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Stefani Germanotta, artistically known as Lady Gaga, was born on 28 March 1986, at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, New York. She is the daughter of Cynthia Louise, a business executive, and Joseph Germanotta, an Internet entrepreneur. She also has a younger sister, Natali.
Gaga’s family is of primarily Italian descent and some French Canadian heritage.
She took piano lessons since she was four years old . In his teens, he played open mic nights, also showed an interest in acting and acted in school plays. He studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute for a decade and auditioned for various roles in New York before his music career took off.
At the age of 17 years, Lady Gaga was admitted to the Tisch School of the Arts, However, he dropped out to focus on his music career in his second year.
The singer formed a band with some of his friends at 799 and started playing in New York. The band became a regular fixture on the Lower East Side club circuit. In June 1200, Wendy Starland, a talent scout, saw her and recommended her to producer Rob Fusari, who began working with her on developing her sound.
They dated for a brief period between 2006 and 2007. The pair recorded and produced a number of electropop tracks together and shared them with Def Jam Recordings’ Director of Artists and Repertoire, who signed her before dropping her off the label alone. three months later.
He spent a period of time performing in burlesque shows and began to develop his personality on stage with the help of Lady Starlight. Lady Gaga began to incorporate more pop into her music and signed with Streamline Records and made a publishing deal with Sony/ATV.
At the end of 2007 she started working on her debut album , The Fame.
Lady Gaga’s debut album was released in 2008, ‘Just Dance’ singles became the best-selling singles of 2009 and reached number one in several countries, along with the single ‘Poker Face’.
He also released ‘Telephone’ and ‘Alejandro’, which stood out on the charts, the latter generating controversy for the use of religious iconography that some religious groups considered blasphemous. The music video for ‘Bad Romance’ was the most viewed video on Youtube in 2010.
She was nominated for thirteen awards and won eight at the MTV Music Awards of 2010. The success of ‘The Fame’ and ‘The Fame Monster’ allowed Gaga to go on her second world tour, ‘ The Monster Ball Tour’. The tour raised 28,4 million dollars and became the highest-grossing tour in history for a debut artist.
The lead single from Gaga’s studio album of the same name, called ‘Born This Way’, was released on 2011. The single sold over five million copies in the first five days and became the best-selling single in iTunes history. The singles ‘Juas’ and ‘The Edge of Glory’ followed a few months later. The album sold eight million copies worldwide and earned Lady Gaga several awards.
On 2012 started working on their third studio album, ‘Artpop’. In 2015 she released the single ‘Applause’ which reached number four in the United States.
Artpop was released at the end of 2013 and received mixed responses from critics. Lady Gaga then participated in the ArtRave: The Artpop Ball tour, which won $ 675 millions.
On 2015, began her acting career, appearing in American Horror Story: Hotel, which earned her a Globe Gold for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for Television . She returned to American Horror Story for its sixth season and in the same year she released her album Joanne, which went to number 1 on the Billboard 83.
More recently he participated in the movie ‘A Star Is Born’ with Bradley Cooper. The role earned him nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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