1. His real name is …
You can imagine: Lady Gaga is just a stage name. In reality, the singer’s name is Stefani Germanotta. Born in New York, Lady Gaga started playing the piano when she was just 4 years old. She owes her stage name “Lady Gaga” to her passion for the band Queen: “I loved Freddie Mercury and his band Queen, they had called one of their songs Radio Ga Ga. It was a unique track, just like Freddie who was one of the greatest pop personalities, ”explains the artist.
2. Unusual student jobs!
Before knowing notoriety, Lady Gaga was … galore dancer and waitress in a strip club. Student jobs that allowed her to earn a living when she studied at the Tisc School of Arts in New York.
3. His hit Just Dance was written … in 10 minutes!
His first single, which became a global hit, was written in record time. Indeed, it did not take more than ten minutes for Lady Gaga to change the fate of her life. “I was having a hangover. So I wrote the track in about 10 minutes with producer RedOne. It was my first time in a real Hollywood studio. Everything was perfect, it was in a large room with giant speakers, “recalls the singer to the” Guardian “.
4. She suffers from serious sickness
In 2017, in her documentary “Gaga: Five Foot”, Lady Gaga spoke for the very first time about her disease: fibromyalgia, a neuro-tendino-muscular disease that causes permanent pain in tendons, ligaments and muscles. It is described as “the disease of evil everywhere, evil all the time”. Because of this illness, Lady Gaga has been hospitalized several times.
5. She was sexually assaulted
The “A star is born” actress revealed she was raped by a music producer when she was 19. If she does not give the name of her attacker, Lady Gaga gave some details of this tragic and traumatic event: “I was 19 and I worked in show business, and a producer said to me: ‘Take off your clothes.’ And I said no. I left, and they told me they were going to burn all my music. And they didn’t stop. They kept asking me, and I just froze and I… I don’t even remember.
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