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Gaga’s manager, without consulting her, denied permission to Weird Al Yankovic to parody Born This Way. Gaga overruled her manager after seeing the parody Perform This Way online, and both donated proceeds to the Human Rights Campaign.
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She learned to play the piano at age four, wrote her first piano ballad at 13, and began performing at open mic nights by 14.
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At 17, she was one of 20 people worldwide to gain early admission to NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
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Her stage name Lady Gaga is a reference to the Queen song Radio Ga-Ga.
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She bleached her hair blonde after being mistaken for Amy Winehouse by interviewers early in her career.
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Quit drinking and smoking marijuana after becoming addicted following a hip injury in 2013.
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Suffers from hair loss due to years of dyeing her hair.
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Practices Capoeira, Boxing, Jeet Kune Do, Shaolin Kung-Fu, Krav Maga, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
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Launched the Born This Way Foundation with her mother Cynthia Germanotta on November 13, 2011.
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Was considered for the role of Selina Kyle in The Dark Knight Rises 2012.
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Diagnosed with fibromyalgia in September 2017.
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Serves as godmother to Elton John and David Furnish’s sons, Zachary and Elijah.
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On February 20, 2009, she donated tickets and a meet-and-greet to raise money for Odyssey Charter School and other Los Angeles elementary schools.
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Her album Born This Way 2011 is the seventh album to sell 1 million copies in one week, and she is the fifth woman to achieve that.
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Her song Boys, Boys, Boys was inspired by Motley Crue’s Girls, Girls, Girls.
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She got her middle name Joanne from her aunt, who died of lupus at age 19.
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Her influences include Madonna, David Bowie, Judy Garland, Grace Jones, and Michael Jackson.
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Underwent successful hip surgery on February 20, 2013.
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Her song Telephone was originally written for Britney Spears’s album Circus.
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Go-go danced in bars until her musical career took off.
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Her father is of Italian descent; her mother is of Italian, French, English, German, and Scottish ancestry.
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Made the cover of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World on May 10, 2010, with a tribute by Cyndi Lauper.
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Won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Original Song with collaborators for Shallow from A Star Is Born 2018.
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Born This Way sold over 1 million first-week copies; Amazon sold 440,000 copies in two days at 99 cents, contributing to 662,000 digital sales.
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Attended the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards with Kermit the Frog.
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Was engaged to Taylor Kinney from February 14, 2015, to July 18, 2016.
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Attended the same school as Paris Hilton: Convent of the Sacred Heart.
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Sang The Lady is a Tramp with Tony Bennett on his Duets II album 2011.
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Cited Tejano singer Selena’s bustiers as inspiration for her concert clothing.
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In high school, one of her nicknames was The Germ.
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Interscope executive Vincent Herbert hired her in January 2008 as a music writer.
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Her father Joe Germanotta co-owns the New York Italian restaurant Joanne Trattoria, opened in January 2012.
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Attended Sacred Heart School, a private Catholic school in NYC; classmates included Paris Hilton and Nicky Rothschild.
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Is good friends with Deepak Chopra, who she says provides spiritual guidance.
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Has 14 tattoos, including a peace sign, Little Monsters, a Rilke quote, her aunt’s death date, and the word ARTPOP.
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Has a younger sister, Natali Germanotta, who once dressed as her for Halloween.
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Made her theatrical debut in Machete Kills 2013.
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Her many hit albums include award-winning songs like Poker Face, Bad Romance, Born This Way, and Applause.
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Performed for Stevie Wonder at the 2015 Grammy salute and confessed that Songs in the Key of Life was the first CD she played at age six.
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Has an extremely wide array of influences including David Bowie, Madonna, Whitney Houston, and Bruce Springsteen.
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Emily Blunt portrayed her on an episode of Lip Sync Battle 2015.
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Gaga is one of several actors to receive a Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA, and Critics’ Choice nomination for the same performance and fail to get an Oscar nomination—for House of Gucci 2021.
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On November 14, 2011, she fired her longtime creative director Laurieann Gibson.
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Studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute and the Circle in the Square Theatre School.
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Went through a phase of appearing in videos with two Great Danes, inspired by the TV show Bewitched.
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Nominated for the 2019 Academy Award for Best Actress for A Star Is Born but lost to Olivia Colman.
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Her parents are Joe Germanotta Internet entrepreneur and Cynthia Germanotta telecommunications assistant.
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In a 2011 Billboard poll, she was voted Best Fashion and Most Overrated artist; her song Born This Way was voted 3rd Favorite Hot 100 No. 1.
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Named the new face of Polaroid.
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Voted #18 on AskMen’s top 99 most desirable women of 2012 list.
