lady-gaga
Lady Gaga (* March 28 1986 in New York as Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta ) is an American pop singer and songwriter .
With 87 million albums sold worldwide, it is one of the most successful artists of our time. Their performances were so far with five Grammy Awards honored. With their debut album The Fame her to international fame.
Lady Gaga was the daughter of Italian-American born parents. Her father, Joseph Germanotta works as an Internet entrepreneur and her mother Cynthia Bissett’s career as an assistant at a telecommunications company operates. Gaga attended Catholic school for girls Convent of the Sacred Heart, comes not from a wealthy family. “Because my parents are from the lower classes, my mother had from eight to eight working outside the home in telecommunications, like my father,” she said.
At the high school Gaga played musical -starring roles as Adelaide in Guys and Dolls and Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum .
“About one made me sooner funny, because I for either provocative or eccentric was. I have not added me, and I felt like a freak. ”
At the age of 17 she went to the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University . There, she studied music and could in songwriting continued form by writing essays and analytical work with emphasis on issues such as art, religion, social issues and politics. In the fourth semester, she left, but the university to focus on their musical to concentrate career. After Gaga had moved at the age of 18 years from her home, she worked as Burlesques go-go girl , because her parents are not financially wanted to support. began during this time Gaga, drugs consume which her father broke off contact with her temporarily.
In an interview on Larry King Live gave away Lady Gaga, on the autoimmune disease lupus erythematosus suffer. From the disease already had died of her aunts. The values determined by the physicians of the disease befänden but at the limit and you have so far shown none of the typical symptoms.
Musical beginnings
In childhood, Lady Gaga began playing the piano as a teenager she already composed his own songs. Her first appearances had them in the rock, but especially in the camp – and queer in the scene, Lower East Side (the U.S. state of New York), where she was the opening act for glam – and garage rock . was to see bands like Semi Precious Weapons
At the age of 19, Lady Gaga was signed to Def Jam Recordings a recording contract, but was disbanded after only three months.Shortly thereafter, she met the music producers RedOne , with whom she the song Boys Boys Boys wrote.
Lady Gaga (right) (2007) with Lady Starlight
Music producer Rob Fusari compared some of the vocal harmonies in Lady Gaga’s self-written songs with those of Freddie Mercury . Fusari created randomly by the stage name Lady Gaga, he said:
“Every day when Stef [Lady Gaga] came into the studio, I started to Radio Ga Ga sing, instead of saying hello. ‘Lady Gaga’ was actually a flat tire, I typed ‘Radio Ga Ga’ in a text message and it led by AutoCorrect, then changed to ‘Radio’ somehow ‘Lady’. She wrote back to me: “That’s it.” After that day she was Lady Gaga. ”
- Fusari
In 2007 worked Gaga along with the artist Lady Starlight, their stage costumes created. joined the duo eventually under the name “Lady Gaga and the Starlight Revue” on, in August 2007 they played at the music festival Lollapalooza .
The international breakthrough (2008-2010)
In 2008 Lady Gaga moved to Los Angeles to record their debut album The Fame complete. [10] This was eventually released in August. The album was met with some 15 million albums sold a worldwide commercial success,. It reached number one in six countries and second in the U.S. The first two singles of the album, Just Dance and Poker Face , were also commercially successful. Poker Facebook won in 2011 a Grammy in the category of Best Dance Recording . The album The Fame won a Grammy Award for Best Electronic / Dance Album . They also won the MTV Video Music Awards in the categories of Best New Artist and Best Art Direction and Best Special Effects for each of the fourth single from paparazzi . The first time was when Lady Gaga opening act for New Kids on the Block on tour. Their first tour as a headliner was The Fame Ball Tour in 2009.
On 20 November 2009, the EP The Fame released with eight new songs. The first single, Bad Romance reached number one in eighteen countries and has been digitally downloaded over four million copies. This is the first singer Gaga, the three singles – Just Dance , Poker Face , Bad Romance -. could sell over four million copies in the U.S. digitally The second single was the song Telephone decoupled, a collaboration with Beyoncé Knowles . The song became Gaga’s fourth number-one hit in the United Kingdom.
On 11 February 2011 was the first single from Born This Way released. A few hours after the publication of the song was number one of several download services and had all the iTunes charts captured in all 23 countries. from the single were within three days of 448 000 downloads sold in the U.S., the largest sale of a debuting songs from a . female artist Born This Way is the first song, the only downloads No. 1 reached the German singles charts, it is Gaga’s fourth number-one hit in Germany within two years. Lady Gaga won for Born This Way at the Europe Music Awards, two awards, including the award for best song. Overall, she won four awards in the evening.
Poker Face and Just Dance are in the United States the first songs that have been downloaded over 6 million copies. The music videos are from Lady Gaga on the internet site YouTube called about a billion times, and succeeded before any other musician.
On 22 May 2011 presented Lady Gaga in the UK to a record: It is the first solo artist since Ruby Murray in 1955, which has managed to have four singles simultaneously present in the top 20, namely, Born This Way , Jude , The Edge of Glory and Hair .Her first appearance in Germany under the promotional tour for new album Lady Gaga completed on 9 June 2011, when, in the final of the casting show Germany’s Next Top Model appeared in Cologne. On 6 November 2011 she went to live at the MTV Europe Music Awards. There she was nominated for six awards, of which she won four in the categories of “Best Female”, “Best Song” and “Best Video” for Born This Way , and “Biggest Fans”.
In the United States and I youe the tenth single, which sold over a million copies. It also has The Edge of Glory there made her ninth hit which sold over two million copies. To this day, Lady Gaga has in the U.S. about 45 million recordings sold. On 10 November 2011 she performed at the Bambi 2011 titled Marry the one up in a live version. Shortly thereafter her about Karl Lagerfeld of Bambi in the category International Pop presented.
Lady Gaga was 2011 with revenues of more than 25 million to $ 4 on the financially most successful musicians in the world.
Influences and style of music
Lady Gaga’s music by musicians such as David Bowie , Queen , Madonna , Michael Jackson , Grace Jones and Debbie Harry were affected. In addition, they can be of fashion inspiration.
The Queen song Radio Ga Ga . was crucial for her stage name Lady Gaga said:
“I admire Freddie Mercury and Queen a hit that had Radio Ga Ga said. This is the reason why I love the name as [...] Freddie was unique – one of the greatest personalities in the whole pop music. ”
Her singing is by Madonna and Gwen Stefani compared, while their music as pop of the 1980s and Europop of the 1990s is referred to. Looking back on her debut album The Fame , wrote the newspaper The Sunday Times : “When the music Fashion, art and technology combined, Lady Gaga is reminiscent of Madonna when she was good at Gwen Stefani around the time of Hollaback Girl , to Kylie 2001 or Grace Jones right now. ” Similarly, commented the critic Sarah Rodman of The Boston Globe that she “is inspired from Madonna to Gwen Stefani … in her girlish, but stable and beeping their lively beats.”
Comparisons between her and Lady Gaga commented: “I do not want to sound arrogant, but I’ve made it my goal to revolutionize popular music. The last revolution was completed by Madonna 25 years ago. ” In an interview, she described herself as a big fan of Iron Maiden , for which she also worked as a roadie already.
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