Madonna`s look-alike is actually a man

Madonna`s look-alike - Elias Figueroa, 28, from Chile, is a man.

London, July 15: Queen of Pop Madonna has a look-alike that is ditto like her, but there is only one small difference between them - her duplicate is a man. Elias Figueroa, 28, from Chile, started following the singer at a very early age, and he became so obsessed with her that he decided to devote his life to imitating her.

"I was still a schoolboy. I heard `Like a Virgin` and it totally blew me away," the Telegraph quoted him as saying. Figueroa, who earned just 12 pounds for his first gig, became such a hit that he was invited back immediately, and after two years could charge what he liked. Now he earns 12,000 dollars a year as a Madonna impersonator, three times the national salary in Chile, and the equivalent of around 50,000 pounds in the UK. "I live the life of a superstar. Strangers flock to me, tell me they love me," he said. "I`m so good at playing Madonna, some people can`t tell the difference between me and the real thing they don`t even realise I`m a man," he stated. The first time he performed as Madonna to an audience was in 1996 when, at the age of 15, he gave a karaoke style performance at a friend`s birthday party. "My friends didn`t know how much I had been practicing so when they saw me they thought it was totally amazing," he said. "I watched every Madonna video I could find and studied every single detail her clothes, hair, make-up, gestures and attitude," he explained. After going full-time eight years ago he`s now performing up to three times a week in front of crowds of up to 20,000, and earns up to 500 pounds a show, more than the average monthly wage in Chile. "Being Madonna completes me. On stage I am her," he said. "I leave Elias behind and become completely confident, sexy and outrageous like her. "She has so many roles and personalities in her songs that I get to be each of those. I feel sexy like her. She``s like a modern Marilyn Monroe. "And I love the attention of being on stage," he revealed. But despite the incredible resemblance, Figueroa has yet to meet his idol. "That would be a dream come true," he gushes. "She`s a goddess," he added. ANI