Lady Gaga
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, known as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She is one of the world’s best-selling music artists and the fourth highest-earning female musician of the 2010s. Her achievements include various Guinness World Records, 11 Grammy Awards, and awards from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
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Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, known as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her consistent image reinventions and versatility in both music and entertainment. Gaga began performing as a teenager, singing at open mic nights and acting in school plays. She studied at Collaborative Arts Project 21, through New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, before dropping out to pursue a career in music. Gaga rose to prominence the following year with her debut studio album, The Fame, and its chart-topping singles \”Just Dance\” and \”Poker Face\”. As of 2014, Gaga is one of the world’s best-selling music artists and the fourth highest-earning female musician of the 2010s. Her extensive philanthropy and social activism includes work related to mental health awareness and LGBT rights. Gaga founded the Born This Way Foundation in 2012, a non-profit organization that focuses on empowering youth, improving mental health, and preventing bullying. In 2019, she launched Haus Laboratories, a vegan cosmetics brand. She also ventured into acting, playing leading roles in the miniseries American Horror Story: Hotel, for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, and the critically acclaimed musical drama film A Star Is Born. Her achievements include various Guinness World Records, 11 Grammy Awards, and awards from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
She has been declared Billboard’s Artist of the Year and Woman of the year and included among Forbes’ power and earnings rankings. She was ranked number four on VH1’s Greatest Women in Music in 2012 and second on Time’s 2011 readers’ poll of the most influential people of the past ten years. Her parents are Cynthia Louise, a philanthropist and business executive, and Internet entrepreneur Joseph Germanotta,. and she has a younger sister named Natali. From age 11, she attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private all-girls Roman Catholic school. She considered herself a misfit and was mocked for \”being either too provocative or too eccentric\”. Gaga began the piano at age four when her mother insisted she become “a cultured young woman” She took lessons and taught herself to play the piano through The Piano School. As a teenager she played the roles of Adelaide in the play and Guys and Dolls and Philia in the Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at Regis High School. She did a small role as a high school student in a 2001 episode of The Sopranos titled The Telltaletaletale of A Telltale Story of a Small Girl. Her contributions to the latter’s soundtrack, which spawned the single \”Shallow\”, made her the first woman to win an Academy, Grammy, BAFTA, and Golden Globe award in one year. She returned to her dance-pop roots with her sixth album, Chromatica, which spawning the number-one single \”Rain on Me\”.
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