GAGA FOR GAGA

If you don’t know Lady Gaga, you must have lived under a stone ore something.

But here is an small update about this new Pop princess.

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta aka Lady GAGA is one of the most popular artist of the 21st century. Famous because her dance-pop/electronica music, eccentric clothing style, and her Platnium blond hair. She got her stage name when music producer Rob Fusari compared her vocal style to Freddie Mercury and took the name Gaga from the Queen song "Radio Ga Ga".

Her early life

She was born in March 1986, in New York, to an Italian family. She attended Convent of the Sacred HeartSchool and, as a little girl, she remembers singing into a plastic tape recorder to the likes of Cyndi Lauperand Michael Jackson. By age 4, Lady Gaga had taught herself to play the piano by ear, and when she was a teenager she penned her first song. When she was just 14, her mom took her to play at open mic nights at New York’s Bitter End, and by the age of 17 she had been one of 20 kids in the world to get early admission to Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. This is where she developed her writing skills by composing essays about arts, religion and social political order. She did however withdraw from university and never graduated. She then moved out of the house, and started hanging out in the Lower East Side doing drugs, and appearing in burlesque shows at dive bars with drag queens and go go dancers. Lady Gaga admits that her father couldn't even look at her and she says 'he just didn't understand'.

A star is born

By age 20 she began working with Interscope records as a songwriter. She has written songs for the pop sensation

Pussycat Dolls. Akon recognized Gaga's vocal talent, and signed her to his label Kon Live Distribution. She started to work on her debut album after that. She released “The Fame” in 2008, which supposedly was about how 'anyone can feel famous'. Her first two singles of that album, "Just Dance" and "Poker Face", co-written and co-produced with RedOne, have become international number-one hits, and the former was nominated for Best Dance Recording at the 51st Grammy Awards. In early 2009, after having opened for New Kids on the Block and the Pussycat Dolls, she embarked on her first headlining tour, The Fame Ball Tour.

It continues

By the end of 2009, she went back the studio in and worked on her second 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. also she has announced at a show in Miami that the video for "Telephone" featuring the artist Beyonce, will be filmed in the coming days, and will be expected to be released as 2nd single of "The Fame Monster on the 22 of February 2010.

Trivia

# Lady gaga is inspired by glam rock musicians such as David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, as well as pop music artists such as Madonna and Michael Jackson.

# She is also inspired by fashion, which she has said is an essential component to her songwriting and performances.

# To date, she has sold over eight million records worldwide.

# Has three tattoos, one her on wrist, shoulder blade, and lower back.

# On February 20, 2009, she donated tickets and a meet and greet, for any show on her Fame Ball tour, in the US or Canada, to raise money for Odyssey Charter School and elementary schools in Los Angeles affected by budget cuts.

# She is a natural brunette, but bleached her hair blonde in light of the fact that she was being mistaken

for Amy Winehouse by interviewers while trying to make it big.

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