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Madonna is celebrating her father Silvio Ciccone, affectionately calling him the "O.G. Daddy," in honor of his 93rd birthday! The pop legend, 65, shared a heartfelt Instagram post on Sunday, June 2, featuring a series of photos with her dad over the years.
"Congratulations for riding the roller coaster of life with humor and sanity intact," Madonna wrote. "Thank you for sharing your mantra in life with me: 'I'm gonna go until the wheels fall off.' Nothing can stop us! Love you to the moon and back.
The first two images in her post show Ciccone receiving a warm hug from Madonna backstage at one of her events. Other photos include a shot of them on stage during her early career, a family portrait featuring Madonna's late mother, Madonna Louise, and a vintage snap of Silvio.
One of the photos was taken in 2021, when Madonna brought five of her six children to Ciccone Vineyard & Winery in Michigan to celebrate his 90th birthday. At the time, she shared on Instagram, "My father is a survivor, growing up as an Italian immigrant in the US and enduring many traumas but always working hard for everything he had. He taught me the importance of hard work and earning one's way in life. It was so special to spend your 90th birthday with you and my children in your vineyard.
Last month on Mother's Day, Madonna honored her late mother with a poignant Instagram post. She reflected on her mother's death in 1963 at the age of 30 from breast cancer, sharing how she pays tribute to her during her latest tour. "I stood on stage for 81 shows staring up at the beautiful face of my mother and wondering what she must've been thinking as she waved goodbye to me from her hospital window," she wrote. "Nobody told me my mother was dying — I just watched her disintegrate mysteriously and then she disappeared and there was no explanation except that she had gone to sleep which explains my tumultuous relationship with sleep."
As a mother to six children—Lourdes, 27, Rocco, 23, David, 18, Mercy, 18, and twins Stella and Estere, 11—Madonna added that there's "no easy way into the motherhood game. No manual or University. Just trial and error and learn and succeed and then fail again. Finally the realization that they were raising me and not the other way around."
