1986-2005
GaGa was born in Manhattan, New York, USA, to a well-to-do Italian family. Her father, Joseph
Germanotta, was a web entrepreneur and her mother, Cynthia, was a communications assistant. And GaGa is their eldest daughter. When GaGa was 11, she was supposed to be sent to the Juilliard School of Music in Manhattan, but she later enrolled at Sacred Heart, a Catholic school.
GaGa learned to play the piano at the age of 4 by listening to the piano; she wrote her first narrative piano piece at 13 and began performing it at night when she was 14. When she was 17, she received early admission to New York University's Tisch
School of the
Art, where she studied music. She focused her compositions on artistic, religious and socio-political themes by writing essays and analytical reports. She dropped out of NYU to focus on her music career.
At the age of 20, she began writing songs on Interscope
Records and for pop artists such as Kitten and Britney. After she moved out of her parents' house, GaGa began performing around town, on New York's Lower East Side, where she shared the stage with Mackin
Pulsifer and SGBand. Banking on standing out from the typical rocker, she chose to focus her attention on pop music. When it comes to her father's reaction to her drug use and performing at a strip show, "He ignored me for months, and I was wearing leather slippers, and he felt bad - he couldn't understand it."
Meanwhile, GaGa fell in love with a heavy metal drummer named Luc
Carl. In the May 2009 issue of Rolling Stone, GaGa described their relationship and their breakup "I was his Sandy, and he was my Danny, and I just broke." she said. He later became one of the inspirations for her debut album.
Music producer Rob
Fusari nicknamed her GaGa after Queen's 1984 single "Radio
GaGa," after comparing her voice and songwriting style to that of Freddie Mercury. Fusari also helped her create some of her early hits, such as "Disco Heaven", "Dirty", "Dance", "Dance", "Dance", "Dance" and "Dance". Disco Heaven", "Dirty Ice
Cream" and "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich"
Expanded profile
Lady Gaga was born in Manhattan, New York, USA, into a Catholic family with Italian and French Canadian roots. Born in Manhattan, New York to a Catholic family with Italian and French-Canadian roots, Lady Gaga began taking piano lessons at the age of 4, and by the age of 5 she was already playing the piano proficiently. at the age of 11 she was to be sent to the Juilliard School of Music in Manhattan, but later enrolled in the Sacred Heart School, a Catholic school.
At 13, she wrote her first narrative piece for piano, and at 14, she began performing in nightclubs in New York City; at 15, she appeared in an episode of the Mafia TV series "The Sopranos Season 3"; at 17, she skipped a grade to attend New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied classical music, and at 19, she was sexually assaulted by a music producer, which led to numerous physical and emotional therapies. In 2005, she dropped out of college and went to bars to play and sing her own songs; that same year, she appeared on the MTV channel spoof "The Crash Pad" to win $100, but ended up not winning the prize .
In high school, Lady Gaga played the lead roles in her school's stage productions of "Red Boys and Girls" and "Springtime in the City". In college, she entered music competitions and published an 80-page sociology paper on "popularity.
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