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Stefania Gabriella Germanotta, best known by her stage name Lady GaGa, is an American singer-songwriter and dance-pop/electronica musician. Lady GaGa was born in March 1986, in New York, to an Italian family. She attended Convent of the Sacred HeartSchool and, as a little girl, she remembers singing into a plastic tape recorder to the likes of Cyndi Lauperand Michael Jackson By age 4, Lady Gaga had taught herself to play the piano by ear, and when she was a teenager she penned her first song. When she was just 14, she was playing open mic nights at New York’s Bitter End, and by the age of 17 she had been one of 20 kids in the world to get early admission to Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.

Lady Gaga started working the local Lower East Side club scene, performing then-hits like "Beautiful Dirty Rich" while donning her unique stage outfits. When she was 20 she started working for Interscope Records and was busy writing songs for other musical groups, such as The Pussycat Dolls

Throughout 2008 Lady GaGa finalized tracks for her debut album "The Fame". While her music ignited the blogosphere, her creative team, the "Haus of GaGa", promoted the image of Lady GaGa worldwide via fashion, technology and various media: Lady GaGa's pop persona is styled with blonde geometric bangs and Diamond encrusted shades, as seen on her album cover. She often wears loose hooded garments with skin-tight pants. Her performances are accompanied by her infamous 'Disco Stick', and more recently a pair of metallic sunglasses with digital screens as lenses which play video content.

Building upon the online hype of brand GaGa, Germanotta returned to her club roots, to create a visually fresh showcase of her potential hits. Touring the world throughout the summer with two dancers, Cinnamon and Ginger, and English DJ Space Cowboy in tow, she dances while singing live over remixed versions of her biggest tracks. Lady Gaga promoted her music releases and charted impressively in Australia, Finland and Canada. She also performed two exclusive shows in London as early hype for her eventual UK releases.

In the fall of 2008 "Haus of GaGa" turned their focus upon the USA market and Lady Gaga is due to embark upon a tour with the reformed New Kids on the Block with whom she has collaborated on the song 'Big Girl Now'.

According to an interview conducted by Ron Slomowicz, the stage name Lady GaGa is a reference to the song "Radio Ga-Ga" by Queen.