Corrections? The title track became the fastest-selling song on the iTunes Store, with over one million downloads in less than a week. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. [367] Gaga partnered with Starbucks for a week in June 2017 with the "Cups of Kindness" campaign, where the company donated 25 cents from some of the beverages sold to the foundation. "[292], According to Evan Sawdey of PopMatters, Gaga "manage[s] to get you moving and grooving at an almost effortless pace". [36] In November 2007, Herbert signed Gaga to his label Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records, established that month. Her first single, Just Dance, became popular in clubs throughout the United States and Europe and eventually landed at number one on the Billboard Pop Songs chart (also called the radio chart). Though Gaga does credit Robert with the original joke leading to her adaptation of the name, the real inventor of the Lady Gaga name has been a point of turbulence between the two. [155] Gaga won Billboard Woman of the Year and Contemporary Icon Award at the 2015 Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards. [262], Gaga grew up listening to artists such as Michael Jackson, the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Queen, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Whitney Houston, Elton John, Christina Aguilera and Blondie,[263][264][265] who have all influenced her music. Lady Gaga Net Worth - Lady Gaga's real name was Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta born on March 28, 1986. [52][49][122] A lyric video for Artpop track "Aura" followed in October to accompany Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills, where she plays an assassin named La Chameleon. She cowrote most of that movies songs, many of which she performed with costar and director Bradley Cooper. The foundation also partnered with Starbucks and SoulCycle to thank California firefighters for their relief work during the crisis. [176] It was released on October 21, 2016, and became Gaga's fourth number one album on the Billboard 200, making her the first woman to reach the US chart's summit four times in the 2010s. [98] Both reached the top 10 in the US and the UK. Lady Gaga was born Stefani Germanotta on March 28, 1986. "[7], By 2008, Gaga had relocated to Los Angeles to work extensively with her record label to complete her debut album, The Fame, and to set up her own creative team called the Haus of Gaga, modeled on Andy Warhol's The Factory. [233] By the end of the year, she became the highest grossing female artist of 2022. [226] Chromatica was preceded by two singles, "Stupid Love", on February 28, 2020,[227] and "Rain on Me", with Ariana Grande, on May 22. She played a vampiric countess with no regard for life or suffering in the fifth season of the television show American Horror Story: Hotel (201516). In 2021 Lady Gaga sang the national anthem at the U.S. presidential inauguration of Joe Biden. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Lady Gaga, real name Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, a.k.a. Gaga began performing as a teenager, singing at open mic nights and acting in school plays. Germanotta was born into an Italian American family in New York City. [360] The foundation's original funding included $1.2million from Gaga, $500,000 from the MacArthur Foundation, and $850,000 from Barneys New York. She calls herself "a little bit of a feminist" and asserts that she is "sexually empowering women". [60] While traveling the globe, she wrote eight songs for The Fame Monster, a reissue of The Fame. [184][185] CBS Sports included her performance as the second best in the history of Super Bowl halftime shows. The Fame is an electropop and dance-pop album that has influences of 1980s pop and 1990s Europop,[296] whereas The Fame Monster displays Gaga's taste for pastiche, drawing on "Seventies arena glam, perky ABBA disco, and sugary throwbacks like Stacey Q". [37] Gaga later credited Herbert as the man who discovered her. [408] In 2015, Time also noted that Gaga had "practically invented the current era of pop music as spectacle". [377] She attributes much of her early success as a mainstream artist to her gay fans and is considered a gay icon. She is the president of the Born This Way Foundation, which she co-founded with her daughter Lady Gaga in 2012. The singer, actress, and all-around star first exploded onto the scene in 2008 with her hit song Just Dance, evolving into a megastar by way of her signature brand of horror, showmanship, and sheer talent, not to mention her passionate relationship with her Little Monsters. But before Gaga was, well, Gaga, she was a girl named Stefani Germanotta, growing up with a big Italian Catholic family in the Upper West Side. [42] She collaborated with him in the recording studio for a week on her debut album, signing with Cherrytree Records, an Interscope imprint established by producer and songwriter Martin Kierszenbaum; she also wrote four songs with Kierszenbaum. 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[351] The following month, Gaga pledged to donate $1million to the American Red Cross to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy. [197] Later that year, she starred as struggling singer Ally in Bradley Cooper's musical romantic drama A Star Is Born, a remake of the 1937 film of the same name. The album also yielded Lady Gaga five Grammy nominations, including for album of the year and song of the year (Poker Face); she captured two Grammysbest dance recording (Poker Face) and best electronic/dance album (The Fame)and her opening duet with Sir Elton John was among the most talked-about elements of the 2010 Grammys telecast. [15], In 2003, at age 17, Gaga gained early admission to Collaborative Arts Project 21, a music school at New York University (NYU)'s Tisch School of the Arts, and lived in an NYU dorm. The Fame was well received critically and proved enormously successful commercially, selling more than eight million copies worldwide by the end of 2009. [133] Considered one of her best performances by Billboard, it triggered more than 214,000 interactions per minute globally on Facebook. More than a decade after she first came onto the scene under the title, Lady Gaga, and Stefani Germanotta have become two parts of the same iconic woman: and she has the hilarious mistakes to prove it. Before dropping out to pursue her music career she got canceled by Def Jam Recordings her contract, she worked as a songwriter for Sony/ATV Music. Gaga has become one of the most recognizable figures in pop music, with her outrageous outfits and catchy songs. [312] Her performances have been described as "highly entertaining and innovative";[313] the blood-spurting performance of "Paparazzi" at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards was described as "eye-popping" by MTV News. [99], Born This Way was released on May 23, 2011,[97] and debuted atop the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 1.1million copies. Lady Gaga is known for how often she constantly experiments with new musical ideas and images and her unconventional, provocative works and outlandish fashion sense. An admirer of Cooper's work, Gaga agreed to the project due to its portrayal of addiction and depression. [105][106] She also embarked on the Born This Way Ball tour in April 2012, which was scheduled to conclude the following March, but ended one month earlier when Gaga canceled the remaining dates due to a labral tear of her right hip that required surgery. [278] Gaga became friends with British fashion designer Alexander McQueen shortly before his suicide in 2010, and became known for wearing his designs, particularly his towering armadillo shoes. Gaga was one of the many celebrities to call him out and spread the #WontBeErased campaign to her 77 million Twitter followers. [96] Its second single "Judas" followed two months later,[97] and "The Edge of Glory" served as its third single. She revealed even she had to stop herself, after initially signing off her vote withLady Gaga. The album was later reissued to include the extended play The Fame Monster (2009), which yielded the successful singles "Bad Romance", "Telephone", and "Alejandro". Date of Birth: March 28, 1986 Zodiac Sign: Aries Gaga's first love was the piano so her first instincts were to work hard at the practicing piano. 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[123] The film received generally mixed reviews and earned less than half of its $33million budget. [173][174][175] The album, titled Joanne, was named after Gaga's late aunt, who was an inspiration for the music. [144] Cheek to Cheek received generally favorable reviews;[145] The Guardian's Caroline Sullivan praised Gaga's vocals and Howard Reich of the Chicago Tribune wrote that "Cheek to Cheek serves up the real thing, start to finish". [101][102] Rolling Stone listed it among "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2020. [25] Fusari collaborated with Gaga, who traveled daily to New Jersey, helping to develop her songs and compose new material. [324] Entertainment Weekly put her outfits on its end of the decade "best-of" list, saying that she "brought performance art into the mainstream". Currently, she is dating Christian Carino, an Agent. [303] The A Star Is Born soundtrack contains elements of blues rock, country and bubblegum pop. Two of her French Bulldogs, Koji and Gustav, were taken while a third dog named Miss Asia escaped and was subsequently recovered by police. [4] Brought up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Gaga said in an interview that her parents came from lower-class families and worked hard for everything. She is 36 years old and was born on March 28, 1986. Lady Gaga's Edge of Glory video", "Lady Gaga Crashes Billboard With 1.1 Million", "Lady Gaga Biopic: 5 Stars Who Could Play the Role", "Lady Gaga's "Marry The Night": Will Facebook Campaign Help It Chart Better? [299], The themes in Artpop revolve around Gaga's personal views of fame, love, sex, feminism, self-empowerment, overcoming addiction, and reactions to media scrutiny. Gaga's real name, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta. [65] "Telephone", with Beyonc, followed as the second single from the EP and became Gaga's fourth UK number one. Gaga says she was influenced by Osho's work in valuing rebellion through creativity and equality. Her friends gave her the pen name Gaga - a lyric from the Queen song 'Radio Gaga' - one of her strong . Her songs "Just Dance," "Bad Romance," and "Born This Way" have achieved enormous popular success. [410] In 2018, NPR named her the second most influential female artist of the 21st century, noting her as "one of the first big artists of the 'Internet age'". "[371][372] In September 2020, Gaga released an anthology book, Channel Kindness: Stories of Kindness and Community, featuring fifty-one stories about kindness, bravery, and resilience from young people all over the world collected by the Born This Way Foundation, and introduced by herself. She studied at Collaborative Arts Project 21, through the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, before dropping out to pursue a career in music. [309] Billboard ranked her sixth on its list of "The 100 Greatest Music Video Artists of All Time" in 2020, stating that "the name 'Lady Gaga' will forever be synonymous with culture-shifting music videos". [361] In July 2012, the BTWF partnered with Office Depot, which donated 25% of the sales, a minimum of $1million of a series of limited edition back-to-school products. [61] Those new songs were also released as a standalone EP on November 18, 2009. [113] In November, she was featured in a Thanksgiving television special titled A Very Gaga Thanksgiving, which attracted 5.7million American viewers and spawned the release of her fourth EP, A Very Gaga Holiday. [373] She had been promoting it with a 21 days of kindness challenge on her social media, using the "BeKind21" hashtag. [248], After an appearance in the television special Friends: The Reunion, in which Gaga sang "Smelly Cat" with Lisa Kudrow,[249] she portrayed Patrizia Reggiani, who was convicted of hiring a hitman to murder her ex-husband and former head of the Gucci fashion house Maurizio Gucci (played by Adam Driver), in Ridley Scott's biographical crime film titled House of Gucci. So I said, What about Lady Gaga? because Gaga is sort of crazy and Lady has such connotations.. Gaga had her breakthrough the following year with her debut studio album, The Fame, and its chart-topping singles "Just Dance" and "Poker Face". She studied at Tisch for two years before dropping out to manage her own career. [315] At the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, Gaga appeared in drag as her male alter ego, Jo Calderone, and delivered a lovesick monologue before a performance of her song "You and I". Her natural hair color is brown. "[295], Gaga's songs have covered a wide variety of concepts; The Fame discusses the lust for stardom, while the follow-up The Fame Monster expresses fame's dark side through monster metaphors. [b], Gaga began work on her third studio album, Artpop, in early 2012, during the Born This Way Ball tour; she crafted the album to mirror "a night at the club". 3. In her acceptance speech, she denounced racism and white supremacy and addressed her social responsibility as a high-profile artist and white woman. It is not strange to find some of her fans struggle to answer this question. [151], In February 2015, Gaga became engaged to Taylor Kinney. [353], In April 2016, Gaga joined Vice President Joe Biden at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas to support Biden's It's On Us campaign as he traveled to colleges on behalf of the organization, which has seen 250,000 students from more than 530 colleges sign a pledge of solidarity and activism. [114] In 2012, Gaga guest-starred as an animated version of herself in an episode of The Simpsons called "Lisa Goes Gaga",[115] and released her first fragrance, Lady Gaga Fame, followed by a second one, Eau de Gaga, in 2014. 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[130][131] "G.U.Y." View this post on Instagram [191] Throughout the film, she was seen suffering from chronic pain, which was later revealed to be the effect of a long-term condition called fibromyalgia. [187] She also released a standalone single, "The Cure", which reached the top 10 in Australia. [390] She opposed the presidency of Donald Trump and his military transgender ban. Now known as Lady Gaga (the inspiration for her name came from the Queen song "Radio Ga-Ga"), she has become an international pop star. [100] The album sold eight million copies worldwide and received three Grammy nominations, including Gaga's third consecutive nomination for Album of the Year. [322] When interviewed by Barbara Walters for her annual ABC News special 10 Most Fascinating People in 2009, Gaga dismissed the claim that she is intersex as an urban legend. [166] She was honored that April with the Artist Award at the Jane Ortner Education Awards by The Grammy Museum, which recognizes artists who have demonstrated passion and dedication to education through the arts. At seventeen, she was one of twenty people in the world to have gained early admission to the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. A street painting with the Daniel Quasar's version of the pride flag featuring the album's title was also unveiled on Robertson Boulevard as a tribute to the album, and how it has inspired the LGBT community over the years. [221] Gaga launched her vegan makeup line, Haus Laboratories, in September 2019 exclusively on Amazon. Lady Gaga cultivated a devoted following, particularly among gay men (she acknowledged her own bisexuality), who became some of her most loyal fans. [461][462] Her album Born This Way (2011) featured on Rolling Stone's 2020 revision of their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and the song "Bad Romance" and its music video were among Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and 100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time, respectively, in 2021. As a result, she was hired to write songs for Britney Spears, New Kids on the Block, Fergie, and the Pussycat Dolls. [59][84] Concerts performed at Madison Square Garden in New York City were filmed for an HBO television special, Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden. Her accolades include 13 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, 18 MTV Video Music Awards, awards from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Council of Fashion Designers of America, and recognition as Billboard's Artist of the Year (2010) and Woman of the Year (2015). The secret behind how Lady Gaga got her stage name is it came from a nickname she had growing up. [71][72] At the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, she won eight awards from 13 nominations, including Video of the Year for "Bad Romance". [447][448], In Taichung, Taiwan, July 3 is designated as "Lady Gaga Day" marking the first day Gaga visited the country in 2011. [143] Before the album was released, it produced the singles "Anything Goes" and "I Can't Give You Anything but Love". [49][52] Her music video for "The Edge of Glory", unlike her previous work, portrays her dancing on a fire escape and walking on a lonely street, without intricate choreography and back-up dancers. [2] Her parents are Cynthia Louise (ne Bissett), a philanthropist and business executive, and Internet entrepreneur Joseph Germanotta,[3] and she has a younger sister named Natali. [458][459][460] She is the longest-reigning act of Billboard's Dance/Electronic Albums chart with 244 weeks at number one, while The Fame (2008) holds the record for the most time on top in the chart's history, with 175 non-consecutive weeks. The star revealed that her stage name takes inspiration from fellow musical talent Queen and their hit song, Radio Ga-Ga. [167] Her engagement to Taylor Kinney ended in July; she later said her career had interfered with their relationship. [456] In 2019, she became the first woman to win an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Grammy Award in one year for her contribution to A Star Is Born's soundtrack. [13][14] She later said of her inclination towards music: I don't know exactly where my affinity for music comes from, but it is the thing that comes easiest to me. While Gaga and Starlight were performing, Fusari continued to develop the songs he had created with her, sending them to the producer and record executive Vincent Herbert. Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was born on March 28, 1986, at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, New York City,[1] to an upper middle class Catholic family. Her now-iconic stage name is based on Queen's "Radio Ga Ga," but its origin is also clouded in a bit of controversy. [477][478] Gaga also appeared on their list of the World's Most Powerful Women from 2010 to 2014. Later on, she was called a . During this time Lady Gaga continued to record solo albums. [57] At the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, The Fame and "Poker Face" won Best Dance/Electronica Album and Best Dance Recording, respectively. [342] In the following years, Gaga's image was blacked out in reporting of the 91st Academy Awards in China and her appearance was cut from Friends: The Reunion; both incidents received backlash from her Chinese fans. However, the lawsuit was dropped within the same year it was filed. She was born in an upper-middle-class family to Cynthia Louise, an internet entrepreneur, and Joseph Germanotta, a philanthropist. She considered herself a misfit and was mocked for "being either too provocative or too eccentric".[8]. What Is Lady Gaga's Real Name And How Old Is She? 1 on Amazon", "Lady Gaga Says Boyfriend Michael Polansky Is the 'Love of My Life': Watch", "Album Classifica settimanale WK 23 (dal 29.05.2020 al 04.06.2020)", "Lady Gaga scores fastest-selling album of 2020 so far", "Lady Gaga Scores Sixth No. [325] People ranked her number one on their "Best Dressed Stars of 2021" list, writing that Gaga "strutted the streets in high-fashion designs, from a sculptural seersucker number to a black lace corseted gownaccessorizing each with elegant updos, sky-high heels and retro shadeslike it was no sweat.
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