Lady Gaga Before She Got Famous
#16 Baby Gaga
The child prodigy released her first single, 'Just Dance' in 2008, which blew the world away. She gained a fan following which can equal a small country's entire population.
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Baby Gaga
The child prodigy released her first single, 'Just Dance' in 2008, which blew the world away. She gained a fan following which can equal a small country's entire population.
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Lady Gaga to Stefani: A journey in the past
Red and Blue was the first album of the SGBand. Gaga's first ever gift for her little monsters.
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Take Off
Stefani was a prodigy and she began writing songs for popular pop groups like the Pussy Cat Dolls. This is when her career began to take shape.
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Pop Brigade
Steffani was a leading name of the Lower East Side's bar scene during 2004-2005, with her band SGBand.
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Making Ends Meet
Gaga recorded a couple of songs with hip-hop singer Grandmaster Melle Mel, for an audio book accompanying the children's book The Portal in the Park, by Cricket Casey.
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Gogo Dancer
She left her family and rented the cheapest apartment on Rivington Street. She became a gogo dancer to support herself, where she first experimented with her OTT fashion which a few years later ruled global runways.
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SGBand
She started a band called Stefani Germanotta Band (SGBand) with some friends from New York University. They played at several bars such as the Greenwich Village and Mercury Lounge on Lower East Side.
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Leap into the big bad world...
"Once you learn how to think about art, you can teach yourself," Gaga says. She dropped out of CAP21 at the age of 19 to focus on her musical career.
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College
She later applied for the Collaborative Arts Project 21 (CAP21), a musical theater training conservatory at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She lived in the New York University's dormitory till the age of 17.
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Boys
She loved boys but music was her priority. She once told a newspaper, "My music is my husband."
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Misfit
She was studious, dedicated and a disciplined student in her school. But considered herself a misfit. She once said, "I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak."
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Acting Stint
She bagged many lead roles in high school productions owing to her love for musical theater. She also played a very small in a television series called, The Sopranos.
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Music
Stefani began playing the piano at the age of 4, went on to write her first piano ballad at 13 and started performing at open mike nights by the age of 14.
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Simplicity
A simple girl with big dreams, Stefani was determined to carve a niche and give the best of herself to her first love, music.
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Faith
She is a descendant of Italian roots and was raised as a staunch catholic. She belonged to a modest family where hard work was an inescapable part of her parents' life.
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Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta
Born and raised in New York, she attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart school, a private, all-girls Roman-Catholic school situated on Manhattans, Upper East Side.
