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'''Stefani Germanotta''' (born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) was born on March 28, 1986 at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, New York. She is the eldest child of [[Joe Germanotta|Joseph]] "Joe" and [[Cynthia Germanotta|Cynthia]] (née Bissett) Germanotta. She is mostly of Italian heritage with some French ancestry on her mother's side. She has a younger sister of six years, [[Natali Germanotta|Natali]]. She is better known as her stage name, '''Lady Gaga''' which she started using in 2007. She usually prefer to be called ''Gaga'' instead of simply just ''Lady'' or the full nickname.
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==Life and career==
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====1986–03: Early life====
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Gaga was raised Roman Catholic. From age eleven she attended the [[Convent of the Sacred Heart]], a private all-girls Roman Catholic school on Manhattan's Upper East Side. She described her academic life in high school as "very dedicated, very studious, very disciplined" but also "a bit insecure": "I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak.
   
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Gaga began playing the piano at the age of four, wrote her first piano ballad at thirteen, and started to perform at open mike nights by the age of fourteen. She performed lead roles in high school productions, including Adelaide in Guys and Dolls and Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. She also appeared in a very small role as a mischievous classmate in the television drama series The Sopranos in a 2001 episode titled "The Telltale Moozadell" and auditioned for New York shows without success. She sang in a classic-rock cover band, ''[[Mackin Pulsifer]],'' during her freshman year of high school. The band did covers of Led Zeppelin's songs along with Pink Floyd and Jefferson Airplane.
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====2004–05: Career beginnings====
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After high school, her mother encouraged her to apply for the Collaborative Arts Project 21 (CAP21), a musical theatre training conservatory at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. By age seventeen, after becoming one of twenty students to gain early admission, she lived in an NYU dorm on 11th Street. In addition to sharpening her songwriting skills, she composed essays and analytical papers on art, religion, social issues and politics, including a thesis on pop artists Spencer Tunick and Damien Hirst. She also tried won the part of an unsuspecting diner customer for MTV's Boiling Points, a prank reality television show.
   
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In 2005, Gaga withdrew from CAP21 at 19, in the second semester of her sophomore year, deciding to focus on her musical career. Her father agreed to pay her rent for a year, on the condition that she re-enroll at Tisch if unsuccessful. "I left my entire family, got the cheapest apartment I could find, and ate shit until somebody would listen," she remembers. Settled in a small apartment on Rivington Street towards the summer of 2005, Gaga recorded a couple of songs with hip-hop singer Grandmaster Melle Mel, for an audio book accompanying the children's book The Portal in the Park, by Cricket Casey.
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[[Image:SGBand.jpg|left|thumb]] She also began a band called the Stefani Germanotta Band (SGBand) with some friends from NYU – guitarist Calvin Pia, bassist Eli Silverman, drummer Alex Beckham and booking manager Frank Fredericks – in September of that year. The band played a mixture of songs: some self-penned alongside classic rock numbers like Led Zeppelin's "D'yer Mak'er". Playing in bars like the Greenwich Village's The Bitter End and the Lower East Side's the Mercury Lounge, the band developed a small fan base and caught the eye of music producer Joe Vulpis. Soon after arranging time in Vulpis' studio in the months that followed, SGBand were selling their extended plays Words and Red and Blue (both 2005) at gigs around New York while becoming a local fixture of the downtown Lower East Side club scene.
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'''Stefani Germanotta''' (born '''Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta'''), who performs under the stage name''' Lady Gaga''' , is an American Singer-Songwriter, Performance artist, Musician, and Disc Jockey from New York.
  
   
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====2006–07: Artistic development ====
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== Early Life and career ==
  
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Gaga was born on March 28, 1986 at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, New York, the eldest child of [[Joe Germanotta|Joseph]] and [[Cynthia Germanotta|Cynthia]] (née Bissett) Germanotta. She is mostly of Italian heritage with some French ancestry on her mother's side. She has a younger sister of six years, [[Natali Germanotta|Natali]]. Around the age of four, Stefani started to learn piano by ear and after a while, wrote her first song called "''[[Dollar Bills (song)|Dollar Bills]]''".
  
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SGBand reached their career peak at the 2006 Songwriters Hall of Fame New Songwriters Showcase at The Cutting Room in June where Wendy Starland, a musician, appeared as a talent scout for music producer Rob Fusari. Starland informed Fusari – who was searching for a female singer to front a new band – of Gaga's ability and contacted her. With SGBand disbanded, Gaga traveled daily to New Jersey to work on songs she had written and compose new material with the music producer. While in collaboration, Fusari compared some of her vocal harmonies to those of Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen. It was Fusari who helped create the moniker Gaga after the Queen song "Radio Ga Ga". 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." She texted back, "That's it," and declared, "Don't ever call me Stefani again.
   
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[[Image:105364-rob fusari ladygaga 617.jpg|thumb]]Although the musical relationship between Fusari and Gaga was unsuccessful at first, the pair soon set up a company titled Team Love Child in which they recorded and produced electropop 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 – an unfortunate period of her life that would later inspire her treatment for the music video for her 2011 single "Marry the Night". Devastated, Gaga returned to the solace of the family home for Christmas and the nightlife culture of the Lower East Side.
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:"''I still remember the first song I heard. My dad was listening to what I now know was Pink Floyd’s “Money,” and understanding only the sounds of the cash register in the intro, I wrote a song called “Dollar Bills” on my Mickey Mouse staff paper.''"
  
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[[Image:10-4-07 Veronica Ibarra 003.jpg|left|thumb]] She became increasingly experimental: fascinating herself with emerging neo-burlesque shows, go-go dancing at bars dressed in little more than a bikini in addition to experimenting with drugs. During this time, she met performance artist Lady Starlight, who helped mold her on-stage persona. Starlight explained that, upon their first meeting, Gaga wanted to perform with her to songs she had recorded with Fusari. Like SGBand, the pair soon began performing at many of the downtown club venues. Their live performance art piece was known as "Lady Gaga and the Starlight Revue" and, billed as "The Ultimate Pop Burlesque Rockshow", was a low-fi tribute to 1970s variety acts. Soon after, the two were invited to play at the 2007 Lollapalooza music festival in August that year.
   
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While Gaga and Starlight were busy performing, producer Rob Fusari continued to work on the songs he had created with Gaga. Fusari sent these songs to his friend, producer and record executive Vincent Herbert. Herbert was quick to sign her to his label Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records, upon its establishment in 2007.
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She received a classical training later to complete her knowledge of the piano. By the time she was eleven she was set to join Julliard School in Manhattan, though she decided it wasn't for her. Instead she went to the Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private Roman Catholic school. She was, she says, "focused, determined. I was always in a band, or in a musical. I didn't really fit in but I had friends because I'm a nice girl and fun to party with." Gaga described herself in high school as "very dedicated, very studious, very disciplined" but also "a bit insecure" as she told in a interview, "I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn’t fit in, and I felt like a freak."
  
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2008–09=
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==== ''The Fame'' era====
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[[Image:4343082310_72da628382_o.jpg|thumb|''The Fame Ball'' in 2009.]] In January, Gaga and RedOne recorded what will become the first three singles: "Just Dance", "Poker Face" and "LoveGame". Before the album dropped in August, Gaga embarked on a promotional world tour with two female dancers from April to September. By October, she recruted four male dancers to join her on the New Kids on the Block: Live tour.
   
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In early 2009, Gaga began the [[Doll Domination Tour]] as the opening act to the Pussycat Dolls. The tour leaded to her first solo tour, The Fame Ball which started in March and ended in September. In the spring of 2009, Gaga released "Paparazzi" as the last single.
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: Because her parents told her that they had sacrificed for her education, Gaga took school seriously from a young age. One of her favorite childhood memories is playing a piano concert at Sacred Heart at 8. “There was a line of twenty girls sitting in a row in our pretty dresses, and we each got up to play,” she says happily. “I did a really good job. I was quite good.” At 11, she began attending a full day of acting classes on Saturdays. “I remember the first time that I drank out of an imaginary coffee cup,” she says” she says, closing her eyes. “That’s the very first thing they teach you. I can feel the rain, too, when it’s not raining.” ''(From New York Mag)''
  
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====2009–10: ''The Fame Monster'' era====
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While she traveled the globe, she wrote ''The Fame Monster'', an EP of eight songs released in November 2009. Each song, dealing with the darker side of fame from personal experience, is expressed through a monster metaphor. The success of the album allowed Gaga to start her second worldwide concert tour, The Monster Ball Tour, just weeks after the release of ''The Fame Monster'' and months after having finished The Fame Ball Tour.
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====2011–12: ''Born This Way'' era====
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On the road with The Monster Ball in 2010-11, Gaga recorded her third album which was released in May of 2011.
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==Physical appearance==
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She sang in a classic-rock cover band ''(Mackin Pulsifer?)'' during her freshman year of high school. The band did covers of Led Zeppelin's songs along with Pink Floyd and Jefferson Airplane. At thirteen, she wrote her first piano ballad "''[[To Love Again (song)|To Love Again]]''". At fourteen, Stefani started to work with voice teacher Don Lawrence. She recalls the person who suggested her to meet him :
  
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: ''Main articles: [[Hair and wigs]], [[Makeup]], [[Nails]] ''
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Lady Gaga is 5' 1" (1.55 m), have naturally brown hair and eyes. She have worn many wigs and a weft (only in 2008) from Blonde to Teal across the years.
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===Tattoos===
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: ''Main article: [[Lady Gaga/Tattoos|Tattoos]]''
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===Fashion===
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: ''Main articles: [[Fashion]], [[Sunglasses]], [[Outfits]], [[Accessories]], [[Shoes]]''
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Fashion is a major key point in the life of Lady Gaga. She has stated that she is "''very into fashion''" and that it is "''everything''" to her. Her love of fashion came from [http://ladygaga.wikia.com/wiki/Cynthia_Germanotta her mother], who she stated was "''always very well kept and beautiful.''"
   
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Outfits worn by Lady Gaga are a mix of high couture designers, young designers from across the world and her own team, the [http://ladygaga.wikia.com/wiki/Haus_of_Gaga Haus of Gaga]. Some of her favorite designers include Chanel, Armani, Gucci.
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: ''"I was singing [I Want It That Way] to myself in a shop down the street from my house, when the store owner, who happened to also be a musician, pulled me aside and slipped a phone number in my hand. He told me his uncle was a highly respected voice teacher who he thought would like to work with me. I called him up and remember his words, “I work with Grammy Award Winner Christina Aguilera, Bono of U2, Mick Jagger and as the list got larger I got more excited. ''"''' —Lady Gaga'''
  
   
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====Haus of Gaga====
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Around the same time, Stefani began performing open mic nights. Although she was too young her mother went along with her. "''These were jazz bars not sex clubs''," she explains. "''They would have open mic nights so my mother would take me along and say, 'My daughter's very young but she's very talented. I'll sit with her as she plays.' ''"
  
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: ''Main article: [[Haus of Gaga]]''
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In 2008, Gaga created the Haus of Gaga, her behind the scenes team that create everything from outfits to art direct the films and various projects. They usually either make the outfits themselves or ask a designers to create the outfits for them.
   
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==Photography==
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:''“She’d say to the manager, ‘Listen, I know she’s too young to be in here, and I’m too old to be in here, but she’s incredibly talented and she’s a singer-songwriter and can she sign up on your open-mic list?’ And we just sat and waited round for them to call my name.” '''''—Lady Gaga'''
  
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====Social media====
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: ''Each link will include all the photographs she posted on the following websites:''
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*[[Twitter]]
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=====Instagram=====
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: ''See [http://ladygaga.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Instagram this page] for the Instagram gallery''
   
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Gaga joined Instagram in June of 2012. She posted her first photos on June 20, 2012. When asked about her lack of profile picture, Gaga explained to fans that she thinks the website is difficult to use. The photographs uploaded are mostly taken from her iPad.
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Her parents were both very supportive of her passion for music. Stefani learned for some years with Lawrence and started writing music as an outlet and less of a hobby.
  
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===2004-2005: NYU Tisch School of the Arts===
  
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*Makeup by [[Billy B]].
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#"Born This Way" promotional poster with "GAGA" written in red on it.
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#[[The Born This Way Ball Tour|The Born This Way Ball]] poster
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#[[The Born This Way Ball Tour|The Born This Way Ball]] program
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*Makeup by [[Tara Savelo]], hair by [[Frederic Aspiras]], silk shirt by [[Versace]],
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==Discography==
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At the age of seventeen, Gaga was one of twenty people in the world to have gained early admission to the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied music and theater at the Undergraduate Department of Drama. She moved to an NYU dorm on 11th Street. Each fall the New York University's hall councils host an [[UltraViolet Live]] Preliminary, a contest hold to benefit cancer. Stefani competed and won for her hall. At the same time, she honed her writing skills by composing essays and analytical papers focusing on topics such as art, religion and socio-policital order.
  
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* ''[[The Fame]]'' (2008)
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* ''[[The Fame Monster]]'' (2009)
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* ''[[Born This Way]]'' (2011)
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* ''[[Artpop (album)|Artpop]]'' (2013)
   
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==Tours==
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'''Headlining'''
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*[[The Fame Ball]] (2009)
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*[[The Monster Ball]] (2009–11)
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*[[The Born This Way Ball Tour|The Born This Way Ball]] (2012–13)
   
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On February 3, Stefani won the third place at the final with a medley of her two original compositions: [[Captivated (song)|Captivated]] and [[Electric Kiss (song)|Electric Kiss]] on a piano. After her eighteen years old birthday, Stefani decided to quit university and move out of her parent's house to pursue a career in music. They gave her one year to be signed to a record label or she would have to return to the university. She went to live in the Lower East Side of New York without any financial support from her parents.
  
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'''Opening act'''
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*[[New Kids on the Block: Live]] (2008)
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*[[Doll Domination Tour]] (2009)
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*[[Take That Presents: The Circus Live]] (2009)
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*[[This Is It (concerts)| This Is It]] (2009–10) <small>(cancelled)</small>
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: “''I left my entire family, got the cheapest apartment I could find, and ate shit until somebody would listen''.”
  
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A friends from NYU, Frankie Fredericks who became her first 'manager' even if he was not paid for his help. He booked Stefani first paid gig, helped to put together the SGBand and also to get her first real demo with Joe Vulpis later that year. During that summer, Stefani and Frankie began shopping and booking at several music venues in downtown New York City. The live performance were constituted of Stefani playing her piano-heavy solo songs. The Bitter End became one of her frequent place to perform so it became her home base as she called it. By September, she decided to put her focus on making a glammy band, the [[SGBand|SGBand (Stefani Germanotta Band)]] composed of guys who really believed in her talent. Around that time, ''"I met Stefani at the Bitter End Cafe and was awestruck at her abilities. I immediately invited her to feature on a few songs with Melle Mel on this project that we were developing."'' said Maura Casey who was working on a children’s book album called "''''Scott and The Secret Dimension'''". They began working in September on the project. Stefani wrote and arranged a song '[[The Fountain of Truth (song)|The Fountain of Truth]]' and was featured on '[[World Family Tree (song)|World Family Tree]]' with Melle. Before the project was finally released November 13 of 2006 with a new title, "[[The Portal in the Park]]" , Stefani called Maura to change her credits to 'Lady Ga Ga'. October 1 was the first time they performed as a band at The Bitter End. For the 60nd Annual Colombus Day Parade, Stefani was asked to play '[[No Floods (song)|No Floods]]' on the streets. The event was broadcast live on NBC, one of the host, Maria Bartirono said of her performance : ''"She's only nineteen and what a voice."'' A month later, the band began recording a five tracks demo with producer [[Joe Vulpis]].
  
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| 2001
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| ''The Sopranos''
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| "[[The Telltale Moozadell (The Sopranos episode)|The Telltale Moozadell]]" (Season 3, episode 9)<br />Uncredited, classmate role
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| 2005
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| ''[[Boiling Points]]''
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| Season 3, episode 22
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| 2009
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| ''Gossip Girl''
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| "[[The Last Days of Disco Stick (Gossip Girl episode)|The Last Days of Disco Stick]]" (Season 3, episode 10)<br />Cameo appearance
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| 2009-2011
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| ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''
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| "Ryan Reynolds/Lady Gaga" (Season 35, episode 2) <br>"Justin Timberlake/Lady Gaga" (Season 36, episode 22)
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| 2010
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| ''Double Exposure''
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| "[[No One Can Work Like This (Double Exposure episode)|No One Can Work Like This]]"
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| ''[[So You Think You Can Dance]]''
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| (Season 8, episode 3) Guest judge
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| ''[[Born to Dance (TV series)|Born To Dance]]''
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| Season one
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| ''[[A Very Gaga Thanksgiving]]''
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| ABC Special
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| ''[[Perez Hilton Superfan]]''
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| Series premiere
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| ''[[Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest]]''
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| Performed and joined New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in dropping the Times Square Ball.
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| ''[[Oprah's Next Chapter]]''
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| "Lady Gaga and Her Mother, Cynthia" (Season one, episodes 14-15)
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| ''[[The Simpsons]]''
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| "[[Lisa Goes Gaga (The Simpsons episode)|Lisa Goes Gaga]]" (Season 23, episode 22)
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| ''[[Opening Act]]''
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| "Von Smith & Lady Gaga"
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On January 20, 2006, the SGBand played at [[The Bitter End]] and sells out the five songs demo, ''[[Words (EP)|Words]]''. They continued to do concerts and writing music and by March, sold out her first EP, [[Red and Blue (EP)|Red and Blue]] at her home base, The Bitter End. The underground sensation was chosen by Bob Leone, National Projects Director of the renowned and celebrated Songwriters Hall of Fame, to be one of nine performers in the 2006 New Songwriters Showcase at the Cutting Room. She played [[Hollywood_(song)|Hollywood]] and caught the attention of Wendy Starland, one of Robert Fusari collaborator. He mentioned to Starland that he was interested in locating a female singer under 25 to front a band like the Strokes—she didn’t have to be good-looking, or even a great singer, but she had to have something about her you couldn’t take your eyes off.
  
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:''"He couldn't be there that night, but he asked to keep an eye out for somebody who had the ability and the desire, and that's definitely Stefani."''''' '''—'''Wendy Starland'''
  
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: “Stefani’s confidence filled the room,” says Starland. “Her presence is enormous. And fearless. I listened for the pitch, the tone, and timbre of her voice. Was she able to have a huge dynamic range? Was she able to get soft and then belt? And I felt that she was able to do all that while giving out this very powerful energy.”
  
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| [[Lady Gaga Presents: The Monster Ball Tour at Madison Square Garden|Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden]]
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| HBO Special<br />Producer<br />Emmy Award for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Special (Single or Multi-Camera)
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| ''[[ The Muppets (film)|The Muppets]]''
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|Cameo appearance<br />Deleted scene
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| 2013
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| ''[[Machete Kills (film)|Machete Kills]]''
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| La Chameleon
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*[[Heartbeats]] by Lady Gaga (Monster Cable, 2009, 2011)
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Gaga erupted in giggles when Starland ran up to her after the performance and told her, “I’m about to change your life.” They rushed outside the club together, and Starland called Fusari on her cell phone. “Rob said, ‘Why are you waking me up?’ I said I found the girl. ‘What? It’s really one in a million. What’s her name?’ Stefani Germanotta. ‘Um, you gotta be kidding me. What does she look like?’ Don’t worry about that. ‘Does she have any good songs?’ No. ‘How is her band?’ Awful.” Starland laughs. “I wasn’t pitching a product. I was pitching the girl.” Fusari agreed to meet the girl. He was, to put it mildly, underwhelmed. ''“While I was talking to her, I was near the computer so I went to her page on PureVolume and had the music on real low in the background,”'' Fusari says. ''“Quite frankly, it sounded wedding band-ish, but I could tell that this person had more to offer creatively so I invited her to the studio.”'' She took the bus to Parsippany from the Port Authority and Fusari waited for her at the stop with [[Tom Kafafian]]. She hiked a quarter-mile down New Road to reach Rob Fusari’s recording studio, 150 Studios. ''“We’re in the car and we see a girl through the window of this pizzeria,”'' Fusari says. ''“My buddy goes, ‘I think that’s her.’ I was hoping that wasn’t her. I had a clear vision of what she should look like and that wasn’t it. I was hoping to find someone who looked a little grungy, like they just rolled out of bed. She was more like a guidette, for lack of a better term.''” He continues, ''“Still, there was something quirky about her. She was mixing the decades in terms of fashion. There was something very ’60s about her but also something sort of ’90s. My friend comes out with her and it’s a short ride back to the studio and I was thinking, ‘This ain’t gonna work.’ ”''
  
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Although he was skeptical, Fusari asked her to sample one of her songs on the piano, she played [[Hollywood (song)|Hollywood]]. He says,'' “Within 15 seconds, I’m like, ‘This is it. My life is about to change.’ While she’s playing, I’m on my phone e-mailing my attorney like, ‘I need a contract tomorrow.’ I totally saw superstar potential. I just didn’t know in what form or what genre it was going to be."'' Almost overnight, Stefani was ready to sign a production deal but her dad decided to create a company, [[Team Love Child]] LLC instead. Stefani became friend with Thomas Kafafian and wrote songs with him along with Fusari.
  
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After a while, Stefani agreed that her name was not going to help her to break in the industry. One day, Stefani was singing Again Again on the piano for Rob and he said to her ''"You are just so freakin' Freddie Mercury, you are so dramatic."'' He explained to her that the 'girl inside' , the theatrical aspect of her, was the most interesting part. Radio Ga Ga is one of Fusari’s favorites from Queen. ''“Every day, when Stef came to the studio, instead of saying hello, I would start singing ‘Radio Ga Ga,’ ”'' Fusari explains. “''That was her entrance song.''” Stefani was in the midst of brainstorming a stage moniker, when she received a text from Fusari that read “Lady Gaga.” ''“It was actually a glitch,''” says Fusari. ''“I typed ‘Radio Ga Ga’ in a text and it did an autocorrect so somehow ‘Radio’ got changed to ‘Lady.’ She texted me back, ‘That’s it.’ After that day, she was Lady Gaga. She’s like. ‘Don’t ever call me Stefani again.’ ”'' She thought her new nickname was cool and even her friends started to call her Gaga. She kept 'Lady', to feminize her nickname.
  
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Over the course of four months, Gaga commuted from New York to Jersey seven days a week, radically reshaping her approach. They put their focus on writing rock songs as this was her favorite genre. She stopped doing live show and restarted only to perform as either Lady Ga Ga or Lady Gaga in late spring/early summer that year. A new PureVolume account was created in order to promote her music and her MySpace name changed to Lady Gaga. The songs posted on her personal pages were in the same continuity of her previous work. The new material were more polished but still between bittersweet rock ballads to power-pop rock with songs like [[Brown Eyes (song)|Brown Eyes]] and [[Wonderful (song)|Wonderful]]. The reaction among their colleagues was negative about the sound they picked. They tried to use her as songwriter but that didn't work so well. “With those kinds of records, people are looking at the source of that music, who it’s coming from,” says Starland. As a writers Gaga wrote with two artists produced by Fusari, Lina Morgana and Leila Broussard. In July, Wonderful gained web radio airplay on iWebRadio and peaked at number two. During that time, she did one live performance by month until August.
  
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: ''“One morning, I was reading an article about how difficult it is for women to succeed in the rock genre. I loved what we were doing, but it wasn’t going to be an easy sell. I said, ‘Stef, what if we sit down today, abandon what we were going to work on and I’ll sit at the drum machine, do a beat and we’ll start with a more dance thing.’ She’s like, ‘No way. I’m not doing it.’ ”'' ''''''—''Rob Fusari'''
  
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They took a break at Chili’s, their regular lunch spot, and Fusari convinced Gaga to test his idea. By day’s end, the two completed the tune, “[[Beautiful, Dirty, Rich (song)|Beautiful, Dirty, Rich]]” and ''“We never went back to the rock stuff."'' Later in interview, Gaga said "I was like, 'If it wasn't me, I wouldn't listen to this. I would be bored at this show". Finding herself surrounded by singers who all wrote the same style of music, Rob's idea was something fresh and provocative in the rock 'n roll underground: pop music. Gaga found her musical niche when she began to incorporate pop melodies and the vintage glam-rock of David Bowie and Queen into the mix. "Queen and David Bowie were the key for me...I didn't know what to do until I discovered Bowie and Queen", Gaga says. They also began an affair, which made their artistic collaboration tumultuous. When Fusari didn’t like her hooks, she would get teary-eyed and rant about feeling worthless. But he was rough on her, too. Gaga wasn’t into fashion at this point: She liked leggings and sweatshirts, maybe with a shoulder out. “A couple times, she came to the studio in sweatpants, and I said, ‘Really, Stef?’ ” says Fusari. “ ‘What if I had Clive Davis in here today? I should call the session right now. Prince doesn’t pick up ice cream at the 7-Eleven looking like Chris Rock. You’re an artist now. You can’t turn this on and off.’ ”
  
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Fusari was focused on the sound while Gaga began an interest in making a fashion statement. ''“She kept this scrapbook of all these different things she would see in magazines,” Fusari says. “It wasn’t always clothes. It might just be like a neon sign. It might be somebody’s hand with a ring on it. She would show it to me and I’d be like, ‘Yeah, that’s great, Stef.’ I wasn’t interested.”''
  
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The new sound increased her popularity with early song like 'Beautiful, Dirty, Rich' and '[[Shake Your Kitty (song)|Shake Your Kitty]]'. Gaga began to do her live performance with her keyboard and her MacBook playing her synthetic beats. Even with a new kind of music, getting recognition by the music industry was not easy for her. "When I was playing the New York rock clubs, a lot of record labels thought I was too theatrical. Then, when I auditioned for stage musicals, the producers said I was too pop".
  
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Until one day, Fusari recalled :'' "I played it for Joshua Sarubin, who was [Vice-President of A&R] at Island Def Jam and he’s like, ‘I gotta get this girl in here next week.'"'' ''“There was something unusual about her,”'' says Sarubin. ''“She sat down at the piano in a showcase room and the way she played and the lyrics and the way she acted and sang was just so different and in your face, and you couldn’t turn away. She was wearing these crazy white thigh-high boots and a black minidress and she had this presence like, ‘I’m sexy and I don’t care what anybody has to say about it.’'' During that meeting, charmain Antonio "L.A." Reid stopped in and said to her ''"I can hear you from my office, you're very loud!"''. He saw a born star inside that young women and signed her on the spot. On September 6 of 2006, Lady Gaga said '[[I Do]]' to an artist development deal with and a first album scheduled for May 2007. ''"But after he signed me, he never met with me. I used to wait outside his office for hours, hoping he'd take meetings with me about my songs, but it never happened. He eventually dropped me after three months."'' ''"I was pretty devastated. I know what it's like being on a label when they don't quite get it," ''says Gaga of her original major label deal.That confidence was shaken when she got dropped from Island Def Jam after just a few months. The reason the company booted her remains a mystery, but word came down from Reid’s office that they were severing the contract.
  
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Around that time, Lady Gaga dated the owner of the St. Jerome's in New York in 2006. In December, Lady Gaga met for the first date Lady Starlight who was go-go dancing on her birthday in the bar. They instantly clicked, ''"We were both ladies,"'' Lady Starlight said, ''"She put a dollar bill in my panties and the rest is history."'' They started to work together because Gaga loved her whole aesthetic and said to her:'' "What do you think about what you're doing with what I'm doing?" She had already most of the songs (from The Fame) written and I really liked her personally, even if I'm not really into pop music."''
  
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Lady Starlight helped Lady GaGa create her on stage fashions while creating burlesque shows at dive bars with drag queens and go-go dancers. During that time, she did also go-go dance to her songs played. When Gaga's father saw her performance art, "''He couldn't look at me for a few months,''" she admits of her early experimentation. "''I was in leather thongs, so it was hard for him — he just didn't understand.''" Eventually, he restarted to support his child and now they are proud of her. The pair collaborated on many projects such as “[[Lady Gaga & The Starlight Revue|Lady Gaga and the Starlight Revue]]”- a low-fi tribute to 1970’s variety acts which featured Lady Gaga on synth, Lady Starlight spinning beats, choreographed go-go moves, shiny disco balls, and hairspray, lit on fire and sprayed into the audience. They did also "[[New York Street Revival and Trash Dance]]" together for a month each week doing a show.
  
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Somewhere in 2007, Rob Fusari sent some songs to his friends, Vincent Herbert of Streamline Records. After, Vincent went to one of Lady Gaga with Lady Starlight burlesque show and he said to her: "I got you" and signed her on his label. Gaga also sparked the interest of Interscope's Chairman Jimmy Iovine in 2007. He offered her a label deal via Streamline/Interscope shortly after her performance at [[Lollapalooza]] with Lady Starlight in August. At that time, she learned a lot about songwriting and worked with a number of producers and trying to build a name for herself. Jody Gerson signed Gaga’s publishing deal with Sony/ATV. She said to Billboard Magazine, that she had faith Gaga would break out and become an in-demand writer and star. “''She blew me away from the moment I met her,''” Gerson says. “''She was already signed to Interscope, and we are so lucky to all be on the same page and have a great working relationship.''” During the fall, RedOne played ''[[Boys_Boys_Boys_(song)|Boys Boys Boys]]'' to Akon with whom he have a production company called RedOneKonvict. Akon was so excited that he wanted her as writer for artists on Universal (Nicole Scherzinger’s solo project, New Kids on the Block). They met in November 2007 and started writing together and she learned a lot about songwriting during that time.
  
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Stefani Germanotta (born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) was born on March 28, 1986 at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, New York. She is the eldest child of Joseph "Joe" and Cynthia (née Bissett) Germanotta. She is mostly of Italian heritage with some French ancestry on her mother's side. She has a younger sister of six years, Natali. She is better known as her stage name, Lady Gaga which she started using in 2007. She usually prefer to be called Gaga instead of simply just Lady or the full nickname.

Life and career

1986–03: Early life

Main article: 1986–03
Young Gaga at Piano

Gaga was raised Roman Catholic. From age eleven she attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private all-girls Roman Catholic school on Manhattan's Upper East Side. She described her academic life in high school as "very dedicated, very studious, very disciplined" but also "a bit insecure": "I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak.

Gaga began playing the piano at the age of four, wrote her first piano ballad at thirteen, and started to perform at open mike nights by the age of fourteen. She performed lead roles in high school productions, including Adelaide in Guys and Dolls and Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. She also appeared in a very small role as a mischievous classmate in the television drama series The Sopranos in a 2001 episode titled "The Telltale Moozadell" and auditioned for New York shows without success. She sang in a classic-rock cover band, Mackin Pulsifer, during her freshman year of high school. The band did covers of Led Zeppelin's songs along with Pink Floyd and Jefferson Airplane.

2004–05: Career beginnings

Main articles: 2004, 2005

After high school, her mother encouraged her to apply for the Collaborative Arts Project 21 (CAP21), a musical theatre training conservatory at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. By age seventeen, after becoming one of twenty students to gain early admission, she lived in an NYU dorm on 11th Street. In addition to sharpening her songwriting skills, she composed essays and analytical papers on art, religion, social issues and politics, including a thesis on pop artists Spencer Tunick and Damien Hirst. She also tried won the part of an unsuspecting diner customer for MTV's Boiling Points, a prank reality television show.

In 2005, Gaga withdrew from CAP21 at 19, in the second semester of her sophomore year, deciding to focus on her musical career. Her father agreed to pay her rent for a year, on the condition that she re-enroll at Tisch if unsuccessful. "I left my entire family, got the cheapest apartment I could find, and ate shit until somebody would listen," she remembers. Settled in a small apartment on Rivington Street towards the summer of 2005, Gaga recorded a couple of songs with hip-hop singer Grandmaster Melle Mel, for an audio book accompanying the children's book The Portal in the Park, by Cricket Casey.

SGBand
She also began a band called the Stefani Germanotta Band (SGBand) with some friends from NYU – guitarist Calvin Pia, bassist Eli Silverman, drummer Alex Beckham and booking manager Frank Fredericks – in September of that year. The band played a mixture of songs: some self-penned alongside classic rock numbers like Led Zeppelin's "D'yer Mak'er". Playing in bars like the Greenwich Village's The Bitter End and the Lower East Side's the Mercury Lounge, the band developed a small fan base and caught the eye of music producer Joe Vulpis. Soon after arranging time in Vulpis' studio in the months that followed, SGBand were selling their extended plays Words and Red and Blue (both 2005) at gigs around New York while becoming a local fixture of the downtown Lower East Side club scene.

2006–07: Artistic development

Main articles: 2006, 2007

SGBand reached their career peak at the 2006 Songwriters Hall of Fame New Songwriters Showcase at The Cutting Room in June where Wendy Starland, a musician, appeared as a talent scout for music producer Rob Fusari. Starland informed Fusari – who was searching for a female singer to front a new band – of Gaga's ability and contacted her. With SGBand disbanded, Gaga traveled daily to New Jersey to work on songs she had written and compose new material with the music producer. While in collaboration, Fusari compared some of her vocal harmonies to those of Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen. It was Fusari who helped create the moniker Gaga after the Queen song "Radio Ga Ga". 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." She texted back, "That's it," and declared, "Don't ever call me Stefani again.

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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 Love Child in which they recorded and produced electropop 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 – an unfortunate period of her life that would later inspire her treatment for the music video for her 2011 single "Marry the Night". Devastated, Gaga returned to the solace of the family home for Christmas and the nightlife culture of the Lower East Side.


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She became increasingly experimental: fascinating herself with emerging neo-burlesque shows, go-go dancing at bars dressed in little more than a bikini in addition to experimenting with drugs. During this time, she met performance artist Lady Starlight, who helped mold her on-stage persona. Starlight explained that, upon their first meeting, Gaga wanted to perform with her to songs she had recorded with Fusari. Like SGBand, the pair soon began performing at many of the downtown club venues. Their live performance art piece was known as "Lady Gaga and the Starlight Revue" and, billed as "The Ultimate Pop Burlesque Rockshow", was a low-fi tribute to 1970s variety acts. Soon after, the two were invited to play at the 2007 Lollapalooza music festival in August that year.

While Gaga and Starlight were busy performing, producer Rob Fusari continued to work on the songs he had created with Gaga. Fusari sent these songs to his friend, producer and record executive Vincent Herbert. Herbert was quick to sign her to his label Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records, upon its establishment in 2007.

The Fame era

Main articles: 2008, 2009
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The Fame Ball in 2009.

In January, Gaga and RedOne recorded what will become the first three singles: "Just Dance", "Poker Face" and "LoveGame". Before the album dropped in August, Gaga embarked on a promotional world tour with two female dancers from April to September. By October, she recruted four male dancers to join her on the New Kids on the Block: Live tour. In early 2009, Gaga began the Doll Domination Tour as the opening act to the Pussycat Dolls. The tour leaded to her first solo tour, The Fame Ball which started in March and ended in September. In the spring of 2009, Gaga released "Paparazzi" as the last single.

2009–10: The Fame Monster era

Main articles: 2009, 2010
While she traveled the globe, she wrote The Fame Monster, an EP of eight songs released in November 2009. Each song, dealing with the darker side of fame from personal experience, is expressed through a monster metaphor. The success of the album allowed Gaga to start her second worldwide concert tour, The Monster Ball Tour, just weeks after the release of The Fame Monster and months after having finished The Fame Ball Tour.

2011–12: Born This Way era

Main articles: 2011, 2012
On the road with The Monster Ball in 2010-11, Gaga recorded her third album which was released in May of 2011.

Physical appearance

Main articles: Hair and wigs, Makeup, Nails

Lady Gaga is 5' 1" (1.55 m), have naturally brown hair and eyes. She have worn many wigs and a weft (only in 2008) from Blonde to Teal across the years.

Tattoos

Main article: Tattoos
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Lady Gaga has twenty-three tattoos located on various part on the left side of her body. During the Musicians@Google Presents: Google Goes Gaga, Gaga revealed that she only has tattoos on the left side of her body because her dad asked her to keep one side of her body 'slightly normal'. She referred to her left side of her body like her 'Iggy Pop side' and her right side (without tattoos) her 'Marylin Monroe side'.

During the second leg of The Monster Ball Tour in Japan, she got a temporary tattoo while on her way to Japan, saying, "リトルモンスター" (Ritoru Monsutā), which means "Little Monster".

Fashion

Main articles: Fashion, Sunglasses, Outfits, Accessories, Shoes

Fashion is a major key point in the life of Lady Gaga. She has stated that she is "very into fashion" and that it is "everything" to her. Her love of fashion came from her mother, who she stated was "always very well kept and beautiful."

Outfits worn by Lady Gaga are a mix of high couture designers, young designers from across the world and her own team, the Haus of Gaga. Some of her favorite designers include Chanel, Armani, Gucci.

Haus of Gaga

Main article: Haus of Gaga

In 2008, Gaga created the Haus of Gaga, her behind the scenes team that create everything from outfits to art direct the films and various projects. They usually either make the outfits themselves or ask a designers to create the outfits for them.

Photography

Social media

Each link will include all the photographs she posted on the following websites:
Instagram
See this page for the Instagram gallery
Gaga joined Instagram in June of 2012. She posted her first photos on June 20, 2012. When asked about her lack of profile picture, Gaga explained to fans that she thinks the website is difficult to use. The photographs uploaded are mostly taken from her iPad.

  1. "Born This Way" promotional poster with "GAGA" written in red on it.
  2. The Born This Way Ball poster
  3. The Born This Way Ball program

  1. The Advocate (no.1050, 2011)

Discography

For the full list, see Lady Gaga discography.

Tours

Headlining

Joint tours

Opening act

Filmography

For the complete list of videos, see this page.
Television
Year Title Notes
2001 The Sopranos "The Telltale Moozadell" (Season 3, episode 9)
Uncredited, classmate role
2005 Boiling Points Season 3, episode 22
2009 Gossip Girl "The Last Days of Disco Stick" (Season 3, episode 10)
Cameo appearance
2009-2011 Saturday Night Live "Ryan Reynolds/Lady Gaga" (Season 35, episode 2)
"Justin Timberlake/Lady Gaga" (Season 36, episode 22)
2010 Double Exposure "No One Can Work Like This"
2011 American Idol

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Guest mentor

So You Think You Can Dance (Season 8, episode 3) Guest judge
Born To Dance Season one
A Very Gaga Thanksgiving ABC Special
Perez Hilton Superfan Series premiere
2011-12 Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest Performed and joined New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in dropping the Times Square Ball.
2012 Oprah's Next Chapter "Lady Gaga and Her Mother, Cynthia" (Season one, episodes 14-15)
The Simpsons "Lisa Goes Gaga" (Season 23, episode 22)
Opening Act "Von Smith & Lady Gaga"
Film
Year Title Notes
2011 Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden HBO Special
Producer
Emmy Award for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Special (Single or Multi-Camera)
The Muppets Cameo appearance
Deleted scene
2013 Machete Kills La Chameleon

Products

  • Heartbeats by Lady Gaga (Monster Cable, 2009, 2011)
  • Polaroid Grey Label (2011)
  • Fame, fragrance (Coty Inc. with Haus Laboratories, 2012)

Books

Related pages

External links

For the complete international list of official links, see this page.
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