Madonna pays tribute to brother Christopher Ciccone

The veteran star says her younger brother was the "closest thing to me for so long".

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Her brother, who was a tour director for the pop star and danced in her early music videos including Lucky Star, died from cancer on Friday in Michigan.

In a heartfelt post on Instagram, the 66-year-old singer wrote that their bond was hard to explain but it "grew out of an understanding that we were different".

She added: "Society was going to give us a hard time for not following the status quo.

"We took each other's hands and we danced through the madness of our childhood, in fact dance was a kind of superglue that held us together."

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