156 Facts About Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga's second full-length album, Born This Way, explored electronic rock and techno-pop and sold more than one million copies first-week.

Lady Gaga ventured into acting, gaining praise for her leading roles in the miniseries American Horror Story: Hotel and the films A Star Is Born and House of Gucci.

Lady Gaga's contributions to the A Star Is Born soundtrack, which spawned the chart-topping single "Shallow", made her the first woman to win an Academy, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Grammy Award in one year.

Lady Gaga returned to dance-pop with her album Chromatica, which yielded the number-one single "Rain on Me".

Lady Gaga has been ranked among the greatest artists of all time by various publications.

Lady Gaga's accolades include 14 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, 18 MTV Video Music Awards, and a recognition from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Lady Gaga has her own non-profit organization, the Born This Way Foundation, which supports the wellness of young people.

Lady Gaga's parents are Cynthia Louise, a philanthropist and business executive, and Internet entrepreneur Joseph Germanotta, and she has a younger sister named Natali.

Lady Gaga has described her high-school self as "very dedicated, very studious, very disciplined" but "a bit insecure".

Lady Gaga considered herself a misfit and was mocked for "being either too provocative or too eccentric".

Lady Gaga began playing the piano at age four when her mother insisted she become "a cultured young woman".

Lady Gaga took piano lessons and practiced through her childhood.

The lessons taught her to create music by ear, which Lady Gaga preferred over reading sheet music.

Lady Gaga's parents encouraged her to pursue music and enrolled her in Creative Arts Camp.

Lady Gaga played the lead roles of Adelaide in the play Guys and Dolls and Philia in the play A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at Regis High School.

Lady Gaga studied method acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for ten years.

Lady Gaga auditioned unsuccessfully for New York shows, though did appear in a small background role as a high-school student in a 2001 episode of The Sopranos titled "The Telltale Moozadell".

Lady Gaga studied music there and improved her songwriting skills by writing essays on art, religion, social issues, and politics, including a thesis on pop artists Spencer Tunick and Damien Hirst.

In 2005, Lady Gaga withdrew from school during the second semester of her second year to focus on her music career.

Lady Gaga has post-traumatic stress disorder and attributes it to the incident, and has credited support from doctors, family, and friends with helping her.

In 2005, Lady Gaga recorded two songs with rapper Melle Mel for an audio book accompanying Cricket Casey's children's novel The Portal in the Park.

Lady Gaga formed a band called the SGBand with some friends from NYU.

Fusari collaborated with Lady Gaga, who traveled daily to New Jersey, helping to develop her songs and compose new material.

The producer said they began dating in May 2006, and claimed to have been the first person to call her "Lady Gaga", which was derived from Queen's song "Radio Ga Ga".

Fusari and Lady Gaga established a company called "Team Lovechild, LLC" to promote her career.

Lady Gaga was dropped from the label three months later and returned to her family home for Christmas.

Lady Gaga began performing at neo-burlesque shows, and said these represented freedom to her.

Lady Gaga later credited Herbert as the man who discovered her.

In late 2007, Lady Gaga met with songwriter and producer RedOne.

Lady Gaga collaborated with him in the recording studio for a week on her debut album, signing with Cherrytree Records, an Interscope imprint established by producer and songwriter Martin Kierszenbaum; she wrote four songs with Kierszenbaum.

The video for "Bad Romance" became the most watched on YouTube in April 2010, and that October, Lady Gaga became the first person with more than one billion combined views.

Lady Gaga was the most nominated artist for a single year, and the first woman to receive two nominations for Video of the Year at the same ceremony.

Lady Gaga performed songs from her albums at the 2009 Royal Variety Performance, the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, and the 2010 Brit Awards.

Lady Gaga partnered with Polaroid in January 2010 as their creative director and announced a suite of photo-capture products called Grey Label.

In February 2011, Lady Gaga released "Born This Way", the lead single from her studio album of the same name.

Lady Gaga embarked on the Born This Way Ball tour in April 2012, which was scheduled to conclude the following March, but ended one month earlier when Gaga canceled the remaining dates due to a labral tear of her right hip that required surgery.

Lady Gaga performed a concert at the Sydney Town Hall in Australia that year to promote Born This Way and to celebrate former US President Bill Clinton's 65th birthday.

In 2012, Gaga guest-starred as an animated version of herself in an episode of The Simpsons called "Lisa Goes Gaga", and released her first fragrance, Lady Gaga Fame, followed by a second one, Eau de Gaga, in 2014.

Lady Gaga began work on her third studio album, Artpop, in early 2012, during the Born This Way Ball tour.

Lady Gaga crafted the album to mirror "a night at the club".

Helen Brown of The Daily Telegraph criticized Lady Gaga for making another album about her fame and doubted the record's originality, but found it "great for dancing".

Lady Gaga hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live in November 2013.

In March 2014, Lady Gaga had a seven-day concert residency commemorating the last performance at New York's Roseland Ballroom before its closure.

Lady Gaga briefly appeared in Rodriguez's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, and was confirmed as Versace's spring-summer 2014 ambassador with a campaign called "Lady Gaga For Versace".

In September 2014, Lady Gaga released a collaborative jazz album with Tony Bennett titled Cheek to Cheek.

Lady Gaga stated that Gaga is "the most talented artist I have ever met".

Lady Gaga had spent much of her early life wanting to be an actress, and achieved her goal when she starred in American Horror Story: Hotel.

At the 73rd Golden Globe Awards, Lady Gaga received the Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film award for her work on the season.

Lady Gaga appeared in Nick Knight's 2015 fashion film for Tom Ford's 2016 spring campaign and was guest editor for V fashion magazine's 99th issue in January 2016, which featured 16 different covers.

Lady Gaga received Editor of the Year award at the Fashion Los Angeles Awards.

Lady Gaga played a witch named Scathach in American Horror Story: Roanoke, the series' sixth season, which ran from September to November 2016.

The album, titled Joanne, was named after Lady Gaga's late aunt, who was an inspiration for the music.

Lady Gaga later released a piano version of the album's title track in 2018, which won a Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance.

Lady Gaga performed as the headlining act during the Super Bowl LI halftime show on February 5,2017.

The performance led to a surge of 410,000 song downloads in the United States for Lady Gaga and earned her an Emmy nomination in the Outstanding Special Class Program category.

Lady Gaga released a standalone single, "The Cure", which reached the top 10 in Australia.

Four months later, Lady Gaga began the Joanne World Tour, which she announced after the Super Bowl LI halftime show.

In March 2018, Lady Gaga supported the March for Our Lives gun-control rally in Washington, DC, and released a cover of Elton John's "Your Song" for his tribute album Revamp.

Cooper approached Lady Gaga after seeing her perform at a cancer research fundraiser.

An admirer of Cooper's work, Lady Gaga agreed to the project due to its portrayal of addiction and depression.

Lady Gaga's performance was acclaimed by film critics, with Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian labeling the film "outrageously watchable" and stating that "Lady Gaga's ability to be part ordinary person, part extraterrestrial celebrity empress functions at the highest level".

Lady Gaga and Cooper co-wrote and produced most of the songs on the soundtrack for A Star Is Born, which she insisted they perform live in the film.

Lady Gaga gave live performances of the song at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards and the 91st Academy Awards.

In October, Lady Gaga announced her engagement to talent agent Christian Carino whom she had met in early 2017.

Lady Gaga launched her vegan makeup line, Haus Laboratories, in September 2019 exclusively on Amazon.

At the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, Lady Gaga won five awards, including the inaugural Tricon Award representing achievement in three fields of entertainment.

Lady Gaga later offered a $500,000 reward for the return of her pets.

The album's promotional rollout included the television special One Last Time: An Evening with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, released in November 2021, on CBS, which featured select performances from the duo's August 3 and 5 performances at Radio City Music Hall.

Lady Gaga stayed in character for 18 months, speaking with an accent for nine months during that period.

Lady Gaga's method acting took a toll on her mental wellbeing, and towards the end of filming she had to be accompanied on-set by a psychiatric nurse.

Lady Gaga earned the New York Film Critics Circle Award, and nominations for the BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress.

Lady Gaga co-wrote the song "Hold My Hand" for the 2022 film Top Gun: Maverick, and composed the score alongside Hans Zimmer and Harold Faltermeyer.

Lady Gaga performed "Hold My Hand" live at the 95th Academy Awards, where it was nominated for Best Original Song.

Lady Gaga was appointed as co-chair of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities by President Joe Biden in April 2023, and collaborated with the Rolling Stones on the song "Sweet Sounds of Heaven", featuring Stevie Wonder, from their album Hackney Diamonds that year.

Lady Gaga was the featured artist for season two of the online video game Fortnite spin-off, Fortnite Festival, which ran from February to April 2024.

Lady Gaga released the single "Die with a Smile", a duet with Bruno Mars, on August 16,2024.

Lady Gaga starred as Harleen "Lee" Quinzel alongside Joaquin Phoenix in Todd Phillips's musical psychological thriller Joker: Folie a Deux, the sequel to his 2019 film Joker.

Lady Gaga additionally produced a companion album to the film, titled Harlequin, which was released on September 27,2024.

In March 2025, Lady Gaga hosted Saturday Night Live for a second time.

Lady Gaga was scheduled to perform a series of promotional concerts in support of Mayhem between April and May 2025, before embarking on The Mayhem Ball concert tour that July.

Lady Gaga is set to appear in the upcoming second season of the Netflix series Wednesday.

Lady Gaga grew up listening to artists such as Michael Jackson, the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Queen, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Whitney Houston, Elton John, Prince, En Vogue, TLC, Christina Aguilera, Janet Jackson, and Blondie, who have all influenced her music.

Lady Gaga has been compared to Madonna, who has said that she sees herself reflected in Gaga.

Lady Gaga has expressed her desire to revolutionize pop music the way Madonna did.

Lady Gaga has cited heavy metal bands as an influence, specifically Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and Marilyn Manson.

Lady Gaga has credited Beyonce as a key inspiration to pursue a musical career.

Lady Gaga was inspired by her mother to be interested in fashion, which would later become a major influence and integrated with her music.

Stylistically, Lady Gaga has been compared to Leigh Bowery, Isabella Blow, and Cher; she once commented that as a child, she absorbed Cher's fashion sense and made it her own.

Lady Gaga became friends with British fashion designer Alexander McQueen shortly before his suicide in 2010, and became known for wearing his designs, particularly his towering armadillo shoes.

Lady Gaga has called fashion designer Donatella Versace her muse; Versace referred to Gaga as "the fresh Donatella".

Lady Gaga has been influenced by Princess Diana, whom she has admired since childhood.

Lady Gaga has called the Indian alternative medicine advocate Deepak Chopra a "true inspiration", and has quoted Indian leader Osho's book Creativity on Twitter.

Lady Gaga said she was influenced by Osho's work in valuing rebellion through creativity and equality.

Lady Gaga has called the continual reinvention "liberating", and has been drawn to it since childhood.

Lady Gaga has branched out into jazz and other non-pop musical genres.

Lady Gaga's voice has been classified as a contralto, with a vocal range spanning from B2 to B5.

Lady Gaga has changed her vocal style regularly, and deemed Born This Way "much more vocally up to par with what I've always been capable of".

Lady Gaga has said that she believes "all good music can be played on a piano and still sound like a hit".

Lady Gaga's songs have covered a wide variety of concepts; The Fame discusses the lust for stardom, while The Fame Monster expresses fame's dark side through monster metaphors.

On Chromatica, Lady Gaga returned to her dance-pop roots, and discussed her struggles with mental health.

Lady Gaga has called herself "a little bit of a feminist" and asserted that she is "sexually empowering women".

Lady Gaga continued the blood-soaked theme during The Monster Ball Tour, causing protests in England from family groups and fans in the aftermath of the Cumbria shootings, in which a taxi driver had killed 12 people, then himself.

At the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, Lady Gaga appeared in drag as her male alter ego, Jo Calderone, and delivered a lovesick monologue before a performance of her song "You and I".

Lady Gaga is noted for her outlandish fashion sense, which has served as an important aspect of her character.

Time placed Gaga on their All-Time 100 Fashion Icons list, stating: "Lady Gaga is just as notorious for her outrageous style as she is for her pop hits", mentioning outfits "made from plastic bubbles, Kermit the Frog dolls, and raw meat".

Lady Gaga wore a dress made of raw beef to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, which was supplemented by boots, a purse, and a hat made out of raw beef.

Lady Gaga's fans call her "Mother Monster", and she often refers to them as "Little Monsters", a phrase she had tattooed on herself in dedication.

In July 2012, Lady Gaga co-founded the social networking service LittleMonsters.

Scott Hardy, CEO of Polaroid, praised Lady Gaga for inspiring fans and for her close interactions with them on social media.

In 2011, lyrics of Lady Gaga's song "Born This Way", which reference homosexuality and LGBTQ subjects, were censored by Malaysian broadcaster AMP Radio Networks as a precaution against government restrictions against songs which might violate "good taste or decency or [are] offensive to public feeling".

All profits from her online store that day were donated, and Lady Gaga announced that $500,000 was collected for the fund.

Hours after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, Lady Gaga tweeted a link to Japan Prayer Bracelets.

In June 2011, Lady Gaga performed at MTV Japan's charity show in Makuhari Messe, which benefited the Japanese Red Cross.

In 2012, Lady Gaga joined the campaign group Artists Against Fracking.

Lady Gaga has contributed to the fight against HIV and AIDS, focusing on educating young women about the risks of the disease.

In collaboration with Cyndi Lauper, Lady Gaga joined forces with MAC Cosmetics to launch a line of lipstick under their supplementary cosmetic line, Viva Glam.

In 2012, Lady Gaga launched the Born This Way Foundation, a non-profit organization that focuses on youth empowerment.

In October 2015, at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Lady Gaga joined 200 high school students, policy makers, and academic officials, including Peter Salovey, to discuss ways to recognize and channel emotions for positive outcomes.

Lady Gaga partnered with Starbucks for a week in June 2017 with the "Cups of Kindness" campaign, where the company donated 25 cents from some of the beverages sold to the foundation.

Lady Gaga appeared in a video by Staples Inc to raise funds for the foundation and DonorsChoose.

Lady Gaga had to previously evacuate her own home during the Woolsey Fire which spread through parts of Malibu.

In September 2020, Lady Gaga released an anthology book, Channel Kindness: Stories of Kindness and Community, featuring fifty-one stories about kindness, bravery, and resilience from young people all over the world collected by the BTWF, and introduced by herself.

Lady Gaga promoted it with a 21 days of kindness challenge on her social media, using the "BeKind21" hashtag.

In 2021, Lady Gaga collaborated with the Champagne house Dom Perignon to benefit the BTWF by releasing a limited edition of Rose Vintage 2005 bottles along with a sculpture designed by her.

Lady Gaga has attributed much of her early success as a mainstream artist to her gay fans and is considered a gay icon.

Lady Gaga spoke at the 2009 National Equality March in Washington, DC, to support the LGBTQ rights movement.

Lady Gaga attended the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards accompanied by four gay and lesbian former members of the United States Armed Forces who had been unable to serve openly under the US military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which banned open homosexuality in the military.

Lady Gaga urged her fans via YouTube to contact their senators in an effort to overturn the policy.

Lady Gaga appeared at Europride, an international event dedicated to LGBTQ pride, in Rome in June 2011.

Lady Gaga criticized the poor state of gay rights in many European countries and described gay people as "revolutionaries of love".

Rodemeyer's suicide prompted Lady Gaga to meet with then-President Barack Obama in order to address anti-gay bullying in American schools.

Lady Gaga later endorsed him during the 2012 US presidential election.

In 2011, Lady Gaga was ordained as a minister by the Universal Life Church Monastery allowing her to officiate the wedding of two female friends.

In June 2016, during a vigil held in Los Angeles for victims of the attack at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Lady Gaga read aloud the names of the 49 people killed in the attack, and gave a speech.

Lady Gaga appeared in Human Rights Campaign's tribute video to the victims of the attack.

Lady Gaga opposed the presidency of Donald Trump and his military transgender ban.

Lady Gaga supported former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for president in 2016.

Lady Gaga stated: "I am a Christian woman, and what I do know about Christianity is that we bear no prejudice, and everybody is welcome".

Lady Gaga made a congratulatory speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots and the LGBTQ community's accomplishments at WorldPride NYC 2019 outside the Stonewall Inn, birthplace of the modern gay rights movement.

Lady Gaga was named the "Queen of Pop" in a 2011 ranking by Rolling Stone based on record sales and social media metrics.

Lady Gaga has often been praised for using controversy to bring attention to various issues.

In 2015, Time noted that Lady Gaga had "practically invented the current era of pop music as spectacle".

Lady Gaga placed fifth on Billboards list of the Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century in 2024.

Courses exploring different aspects of Lady Gaga's phenomenon, including her music and fame, have been offered by Arizona State University, Tufts University, St Catherine University, and the University of Richmond.

The name monstraparva alluded to Lady Gaga's fans, known as Little Monsters, since their symbol is the outstretched "monster claw" hand, which resembles a tightly rolled young fern leaf prior to unfurling.

In Taichung, Taiwan, July 3 is designated as "Lady Gaga Day" marking the first day Gaga visited the country in 2011.

In May 2021, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Born This Way and its cultural impact, West Hollywood mayor, Lindsey P Horvath, presented Gaga with a key to the city and declared May 23 as "Born This Way Day".

Lady Gaga has won fourteen Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, eighteen MTV Video Music Awards, three Brit Awards, and sixteen Guinness World Records.

Lady Gaga has been honored with the inaugural Songwriters Hall of Fame Contemporary Icon Award as a songwriter-artist who has attained an iconic status in pop culture.

Lady Gaga received the National Arts Awards' Young Artist Award, honoring individuals who have shown accomplishments and leadership early in their career, and the Grammy Museum Jane Ortner Artist Award, which recognizes artists who have demonstrated passion and dedication to education through the arts.

In 2019, Lady Gaga became the first woman to win an Academy, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Grammy Award in one year for her contributions to the A Star Is Born soundtrack.

Lady Gaga is the only female artist to have four singles each sell at least 10 million copies globally.

Lady Gaga is among the top digital singles artists in the US, with 87.5 million equivalent units certified according to Recording Industry Association of America, was the first woman to receive the Digital Diamond Award certification from RIAA, one of the few artists with at least three Diamond certified songs, and the first artist to have two songs pass seven million downloads.

Lady Gaga was included on Forbes Celebrity 100 from 2010 to 2015 and 2018 to 2020, topping the list in 2011.

Lady Gaga appeared on their list of the World's Most Powerful Women from 2010 to 2014, and topped their list of the Most Powerful Musicians in 2013.

Lady Gaga was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2010 and 2019, and ranked second in its most influential people of the past ten years readers' poll in 2013.