Lady GaGa Biography

Biography

Lady GaGa, who was born as Joanne Stefani Germanotta on March 20, 1986 in Yonkers, New York, showed a strong passion in music since she was a little. She used to sing along using her mini plastic tape recorder to Michael Jackson and Cyndi Lauper's hits. There was also a point in her childhood where she turned to sounds performed by The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. By age four, she had taught herself to play piano by ear. When she was a teenager, she penned her first song and played in front of public for the first time during an open mic nights at New York's Bitter End. At the age of seventeen, she was one of twenty people in the world to gain early admission to the Clive Davis program at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, proving herself as a smart one.

GaGa's music career was started through a performance in the Lower East Side club scenes. There, she found herself among singers who wrote the same style of songs. Wanting to try something different and unique, she decided to do something provocative in the music scene by being an exhibitionist, theatrical performer. "Everybody did ...

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the same s**t, super-boring. I wanted to do something that was original and fresh," she said during an interview.

When she was 19, GaGa signed a deal with Def Jam Records but was dropped three months later. Yet, she didn't let her premature disappointment overthrow her. She worked on a way to build her fan base by performing at local shows. Eventually, her unlikely on-stage style sparked the interest of Interscope's producer Jimmy Iovine. He offered her a label deal via Streamline/Interscope and partnered her with singer/songwriter Akon, who later hired her as a songwriter for his artist, Tamy Chynn.

During her work with Akon, GaGa used to go into the recording booth to lay down some vocals and there with expert eyes, Akon realized her immense singing talent and after listening to her demo recordings, Akon later signed her to Kon Live Distribution. "When we were working, Akon would say, 'Get in the booth and cut these vocals,' and he'd always tell me I could really sing. So he decided he wanted to be a part of my music," she said. "He spoke to Jimmy, and we decided to become a big family."

After settling in Kon Live, GaGa ...