picture right here on Madonna’s Instagram Story earlier than it disappears.
Madonna’s brother-in-law Joe Henry, a musician who’s married to the icon’s sister Melanie Ciccone, introduced the information of Anthony’s passing through Instagram on Saturday (Feb. 25). “My brother-in-law, Anthony Gerard Ciccone, exited this earthly airplane final night,” Henry wrote alongside a photograph of his brother-in-law. “I’ve identified him since I used to be 15, within the spring of our lives in Michigan so a few years now gone. As brother Dave Henry (who took this {photograph}) notes right here, Anthony was a fancy character; and god is aware of: we tangled in moments, as true brothers can.”
Henry continued, “However I beloved him, and understood him higher than I used to be typically keen to let on. However hassle fades; and household stays — with palms reached throughout the desk. Farewell, then, brother Anthony. I need to suppose the god your blessed mom (and mine) believed in has her there, ready to obtain you. A minimum of for right this moment, nobody shall dissuade me from this imaginative and prescient.”
Additional particulars about Ciccone’s passing weren’t offered.