
An avid thespian in high school musicals, Germanotta portrayed lead roles as Adelaide in Guys and Dolls and Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. At the age of 11, Germanotta attended Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private Roman Catholic school. She learned to play piano from the age of four, went on to write her first piano ballad at 13 and began performing at open mike nights by age 14. Stefani Germanotta was born on March 28, 1986, the eldest child of Italian American parents Joseph and Cynthia Germanotta (née Bissett), in New York City. In May 2010, Time magazine included Gaga in its annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. As of May 2010, she had sold over 11.5 million albums and over 40 million singles worldwide. In December, 2009 Lady Gaga was ranked the #73rd Artist of the Decade by Billboard Magazine. She has also stated fashion is a source of inspiration for her songwriting and performances. Lady Gaga is inspired by glam rock musicians such as David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, as well as pop music artists such as Madonna and Michael Jackson. By the fourth quarter of the year, she had released her second studio album The Fame Monster, with the global chart-topping lead single "Bad Romance", as well as having embarked on her second headlining tour of the year, The Monster Ball Tour. In early 2009 she embarked on her first headlining tour, The Fame Ball Tour. The album later earned a total of six Grammy Award nominations and won awards for Best Electronic/Dance Album and Best Dance Recording. Its first two singles, "Just Dance" and "Poker Face", co-written and co-produced with RedOne, became international number-one hits, topping the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States as well as the charts of other countries. In addition to receiving generally positive reviews, it reached number one in Canada, Austria, Germany and Ireland, and topped the Billboard Top Electronic Albums chart. Her debut album, The Fame, was released on August 19, 2008.

During her early time at Interscope, she worked as a songwriter for fellow label artists and captured the attention of Akon, who recognized her vocal abilities, and got her signed to his own label, Kon Live Distribution. She soon signed with Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records, upon its establishment in 2007.

She had enrolled at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts to study music, but left the college and began performing in the rock music scene of New York City's Lower East Side. Lady Gaga (born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta March 28, 1986) is an American recording artist. Labels Interscope, Streamline, Kon Live, Cherrytree, Def Jam

Instruments Vocals, piano, synthesizer, keytar

Occupations Singer, songwriter, musician, dancer DOWNLOAD MUSIC LEGALLY Palco MP3 Legal Music Downloadīirth name Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta
