Lady Gaga, or Stella Germanotta as she is less commonly known, was born in New York in 1986. She was performing at open mic nights in New York at the age of 14, began studying at NYU when she was only 17 and release her first album, The Fame, in 2008 when it sold millions of copies and was still on the charts two years later.
Since her debut she has sold more albums and singles than Britney and Byoncé combined. She is the only female artist to have two singles (‘Just Dance’ and ‘Poker Face’) sell more than 500 million copys. She is also the youngest artist to have two tours (The Monster Ball and The Born This Way Ball) to rank among the 25 most successful tours of all time. At the 2010 VMAs, she won eight awards, including Video of the Year. Rolling Stone magazine named Gaga it’s ‘Queen of Pop’ in 2011 and she was currently ranked Number 6 on Celebuzz’s Holywood Power Index.…show more content… It wasn’t until she was groomed by music producer Rob Fusari and started exploring neo-burlescque influences that the flambouyant songstress developed her now familiar form. Several years on, she is hardly recognisable as the ordinary if precosiously talented, convent schoolgirl of her formative years.
Her performances is innovative and theatrical. Typical was the ‘blood-soaked’ event during The Monster Ball Tour, in which she was ‘attacked’ by a performer dressed in black who gnawed her throat, causing ‘blood’ to spurt down her, after which she lays ‘dying’ in a pool of gore
Her status as a fashion brand and pop icon continues to grow. She has several distinctive tattoos on the left side of her body, including her name for her fans — ‘Little Monsters’, a peace symbol inspired by John Lenon and a quotation from the poet and philosopher Rainer Maria
