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Also known as Stefani Germanotta, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known for her image reinventions and versatility across the entertainment industry, she is an influential figure in popular music. With estimated sales of 124 million records, she is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Publications such as Billboard and Rolling Stone have ranked her among the greatest artists in history.

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Lady Gaga, born Joanne Angelina, is an American female singer and songwriter. Her stage name derives from the song "Radio Ga Ga." She is an Italian American and French Canadian citizen of the United States. Gaga performs electropop, dance-pop, electronic dance music, and art pop. She plays the piano, keytar, acoustic guitar, and electric guitar, and possesses a mezzo-soprano voice.

She has received several awards, including the MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist, Best Art Direction, and Best Visual Effects, as well as a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Her notable tours include the Doll Domination Tour, The Fame Ball Tour, The Monster Ball Tour, and the Born This Way Ball. She has participated in events such as Lollapalooza, the Royal Variety Performance, the Brit Awards 2010, and Saturday Night Live.

Gaga was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Collaborative Arts Project 21, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. She has been unmarried partners with Michael Polansky and Taylor Kinney. Her influences include David Bowie, Queen, Madonna, and Army of Lovers. She resides in the Upper West Side, Los Angeles, Yonkers, and Manhattan.

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Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known for her image reinventions and versatility across the entertainment industry, she is an influential figure in popular music. With estimated sales of 124 million records, she is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Publications such as Billboard and Rolling Stone have ranked her among the greatest artists in history.

After signing with Interscope Records in 2007, Gaga achieved global recognition with her debut album, The Fame (2008), and its reissue, The Fame Monster (2009). The project yielded a string of successful singles, including "Just Dance", "Poker Face", and "Bad Romance", which made her one of the few artists with at least three Diamond-certified songs in the US. Her second studio album, Born This Way (2011), explored electronic rock and techno-pop and sold 1.1 million copies first-week in the US. Its title track became the fastest-selling song on the iTunes Store, with over one million downloads in less than a week. Following her electronic dance music-influenced third album, Artpop (2013), she pursued jazz on the album Cheek to Cheek (2014) with Tony Bennett, and delved into soft rock on the album Joanne (2016).

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