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His sister Joanne, the namesake for Gaga's middle name as well as her album Joanne and the family's restaurant—more on that below passed away from lupus in She was one of the only girls at school with a job, and worked at a UWS diner.

At 15, Gaga says she dated a year-old waiter at the restaurant. During her childhood, Lady Gaga says her parents tried to keep her grounded. That was a defining moment because I knew there was something different about her at that point. Gaga isn't technically an owner, according to the New York Times. Germanotta told the Times. Her father and I were like—honestly, he said, 'I think she has a screw loose.

Weight Loss. At seventeen, she was one of twenty people in the world to have gained early admission to the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Interscope music executive Vincent Herbert hired her in January as a music writer.

She states that she is "very into fashion" and that it is "everything". She learned how to play the piano at the age of four, wrote her first piano ballad at 13, and began performing at open mic nights by the age of On February 20, , she donated tickets and a meet and greet, for any show on her Fame Ball tour, in the US or Canada, to raise money for Odyssey Charter School and elementary schools in Los Angeles affected by budget cuts.

Has a younger sister, Natali Germanotta , who once dressed as her for Halloween. Her classmates included Paris Hilton and Nicky Rothschild. Other former students include Joanna Philbin and J. Bleached her hair blonde in light of the fact that she was being mistaken for Amy Winehouse by interviewers while trying to make it big.

Her song "Telephone" was originally written for Britney Spears 's sixth album Circus. However, after it failed to make the album's final track listing, Gaga recorded the song as a collaboration with 'Beyonce Knowles' for her second album, The Fame Monster.

In the magazine's "Artists" category which she headed , the singer's tribute was written by Cyndi Lauper. Is good friends with Deepak Chopra and has stated he is one of the most influential people in her life because of the spiritual guidance he gives her. Her album "Born This Way" sold over 1 million copies in the first week. This contributed to the album's , digital sales, the highest one-week digital total of all time.

Her second album "Born This Way" is the seventh album to sell 1 million copies in 1 week. Launched, with her mother Cynthia Germanotta , "Born This Way Foundation", a non-profit organization to help people, worldwide, develop a new standard of care towards one another [November 13, ].

In a Billboard poll, Gaga was voted as having the Best Fashion for and was also voted as the Most Overrated artist of Voted 18 on Ask men's top 99 'most desirable' women of list. Got her middle name, Joanne, after her aunt. Her aunt Joanne died of lupus at age Set to make first theatrical debut in Machete Kills. Quit drinking and smoking marijuana, having become addicted following a hip injury in Gaga's manager, without consulting her, denied permission to "Weird Al" Yankovic, when he asked for permission to parody her song "Born This Way".

Gaga only discovered this when one of her close friends showed her the YouTube video of the parody Yankovic had just uploaded to his account, called "Perform This Way", after having gone viral via Twitter. Her manager forced Yankovic to go through at his own expense the process of writing, recording, mixing and mastering the song, all while Yankovic was on tour in Australia, prior to denying permission to him.

Yankovic felt that if he had to jump through all those hoops, it should still be heard, if not on his album, then online. When Gaga finished watching the video, she personally called Yankovic, and emphatically overruled her manager. Gaga stated that she was never told he had even reached out to her, and would have given him permission on the spot.

She also said she was a huge fan of his, she loved what she had heard in the video he had uploaded and felt it was "very empowering" and "a rite of passage" to be parodied by Yankovic, and to release the song on his album as he originally planned. This came just in time, since pulling the parody would have meant delaying Yankovic's album by several weeks or months.

Both Gaga and Yankovic agreed to donate proceeds and royalties from the parody to the Human Rights Campaign. Emily Blunt portrayed her on an episode of Lip Sync Battle Cited Tejano singer Selena 's outfits primarily her bustiers as inspiring her choice of clothing for her concerts. First celebrity crush was actor Adrien Brody. Was engaged to talent agent Christian Carino October February Went through a phase of showing up in her videos with two great Danes. She took that idea directly from late episodes of TV show Bewitched , where Queen Epsibah shows up with two great Danes on either side of her throne, at Samantha's house.

She's definitely provocative. Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show. I was the arty girl, the theatre chick. I dressed differently and I came from a different social class from the other girls.

I was more of an average schoolgirl with a cork. She says, "I can see you, because you have no pants on. You must never ever let a guy know how much you like him, because then he'll run in the other direction Well, I just sign that when you don't play hard to get, if you're too easy or you come off too eager, they run away so you gotta keep your pokerface on.

I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff. I can't pay my rent, but I'm fing gorgeous. I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up. I didn't know somebody, who knew somebody, who knew somebody. If I have any advice to anybody, it's to just do it yourself, and don't waste time trying to get a favor. Writing a record is like dating a few men at once.

You take them to the same restaurants to see if they measure up, and at some point you decide who you like best. When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.

My album covers are not sexual at all, which was an issue at my record label. I fought for months, and I cried at meetings. They didn't think the photos were commercial enough In my opinion, the last thing a young woman needs is another picture of a sexy pop star writhing in sand, covered in grease, touching herself.

She's always really kind, I've always admired that about her. I was trying to understand him through making this record, and in that, also trying to understand why I love men that are cowboys. Gaga launched the Joanne World Tour in support of her latest album in August She began her powerhouse performance on the roof of the NRG Stadium in Houston, singing parts of "God Bless America" and "This Land is Your Land" and reciting an excerpt of the pledge of allegiance before diving through the air suspended by wires to the stage.

She was slated to co-star with Bradley Cooper , who was also making his directorial debut with the project. The co-stars both earned Academy Award nominations for their performances, while their duet for the film, "Shallow," produced Golden Globe, Grammy and Oscar wins for Gaga. With her sixth studio album, Chromatica , on the way, Gaga in February released the dance-worthy single "Stupid Love," her first new music in three years, along with a typically eye-catching video that showed her defeating the forces of evil with her "Kindness punks.

After five years together, in July , it was reported that the couple called off their engagement and parted ways. Gaga then got engaged to her agent, Christian Carino, in summer In early , the entertainer extraordinaire went public with her relationship with tech CEO Michael Polansky.

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