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Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta - born on

March 28, 1986, in Yonkers, New York, the eldest

child of Italian American parents Joseph and

Cynthia Germanotta.

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At age 11 she was set to join Juilliard School inManhattan, but instead attended Convent of theSacred Heart, a private Roman Catholic school.Playing piano by ear from the age of 4, she went on towrite her first piano ballad at 13 and began performingat open mike nights by age 14. At age 17, she gainedearly admission to the New York University's TischSchool of the Arts. There, she studied music andimproved her songwriting skills by composing essaysand analytical papers focusing on topics such as art,

religion and socio-political order. She later withdrewfrom the school to focus on her musical career.

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Gaga signed with Def Jam Records when she was 19, after

record executive L. A. Reid heard her singing down thehallway from his office. However, she claims Reid never metwith her, and after three months, she was dropped from thelabel. She moved out of her parents' house and startedperforming downtown in the Lower East Side club scene, withbands Mackin Pulsiferand SGBand. Throughout 2007,

Gaga collaborated with performance artist Lady Starlight,who helped her create her onstage fashions. She began hercareer as a songwriter for some of pop musics biggest stars,including Fergie, Pussycat Dolls, Britney Spears and NewKids on the Block, as well as American singer and producer

Akon. He nicknamed her Gaga, after the Queen song"Radio Ga Ga." She began to use it as her stage name andwas known thereafter as Lady Gaga.

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By 2008, Gaga had relocated to Los Angeles, working

closely with her record label to finalize her debut

album The Fame. She began to work with a collective

called the Haus of Gaga, who collaborate with Gaga

on her clothing, stage sets, and sounds. The Famereceived mostly positive reviews from critics;

according to the music review aggregation of

Metacritic, it has received an average score of

71/100.The Fame peaked at number one in Austria,the United Kingdom, Canada, and Ireland, and at

number four in Australia and the United States

worldwide sales as of July 2009 stand at 3 million.

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The album's lead single, "Just Dance," was

released on April 8, 2008.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M65zI9LH-as

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The second single, "Poker Face", was released onSeptember 23, 2008, and has reached number

one in nearly twenty countries, including almost all

major music markets in the world. "Poker Face"

became Gaga's second consecutive number oneon the Billboard Hot 100 in April 2009.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngf5Oo_XrjI

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Gaga was nominated for a total of nine awards at the

2009 MTV Video Music Awards including Video of the

Year, Best New Artist, Best Female Video and Best

Pop Video for "Poker Face" and Best Direction, Best

Editing, Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography

and Best Art Direction for "Paparazzi. Gaga managed

to win the award for "Best New Artist" while her single

"Paparazzi" won two awards for "Best Art Direction"

and "Best Special Effects. In October, Gaga receivedBillboard magazine's Rising Star of 2009 award.

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Photo taken from a video filmed at the Glastonbury

festival in the UK, shows something between LadyGagas legs you would not expect. This must makeher a hermaphrodite, right? Obviously! It's soobvious!According to the celeb news site Bossip, the"Poker Face" songstress once admitted she's ahermaphrodite, though no evidence of this is provided.Its not something Im ashamed of, I just don't goaround telling everyone, she said (supposedly). Ihave both male and female genitalia, but I considermyself female. Its just a little bit of a penis and doesntinterfere much with my life. Later it turned out that

was just a rumor.

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Jnez wrote:

6 hours ago

work, lady gaga. 27 million plays...worldwidebaby. tried to avoid you until you performed

paparazzi on the vma's. now i can't get enough lol.

what a melody....grammy noms are announced in

3 weeks. can't wait to see which ones you'll collectfor '09.

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