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Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta - born on March 28, 1986, in Yonkers, New York, the eldest child of Italian American parents Joseph and Cynthia Germanotta.

At age 11 she was set to join Juilliard School in Manhattan, but instead attended Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private Roman Catholic school. Playing piano by ear from the age of 4, she went on to write her first piano ballad at 13 and began performing at open mike nights by age 14. At age 17, she gained early admission to the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. There, she studied music and improved her songwriting skills by composing essays and analytical papers focusing on topics such as art, religion and socio-political order. She later withdrew from the school to focus on her musical career.

Gaga signed with Def Jam Records when she was 19, after record executive L. A. Reid heard her singing down the hallway from his office. However, she claims Reid never met with her, and after three months, she was dropped from the label. She moved out of her parents' house and started performing downtown in the Lower East Side club scene, with bands Mackin Pulsifer and SGBand. Throughout 2007, Gaga collaborated with performance artist Lady Starlight, who helped her create her onstage fashions. She began her career as a songwriter for some of pop music’s biggest stars, including Fergie, Pussycat Dolls, Britney Spears and New Kids on the Block, as well as American singer and producer Akon. He nicknamed her Gaga, after the Queen song "Radio Ga Ga." She began to use it as her stage name and was known thereafter as Lady Gaga.

By 2008, Gaga had relocated to Los Angeles, working closely with her record label to finalize her debut album The Fame. She began to work with a collective called the Haus of Gaga, who collaborate with Gaga on her clothing, stage sets, and sounds. The Fame received mostly positive reviews from critics; according to the music review aggregation of Metacritic, it has received an average score of 71/100.The Fame peaked at number one in Austria, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Ireland, and at number four in Australia and the United States worldwide sales as of July 2009 stand at 3 million.

The album's lead single, "Just Dance," was released on April 8, 2008.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M65zI9LH-as

The second single, "Poker Face", was released on September 23, 2008, and has reached number one in nearly twenty countries, including almost all major music markets in the world. "Poker Face" became Gaga's second consecutive number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 2009.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngf5Oo_XrjI

Gaga was nominated for a total of nine awards at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards including Video of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Female Video and Best Pop Video for "Poker Face" and Best Direction, Best Editing, Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction for "Paparazzi. Gaga managed to win the award for "Best New Artist" while her single "Paparazzi" won two awards for "Best Art Direction" and "Best Special Effects.” In October, Gaga received Billboard magazine's Rising Star of 2009 award.

Photo taken from a video filmed at the Glastonbury festival in the UK, shows something between Lady Gaga’s legs you would not expect. This must make her a hermaphrodite, right? Obviously! It's so obvious!According to the celeb news site Bossip, the "Poker Face" songstress once admitted she's a hermaphrodite, though no evidence of this is provided. “It’s not something I’m ashamed of, I just don't go around telling everyone,” she said (supposedly). “I have both male and female genitalia, but I consider myself female. It’s just a little bit of a penis and doesn’t interfere much with my life.” Later it turned out that was just a rumor.

Jnez wrote:6 hours ago

“work, lady gaga. 27 million plays...worldwide baby. tried to avoid you until you performed paparazzi on the vma's. now i can't get enough lol. what a melody....grammy noms are announced in 3 weeks. can't wait to see which ones you'll collect for '09.”

While accepting the Best New Artist trophy at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, she dedicated the award to "God and the gays." She proclaimed that the October 11, 2009, gay rights rally on the national mall was "the single most important event of my career", exiting with an exultant "Bless God and bless the gays!"