But of course, he put himself on everyone’s lips thanks to music and in the second half of the first decade of this century, when he put on stage his techno-pop combo from his debut album titled The Fame (2008). Her rapid rise to fame was closely linked to the fashion and eccentric outfits she displayed on her tours, shows and various galas. On the other hand, in her first video clips she left various messages about mental health, human trafficking and frank support for the LGBTQ + community, who quickly took her as their icon.
Stefani was born at Lenox Hill Hospital and is the first child of the established marriage of Cynthia Louise Germanotta and Joseph Germanotta. A few years later her younger sister, named Natalie, was born. The family, with Italian roots, grew up on New York’s Upper West Side and became linked to the Catholic faith. In that sense, little Stefani attended a nuns’ school. Joanne, his middle name, was a tribute to his paternal aunt, who died shortly before he was born. Years later, in 2016, she used it again to name her fourth studio album that way.
From a very young age she was encouraged by her mother to take piano lessons, which she quickly adopted as a tool to create her first songs. Likewise, she attended various arts camps in some of her childhood summers. Already as a teenager, her first approach to the stage was performing at open microphone nights in some bars in Manhattan. In parallel, she took acting classes at the Lee Strasberg Institute to film her histrionics. “I don’t know exactly where my affinity for music came from, but it’s what comes easiest to me.. My mother always says that when she was three or even younger, she helped me get on the piano and played the keys. I guess she told my dad: ‘She has to study piano,’” she once said. And she also illustrated her dedication at a very early age with an anecdote: “For Christmas, my dad gave me a songbook of Bruce Springsteen and there was ‘Thunder Road’, which is my favorite song. And she told me: ‘If you learn to play this song, we’ll take out a loan to buy a grand piano.’ “It was the hardest thing I ever did.”
“They used to make fun of me for being too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to regulate it. I didn’t fit in, I felt like an abnormality, like a weirdo. “It couldn’t be me,” she said on another occasion about the bullying that he suffered during his school days. Since she was little she revealed herself to be different and with that impulse she burst out like Lady Gaga. Legend has it that the nickname arose from her bond with music producer Rob Fusari – who was also her partner – since every time they agreed to meet in the studio to work together, instead of greeting him with a ‘hello’ she would sing to him. the song “Radio Ga Ga” (What in). And it occurred to him that this could be his trademark forever.
Her debut album was preceded by the single “Just Dance” but it was the following ones, “Poker Face” and “Paparazzi”, that quickly placed her in the ears of the whole world and with which she topped the charts in the United States. , Australia and Canada. In parallel, the songs presented video clips that looked like medium-length films – with twisted scripts and careful art direction – and with which they stood out in the programming of the musical signals of the time.
With that impulse, he went on tour and a year later he released the ep The Fame Monster (2009), which featured the hits “Bad Romance”, “Telephone” – in duet with Beyonce– and “Alejandro”. She already stood like a star and went one step further with the album Born This Way (2011), which included a long world tour that even brought her to Argentina in October 2012. In that context, inspiration arose for what would be her next step, crystallized in the album art pop (2013). The standout song from that work was “Swine,” in which she confessed to having been raped when she was 19 years old: “You’re just a pig inside a human body… Snitch, snitch, snitch, you’re so disgusting.”, the topic said. And a year later, the first turn would come that would position her in a different place than her techno-pop-technicolor: a jazz album signed with the legend Tony Bennetttitled Cheek to Cheek.
In parallel to this, his window towards acting opened. Although in 2001 she had begun her role as an actress through a small participation in an episode of the series The Sopranosin 2013 he acted in the film Machete Kills -directed by Robert Rodriguez– and the following year he played Bertha in the film Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. In 2015 it started in American Horror Story: Hotel like the countess Elizabeth Johnsona role that earned a Golden Globe for best actress in a miniseries or television film.
In 2016 he would return to music through the album Joanne, inspired by the life of his maternal aunt, where he stood out with the emotional ballad “Million Reasons.” On February 5, 2017, he was on everyone’s lips when he headlined the halftime show at the superbowl, where he performed several of his songs such as “Bad Romance”, “Poker Face”, “Million Reasons” and “Telephone”. The show had over 117 million viewers in the United States alone, making it the second most-watched halftime show in Super Bowl history. The feat was recorded in the documentary Gaga: Five Foot Twoin which she showed how she prepared to do the show and also told various aspects of her privacy, revealing that she suffers from fibromyalgia, a condition that led her to cancel the show. Joanne World Tour forcibly. “I want to be helpful in raising awareness and connecting with people who suffer from this disease,” Gaga said.
By 2018 he once again put on the movie star suit with the blockbuster hit A Star is Bornstarring with Bradley Cooper, who also directed the film. The film, a remake of the original made in 1937, shows the romance of Allya singer-songwriter performed by Gaga, with the singer Jackson Maine (Cooper), who becomes tense after his career is overshadowed by that of the young artist. Gaga also got her hands on the soundtrack and, together with Cooper, sang the song “Shallow,” which became a hit. At the same time, rumors of a romance between the two broke out, never confirmed by the parties, although the rapprochement caused the separation of the actor from the Russian model. Irina Shayk. “We made a love story. For me, as a performer and actress, of course, we wanted people to feel that love at the Oscars,” Lady Gaga said about it.
Two years later, in the middle of the pandemic, Chromatica, Lady Gaga’s last album as a solo artist, was released so far. It featured the hit “Rain on Me,” which she signed with her disciple. Ariana Grande. At work it also appears Elton John, in the song “Sine from Above”. In 2021 it came out Love for Salehis second album with Tony Bennett, being so far the newest thing in his discography, since in recent years he once again put all his energy into cinema.
But for those who are fans of his music, there is hope. After having filmed all the scenes for the film that will be released sometime in 2024, Lady Gaga published a photo of herself in the middle of the musical creative process on her Instagram. It was last February 14, in line with Valentine’s Day and
