 The Gaga about Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga (born Stefani Joanne
Angelina Germanotta; March 28, 1986) is an American recording artiste.
She began performing in the rock music scene of New York City’s Lower
East Side in 2003 and enrolled at New York University’s Tisch School of
the Arts. She soon signed with Streamline Records, an imprint of
Interscope Records. During her early time at Interscope, she worked as a
songwriter for fellow label artists and captured the attention of Akon,
who recognized her vocal abilities, and got her signed to his own label,
Kon Live Distribution.
 Stefani Germanotta was born on March 28, 1986, the eldest child of
Joseph Germanotta, an Italian American internet entrepreneur, and
Cynthia Bissett. She learned to play piano from the age of four, went on
to write her first piano ballad at 13 and began performing at open mike
nights by age 14. At the age of 11, Germanotta attended Convent of the
Sacred Heart, a private Roman Catholic school on Manhattan’s Upper East
Side, but has stressed that she does not come from a wealthy background,
saying that her parents “both came from lower-class families, so we’ve
worked for everything — my mother worked eight to eight out of the
house, in telecommunications, and so did my father.”
An avid thespian in high school musicals, Germanotta portrayed lead
roles as Adelaide in Guys and Dolls and Philia in A Funny Thing Happened
on the Way to the Forum. Released on August 19, 2008, her debut album,
The Fame, reached number one in the UK, Canada, Austria, Germany and
Ireland, and reached the top-ten in numerous countries worldwide; in the
United States, it peaked at two on the Billboard 200 chart and topped
Billboard’s Dance/Electronic Albums chart.
Its first two singles, “Just Dance” and “Poker Face”, co-written and
co-produced with RedOne, became international number-one hits, topping
the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States as well as the charts of
other countries.
The album later earned a total of six Grammy Award nominations and
won awards for Best Electronic/Dance Album and Best Dance Recording. In
early 2009 she embarked on her first headlining tour, The Fame Ball
Tour. By the fourth quarter of the year, she had released her second
studio album The Fame Monster, with the global chart-topping lead single
“Bad Romance”, as well as having embarked on her second headlining tour
of the year, The Monster Ball Tour.
Lady Gaga is inspired by glam rock artistes such as David Bowie and
Queen, as well as pop musicians such as Madonna and Michael Jackson. She
has also stated fashion is a source of inspiration for her songwriting
and performances. Gaga was ranked the 73rd Artist of the 2000-10 decade
by Billboard. As of May 2010, Gaga has sold over 15 million albums and
over 40 million singles worldwide.
In May 2010, Time magazine included Gaga in its annual Time 100 list
of the most influential people in the world. In June 2010, Forbes listed
Gaga fourth on its list of the 100 Most Powerful and Influential
celebrities in the world; she is also ranked as the second most powerful
musician in the world. |
