Pop singer Lady Gaga birth name was Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta. She was a well known professionally as Lady Gaga. She was an American singer, songwriter and also an actress. Lady Gaga was known for her musical versatility & image reinventions.
Lady Gaga was born in the 28th March 1986 at Lenox Hill Hospital, Manhattan Borough, New York City, USA. She was born in the upper middle class of Catholic family.
Lady Gaga’s parents have Italian ancestry. Her mother Cynthia Germanotta was a philanthropist and business executive. Her father Joseph Germanotta was an restaurant entrepreneur.
Lady Gaga has a younger sister named Natalia. She was grew up in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She told an interview, she mentioned that her parents came from lower-class families. Lady Gaga also said that, her parents worked very hard for everything.
Lady Gaga had attended to the “Convent of the Sacred Heart”. It was private all-girls Roman Catholic school from the age of 11. She described her high school as very dedicated and disciplined. She was also very disciplined during her high school years. However, she mentioned being a little bit insecure at that time.
At the age of 4, pop singer Lady Gaga started playing the piano.
Because of her mother wanted her to become a cultured young woman. Learning to play the piano was part of that cultural education. She had learned the piano lessons and had practiced through her childhood. Her piano lessons taught to create music by ear. Lady Gaga preferred this method over reading sheet music.
Lady Gaga parents had encouraged her to pursue music. She had enrolled her in the Creative Arts Camp. She had played at the open mic nights as a teenager.
Lady Gaga performed 2 performances in her high school period. She played the lead role of Adelaide in the play “Guys and Dolls.” She also played the lead role of Philia in the play “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”.
Lady Gaga had also studied the method of acting at the “Lee Strasberg Theatre” and “Film Institute” for the 10 years. But, she auditioned unsuccessful for New York shows. She did, however, appear in a small role as a high school student in the 2001 episode of “The Sopranos” titled “The Telltale Moozadell.”
Lady Gaga gained early admission to the Collaborative Arts Project 21 at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. After that, she was admitted to the music school. She lived in an NYU dorm at the age of 17 in 2003.
In this time, Lady Gaga studied music and improved her songwriting skills. She wrote essays on art, social issues, religion, and politics as part of her thesis. The focus of the thesis was on the pop artists Damien Hirst and Spencer Tunick.
Lady Gaga withdrew from school during the second semester of her second year. She made this decision to focus on her music career. This happened in the year 2005. She also appeared on the MTV’s “Boiling Points”. She played the role of an unsuspecting diner customer in a prank reality television show.
Lady Gaga said in a 2014 interview, she was raped at the age of 19. She underwent both mental and physical therapy to cope with the trauma. She attributes her PTSD to the incident of her rape. She credits her doctors, family, and friends with helping her through the aftermath of the trauma.
Lady Gaga has post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Lady Gaga later gave additional details about the rape. She revealed that the person who raped her dropped her off on the corner of her parents’ house. Lady Gaga was pregnant at the time and got sick, which is why the person dropped her off.
In 19th August 2008, Lady Gaga 1st album titled “The Fame” released.
In 2011, Lady Gaga released her second full-length album titled “Born This Way”. Exploring electronic rock and techno-pop, the album sold over one million copies in its first week.
“Born This Way” title track set a record as the fastest-selling song on the iTunes Store. It had over one million downloads in less than a week. Her EDM influenced third album was Art pop in the year 2013 and it’s the lead single Applause.
Lady Gaga released the jazz album “Cheek to Cheek” in 2014 with Tony Bennett. She also released the soft rock album “Joanne” in 2016. After that, she entered into acting. She won awards for her leading roles in the miniseries “American Horror Story: Hotel” from 2015 to 2016. She also won awards for her leading role in the musical film “A Star is born” in 2018.
Lady Gaga latter’s soundtrack was spawned the chart topping single was Shallow.
It made her the first woman to win the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award and Grammy Award in one year.
In 2020, she made a comeback to dance-pop music with her 6th studio album titled “Chromatica”. It was produced the chart-topping single “Rain on Me.” In 2021, she released her second collaborative album with Bennett, titled “Love for Sale”. She also starred in the biopic “House of Gucci.” For this album, Lady Gaga’s estimated total record sales amounted to 170 million.
Lady Gaga was not only one of the best-selling music artists in the world. She was also the only female artist to have 4 singles each selling at least 10 million copies globally.
Throughout Lady Gaga career, she has received 13 Grammy Awards.
She has also received 2 Golden Globe Awards and 18 MTV Video Music Awards. In addition, she has received accolades from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Similarly, she was named Billboard’s Artist of the Year in 2010 and Woman of the Year in 2015.
Lady Gaga’s name has appeared on several Forbes power rankings.
In 2012, she was ranked 4th on VH1’s Greatest Woman in Music list. Time magazine named Gaga as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in both 2010 and 2019. She was also included on their All-Time 100 Fashion Icons list.
