[403] Billboard named her "the Greatest Pop Star of 2009", asserting that "to say that her one-year rise from rookie to MVP was meteoric doesn't quite cut it, as she wasn't just successful, but game-changingthanks to her voracious appetite for reinvention. They sound like songs written by artists who, quite frankly, are supremely messed up but hit to the core of the listener. [233] By the end of the year, she became the highest grossing female artist of 2022. 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She was named one of Time magazines 100 Most Influential People and was named by Forbes magazine as one of the worlds most powerful women, and she capped off 2010 by being named Billboard magazines artist of the year. 1 Album With 'ARTPOP', "Lady Gaga dazzles fans with fun, solid show", "Inside Lady Gaga's Latest Reinvention (It's All Part of a Long-Term Plan)", "Lady Gaga hosts 'Saturday Night Live,' plays future self without fame or applause", "Lady Gaga Teams Up With the Muppets and Adorable Photos Result", "Lady Gaga brings signature over-the-top style, familiar hits to Roseland Ballroom's final shows", "Rolling Stones & Lady Gaga Wrap Up Their Tours on Top", "Lady Gaga, longtime manager Troy Carter split over 'creative differences': report", "Lady Gaga and Manager Bobby Campbell Join Artist Nation (Exclusive)", "Lady Gaga 'Nailed It' In 'Sin City' Sequel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt Reveals", "Lady Gaga Unveils Cover Art For Duet Album With Tony Bennett", "Cheek to Cheek Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga", "Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga review Gaga is a wonder", "Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett meet 'Cheek to Cheek', "Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga's 'Cheek To Cheek' Debuts at No. Angelina Germanotta was born in 1918 and is known as Stefani Angelina Germanotta. Lady Gagas third album, Born This Way (2011), found the entertainer reaching back to earlier musical eras for inspiration. In February 2010 she also picked up three Brit Awards (the British equivalent of the Grammys)for best international female, best album, and breakthrough act. Although she modeled herself on such theatrical performers as David Bowie during his Ziggy Stardust period, the New York Dolls, Grace Slick, and Freddie Mercuryher adopted stage name was derived from Queens song Radio Ga Gashe created a character that came to occupy a unique space in the music world. Gaga's real name, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta. She played a vampiric countess with no regard for life or suffering in the fifth season of the television show American Horror Story: Hotel (201516). [393] In 2018, a leaked memo from Trump's office revealed that his administration wanted to change the legal definition of sex to exclude transgender Americans. [245][246] Another taped performance by the duo recorded for MTV Unplugged was released that December. [229][230] At the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, Gaga won five awards, including the inaugural Tricon Award recognizing artists accomplished in different areas of the entertainment industry. [315] At the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, Gaga appeared in drag as her male alter ego, Jo Calderone, and delivered a lovesick monologue before a performance of her song "You and I". [209] Billboard says its lyrics are about wanting change, its struggle, love, romance, and bonding, describing the music as "timeless, emotional, gritty and earnest. [336] Scott Hardy, CEO of Polaroid, praised Gaga for inspiring fans and for her close interactions with them on social media. Even her acting credits in both American Horror Story and A Star is Born are credited to Lady Gaga. [466] As of 2022, she has grossed more than $689.5 million in revenue from concert tours and residencies with attendance of 6.3 million, being the fifth woman to pass the half-billion total as reported to Billboard Boxscore,[233][467] receiving the Pollstar Award for Pop Touring Artist of the Decade (2010s). The singer had to previously evacuate her own home during the Woolsey Fire which spread through parts of Malibu. [368] She also appeared in a video by Staples Inc. to raise funds for the foundation and DonorsChoose.org. [261] Gaga is set to star with Joaquin Phoenix in Joker: Folie Deux, which will be released in 2024. [286] Gaga is a contralto, with a range spanning from B2 to B5. She took piano lessons and practiced through her childhood. Because I'd been being abused. [457] At the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, she was honored with the inaugural Tricon Award representing achievement in three (or more) fields of entertainment. [118][119][120] In August 2013, Gaga released the album's lead single "Applause",[121] which reached number one in Hungary, number four in the US, and number five in the UK. During 2010 Lady Gaga proved to be one of the most commercially successful artists, with a sold-out concert tour (which had been launched to coincide with the release of The Fame Monster), while she also headlined Chicagos Lollapalooza music festival and played in front of a record 20,000 people at NBCs Today show. The title track was a self-empowerment anthem in the style of Madonnas 1989 single Express Yourself, while Judas brazenly mixed sexual and religious imagery. Both songs quickly became hits. Lady Gaga. [290][291] In summing up her voice, Entertainment Weekly wrote: "There's an immense emotional intelligence behind the way she uses her voice. [18][276] Stylistically, Gaga has been compared to Leigh Bowery, Isabella Blow, and Cher;[277][278] she once commented that as a child, she absorbed Cher's fashion sense and made it her own. [61] Those new songs were also released as a standalone EP on November 18, 2009. Behind Lady Gaga's New Album Title", "Lady Gaga Scores Her Fourth No. Gaga had her breakthrough the following year with her debut studio album, The Fame, and its chart-topping singles "Just Dance" and "Poker Face". The album also yielded Lady Gaga five Grammy nominations, including for album of the year and song of the year (Poker Face); she captured two Grammysbest dance recording (Poker Face) and best electronic/dance album (The Fame)and her opening duet with Sir Elton John was among the most talked-about elements of the 2010 Grammys telecast. Find out how she got from there to her Gaga fame, here! [85] Gaga also performed songs from her albums at the 2009 Royal Variety Performance, the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, and the 2010 Brit Awards. [241] This was followed by her second collaborative album with Tony Bennett, titled Love for Sale, on September 30. The Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party also issued an order for state-controlled media to condemn this meeting. [309] Billboard ranked her sixth on its list of "The 100 Greatest Music Video Artists of All Time" in 2020, stating that "the name 'Lady Gaga' will forever be synonymous with culture-shifting music videos". [321] When Gaga met briefly with then-president Barack Obama at a Human Rights Campaign fundraiser, he found the interaction "intimidating" as she was dressed in 16-inch heels, making her the tallest woman in the room. Other tracks on the album featured guest appearances from guitarist Brian May of Queen and saxophonist Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springsteens E Street Band. [234] In February 2021, her dog walker Ryan Fischer was hospitalized after getting shot in Hollywood. [201] Gaga's performance was acclaimed by film critics, with Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian labeling the film "outrageously watchable" and stating that "Gaga's ability to be part ordinary person, part extraterrestrial celebrity empress functions at the highest level";[202] Stephanie Zacharek of Time magazine similarly highlighted her "knockout performance" and found her to be "charismatic" without her usual makeup, wigs and costumes. Los Angeles Police initially said the woman who dropped off the dogs did not appear to be involved with the shooting,[237] but on April 29, she was one of five people charged in connection with the shooting and theft. [258][259] In July 2022, she embarked on The Chromatica Ball stadium tour,[260] which had twenty dates and grossed $112.4 million from 834,000 tickets sold. (@ladygaga)", "NU'EST's Ren Reveals What His Reaction Would Be If He Met His Role Model Lady GagaIt's Super Adorable", "Slayyyter is 2018 Pop, Inspired by 2007 Britney, Lindsay, and Paris", "Inspired by @chancetherapperk, @Beyonce, @BrunoMars, @Adele, @ladygaga. Lady Gaga is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, and businessperson. [37] Gaga later credited Herbert as the man who discovered her. [173][174][175] The album, titled Joanne, was named after Gaga's late aunt, who was an inspiration for the music. [354] Two months later, Gaga attended the 84th Annual US Conference of Mayors in Indianapolis where she joined with the Dalai Lama to talk about the power of kindness and how to make the world a more compassionate place. Her contributions to the latter's soundtrack, which spawned the chart-topping single "Shallow", made her the first woman to win an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Grammy Award in one year. Responding to a question on this issue, she expressed her fondness for androgyny. [159][160] At the 73rd Golden Globe Awards, Gaga received the Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film award for her work on the season. Philanthropist, activist, entrepreneur. Lady Gaga is an American singer-songwriter and actress who rose to fame in 2008 with her debut studio album, The Fame. [307] The video for "Telephone" earned Gaga the Guinness World Record for Most Product Placement in a Video. The name "Lady Gaga" was suggested to her by her former boyfriend Robert Fusari. [73] She was the most nominated artist for a single year, and the first woman to receive two nominations for Video of the Year at the same ceremony. Her fashion combined with her up-tempo, synthetic dance music and her edgy, theatrical performance to create stunning sounds and visuals. [253] The film was released on November 24, 2021, to mixed reviews, though critics praised Gaga's performance as "note-perfect". [352] Sales have raised more than $202million to fight HIV and AIDS. She has also been known to change her image drastically from time to time in search of authenticity. [93][279] She considers fashion designer Donatella Versace her muse; Versace has called Lady Gaga "the fresh Donatella". [294] Simon Reynolds wrote in 2010, "Everything about Gaga came from electroclash, except the music, which wasn't particularly 1980s, just ruthlessly catchy naughties pop glazed with Auto-Tune and undergirded with R&B-ish beats. For her sixth studio album, Chromatica (2020), Lady Gaga returned to her earlier music, mixing disco and electronic-pop. Her performance featured a group of hundreds of lighted drones forming various shapes in the sky above Houston's NRG Stadiumthe first time robotic aircraft appeared in a Super Bowl program. [18] That year, she also played an unsuspecting diner customer for MTV's Boiling Points, a prank reality television show. [36] In November 2007, Herbert signed Gaga to his label Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records, established that month. [308] According to author Curtis Fogel, she explores bondage and sadomasochism and highlights prevalent feminist themes. [252] Her method acting approach took a toll on her mental wellbeing, and towards the end of filming she had to be accompanied on-set by a psychiatric nurse. Lady Gaga cowrote most of the movies songs, including Shallow, which won two Grammy Awards and the Oscar for best original song. [401][402] According to Frankie Graddon of The Independent, Gagawho wore a meat dress to highlight her distaste for the US military's "don't ask, don't tell" policyinfluenced protest dressing on red carpet. 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[300] Billboard describes Artpop as "coherently channeling R&B, techno, disco and rock music". "[407] Including Born This Way as one of the 50 best female albums of all time, Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield considers it "hard to remember a world where we didn't have Gaga, although we're pretty sure it was a lot more boring". Lady Gaga, byname of Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, (born March 28, 1986, New York City, New York, U.S.), American singer-songwriter and performance artist, known for her flamboyant costumes, provocative lyrics, and strong vocal talents, who achieved enormous popular success with songs such as Just Dance, Bad Romance, and Born This Way.. Her parents encouraged her to pursue music and enrolled her in Creative Arts Camp. After dropping out, she began transforming herself from Germanotta into Lady Gaga, whose style combined glam rock and over-the-top fashion design. [101][102] Rolling Stone listed it among "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2020. The name monstraparva alluded to Gaga's fans, known as Little Monsters, since their symbol is the outstretched "monster claw" hand, which resembles a tightly rolled young fern leaf prior to unfurling. She considered herself a misfit and was mocked for "being either too provocative or too eccentric".[8]. [137] Two months later, she embarked on the ArtRave: The Artpop Ball tour, building on concepts from her ArtRave promotional event. [156][157], Gaga had spent much of her early life wanting to be an actress, and achieved her goal when she starred in American Horror Story: Hotel. [93][94], In February 2011, Gaga released "Born This Way", the lead single from her studio album of the same name. Lady Gaga was in the fifth season of the television show American Horror Story: Hotel (201516). [443], A new genus of ferns, Gaga, and three species, G. germanotta, G. monstraparva and Kaikaia gaga, have been named in her honor. [284], Critics have analyzed and scrutinized Gaga's musical and performance style, as she has experimented with new ideas and images throughout her career. Her real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, a name given to her by her parents, Joseph and Cynthia Germanotta. [484] The following year, she topped Forbes' List of Top-Earning Celebs Under 30,[478] which she also topped in 2011,[485] and in February 2016, the magazine estimated her net worth to be $275million. That same year Lady Gaga, who also wrote songs for other pop artists such as Fergie, the Pussycat Dolls, and Britney Spears, was signed by the singer Akon and Interscope Records and began preparing her debut album, The Fame, which was released in 2008. [82][83] The Monster Ball Tour ran from November 2009 to May 2011 and grossed $227.4million, making it the highest-grossing concert tour for a debut headlining artist.