Lady Gaga Biography

Lady Gaga

(Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, New York, 1986) American singer. Great diva latest pop and queen at least eccentricity by aesthetic breakthrough that accompanies his concerts and public appearances, albums and singles of his still brief but original run have repeatedly topped the charts and won numerous awards and recognitions. In the 2010 edition of the MTV Video Music Awards, it was the big winner by taking eight of the thirteen awards to which he aspired.

Daughter of a businessman and a telecommunications assistant of Italian origin, after four years started playing the piano by hearsay, and the twelve and made his first steps as a composer. He studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan, an elite private Catholic school for females in which, at the same time, also studied other girls who would feed (although for other reasons) the pages of glossy paper: Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian. At seventeen he was admitted to the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University to study music, but left it after a few months. Plump and long dark hair, began his artistic career playing melodic piano in clubs and small theaters in New York songs. Nothing presaged that soon would be facing a global icon.

In 2006 Stefani acted on the Lower East Side with cover bands like Mackin Pulsifer and SGBand. Meanwhile he tried, unsuccessfully, to place their models in some record, and earned his living as a songwriter for established artists like Pussycat Dolls, New Kids on the Block, Fergie and Akon. Things change when he met the music producer Rob Fusari, with whom he began a working relationship and sentimental. It was Fusari who gave him the nickname of Lady Gaga, in honor of the song Radio Gaga of Queen , one of the groups Stefani header.

And then he gave a twist to his career. In the Lower East Side, where he lived between parties and drugs, created with performance artist Lady Starlight burlesque, modern and show dance titled Lady Gaga and the Starlight Revue , which already foreshadowed the new paths by which he would unwrap the artist, especially aesthetic. One day Akon, who knew his skills as a composer, heard her sing and decided to sign to his label, Kon Live Distribution. So Lady Gaga started to work in collaboration with Fusari and other producers such as RedOne or Martin Kierszenbaum, which would be their debut album, The Fame .

The album 's first single, Just Dance , appeared in April 2008, coinciding with his distance from Fusari, and soon was number one in countries like the United States (with over 400,000 digital downloads), Canada, Australia or the United Kingdom. For this work the flamboyant artist was nominated for a Grammy for the first time. The phenomenon Lady Gaga was born. The Fame hit the record stores in August, and the album 's second single, Poker Face , co - written and co - produced, as above, by RedOne, a month later. Again, the song was number one in twenty countries, including the United States, which again lifted her to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 (April 2009).

Lady Gaga in the video Poker Face

The Fame , a mix of electropop and synthpop eighties and sounds dance , was one of the biggest selling records of 2009 worldwide, with more than twelve million copies and reached number one in countries like United Kingdom, Canada and Ireland. Lady Gaga songs were heard on all radio and the artist began to be carried in the press. To this also they contributed his first tour, The Fame Ball Tour ;promotional videos, care to detail with an increasingly more in line with Lady Gaga we know today aesthetics, and nominated for five Grammys. In Just Dance blonde Gaga and platinum appears; with a flash on the cheek, pays tribute to David Bowiein Aladdin Sane , another of his references. And Poker Face incorporates her sexy and futuristic vein. Poker Face earned three nominations at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, including best video of the year award eventually went to Beyonce (Single Ladies ).

While her singles began to be number one and razed videos on television and especially the Internet, Lady Gaga was forging his character and his legend.impossible hairstyles, extreme makeovers, sidereal or cosmic costume or just breaking increasingly sophisticated scenery, bordering choreography in the pornographic, eccentricities thousand and explosive statements to the press (as when he declared hermaphrodite) made it increasingly popular, and began to be habitual to be the center of attention.

In the last quarter of 2009 Lady Gaga released her second studio album, The Fame Monster . He presented his first single, Bad Romance , in Fashion Week Spring / Summer 2010 Alexander McQueen, 25 October 2009. The impact could not be more spectacular. Bad Romance was number one in countries like Britain, Canada, Peru, Germany, France, Italy, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Austria and Denmark, and its promotional video, rated by critics for its innovative elements, exceeded two hundred million views on YouTube, becoming the most watched in history.

In this simple they followed Telephone (played as a duet with Beyoncé and accompanied by a video of ten minutes), Alejandro and Dancer in the Dark . To promote the album, Gaga embarked on his second world tour, The Monster Ball Tour , officially announced on October 15, 2009. Described by Gaga as " the first opera electropop", the tour would take five continents, to June 2011, and saturate in Spain in only two concerts in Barcelona and Madrid, on 7 and 12 December 2010. the tickets went on sale on May 5; three days later they were dead.

On September 12, 2010 Lady Gaga was the big star of the show of the MTV Video Music Awards at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, by winning eight of the thirteen awards to which he aspired: best video of the year (by Bad Romance ), best pop video, best video by a female artist, best dance video, best choreography, best direction and best editing; by Telephone , which appears with Beyoncé, she was the best collaboration. Gaga, who was presented with eight different dresses (one for each award and including one made ​​with beef steaks that caused stupor), used the occasion to announce the title of his next album: Born This Way , which would see the light in May 2011 and again had an extraordinary acceptance, both in sales and in its assessment by music critics.