Lady GaGa

LADY GAGA. American singer, songwriter and actress. She is known for her image reinventions and versatility in the entertainment industry. She began performing as a teenager, singing at open mic nights and acting in school plays. She had her breakthrough with her debut studio album The Fame and its chart-topping singles ; "Just Dance" and "Poker Face". The album was later reissued to include the extended play The Fame Monster (2009), which yielded the successful singles "Bad Romance" / "Telephone" and "Alejandro". Her five succeeding albums all debuted atop the US Billboard 200. Her second full-length album, Born This Way (2011) explored electronic rock and techno-pop and sold more than one million copies in its first week. The title track became the fastest-selling song on the iTunes Store with over one million downloads in less than a week. Following her EDM-influenced third album Artpop (2013) and its lead single "Applause", she released the jazz album Cheek to Cheek (2014) with Tony Bennett and the soft rock album Joanne (2016). She ventured into acting, winning awards for her leading roles in the miniseries American Horror Story : Hotel (2015–2016) and the musical film A Star Is Born (2018). Her contributions to the latter's soundtrack (which spawned the chart-topping single "Shallow") made her the first woman to win an Academy Award / BAFTA Award / Golden Globe Award and Grammy Award in one year. She returned to dance-pop with her sixth studio album Chromatica (2020) which yielded the No1 single "Rain on Me". She both released her second collaborative album with Tony Bennett (Love for Sale) and starred in the biopic House of Gucci in 2021. Having sold an estimated 170 million records, she is one of the world's best-selling music artists and the only female artist to achieve four singles each selling at least 10 million copies globally. Her accolades include ; 13 Grammy Awards / two Golden Globe Awards / 18 MTV Video Music Awards / awards from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Council of Fashion Designers of America and recognition as Billboard's Artist of the Year (2010) and Woman of the Year (2015). She has also been included in several Forbes' power rankings and ranked fourth on VH1's Greatest Women in Music (2012). Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010 and 2019 and placed her on their All-Time 100 Fashion Icons list. Her philanthropy and activism focus on mental health awareness and LGBT rights