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• 8 TIM LADY GAGA EARNED HER ‘GAY IN’ TLE
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HER BUT ALBUM, THE FAME, WAS A HUGE SUCCS, AND THE SGLE "POKER FACE" TOPPED CHARTS ALMOST EVERY TEGORY, ALMOST EVERY UNTRY. LADY GAGA HAS SCE EARNED ACCLAIM FOR SUBSEQUENT ALBUMS, CLUDG A LLABORATN WH {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}TONY BENT, AS WELL AS HER ACTG SKILLS, NABBG A GOLN GLOBE FOR HER NTRIBUTNS TO AMERIN HORROR STORY AND AN OSR NOMATN FOR HER -STARRG ROLE A STAR IS BORN.EARLY LIFE AND CAREERSTEFANI JOANNE ANGELA GERMANOTTA WAS BORN ON MARCH 28, 1986, YONKERS, NEW YORK, TO CYNTHIA AND JOSEPH GERMANOTTA. NOW KNOWN AS LADY GAGA (THE SPIRATN FOR HER NAME ME OM THE QUEEN SONG "RAD GA-GA"), SHE HAS BEE AN TERNATNAL POP STAR.GAGA LEARNED TO PLAY THE PIANO BY THE AGE OF 4. AT THE AGE OF 11, SHE WAS ACCEPTED TO THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL MANHATTAN, BUT STEAD ATTEND A PRIVATE CATHOLIC SCHOOL THE CY. SHE NTUED STUDYG MIC AND PERFORMG, WRG HER FIRST PIANO BALLAD AT THE AGE OF 13, AND SHE HELD HER FIRST PERFORMANCE A NEW YORK NIGHTCLUB AT THE AGE OF 14.A FEW YEARS LATER, GAGA WAS GRANTED EARLY ADMISSN TO NEW YORK UNIVERSY'S TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS — SHE WAS ONE OF ONLY 20 STUNTS THE WORLD TO RECEIVE THE HONOR OF EARLY ACCEPTANCE. WHILE THERE, SHE STUDIED MIC AND WORKED ON HER SONGWRG SKILLS. SHE LATER WHDREW OM SCHOOL TO FD CREATIVE SPIRATN. TO MAKE ENDS MEET, SHE TOOK THREE JOBS, CLUDG A STT AS A GOGO DANCER, WHILE SHE HONED HER PERFORMANCE-ART ACT. IN 2005, LADY GAGA WAS BRIEFLY SIGNED BY DEF JAM RERDS, BUT WAS DROPPED JT MONTHS LATER. BEG DROPPED BY THE LABEL PROPELLED THE SGER TO PERFORM ON HER OWN CLUBS AND VENU ON NEW YORK CY'S LOWER EAST SI. THERE, SHE LLABORATED WH SEVERAL ROCK BANDS, AND BEGAN HER EXPERIMENTATN WH FASHN.DEBUT ALBUM: 'THE FAME'IN 2007, AT THE AGE OF 20, GAGA BEGAN WORK AT INTERSPE RERDS AS A SONGWRER FOR OTHER ARTISTS ON THE LABEL, CLUDG BRNEY SPEARS, NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK AND THE PSYT DOLLS. R&B SGER AKON DISVERED GAGA WHILE SHE WAS PERFORMG A BURLQUE SHOW THAT SHE CREATED, LLED "LADY GAGA AND THE STARLIGHT REVUE." IMPRSED, AKON SIGNED THE PERFORMER TO HIS LABEL UNR THE INTERSPE UMBRELLA, KON LIVE. THROUGH 2007 AND 2008, GAGA WROTE AND RERD HER BUT ALBUM, THE FAME. THE RERD RECEIVED POSIVE REVIEWS AND WAS SUCCSFUL THE UNED STAT. WH THE HELP OF HER OWN CREATIVE TEAM, "HS OF GAGA," THE PERFORMER ALSO BEGAN TO MAKE A NAME FOR HERSELF TERNATNALLY.'JT DANCE,' 'POKER FACE' LADY GAGA'S BUT SGLE, "JT DANCE," WAS RELEASED TO RAD EARLY 2008, AND RECEIVED BOTH POPULAR AND MERCIAL ACCLAIM. THE SONG WAS THEN NOMATED FOR A GRAMMY AWARD (FOR BT DANCE RERDG) 2008. THE SONG LOST TO DAFT PUNK'S "HARR, BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER," BUT THIS DIDN'T KEEP GAGA OM REACHG NO. 1 ON THE MASTREAM POP CHARTS JANUARY 2009. THE SEND SGLE OFF THE FAME, "POKER FACE," EARNED GAGA EVEN MORE SUCCS. THE SONG TOPPED SGL CHARTS ALMOST EVERY TEGORY, AND ALMOST EVERY UNTRY. BOTH SONGS WERE PRODUCED BY AKON'S AFFILIATE REDONE, WHO -WROTE MOST OF LADY GAGA'S ALBUM.'BORN THIS WAY'LATER 2008, LADY GAGA OPENED FOR THE NEWLY REFORMED NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK. SHE ALSO LLABORATED WH THEM ON THE SONG "BIG GIRL NOW" OM THE GROUP'S ALBUM THE BLOCK. THE FOLLOWG YEAR, GAGA RELEASED AN ALBUM OF EIGHT SONGS, THE FAME MONSTER, FOLLOWED BY 2011'S BORN THIS WAY. IN 2013, LADY GAGA RELEASED HER THIRD STUD ALBUM, ARTPOP. THE ALBUM DIDN'T RONATE AS STRONGLY WH HER DIENCE AS HER PREV WORKS. AMONG THE SHAKE-UPS HER NER CIRCLE, SHE AND HER MANAGER PARTED WAYS.WORKG WH TONY AND GOLN GLOBEIN 2014, SHE RELEASED AN ALBUM OF JAZZ DUETS WH CROONER TONY BENT ENTLED CHEEK TO CHEEK, WHICH LATER WON A GRAMMY FOR BT TRADNAL POP VOL ALBUM. IN AN TERVIEW WH PARA, LADY GAGA SAID OF HER LATT LLABORATN, “WORKG WH TONY HAS REAFFIRMED EVERYTHG I KNEW BUT THAT YOU START TO FET WHEN YOUR LIFE CHANG AND GETS REALLY NOISY. FOR ­TONY, ’S ALL ABOUT GREAT MIC.”GAGA NTUED TO SHOWSE HER VERSATILY AND STRENGTH AS A VOLIST AT THE AMY AWARDS TELEST FEBARY 2015, PAYG TRIBUTE TO THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SOUND OF MIC AND ACTRS/SGER JULIE ANDREWS BY PERFORMG SELECTNS OM THE MIL.IN 2021, GAGA AND BENT RELEASED THEIR SEND LLABORATIVE ALBUM LOVE FOR SALE, WHICH WON BT TRADNAL POP VOL ALBUM AT THE GRAMMYS 2022. GOLN GLOBE FOR 'AMERIN HORROR STORY'LATER THAT YEAR, GAGA ALSO SHOWED HER GIFTS AS AN ACTRS BY -STARRG AMERIN HORROR STORY: HOTEL, EARNG A GOLN GLOBE FOR HER PORTRAYAL OF THE COUNTS. AT THE CEREMONY, A VISIBLY STUNNED AND EMOTNAL GAGA ACKNOWLEDGED THAT ACTG WAS HER FIRST DREAM BEFORE SHE EMBRACED MIC, AND THANKED HER FELLOW ST MEMBERS AND PRODUCER RYAN MURPHY FOR THEIR SUPPORT. GAGA RETURNED TO THE SHOW FOR S SIXTH SEASON, PLAYG A WCH AMERIN HORROR STORY: ROANOKE.IN FEBARY 2016, GAGA, JOED BY GUARIST/PRODUCER NILE RODGERS, PERFORMED A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE DAVID BOWIE. PAYG HOMAGE TO ONE OF HER BIGGT MIL HERO, A RED-WIGGED GAGA SANG A SHORT MEDLEY OF BOWIE'S HS. SHE ALSO PERFORMED AT THE 88TH ANNUAL AMY AWARDS, PERFORMG "TIL IT HAPPENS TO YOU" AFTER BEG TRODUCED BY THEN-VICE PRINT JOE BIN. THE SONG WAS OM THE 2015 DOCUMENTARY THE HUNTG GROUND, WHICH LOOKED AT THE ISSUE OF RAPE ON LLEGE MP. ASSLT SURVIVORS WERE BROUGHT TO THE STAGE TOWARD THE CLOSE OF THE SONG, WH THE PERFORMANCE EARNG A STANDG OVATN.SUCCS WH 'JOANNE'IN OCTOBER 2016, GAGA RELEASED HER FIFTH STUD ALBUM, JOANNE, HER FOURTH ALBUM TO REACH NO. 1 THE UNED STAT AND TOP THE CHARTS UNTRI AROUND THE WORLD. PARTNERG WH PRODUCER MARK RONSON, GAGA TAPPED TO HER OWN LIFE STORY FOR THE ALBUM THAT IS NAMED AFTER HER NT AND FATHER'S SISTER, JOANNE GERMANOTTA, WHO DIED OF LUP PLITNS AT THE AGE OF 19 BEFORE GAGA WAS BORN. “RETURNG TO YOUR FAY AND WHERE YOU ME OM, AND YOUR HISTORY ... THIS IS WHAT MAK YOU STRONG,” LADY GAGA TOLD PEOPLE MAGAZE. “IT’S NOT LOOKG OUT THAT’S GOG TO DO THAT – ’S LOOKG . JOANNE IS A PROGRSN FOR ME. IT WAS ABOUT GOG TO THE STUD AND FETTG THAT I WAS FAMO.”SHE ALSO TOLD PEOPLE THAT HER RELATNSHIPS FLUENCED THE STORI SHE TELLS JOANNE. “WHEN YOU LISTEN TO THE ALBUM, ’S CLEAR THE FLUENCE THAT ALL THE MEN MY LIFE HAVE MA ON THIS RERD," SHE SAID. "THAT’S AT THE CENTER OF , AS WELL: I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A GOOD GIRL. AND JOANNE WAS SUCH A GOOD GIRL. BUT I HAVE SUCH A REBELL SPIR, AND MY FATHER WAS ALWAYS VERY ANGRY. HE DRANK BEE OF HIS SISTER’S ATH. I WAS TRYG TO UNRSTAND HIM THROUGH MAKG THIS RERD, AND THAT, ALSO TRYG TO UNRSTAND WHY I LOVE MEN THAT ARE WBOYS.”GAGA LNCHED THE JOANNE WORLD TOUR SUPPORT OF HER LATT ALBUM AUGT 2017. SHE LATER NABBED A BT POP SOLO PERFORMANCE GRAMMY FOR THE ALBUM'S TLE TRACK.SUPER BOWL PERFORMANCIN 2016, LADY GAGA PERFORMED THE NATNAL ANTHEM AT SUPER BOWL 50, AND SHE RETURNED THE FOLLOWG YEAR TO HEADLE THE SUPER BOWL LI HALFTIME SHOW. SHE BEGAN HER POWERHOE PERFORMANCE ON THE ROOF OF THE NRG STADIUM HOTON, SGG PARTS OF "GOD BLS AMERI" AND "THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND" AND RECG AN EXCERPT OF THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE BEFORE DIVG THROUGH THE AIR SPEND BY WIR TO THE STAGE. HER HALFTIME SHOW CLUD A MEDLEY OF HER INIC SONGS CLUDG "EDGE OF GLORY," "BAD ROMANCE," "POKER FACE," "BORN THIS WAY," "TELEPHONE," "JT DANCE," AS WELL AS "MILLN REASONS" OM HER ALBUM JOANNE.'A STAR IS BORN'IN 2016, WAS ANNOUNCED THAT GAGA HAD BEEN ST A REMAKE OF A STAR IS BORN AS ALLY, A ROLE PREVLY HABED BY JA GAYNOR, JUDY GARLAND AND BARBRA STREISAND. SHE WAS SLATED TO -STAR WH BRADLEY COOPER, WHO WAS ALSO MAKG HIS DIRECTORIAL BUT WH THE PROJECT.A STAR IS BORN BEME A H WH DIENC UPON S OCTOBER 2018 RELEASE, GROSSG AN IMPRSIVE $400 LN GLOBALLY. THE -STARS BOTH EARNED AMY AWARD NOMATNS FOR THEIR PERFORMANC, WHILE THEIR DUET FOR THE FILM, "SHALLOW," PRODUCED GOLN GLOBE, GRAMMY AND OSR WS FOR GAGA.LAS VEGAS RINCYON DECEMBER 19, 2017, GAGA ANNOUNCED VIA INSTAGRAM THAT SHE HAD SIGNED ON FOR A LAS VEGAS RINCY. THE FOLLOWG AUGT, SHE NFIRMED THAT SHE WOULD BEG HER RINCY AT MGM RORTS' PARK THEATER AT THE END OF THE YEAR, PERFORMG TWO SEPARATE SHOWS OVER 27 DAT: LADY GAGA ENIGMA, A LLECTN OF HER MOST POPULAR SONGS, AND LADY GAGA JAZZ & PIANO, WHICH FEATUR STRIPPED-DOWN VERSNS OF HER GREATT HS AS WELL AS SELECTNS OM THE GREAT AMERIN SONGBOOK.'CHROMATI' AND 'ONE WORLD'WH HER SIXTH STUD ALBUM, CHROMATI, ON THE WAY, GAGA FEBARY 2020 RELEASED THE DANCE-WORTHY SGLE "STUPID LOVE," HER FIRST NEW MIC THREE YEARS, ALONG WH A TYPILLY EYE-TCHG VIO THAT SHOWED HER FEATG THE FORC OF EVIL WH HER "KDNS PUNKS." HER FOLLOW-UP SGLE WH ARIANA GRAN, "RA ON ME," DROPPED LATE MAY, ONE WEEK BEFORE THE RELEASE OF THE WELL-RECEIVED CHROMATI.MEANWHILE, GAGA HAD TEAMED WH THE TERNATNAL ADVOCY GROUP GLOBAL CIZEN TO ANIZE THE "ONE WORLD: TOGETHER AT HOME" VIRTUAL NCERT APRIL. FEATURG PERFORMANC OM LUMARI LIKE PL MCCARTNEY, ELTON JOHN AND TAYLOR SWIFT, THE EVENT RAISED MORE THAN $127 LN TO FIGHT THE RONAVIS PANMIC.PERSONAL LIFE ON VALENTE’S DAY 2015, LADY GAGA BEME ENGAGED TO CHIGO FIRE ACTOR TAYLOR KNEY. AFTER FIVE YEARS TOGETHER, JULY 2016, WAS REPORTED THAT THE UPLE LLED OFF THEIR ENGAGEMENT AND PARTED WAYS.GAGA THEN GOT ENGAGED TO HER AGENT, CHRISTIAN CARO, SUMMER 2017. IN FEBARY 2019, AFTER THE SGER ATTEND THE GRAMMYS WHOUT HER FIANCé, A REPRENTATIVE NFIRMED THAT THE ENGAGEMENT WAS OFF.IN EARLY 2020, THE ENTERTAER EXTRAORDAIRE WENT PUBLIC WH HER RELATNSHIP WH TECH CEO MICHAEL {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
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8 TIM LADY GAGA EARNED HER ‘GAY IN’ TLE

For over a , Stefani Joanne Angela Germanotta, Lady Gaga for short, has had one clear objective md: to promote the gay agenda. And The Lady is the first one to adm : one of her first ver story terviews (Out, September 2009), Gaga said that she wanted to “ject gay culture to the mastream.

So I always sort of joke the real motivatn is to jt turn the world gay.

” But now, seems, Mother Monster has lated her own ambns for a queerer world: she has managed to turn an epic pillar of queer culture – a classic mil movie whose ma character has been portrayed by both Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand – to an even gayer film. When the vio for her send sgle “Poker Face” beat out Beyoncé’s “Sgle Ladi” and won Internatnal Vio of the Year at Canada’s MuchMic Vio Awards, Gaga gave a short, sweet, and scere acceptance speech: she gave thanks “to God and the gays, ” sendg the LGBTQ muny a sign of what was to e.

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HER BUT ALBUM, THE FAME, WAS A HUGE SUCCS, AND THE SGLE "POKER FACE" TOPPED CHARTS ALMOST EVERY TEGORY, ALMOST EVERY UNTRY. LADY GAGA HAS SCE EARNED ACCLAIM FOR SUBSEQUENT ALBUMS, CLUDG A LLABORATN WH {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}TONY BENT, AS WELL AS HER ACTG SKILLS, NABBG A GOLN GLOBE FOR HER NTRIBUTNS TO AMERIN HORROR STORY AND AN OSR NOMATN FOR HER -STARRG ROLE A STAR IS BORN.EARLY LIFE AND CAREERSTEFANI JOANNE ANGELA GERMANOTTA WAS BORN ON MARCH 28, 1986, YONKERS, NEW YORK, TO CYNTHIA AND JOSEPH GERMANOTTA. NOW KNOWN AS LADY GAGA (THE SPIRATN FOR HER NAME ME OM THE QUEEN SONG "RAD GA-GA"), SHE HAS BEE AN TERNATNAL POP STAR.GAGA LEARNED TO PLAY THE PIANO BY THE AGE OF 4. AT THE AGE OF 11, SHE WAS ACCEPTED TO THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL MANHATTAN, BUT STEAD ATTEND A PRIVATE CATHOLIC SCHOOL THE CY. SHE NTUED STUDYG MIC AND PERFORMG, WRG HER FIRST PIANO BALLAD AT THE AGE OF 13, AND SHE HELD HER FIRST PERFORMANCE A NEW YORK NIGHTCLUB AT THE AGE OF 14.A FEW YEARS LATER, GAGA WAS GRANTED EARLY ADMISSN TO NEW YORK UNIVERSY'S TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS — SHE WAS ONE OF ONLY 20 STUNTS THE WORLD TO RECEIVE THE HONOR OF EARLY ACCEPTANCE. WHILE THERE, SHE STUDIED MIC AND WORKED ON HER SONGWRG SKILLS. SHE LATER WHDREW OM SCHOOL TO FD CREATIVE SPIRATN. TO MAKE ENDS MEET, SHE TOOK THREE JOBS, CLUDG A STT AS A GOGO DANCER, WHILE SHE HONED HER PERFORMANCE-ART ACT. IN 2005, LADY GAGA WAS BRIEFLY SIGNED BY DEF JAM RERDS, BUT WAS DROPPED JT MONTHS LATER. BEG DROPPED BY THE LABEL PROPELLED THE SGER TO PERFORM ON HER OWN CLUBS AND VENU ON NEW YORK CY'S LOWER EAST SI. THERE, SHE LLABORATED WH SEVERAL ROCK BANDS, AND BEGAN HER EXPERIMENTATN WH FASHN.DEBUT ALBUM: 'THE FAME'IN 2007, AT THE AGE OF 20, GAGA BEGAN WORK AT INTERSPE RERDS AS A SONGWRER FOR OTHER ARTISTS ON THE LABEL, CLUDG BRNEY SPEARS, NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK AND THE PSYT DOLLS. R&B SGER AKON DISVERED GAGA WHILE SHE WAS PERFORMG A BURLQUE SHOW THAT SHE CREATED, LLED "LADY GAGA AND THE STARLIGHT REVUE." IMPRSED, AKON SIGNED THE PERFORMER TO HIS LABEL UNR THE INTERSPE UMBRELLA, KON LIVE. THROUGH 2007 AND 2008, GAGA WROTE AND RERD HER BUT ALBUM, THE FAME. THE RERD RECEIVED POSIVE REVIEWS AND WAS SUCCSFUL THE UNED STAT. WH THE HELP OF HER OWN CREATIVE TEAM, "HS OF GAGA," THE PERFORMER ALSO BEGAN TO MAKE A NAME FOR HERSELF TERNATNALLY.'JT DANCE,' 'POKER FACE' LADY GAGA'S BUT SGLE, "JT DANCE," WAS RELEASED TO RAD EARLY 2008, AND RECEIVED BOTH POPULAR AND MERCIAL ACCLAIM. THE SONG WAS THEN NOMATED FOR A GRAMMY AWARD (FOR BT DANCE RERDG) 2008. THE SONG LOST TO DAFT PUNK'S "HARR, BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER," BUT THIS DIDN'T KEEP GAGA OM REACHG NO. 1 ON THE MASTREAM POP CHARTS JANUARY 2009. THE SEND SGLE OFF THE FAME, "POKER FACE," EARNED GAGA EVEN MORE SUCCS. THE SONG TOPPED SGL CHARTS ALMOST EVERY TEGORY, AND ALMOST EVERY UNTRY. BOTH SONGS WERE PRODUCED BY AKON'S AFFILIATE REDONE, WHO -WROTE MOST OF LADY GAGA'S ALBUM.'BORN THIS WAY'LATER 2008, LADY GAGA OPENED FOR THE NEWLY REFORMED NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK. SHE ALSO LLABORATED WH THEM ON THE SONG "BIG GIRL NOW" OM THE GROUP'S ALBUM THE BLOCK. THE FOLLOWG YEAR, GAGA RELEASED AN ALBUM OF EIGHT SONGS, THE FAME MONSTER, FOLLOWED BY 2011'S BORN THIS WAY. IN 2013, LADY GAGA RELEASED HER THIRD STUD ALBUM, ARTPOP. THE ALBUM DIDN'T RONATE AS STRONGLY WH HER DIENCE AS HER PREV WORKS. AMONG THE SHAKE-UPS HER NER CIRCLE, SHE AND HER MANAGER PARTED WAYS.WORKG WH TONY AND GOLN GLOBEIN 2014, SHE RELEASED AN ALBUM OF JAZZ DUETS WH CROONER TONY BENT ENTLED CHEEK TO CHEEK, WHICH LATER WON A GRAMMY FOR BT TRADNAL POP VOL ALBUM. IN AN TERVIEW WH PARA, LADY GAGA SAID OF HER LATT LLABORATN, “WORKG WH TONY HAS REAFFIRMED EVERYTHG I KNEW BUT THAT YOU START TO FET WHEN YOUR LIFE CHANG AND GETS REALLY NOISY. FOR ­TONY, ’S ALL ABOUT GREAT MIC.”GAGA NTUED TO SHOWSE HER VERSATILY AND STRENGTH AS A VOLIST AT THE AMY AWARDS TELEST FEBARY 2015, PAYG TRIBUTE TO THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SOUND OF MIC AND ACTRS/SGER JULIE ANDREWS BY PERFORMG SELECTNS OM THE MIL.IN 2021, GAGA AND BENT RELEASED THEIR SEND LLABORATIVE ALBUM LOVE FOR SALE, WHICH WON BT TRADNAL POP VOL ALBUM AT THE GRAMMYS 2022. GOLN GLOBE FOR 'AMERIN HORROR STORY'LATER THAT YEAR, GAGA ALSO SHOWED HER GIFTS AS AN ACTRS BY -STARRG AMERIN HORROR STORY: HOTEL, EARNG A GOLN GLOBE FOR HER PORTRAYAL OF THE COUNTS. AT THE CEREMONY, A VISIBLY STUNNED AND EMOTNAL GAGA ACKNOWLEDGED THAT ACTG WAS HER FIRST DREAM BEFORE SHE EMBRACED MIC, AND THANKED HER FELLOW ST MEMBERS AND PRODUCER RYAN MURPHY FOR THEIR SUPPORT. GAGA RETURNED TO THE SHOW FOR S SIXTH SEASON, PLAYG A WCH AMERIN HORROR STORY: ROANOKE.IN FEBARY 2016, GAGA, JOED BY GUARIST/PRODUCER NILE RODGERS, PERFORMED A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE DAVID BOWIE. PAYG HOMAGE TO ONE OF HER BIGGT MIL HERO, A RED-WIGGED GAGA SANG A SHORT MEDLEY OF BOWIE'S HS. SHE ALSO PERFORMED AT THE 88TH ANNUAL AMY AWARDS, PERFORMG "TIL IT HAPPENS TO YOU" AFTER BEG TRODUCED BY THEN-VICE PRINT JOE BIN. THE SONG WAS OM THE 2015 DOCUMENTARY THE HUNTG GROUND, WHICH LOOKED AT THE ISSUE OF RAPE ON LLEGE MP. ASSLT SURVIVORS WERE BROUGHT TO THE STAGE TOWARD THE CLOSE OF THE SONG, WH THE PERFORMANCE EARNG A STANDG OVATN.SUCCS WH 'JOANNE'IN OCTOBER 2016, GAGA RELEASED HER FIFTH STUD ALBUM, JOANNE, HER FOURTH ALBUM TO REACH NO. 1 THE UNED STAT AND TOP THE CHARTS UNTRI AROUND THE WORLD. PARTNERG WH PRODUCER MARK RONSON, GAGA TAPPED TO HER OWN LIFE STORY FOR THE ALBUM THAT IS NAMED AFTER HER NT AND FATHER'S SISTER, JOANNE GERMANOTTA, WHO DIED OF LUP PLITNS AT THE AGE OF 19 BEFORE GAGA WAS BORN. “RETURNG TO YOUR FAY AND WHERE YOU ME OM, AND YOUR HISTORY ... THIS IS WHAT MAK YOU STRONG,” LADY GAGA TOLD PEOPLE MAGAZE. “IT’S NOT LOOKG OUT THAT’S GOG TO DO THAT – ’S LOOKG . JOANNE IS A PROGRSN FOR ME. IT WAS ABOUT GOG TO THE STUD AND FETTG THAT I WAS FAMO.”SHE ALSO TOLD PEOPLE THAT HER RELATNSHIPS FLUENCED THE STORI SHE TELLS JOANNE. “WHEN YOU LISTEN TO THE ALBUM, ’S CLEAR THE FLUENCE THAT ALL THE MEN MY LIFE HAVE MA ON THIS RERD," SHE SAID. "THAT’S AT THE CENTER OF , AS WELL: I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A GOOD GIRL. AND JOANNE WAS SUCH A GOOD GIRL. BUT I HAVE SUCH A REBELL SPIR, AND MY FATHER WAS ALWAYS VERY ANGRY. HE DRANK BEE OF HIS SISTER’S ATH. I WAS TRYG TO UNRSTAND HIM THROUGH MAKG THIS RERD, AND THAT, ALSO TRYG TO UNRSTAND WHY I LOVE MEN THAT ARE WBOYS.”GAGA LNCHED THE JOANNE WORLD TOUR SUPPORT OF HER LATT ALBUM AUGT 2017. SHE LATER NABBED A BT POP SOLO PERFORMANCE GRAMMY FOR THE ALBUM'S TLE TRACK.SUPER BOWL PERFORMANCIN 2016, LADY GAGA PERFORMED THE NATNAL ANTHEM AT SUPER BOWL 50, AND SHE RETURNED THE FOLLOWG YEAR TO HEADLE THE SUPER BOWL LI HALFTIME SHOW. SHE BEGAN HER POWERHOE PERFORMANCE ON THE ROOF OF THE NRG STADIUM HOTON, SGG PARTS OF "GOD BLS AMERI" AND "THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND" AND RECG AN EXCERPT OF THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE BEFORE DIVG THROUGH THE AIR SPEND BY WIR TO THE STAGE. HER HALFTIME SHOW CLUD A MEDLEY OF HER INIC SONGS CLUDG "EDGE OF GLORY," "BAD ROMANCE," "POKER FACE," "BORN THIS WAY," "TELEPHONE," "JT DANCE," AS WELL AS "MILLN REASONS" OM HER ALBUM JOANNE.'A STAR IS BORN'IN 2016, WAS ANNOUNCED THAT GAGA HAD BEEN ST A REMAKE OF A STAR IS BORN AS ALLY, A ROLE PREVLY HABED BY JA GAYNOR, JUDY GARLAND AND BARBRA STREISAND. SHE WAS SLATED TO -STAR WH BRADLEY COOPER, WHO WAS ALSO MAKG HIS DIRECTORIAL BUT WH THE PROJECT.A STAR IS BORN BEME A H WH DIENC UPON S OCTOBER 2018 RELEASE, GROSSG AN IMPRSIVE $400 LN GLOBALLY. THE -STARS BOTH EARNED AMY AWARD NOMATNS FOR THEIR PERFORMANC, WHILE THEIR DUET FOR THE FILM, "SHALLOW," PRODUCED GOLN GLOBE, GRAMMY AND OSR WS FOR GAGA.LAS VEGAS RINCYON DECEMBER 19, 2017, GAGA ANNOUNCED VIA INSTAGRAM THAT SHE HAD SIGNED ON FOR A LAS VEGAS RINCY. THE FOLLOWG AUGT, SHE NFIRMED THAT SHE WOULD BEG HER RINCY AT MGM RORTS' PARK THEATER AT THE END OF THE YEAR, PERFORMG TWO SEPARATE SHOWS OVER 27 DAT: LADY GAGA ENIGMA, A LLECTN OF HER MOST POPULAR SONGS, AND LADY GAGA JAZZ & PIANO, WHICH FEATUR STRIPPED-DOWN VERSNS OF HER GREATT HS AS WELL AS SELECTNS OM THE GREAT AMERIN SONGBOOK.'CHROMATI' AND 'ONE WORLD'WH HER SIXTH STUD ALBUM, CHROMATI, ON THE WAY, GAGA FEBARY 2020 RELEASED THE DANCE-WORTHY SGLE "STUPID LOVE," HER FIRST NEW MIC THREE YEARS, ALONG WH A TYPILLY EYE-TCHG VIO THAT SHOWED HER FEATG THE FORC OF EVIL WH HER "KDNS PUNKS." HER FOLLOW-UP SGLE WH ARIANA GRAN, "RA ON ME," DROPPED LATE MAY, ONE WEEK BEFORE THE RELEASE OF THE WELL-RECEIVED CHROMATI.MEANWHILE, GAGA HAD TEAMED WH THE TERNATNAL ADVOCY GROUP GLOBAL CIZEN TO ANIZE THE "ONE WORLD: TOGETHER AT HOME" VIRTUAL NCERT APRIL. FEATURG PERFORMANC OM LUMARI LIKE PL MCCARTNEY, ELTON JOHN AND TAYLOR SWIFT, THE EVENT RAISED MORE THAN $127 LN TO FIGHT THE RONAVIS PANMIC.PERSONAL LIFE ON VALENTE’S DAY 2015, LADY GAGA BEME ENGAGED TO CHIGO FIRE ACTOR TAYLOR KNEY. AFTER FIVE YEARS TOGETHER, JULY 2016, WAS REPORTED THAT THE UPLE LLED OFF THEIR ENGAGEMENT AND PARTED WAYS.GAGA THEN GOT ENGAGED TO HER AGENT, CHRISTIAN CARO, SUMMER 2017. IN FEBARY 2019, AFTER THE SGER ATTEND THE GRAMMYS WHOUT HER FIANCé, A REPRENTATIVE NFIRMED THAT THE ENGAGEMENT WAS OFF.IN EARLY 2020, THE ENTERTAER EXTRAORDAIRE WENT PUBLIC WH HER RELATNSHIP WH TECH CEO MICHAEL {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

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She then sang John Lennon’s classic “Image, ” acknowledgg the mic dtry’s “tremendo amount of acmodatn of homophobia. For the much anticipated follow-up to her massively succsful first stud album The Fame (and s subsequent multi-Grammy-wng reissu), Gaga stck a bs al wh Target: An exclive edn of her sophomore album, Born This Way, wh remix and addnal stud cuts, to be sold exclively by the retailer. “Part of my al wh Target is that they have to start affiliatg themselv wh LGBT chary groups and beg to reform and make amends for the mistak they’ve ma the past… our relatnship is hged upon their reform the pany to support the gay muny and to reem the mistak they’ve ma supportg those groups, ” she told Billboard an terview Febary, 2011.

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1 sgle was “the new ‘I Will Survive’, ” he told Entertament Weekly, “the new gay anthem. It stantly beme a favore Gay Pri classic: “No matter gay, straight, or bi/ Lbian, transgenr life/ I’m on the right track, baby/ I was born to survive” were words that beme as rad mastream as possible. When the Born This Way Ball Tour h Rsia at the end 2012, Gaga was acced of breakg the cy’s anti-gay propaganda law.