Lady Gaga

Biography of Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga was born on March 28, 1986 at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, New York.

She is the eldest daughter of Cynthia Louise Bissett, and businessman Joseph Anthony Germanotta, Jr. Her father ran a company that installed Wi-Fi in hotels, and her mother was vice president of the mobile operator Verizon. Gaga is of Italian and French-Canadian descent, and has a sister named Natali, born in 1992.

She grew up in the exclusive Upper East Side of Manhattan in a Catholic family and studied at El Sagrado Corazón school, like Paris Hilton.

At the age of four she learned to play the piano and at thirteen she composed her first song. A year later she began participating in open mic nights. She grew up listening to Queen, Michael Jackson, Madonna or David Bowie among others.

At seventeen she entered New York University's Tisch School of Art, where she studied music. Jealous of her success in end-of-year musicals, some of her students called her germ, but despite her legend, her classmates remember her as a popular student. She did not finish her studies.

With her first salary as a waitress, she bought a Gucci bag, a whim that was denied her at home.

She met producer/songwriter RedOne and the first song she produced with him was Boys Boys Boys. Failing to make the song a hit, she went back to her parents and began performing at a New York club. At that time she began taking drugs and participating in burlesque-type performances.

In 2007 she began collaborating with Lady Starlight. Together they began performing at venues in downtown New York. They appeared at the American music festival Lollapalooza. She subsequently entered into a publishing deal for her music with Sony/ATV.

She went on to write songs for Britney Spears, as well as being commissioned by Interscope to write for New Kids on the Block, Fergie and the Pussycat Dolls.

In 2008 she dyed her hair blonde after being called Amy Winehouse, she abandoned her early rock, embraced dance, and her debut, Just Dance, swept Canada and Australia. She dumped her boyfriend the day she shot the video.

In that year she released her first album, The Fame, which reached number one in countries such as Canada, Ireland, Austria, the United Kingdom, among other countries, and number two in the United States. She earned a Grammy nomination for Just Dance, in the category of Best Dance Song. In October 2009, she was awarded Billboard magazine's Rising Star of 2009 award.

In 2009, her second album, The Fame Monster, was released. With the Paparazzi video, in which she resurrects Fritz Lang's Metropolis in a robotic version, she finally refines her visual discourse.

She performed before Elizabeth II. Gaga goes global. Rumors abound that she is a hermaphrodite, something that fascinates her.

In early 2010, Billboard announced that the song Telephone, from the album The Fame Monster, reached number one on the Pop Songs chart, making her the only singer in history to achieve her sixth consecutive number one.

In April 2010, the Bad Romance video was the most viewed video in YouTube history up to that time. In June 2010, the song surpassed four million digital copies sold, thus becoming the first artist to have three singles with more than four million digital copies sold.

Gaga intends to make her life her greatest work of art. She is said to be the first global superstar of the 21st century. Her performances are defined as a concert, a pop opera or a theatrical show with songs and the fanaticism that she arouses is undeniable.

Among his biggest hits are Just Dance, Poker Face, LoveGame, Paparazzi, Bad Romance, Telephone or Alejandro.

In March 2010, her ex-boyfriend and producer Rob Fusari sued her for thirty million dollars for infringing the copyright of four songs. Lady Gaga and Rob Fusari produced the songs Paparazzi, Beautiful, Dirty, Rich, Disco Heaven and Retro, Dance, Freak between 2006 and 2007. The case was dismissed

In April 2010, Bad Romance surpassed 200 million visits and became the most watched video in the history of YouTube. 'Time' chooses her artist of the year.

Gaga released her second studio album, Born This Way, on May 23, 2011, a mix of electronic music with rock 'n' roll, and pop. It sold more than one million copies in its first week after its release in the United States, topping the Billboard 200. In addition to more than eight million copies in sales worldwide, Born This Way received three Grammy Award nominations.

Her next studio album ARTPOP was released on November 6, 2013 to mixed reviews, which did not prevent it from becoming her second number one album in the United States with first week sales of 258,000 copies.

Gaga parted ways with her manager Troy Carter over creative differences, and in June 2014, she and her new manager Bobby Campbell joined Artist Nation, the artist management division of Live Nation Entertainments.

She collaborated with singer Tony Bennett on an album of jazz classics titled Cheek to Cheek which was released on September 19, 2014, topping the Billboard 200, becoming her third number one in the United States. This album received a Grammy Award.

Her nickname from Lady Gaga was given to her by the music producer Rob Fusari, since when they met in the studio to work, she, instead of greeting him with a hello, sang to him Radio Ga Ga, from the group Queen. So Fusari changed Radio to Lady and the nickname Lady Gaga emerged.

On January 6, 2019, she won a Golden Globe for Best Original Song for Shallow from the film A Star Is Born.

Stupid Love, the lead single from her sixth studio album Chromatica, was released on February 28, 2020. The album was scheduled for release on April 10, 2020, but was postponed to a later date due to the COVID coronavirus pandemic.

Related to Rob Fusari, music producer who was in charge of her first songs. She subsequently dated singer Luc Carl for six years, which she broke up with in 2011, the year Gaga released her second album. During her relationship with Luc, she had a short fling with Speedy Gonzales.

In 2011 she began dating Taylor Kinney, a model who participated in the You and I video. Although they got engaged, they separated in 2015.

During 2017, she initiated her relationship with agent Christian Carino. Also, they got engaged, but before the Oscar ceremony in 2019, Gaga decided to separate from him.

In 2020, she began dating Silicon Valley billionaire Michael Polansky, whom she met at a party.