Lady Gaga Biography

The Lady Gaga biography tells the story of one of the most commercially successful and innovative artists of a generation. Lady Gaga approaches her music as performance art and has struck a balance that pleases popular music fans and critics alike.

Lady Gaga – real name Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta – was born March 28, 1986 in New York, New York. Her music talent was obvious from an early age. By four years old, she was able to play songs on the piano by ear. She wrote her first song at age 13 and started playing on the NYC open mic circuit the following year. She was accepted into Julliard to study music, but her parents opted to send her to Catholic school Convent of the Sacred Heart. By age 17, she had gained early admission to the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Though she excelled in her studies there, she left school early to focus on music.

At age 19, Lady Gaga was signed to Def Jam Records. The deal terminated before any music was released, and the story behind the record deal remains unclear. Def Jam president L.A. Reid claimed to have heard Lady Gaga singing from an office down the hall from his own and to have signed her on the spot. According to Lady Gaga, she never met L.A. Reid.

After the Def Jam deal fell through, Lady Gaga got a job writing songs at Interscope Records and began to play shows in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She became deeply involved in that scene and eventually started a popular burlesque show with performance artist Lady Starlight. It was during this time that Lady Gaga began to move away from the more avant garde music she was writing for herself to adding elements of some of her favorite glam rockers, including David Bowie and Queen (the name Lady Gaga comes from the Queen song Radio Ga-Ga).

While writing at Interscope, Lady Gaga penned hits for the Pussycat Dolls, New Kids on the Block, Fergie and Akon. Writing for Akon is what finally brought Lady Gaga her big break. While writing a song for him, she sang him a snippet of the song. Taken with her voice, Akon worked with Interscope boss Jimmy Iovine to sign Lady Gaga to Akon’s KonLive label – an Interscope subsidiary.

The Fame, Lady Gaga’s debut album, was released in 2008, and went straight to the top of the charts in six countries. Critics were also taken with the album and lauded her mix of glam rock, hip hop, synth pop and metal sounds. As of 2009, The Fame had sold 4 million physical copies of the album and been downloaded over 20 million times.

Lady Gaga also began a heavy schedule of touring in 2008 which continued through 2009.

During this time, Lady Gaga also began earning a reputation for her tendency to combine fashion with music. She never quite turned her back on her performance arts roots. She formed the Haus of Gaga, a small group of people who work together with her to craft her outfits and stage sets for all of her performance. Lady Gaga has said that when she writes a song, she is also thinking about what she will wear when she performs it and what the stage design will be. She has performed wearing an outfit made of plastic bubbles, a white wolf beard, in horror movie make-up and a number of other memorable ensembles.

Lady Gaga revealed in a Rolling Stone interview that she is bisexual and that is has been the source of problems in all of her relationships with men. She has since said that she regrets making that assertion, fearing it makes her sound like she is claiming to be bisexual to be “edgy." She has been embraced as an icon by the gay community and is active in gay rights campaigns.

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