Lady Gaga was born in 1986 and showed a passion for music from a young age. She attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts but dropped out to focus on her music career. She struggled at first living in cheap housing and trying to get her music heard. Her breakthrough came in 2008 with her debut album "The Fame" and its follow up "The Fame Monster" in 2009, which included hit songs like "Poker Face", "Paparazzi", and "Bad Romance". Known for her outrageous fashion sense and ability to shock audiences, Lady Gaga has become a rising icon in the LGBT community and has won numerous awards for her music. She is preparing for the release of her new album "

1. Stefani Angelina Germanotta was born March 26th 1986. She grew up a musical
child and by the age of 17 by early admission she attended the New York universities
Tisch School of the Arts to study music. She eventually dropped out to concentrate
on her music and left her family to live in the cheapest apartment she could find and
“ate shit till someone would listen”. Aged 19 Stefani met music producer “Red One”
who worked with her to produce her first song “Boys, Boys, Boys”.
In 2007 Stefani met fellow artist Lady Starlight, they went on to create the “Ultimate
pop Burlesque Rock show” combining electric pop melodies with Glam rock fashion,
taking inspiration from her hero Freddy Mercury. It was his song Radio Ga Ga that
her stage name came from.
At the beginning of her career she found it hard to get radio airplay and said “the
turning point for me was the gay community I’ve got so many gay fans and they are
so loyal to me, they’ll always stand by me and ill always stand by them.”
The song “Poker Face” was in fact about her own bisexuality and in many of her
dedicated speeches she has became a rising icon for gays and lesbians.
Lady Gaga then went on to sign with Interscope Records, and it was there she
blasted onto the scene with her debut solo album” The Fame “(2008). Her follow up
album “The Fame Monster” (2009) blew us away with catchy tracks such as”
Telephone” and” Bad Romance” and achieved number one in six different countries.
Awards and nominations Totals
Awards won 92
Nominations 200
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2. YouTube Hits
140
120
100 Born This Way
Million Hits
Paparazzi
80
Love Game
60 Eh Eh
Just Dance
40
Telephone
20
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The song Bad Romance went off the grid in this graph totalling up a whopping
348.085,598 million hits!!
Name of Date Views Likes Dislike As Seen On
the song released s
Born 11/02/201 15,353,012 88,624 20,098 New.music.yahoo.com
This Way 1
Alejandr 08/06/201 125,191,10 210,74 59,548 New.fr.music.yahoo.co
o 0 3 9 m
Bad 23/11/200 52,186,438 368,36 77,683 Universal.music.co.jp
Romance 9 7
Paparazz 25/11/200 52,186,438 52,890 57,143 Interscope
i 9 Records.2009
Just 16/06/200 33,081,261 45,433 3,503 Interscope
Dance 9 Records.2008
As well as her musical contributes Lady Gaga is also well known for her outrageous
advent garde fashion sense and the ability to shock. Who could forget the blood
splattering MTV performance or the infamous raw meat dress??? Whatever the outfit
she manages to grab our attention and get us talking weather it be good or bad. With
designers such as Alexander McQueen, Jean Paul Gautier and Donatella
Versace dressing her it’s not a surprise that other artists such as Rhianna and
Beyonce are following in her path with extreme clothing, but neither coming close to
Gaga.
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4. So what can we expect next from Lady Gaga? She has just released her new single,
Born This Way, which went straight to number one. The album with the same title as
the single is due for release the 23rd of May 2011. Gaga says this album is
“something so much deeper than a wig or lipstick or a meat dress” and with Akon
saying that she’s taking her music to another level, there’s no doubt it going to be
another massive smash hit record.
From Perfume as the Star magazine states that has an aroma of bodily fluids-,
especially “blood and semen”! to Polaroid GL20 glasses - a pair of shades that take a
photo while your wearing them and displays the picture on the lens, due for release
later this year and also working with her own creative fashion line Haus of Gaga
(http://www.haus-of-gaga.com/) 2011 is sure going to be a very busy year for this
unpredictable, unstoppable Lady.
 Lady Gaga Page on YouTube –
http://www.youtube.com/user/ladygagaofficial?blend=2&ob=4
 The International Cool hunting Magazine – Lady Gaga’s Story Music & Fashion –
http://5magazine.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/lady-gaga%E2%80%99s-story/
 “Lady Gaga en la unvented” by americanistadechiapas (no real name given) –
http://www.flickr.com/photos/americanistadechiapas/5265220010
 “Top 10 Lady Gaga Weird Outfits” by KhairulA_23 -
http://www.bukisa.com/people/KhairulA_23
 Lady Gaga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia –
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-
ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License
 Look Magazine from 7th February 2011 (Editor Ali Hall) – http://www.look.co.uk/
 Star Magazine from 14 February 2011 – Issue 367 (Editor Busola Adulate) –
www.star-magazine.co.uk
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