Lady Gaga is an American singer, songwriter, and actress known for her unconventionality and provocative work. Some of her most popular albums are The Fame (2008), The Fame Monster (2009), and Born This Way (2011). She began her career performing in New York City and was signed to Def Jam Records but later dropped. She developed a unique sound fusing pop, dance, and glam rock influences. Her fashion and public image often feature bold, innovative designs. Lady Gaga is also an outspoken advocate for LGBT rights.

2.  According to me , I feel fashion icon is a person
who could carry herself more trendily and
uniquely who is comfortable with her own style
and could carry herself among the others.
 Lady gaga has got all these thing in herself . she
wears amazing outfits and carries them perfectly
 Apart of her outfits her music styles and songs
made the people a big fan of hers.

3.  STEFANI JOANNE ANGELINA GERMANOTTA (born
March 28, 1986), better known by her stage name Lady
Gaga, is an American recording artist.
 After being signed to and quickly dropped from Def Jam
Records at age 19, she began performing in the rock music
scene of New York City's Lower East Side.
 During this time, she was also working at Interscope
Records as a songwriter for several established acts
 including Akon, who, after hearing Gaga sing, convinced
Interscope chairman Jimmy Iovine to sign her to a joint deal
with the label and Akon's Kon Live Distribution label.

4. 1986-2004: EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
Gaga was born on March 28, 1986 in Yonkers.
New York State as the eldest child to Italian American parents
Joseph and Cynthia Germanotta.
At age 11, Gaga was set to join Juilliard School in Manhattan, but
instead attended Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private Catholic
school.
Playing piano by ear from the age of 4, Gaga went on to write her
first piano ballad at 13 and began performing at open mike nights by
age 14.
At age 17, she gained early admission to the New York University's
Tisch School of the Arts.

5. 2005-07: CAREER BEGINNINGS
Gaga signed with Def Jam Records when she was 19, after record
executive L. A. Reid heard her singing down the hallway from his
office.
 However, she claims Reid never met with her, and after three
months, she was dropped from the label.
 She moved out of her parents' house and started performing
downtown in the Lower East Side club scene, with bands Mackin
Pulsifer and SGBand.
 Around the same time, she started taking drugs and performing at
burlesque shows; Gaga said her father "just didn't understand" it, and
that he could not look at her for several months.

6. GAGA
PERFORMING AT
A RESTAURANT
DURING THE
EARLY DAYS OF
HER CAREER.

7. 2008: THE FAME
By 2008, Gaga had relocated to Los Angeles, working closely with
her record label to finalize her debut album The Fame.
 Gaga said that she combined a lot of different genres on the
album, "from Def Leppard drums and handclaps to metal drums on
urban tracks.
 The Fame peaked at number one in Austria, the United Kingdom,
Canada, and Ireland, and at number four in Australia and the United
States; worldwide sales as of July 2009 stand at 3 million copies.
 The album's lead single, "Just Dance," was released on April 8,
2008, and has topped the charts in six countries - Australia, Canada,
the Netherlands, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
 It received a Grammy nomination for the Best Dance Recording,
but lost to Daft Punk's "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.”

8. THE FAME
The Fame is the debut studio
album by American recording
artist lady gaga. It was released
on August 19, 2008
through inter scope records
Promotion was primarily
through the fame ball Tour and
multiple television
appearances. The Fame was
included as a bonus disc on the
deluxe edition of the extended
play, The Fame Monster (2009).

9. COMPOSITION
Musically, the album drew influences
from late 1970s glam rock musicians
such as David Bowie and Queen
. Gaga incorporated their glam-rock
sound while devising catchy pop
melodies and hooks to create what
she has dubbed, "theatrical pop“
 Songs like "Poker Face", "Just
Dance" and "Love Game" are up
tempo dance songs, with "Poker Face"
carrying a dark sound with clear vocals
on the chorus and a pop hook
 "Just Dance" is synth-based while
"Love Game"

10. 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
Ball Tour Upon finishing in May 2011.
 the critically acclaimed and commercially accomplished tour ran for
over one and a half years and grossed $227.4 million.
It made one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time and the
highest-grossing for a debut headlining artist Concerts performed
at Madison Square Garden in New York City
It was filmed for a HBO television special titled lady gaga Presents
the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden.

11. THE MONSTER BALL
TOUR in 2010

12. 2011– BORN THIS
WAY AND ART POP
Gaga released her second studio
album, Born This Way, on May 23,
2011. Described as a marriage of
electronic music with metal, rock 'n'
roll, pop and anthemic style
melodies with sledge-hammering
dance beats and referred to as an
album .about what keeps us up at
night and what makes us afraid,
Gaga characterized it as "something
so much deeper than a wig or
lipstick or a fucking meat dress" and,
upon hearing it, Akon remarked that
she is taking music to the next
level. Upon release, the album
received generally positive reviews
from music critics

13. Gaga„ s parents, who exposed her to artists like The Beatles, Stevie
Wonder, Queen, Bruce Springste , Pink Floyd, The Grateful
Dead, Led Zeppelin and Elton John had significant influence on her
childhood and, presently, still do. "I am a real family girl. When it
comes to love and loyalty, I am very old-fashioned. And I am quite
down-to-earth for such an eccentric person," she insists."I'm quite
traditional in the family sense. I've always been that way."[ According
to Gaga, Joanne Germanotta – her aunt who died of lupus aged 19 –
lives on through her and inspires all of her music and art Joanne's
date of death is tattooed on Gaga's body and, despite dying 12 years
before her birth, Gaga commented, "I really believe I have two hearts.
I think I actually carry two souls in my body, and that I'm living out the
rest of her life and her goodness – she died a virgin, she died never
having experienced all these things that we all get to love and
experience in our lives.

15. MUSICAL STYLE
Continually experimenting with new musical ideas and images,
Gaga's musical and performance style is the subject of much
analysis and scrutiny from critics.
She professes that she is "liberating" herself by constantly
reinventing her sound and image, insisting that she has been
drawn to such a practice since her childhood Vocally.
Gaga – whose range is frequently compared to those of
Madonna and Gwen Stefani – has manipulated her vocal style
over the course of her career yet considers Born This Way (2011)

16. Gaga performing in a
plastic bubble dress
(2009)

17. While Rolling Stone named Gaga the "Queen of Pop" in 2011, public
reception of Gaga's music, fashion sense and persona are mixed Her
status as a role model
 self-esteem booster for her fans, trailblazer and fashion icon who
breathes new life into the industry is by turns affirmed and denied
Gaga's albums have received mostly positive reviews and critics have
pointed out her unique place in pop music, the need for new
movements in popular culture, the attention
 Gaga brings to modern social issues, and the inherently subjective
nature of her art In view of her influence on modern culture and her rise
to global fame, sociologist Mathieu Deflem of the University of South
Carolina has organized a course titled "Lady Gaga and the Sociology of
Fame" since spring 2011 with the objective of unraveling "some of the
sociologically relevant dimensions of the fame of Lady Gaga“.

18. Gaga performing on the
2011 Good Morning
America Summer Concert
Series

20. She also jumped into the debate
surrounding SB 1070, Arizona's
recently-enacted anti-immigration
law, after premiering her Born This
Way song "Americano" on the
Guadalajara stop of The Monster Ball
Tour in Mexico, telling the local press
that she could not "stand by many of
the unjust immigration laws" in the
US. Gaga is an outspoken activist
for LGBT rights worldwide

21. oThe Fame (2008)
oThe Fame Monster (2009)
oBorn This Way(2011)
oARTPOP(2013)

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