The American singer and actress Lady Gaga, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, known as Lady Gaga, was born on March 28, 1986 in New York in the United States of America.

Gaga was born to Joseph Germanotta and Cynthia Germanotta. She has the same parents as American fashion designer Natali Germanotta.

Gaga, who grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, revealed in an interview that her working-class parents struggled to make ends meet. At the age of 11, she enrolled at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, an all-Catholic private school for girls.

When Gaga was four years old, her mother urged her to learn to play the piano to become “a sophisticated young woman.” She studied piano and took lessons throughout her childhood. During the lessons, she learned to compose music by ear, which she enjoyed more than reading music.

Her parents enrolled her in creative arts camp and encouraged her to pursue music. As a teenager, she performed at open mic nights.

At Regis High School, Gaga played the lead roles of Adelaide in Guys and Dolls and Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. She also studied method acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute for ten years.

Gaga tried out for New York productions without success, although she had a minor role as a high school student in the 2001 episode of The Sopranos, “The Telltale Moozadell”.

At the age of 17, Gaga received early access to Collaborative Arts Project 21, a music program at New York University’s (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts, where she also lived.

There, she studied music and developed her skills as a songwriter, writing articles on politics, social issues, religion, and the pop artists Damien Hirst and Spencer Tunick.

To focus on her music career, she dropped out of college in the second semester of her sophomore year in 2005. That year, she also appeared on the MTV reality show “Boiling Points” as an unwitting restaurant patron.

Gaga revealed in a 2014 interview that she received both physical and emotional therapy after being raped at age 19. She says the experience caused her post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and she credits medical help, family support, and friends.

When Gaga was a teenager, she began performing, singing at open mic events and appearing in school productions. Before leaving school to pursue a career in music, she attended the Collaborative Arts Project 21 at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

She signed a joint deal with Interscope Records and KonLive Distribution in 2007 while working as a songwriter for Sony/ATV Music Publishing after Def Jam Recordings terminated her contract.

Gaga achieved her breakthrough the following year with her debut studio album “The Fame” and the number-one songs “Just Dance” and “Poker Face”. Later, the extended play The Fame Monster (2009) was added to the album’s reissue, which included the hit singles “Bad Romance”, “Telephone” and “Alejandro”.

Gaga’s five subsequent studio albums have topped the US Billboard 200. Born This Way (2011), her second full-length album, explored electronic rock and techno-pop and sold over a million copies in its first week.

More than a million downloads in less than a week made the title track the best-selling music on the iTunes Store. After releasing Artpop (2013), an EDM-influenced third album with lead single “Applause”, Gaga followed up with the jazz album Cheek to Cheek (2014) with Tony Bennett and the soft rock album Joanne (2014). 2016).

She ventured into acting and won awards for her starring roles in the miniseries American Horror Story: Hotel (2015–2016) and the musical film A Star Is Born (2018).

She was the first woman to win an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Grammy Award in the same calendar year for her work on the soundtrack, which produced the number one hit “Shallow”.

Gaga returned to dance-pop with her sixth studio album Chromatica (2020), which included the debut song “Rain on Me”. In 2021, she released her second album with Bennett, Love for Sale, and starred in the film House of Gucci.

Gaga is one of the world’s best-selling musicians, with approximately 170 million albums sold, and the only artist whose four singles have sold at least 10 million copies worldwide.

Her accolades include 13 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, 18 MTV Video Music Awards, awards from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Council of Fashion Designers of America, as well as Billboard Female Artist of the Year (2010) and Woman of the Year. Year (2015).

She has also been included in several Forbes rankings and was ranked fourth in VH1’s Greatest Women in Music (2012). Time Magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010 and 2019 and included her in its list of 100 fashion icons of all time.

Her charitable work and advocacy focuses on LGBT rights and mental health awareness. She runs a non-profit organization called Born This Way Foundation, which works for the well-being of young people. One of Gaga’s entrepreneurial ventures is Haus Labs, a vegan cosmetics launched in 2019.

Does Lady Gaga have children?

There is no record of Lady Gaga having children of her own. However, she is a godmother.

She is currently in a relationship with entrepreneur Michael Polansky.