Madonna Celebrates Dad Silvio Ciccone’s 94th Birthday in Candy Submit

Madonna helps her father Silvio Ciccone have a good time his 94th birthday!

The “Materials Lady” singer, 66, shared two candy snaps of her father to X, together with a tribute on Tuesday, June 3. 

“Pleased Birthday to my Father. Silvio Ciccone, 94 and going sturdy!!” Madonna, born Madonna Louise Ciccone, wrote.

The primary picture she shared was of her standing subsequent to Silvio as he sat at a desk and dipped a fork right into a slice of cake. A number of colourful balloon strings had been seen behind the father-daughter duo, in addition to a big silver cutout of the quantity “94.”

“He has survived many wars and plenty of losses in his life.and he nonetheless has a humorousness and a powerful need to get away from bed each morning and benefit from his day,” she wrote. 

Madonna’s second picture confirmed him sitting exterior on patio furnishings on a sunny day carrying a baseball cap, T-shirt and denims with suspenders. 

“Every time folks ask my father when he’s going to retire, his reply is all the time the identical, ‘I’m going to go till the wheels fall off!!’” she concluded of the Ciccone Winery and Vineyard proprietor, including, “S.A.M.E.”

“It’s a disgrace we don’t reside in a world that celebrates information and expertise and the knowledge that we are able to solely study from our elders who’ve survived for a lot of a long time on this planet,” Madonna added on Instagram, the place she additionally shared the photographs. “We’re fixated on youth and bodily magnificence that sarcastically teaches us nothing and offers us solely momentary gratification.”

“Good job, Dad!! I’m happy with you and I do know Mother is smiling and Pleased wherever she is,” Madonna wrote. “Thanks for giving me your zero F—- mentality! 💪🏻♥️.”

The “Like a Virgin” singer is one in every of six kids, and the one woman, born to Silvio and her late mom, Madonna Louise Ciccone.

“My mom is the one different particular person I’ve ever heard of named Madonna,” she advised TIME in 1985. “I by no means had hassle with the title … I went to Catholic colleges. After which once I obtained concerned within the music business, everyone thought I took it as a stage title. So I allow them to assume that … It is fairly glamorous.”

Madonna Louise died of breast most cancers at 30 on Dec. 1, 1963, when the singer was 5 years previous.

In her interview with TIME, the “4 Minutes” singer opened up about her shut relationship together with her father, including, “I knew find out how to wrap him round my finger.”

She later advised Rolling Stone in 1989 that she cared about making her father proud.

“Greater than something, I would like my father’s approval, whether or not I need to admit it or not,” Madonna mentioned. “However he’s all the time been very affectionate with me.”

She additionally shared a candy put up for her father’s 93rd birthday. 

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“Congratulations for driving the curler coaster of life with humor and sanity intact,” Madonna wrote on social media on the time. “Thanks for sharing your mantra in life with me, which is: ‘I am gonna go till the wheels fall off.'”

“Nothing can cease us! Love you to the moon and again. 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🤎🖤🩶🤍❤️‍🩹,” she added together with a number of photographs of herself and her dad through the years.