Madonna Breaks Silence on Death of Brother Anthony Ciccone: “You Planted Many Important Seeds”

Madonna offered gratitude to her late brother Anthony Ciccone on Instagram on Monday, three days after his death at 66 years old.

“Thank you for blowing my mind as a young girl and introducing me to Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Buddhism, Taoism, Charles Bukowski, Richard Brautigan, Jack Kerouac, Expansive Thinking Outside the Box,” the queen of pop shared on Instagram Stories (and captured by Rhino Records below). “You planted many important seeds.”