Celebrity Gallary: Full Biography of pop singer Lady gaga

Early Life of gaga

Early life of gaga

Lady Gaga was born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta on March 28, 1986, in New York City. The first child of Italian American Joseph Germanotta, an internet entrepreneur, Gaga has one sister, Natali, who was born in 1992. Gaga is left-handed and began learning to play piano aged four, went on to write her first piano ballad at 13, and began performing at open mike nights by the age of 14. Gaga attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart a private all-girls Roman Catholic school on Manhattan's Upper East Side, from the age of 11. She described her academic life in high school as "very dedicated, very studious, very disciplined" but also "a bit insecure" as she told in an interview.

Beginning her career

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Settled in a small apartment on Rivington Street towards the summer of 2005. She began a band called the Stefani Germanotta Band (SGBand) with some friends from NYU . SGBand performed at the 2006 Songwriters Hall of Fame New Songwriters Showcase at The Cutting Room in June where Wendy Starland, a singing model, appeared as a talent scout for music producer Rob Fusari who was searching for a female singer to front a new band. After Starland had informed Fusari of Gaga's ability, he contacted her. By this time, SGBand had grown apart and Gaga left to work with the music producer in New Jersey. Gaga was in the process of trying to come up with a stage name when she received a text message from Fusari that read "Lady Gaga”. I typed 'Radio Ga Ga' in a text and it did an autocorrect so somehow 'Radio' got changed to 'Lady'. "That's it." After that day, she was Lady Gaga.

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Although the musical relationship between Fusari and Gaga was unsuccessful at first, the pair soon set up a company titled Team Lovechild, in which they recorded and produced electro-beat pop tracks and sent them to music industry bosses. Joshua Sarubin, the head of A&R at Def Jam Recordings, responded positively and vied for the record company to take a chance on her "unusual and provocative" performance. After having his boss Antonio "L.A." Reid in agreement, Gaga was signed to Def Jam in September 2006 with the intention of having an album ready in nine months. However, she was dropped by the label after only three months. Devastated, Gaga returned to the solace the family home for Christmas as well as the nightlife culture of the Lower East Side. Becoming fascinated with some of the emerging neo-burlesque shows, Gaga began Go-Go dancing in bars dressed in little more than bikini.[ She began experimenting with drugs in addition performing in many shows. Soon after, the two were invited to play at the 2007 Lollapalooza music festival in August that year. The show was critically acclaimed, and their performance received positive reviews .Having initially focused on avant-garde electronic dance music, Gaga had found her musical niche when she began to incorporate pop melodies and the glam rock of David Bowie and Queen into her music.

While Gaga and Starlight were busy performing. As 2007 came to a close, her former management company introduced her to songwriter and producer RedOne, whom they also managed. The first song she produced with Redone was "Boys Boys Boys" a mash-up inspired by Mötley Crüe's "Girls, Girls, Girls" and AC/DC”s "T.N.T.” Gaga continued her collaboration with RedOne in the recording studio for a week on her debut album.

By 2008, Gaga had relocated to Los Angele's and worked extensively with her record label in order to finalize her debut album The Fame (2008). The album peaked at number one in United Kingdom, Canada, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Ireland, and the top-five in Australia, the United States and fifteen other countries. Worldwide, The Fame has sold over fourteen million copies. The following single "Poker Face" was an even greater success, reaching number-one in almost all major music markets in the world.

Award

As nominated for a total of nine awards at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, winning the award for Best New Artist, while her single "Paparazzi" won two awards for Best Art Direction and Best Special Effects. In October Gaga received Billboard magazine's Rising Star of 2009 award. She attended the Human Rights Campaign's "National Dinner" the same month. Gaga became the first artist in digital history to have three singles (along with "Just Dance" and "Poker Face") to pass the four million mark in digital sales.The song won a Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance while its accompanying music video won the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video. The album's second single "Telephone", which features singer Beyoncé, was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals and became Gaga's fourth UK number-one single while its accompanying music video, although controversial, received a more positive reception from contemporary critics. The Fame Monster has received abundant success. Equating to the amount of Grammy nominations her debut received, The Fame Monster garnered a total of six; the album won for Best Pop Vocal Album and earned her a second-consecutive nomination for Album of the Year. Gaga's second studio album and third major release Born This Way was released on May 23, 2011.

Influence

Gaga has been influenced by glam rock artists such as David Bowie, Queen and Elton John, as well as pop music artists such as Madonna, Whitney Houston, Britney Spears and Michael Jackson.

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You and I, Words, Wonderful, Wish you were here, vanity, Then you love me, The Queen, The Fame, The Eadge of Glory, Telephone, Teeth, Super star, Super love, Summer boy, Starstruck, Speechless, Something Crazy, Someone of watch over me, Someone save me to night, Sexy ugly, Rockshow, Ribbons, Reloaded, Red and Blue, Marry the night, Love mail, Jusdtice, Just dance, Judes, Heavy metal lovers, Heir, Fashion of this love.
Music video List

Year	Title	Director’s
2008	"Just Dance" (featuring Colby O'Donis)	Melina Matsoukas
2008	"Beautiful, Dirty, Rich"	Melina Matsoukas
2008	"Poker Face"	Ray Kay
2009	"Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)"	Joseph Kahn
2009	"LoveGame"	Joseph Kahn
2009	"Chillin" (Wale featuring Lady Gaga)	Chris Robinson
2009	"Paparazzi"	Jonas Åkerlund
2009	"Bad Romance"	Francis Lawrence
2009	"Video Phone" (extended remix) (Beyoncé featuring Lady Gaga)	Hype Williams
2010	"Telephone" (featuring Beyoncé)	Jonas Åkerlund
2010	"Alejandro"	Steven Klein
2011	"Born This Way"	Nick Knight
2011	"Judas"	Lady Gaga and Laurieann Gibson