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Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She performed initially in theater, appearing in high school plays, and studied at CAP21
through NYU's Tisch School of the Arts before dropping out to pursue a musical career. After leaving a rock band, participating
in the Lower East Side's avant garde performance art circuit, and being dropped from a contract with Def Jam Recordings,
Gaga worked as a songwriter for Sony/ATV Music Publishing. From there, recording artist Akon noticed her vocal abilities
and helped her to sign a joint deal with Interscope Records and his own KonLive Distribution.
Her debut album The Fame (2008) was a critical and commercial success that produced global chart-topping singles such as
"Just Dance" and "Poker Face". A follow-up EP, The Fame Monster (2009), was met with a similar reception and "Bad Romance",
"Telephone", and "Alejandro" were released, becoming successful singles. Her second full-length album Born This Way was released in 2011, topping the charts in more than 20 countries, including the United States, where it sold over one million copies
in its first week. The album produced the number-one single "Born This Way". Her third album Artpop, released in 2013, topped
the US charts and included the successful single "Applause". In 2014, Gaga released a collaborative jazz album with Tony
Bennett titled Cheek to Cheek, which
became her third consecutive number one in the United States. For her
work in the television series American Horror Story: Hotel, Gaga won
a Golden Globe Award in 2016. She
became the first woman to have four
US number one albums in the 2010s
when her fifth studio album Joanne
(2016) topped the nation's charts.

Lady Gaga

As of January 2016, Gaga had sold an estimated 27 million albums and 146 million singles worldwide; her singles are some of
the best-selling worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists. She is also noted as a touring force as she has
grossed more than $300 million in revenue from 3.2 million tickets for her first three worldwide concert tours. Her other achievements include six Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, a Golden Globe Award, thirteen MTV Video Music Awards, twelve
Guinness World Records, a Songwriters Hall of Fame's Contemporary Icon Award, which she was the first artist ever to win,
a National Arts Awards' Young Artist Award, which honors individuals who have achieved incredible accomplishments and
exemplary leadership while still early in their career and honored at the Jane Ortner Education Award by The Grammy Museum, with the Jane Ortner Artist Award, which recognizes artists who has demonstrated passion and dedication to education
through the arts. She has also been recognized by the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) with the Fashion Icon
lifetime achievement award, a special prize reserved for: "an individual whose style has made a significant impact on popular
culture on an international stage".

Gaga has consecutively appeared on Billboard magazine's Artists of the Year (scoring the definitive title in 2010), and named
as Woman of the Year in 2015, is the fourth best selling digital singles artist in the United States according to RIAA with a total
of 59 million certified. She also became the first woman to receive the Digital Diamond Award from RIAA, and is the first and
only artist to have two songs pass 7 million downloads ("Poker Face" and "Just Dance"). She is regularly placed on lists composed
by Forbes magazine, including their list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women from 2010 to 2014, named one of the most
influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2010, and the "second most influential peo ple of the past ten years" through
a readers' poll in 2013.
Joanne is the fifth studio album recorded by American singer Lady Gaga. It was released on October 21, 2016, through Streamline and Interscope Records as a follow-up to Artpop (2013) and Cheek to Cheek (2014). Gaga collaborated with several producers on the record, including Mark Ronson, Jeff Bhasker, BloodPop and RedOne, and co-produced the majority of the
material.

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