High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pre-Madonna is a collection of demos by American recording artist Madonna. The album was released in 1997 by Stephen Bray, who was the producer of the songs when they were recorded, and was distributed by Soultone. The demo album was titled In the Beginning in European countries. Madonna met up with Bray, her former boyfriend, in 1980 when she was trying to establish her musical career. She had left the band Breakfast Club, and enlisted Bray`s help to set up her new band. Together they started writing and composing songs, and recorded them at New York`s Music Building studio. The songs recorded at that time were released in Pre-Madonna.