Lady Gaga



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This report show the profile of Lady Gaga and the career beginning, Musical style and influences that she is inspired by  artists such as David Bowie and Queen, as well as pop singers such as Madonna and Michael Jackson. She has also stated fashion is a source of inspiration for her songwriting and performances.

She is one of the best singers and musical artists of nowadays, but most of people don’t like her music videos because they are inappropriate for children under 13, but she makes everybody laugh on the floor lots of times. She also knows how to entertain people and come up with her own style.

Anyway Lady gaga look like bad performance and her clothed not good, but if we understand why she do like this we should be know well the reason of her and also like her more.

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta better known by the stage name Lady Gaga, is an American recording artist. She began performing in the rock music scene of New York City's in 2003 and enrolled at New York University's of the Arts.
During her early time at Interscope, she worked as a songwriter for fellow label artists and captured the attention of Akon, who recognized her vocal abilities, and signed her to his own label, Kon Live Distribution.
The album later earned a total of six Grammy Award nominations and won awards for Best Electronic/Dance Album and Best Dance Recording.
In early 2009 she embarked on her first headlining tour, The Fame Ball Tour. By the fourth quarter of the year, she had released her second studio album, with the global chart-topping lead single "Bad Romance.
Lady Gaga is inspired by glam rock artists such as David Bowie and Queen, as well as pop singers such as Madonna and Michael Jackson. She has also stated fashion is a source of inspiration for her songwriting and performances. Gaga was ranked the 73rd Artist of the 2000.
 As of August 2010, Gaga has sold more than 15 million albums and 51 million singles worldwide. In May 2010, Time magazine included Gaga in its annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. In June 2010.

Career beginnings

The first song she produced with RedOne was "Boys Boys Boys. She moved into an apartment on the Lower East Side and recorded a couple of songs with hip-hop singer She also started the Stefani Germanotta Band with some friends from NYU.Her father did not understand the reason behind her drug intake and could not look at her for several months. Music producer Rob Fusari, who helped her write some of her earlier songs, compared some of her vocal harmonies to that of Freddie Mercury. Fusari helped create the moniker Gaga, after the Queen song "Radio Ga Ga". Germanotta was in the process of trying to come up with a stage name when she received a text message from Fusari that read "Lady Gaga."

She was known as Lady Gaga that the name resulted from a marketing meeting. Throughout 2007, Gaga collaborated with performance artist Lady Starlight, who helped create her onstage fashions.

In August 2007, Gaga and Starlight were invited to play at the American Lollapalooza music festival. The show was critically acclaimed, and their performance received positive reviews. Having initially focused on electronic dance music, Gaga found her musical when she began to incorporate pop melodies and the vintage glam rock of David Bowie and Queen into her music.

 Musical style and influences

Gaga has been influenced by glam rock artists such as David Bowie and Queen, as well as pop music artists such as Madonna, Britney Spears and Michael Jackson.

Gaga has identified fashion as a major influence. Gaga has her own creative production team, which she handles personally. The team creates many of her clothes, stage props, and hairdos.  Her love of fashion came from her mother, who stated was "always very well kept and beautiful as the Top Fashion Buzzword with her trademark "no pants".

Gaga's albums have received mostly positive reviews  in pop music, the need for new movements in popular culture, the attention Gaga brings to important social issues.

Gaga attributes much of her early success as a mainstream artist to her gay fans and is considered to be a rising gay icon. Early in her career she had difficulty getting radio airplay, and stated, "The turning point for me was the gay community. I've got so many gay fans and they're so loyal to me and they really lifted me up. They'll always stand by me and I'll always stand by them. It's not an easy thing to create a fanbase.

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