Showing posts with label David Banda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Banda. Show all posts

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Madonna's Kids Getting into Her Act

It looks like that it won't just be Madonna's daughter Lourdes featuring in her work – 4-year-old son David has revealed a love of the superstar's work.

"He knows every song, every word, every step, and he wants to wear all the costumes," Madonna, 51, told the British morning show GMTV. "He likes my dress that I wear in ‘La Isla [Bonita].

Coming after stage-ready Lourdes, 13, joined her mom in the video for Celebration, performing clearly runs in the family. During her recent Sticky & Sweet world tour, Madonna's 9-year-old son with director Guy Ritchie, Rocco joined her on stage.

"When he jumped on stage to dance in my last show, I was shocked actually," she said. "And secretly, unbeknownst to me, they're all studying privately with my dancers. And Rocco comes out and busts out like a moonwalk or you know, some kind of break-dancing move."

Even Rocco!

She also revealed to GMTV that Rocco was the last person she expected onstage. "He's always been quite shy so I was shocked when he wanted to be in the show."

Despite their dabbling in showbiz, Madonna said, her children have a healthy view of their charmed life.

"They get great bonuses and perks out of being my children and they know it, and they're very grateful and appreciative for it," she said. "I think they are pretty balanced in terms of how they view fame or celebrity or things like that. I think it took them a while to adjust, but I think they're okay about it."

Friday, October 23, 2009

Madonna to Lay Malawi's School Foundation Stone

Madonna will visit Malawi on Sunday to lay the foundation stone of a multi-million dollar girls' school she is building, her charity Raising Malawi stated.

The singer, who has adopted two children from the southern African country, is due to arrive on Sunday and attend a brick-laying ceremony in Lilongwe on Monday. The school is expected to cost about $15 million.

"She plans to meet the President Bingu wa Mutharika and together lay a foundation stone for her multi-million dollar girls school," a staffer at the charity, who declined to be named, said on Thursday.

An AIDS epidemic has left over a million children orphaned in the impoverished country of 13 million.

Malawi's government came under fire after Madonna adopted a 13-month-old boy, David Banda, in 2006, with critics accusing it of giving her special treatment by skirting laws that ban non-residents from adopting children.

In June this year, Malawi's Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling made in April which said Madonna could not adopt a four-year girl -- Mercy James -- because the singer was not a resident of the country.

Madonna last year divorced British film director Guy Ritchie, with whom she has a son Rocco. She also has a daughter Lourdes from her relationship with fitness trainer Carlos Leon.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Star Sighting: Oui, Mommy Madonna!

Madonna, who is about to launch the French leg of her Sticky & Sweet tour, spends time with her little ones, daughter Mercy James, 4, and son David Banda, 3, as the trio leave their Parisian five-star hotel, The Ritz, on Friday.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Star Sighting: Like a Prayer

While her appeal to adopt a 4-year-old girl from Malawi continues, Madonna keeps up her routine in New York City, attending services at the Kabbalah Centre with son David Banda, 3, on Saturday.