Lady Gaga biography, net worth, boyfriend, age, young, family, height 2024

Lady Gaga’s Biography

This singer, known as unconventional and outrageous, has conquered the Olympus of show-business at lightning speed. She holds many prestigious rewards, including Grammy, MTV Video Music Awards and MTV Europe Music Awards. She was ranked as the most influential woman in the world by The Times newspaper. Net worth: $320 million.

Early Years

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was born on March 28, 1986, in New York. Her father - Joseph Germanotta - is an entrepreneur and an ex-musician; her mother’s name is Cynthia Louise. Both her parents are Americans of Italian origin.

Stefani loved music as a child; at the age of four she masterly played covers of Michael Jackson’s songs on the piano and recorded them on a tape recorder. She wrote her first composition at the age of thirteen.

In 1997 Stefani went to the Convent of the Sacred Heart, a Roman Catholic school. Paris Hilton and Caroline Kennedy were her classmates, but according to Lady Gaga, they mutually ignored each other.

Stefani was a dedicated and disciplined student, but her peers didn’t like her because of her extravagant clothes. The fact that she played in music bands also didn’t help her popularity.

In 2000 Lady Gaga started performing on the stage of the Bitter End club. At the same time, she started taking part in musical performances at school. At this age, she also played in Regis Jazz Band.

A year later, Stefani was invited to play with Mackin Pulsifer and SGBand in New York down-town clubs. At the age of 15, she first appeared on stage wearing an ultra-short miniskirt and a bikini. From this moment on, a new, provocative season began in young Stefani’s life.

After graduating from school in 2003, she enrolled in New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. During this time she moved from her parents’ home to the University dormitory. After two years, Stefani dropped out of the School of the Arts to pursue performing.

Music Career Start

Stefani first used the pseudonym Lady GaGa in 2006. It originated from Freddie Mercury’s song Radio Ga-Ga. She had just begun working with producer Rob Fusari, who started calling her that. In Fusari’s words, Stefani was grimacing as much as the great singer in his video. Together with this producer, she wrote a few songs, which she sang in New York clubs.

Lady Gaga, Poker Face

At the same time, she signed her first contract with Def Jam Recordings, which falls under the global recording giant Universal Music Group. However, the contract was terminated a year later.

In 2008 Lady Gaga signed a new contract with Interscope Records. The show business bigwig - producer Vincent Herbert - helped her with this. The singer worked as a songwriter for the record label. There she started writing songs for Britney Spears. Later, Lady Gaga met the rapper Akon, who liked her demo recordings. As a result, he signed a contract with her and recorded her first album at his own studio, Kon Live Records.

First Fame

Lady Gaga‘s popularity started in 2008 when her first album The Fame came out in Canada. The CD had commercial success; it topped the charts in six countries and was among Top 10 albums according to radio stations’ ratings worldwide. The songs Just Dance and Poker Face earned special recognition.

Lady Gaga’s first video skyrocketed her popularity

Lady Gaga’s first concert after the release of the album took place in the autumn of that year. Musicians from New Kids on the Block band helped her. In January the following year, she went on a European tour with Pussycat Dolls.

Her independent tour in North America started in March 2009. Over the next few years, she received five Grammy Awards and twelve Grammy nominations.

Lady Gaga’s video Alejandro

Lady Gaga’s second album The Fame Monster came out in November 2009, including the singles Bad Romance, Telephone (with Beyoncé Knowles), Alejandro, Monster and Dance in the Dark.

A scene from Lady Gaga’s video Telephone

In the summer of 2010, the press started talking about the star’s predisposition to lupus, which the singer later confirmed. This subject was extensively discussed in various sources; however, the disease itself has not been confirmed.

At the MTV Video Music Awards in the autumn of 2010, Lady Gaga received eight Awards, setting a record in the ceremony’s history. At the same time, the Guinness Book of World Records awarded her the title of the most-searched woman on the Internet. A month later - once again for the first time in history - the number of her video views on YouTube exceeded one billion.

Lady Gaga’s second studio album Born This Way was officially released in France on May 19, 2011. Three months before that date, the singer started presenting singles from the album: Born This Way, Judas, The Edge of Glory, and Hair. Through the Internet, the album rapidly spread to the entire world. The star’s fans were actively downloading her songs.

The next album, Artpop was released two years later in November 2013. The singer had started working on it back in 2012, together with producer Fernando Garibay. In the autumn of 2014 Lady Gaga’s fourth CD – the Cheek to Cheek jazz album - was released. The work on this album had also started in 2012. The release date was planned for January 1, but in the process of recording, the deadlines had to be postponed a few quarters. The album was recorded together with American singer Tony Bennett. At the end of the year, the singers embarked on a joint tour to promote the album.

At the 87th Academy Awards ceremony in 2015, the singer performed a few songs from the Sound of a Music movie. A year later, the singer once again performed at the Academy Awards, as well as at the Grammy Awards ceremony, where she sang Space Oddity, Changes, and Ziggy Stardust in remembrance of David Bowie. In 2016 Lady Gaga presented her fans with her fifth album. The album had a more personal touch to it, and the songs were filled with the singer’s personal feelings.

Big Screen

The star doesn’t only sing, travel the world, and bask in her glory. She has always enjoyed acting, which is specifically seen in her videos and performances. It is therefore not surprising that Lady Gaga began playing in movies. Her first movie was Robert Rodriguez’s, Machete Kills. However, the movie was a box-office flop, grossing only $15 million, while its budget was $20 million. For her role as the assassin La Chameleon, Lady Gaga was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress.

In 2014 Sin City: A Dame to Kill For was released, where the star played a small role as Bertha.

Lady Gaga, Bad Romance

At the end of February 2016, the singer appeared in the fifth season of the American Horror Story series. The producers of the show advertised this fact two years before the release of the movie. Lady Gaga received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Drama for her role as Countess Elizabeth Johnson.

Lady Gaga played the leading role in Bradley Cooper's debut directing project A Star is Born, the remake of the 1937 movie of the same name. The premiere of this musical movie, where Bradley himself plays the leading role, took place in the autumn of 2018, and already at the beginning of 2019 the singer was nominated as the best actress for the Oscar film award.

A Star Is Born: Trailer

Lady Gaga’s Personal Life

Until recently, there wasn’t much information about the singer’s personal life, apart from rumors and gossip. The star met actor Taylor Kinney on the set of the You and I music video in 2011. A few months later they began dating. In 2012 the couple split up for a while but later resumed their affair.

On Valentine’s Day in 2015, the actor proposed to Lady Gaga, and she accepted. The star shared the news with her subscribers on Twitter. However, in the summer of 2016, the singer announced that she had broken up with Kinney.

In February 2017 the public learned about Lady Gaga’s affair with her agent Christian Carino; the couple got engaged in the summer of 2017. However, in one of her interviews, the singer stated that due to some health complications and the tight tour schedule, the wedding had been postponed indefinitely.

In 2019, the media said that after the filming of the movie "A Star Was Born", Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga had mutual feelings. Later it became known that the singer for a short time moved to Cooper's mansion, from which his wife, Irina Shayk, moved out. Soon the couple talked about the breakup, and a little later announced that their whole "romance" was a PR film and a hoax.

Lady Gaga Now

In May 2020, Lady Gaga’s sixth studio album "Chromatica" was released. Almost immediately after the release, he took a leading place in the American charts. In the same year, Gaga’s joint single, Ariana Grande, Rain on Me, was released.

It is also known that Gaga plans to appear again on the big screen - the singer is preparing to shoot in the new film by Ridley Scott. Lady Gaga will play the role of Patricia Reggiani, who hired a killer to kill her husband, the former head of the Gucci fashion house, Maurizio Gucci.

Interesting Facts about Lady Gaga

At the moment, Lady Gaga is the leading best-selling singer, having sold over 23 million albums and around 60 million singles. She has set the Guinness World Record twice for these achievements.

Lady Gaga, Paparazzi

Lady Gaga actively supports LGBT rights; in America, she has earned the title of Gay Icon. She often attends rallies in support of sexual minorities; she actively protested against the military’s Don’t ask, don’t tell policy, under which US military personnel can’t speak about their sexual orientation.

She was declared the Billboard’s Artist of the Year in 2010. The magazine also ranked her at number 73 among the best artists of the 2000s.

Miniatures of Lady Gaga’s most outrageous dresses

She was included in the Forbes’ Top 100 Most Influential Celebrities. She was also ranked at number 7 in the Forbes’ Top 100 Most Powerful Women.

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Landon Miguel Evans

I remember how she first appeared in her extravagant outfits :) it was strange, but Shura had already surpassed her at one time :) it seems that every country should have such a hero

2021-05-03 08:33:35
Mary Hansen

By the way, I always thought that Gaga would only recoup on images, but in fact, she had nothing and even the voice of norms

2021-04-29 22:50:33
Alejandro Zachary Green

Gaga used to have hits, I remember. Then after “A Star Was Born” it was like a career at sunset.

2021-04-16 09:01:32
Carmen Morris

Lady Gaga will show everyone that she will not leave the stage on a wave of shocking.

2021-04-08 21:05:48
Ryan Nathan Gonzalez

Gaga nowadays is quite domesticated, don`t see her on TV anymore

2021-03-05 16:45:53