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Lady Gaga's real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta. She was born on the 28th of March, 1986, at Lenox Hill Hospital in the Lenox Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Her parents, Cynthia Louise and Joseph Germanotta, both have Italian ancestry.
The name Lady Gaga was coined by producer Rob Fusari and derived from Queen's song "Radio Ga Ga". According to Fusari, the name arose when he attempted to text her "Radio Ga Ga" but a spell checker autocorrected "Radio" to "Lady". He and Gaga worked together from 2006 and formed a company called Team Lovechild, LLC to promote her career.
Lady Gaga has sold an estimated 124 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Publications including Billboard and Rolling Stone have ranked her among the greatest artists in history.
For A Star Is Born and its soundtrack, Lady Gaga became the first person to win an Academy Award, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe, and a Grammy Award in the same year. The wins included the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Critics' Choice Award for Best Original Song for "Shallow", as well as four Grammy Awards total for the soundtrack album.
The Born This Way Foundation is a non-profit organization Gaga launched in 2012 that focuses on youth empowerment and mental health awareness. It was inaugurated at Harvard University with speakers including Oprah Winfrey and US Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. Its original funding included $1.2 million from Gaga, $500,000 from the MacArthur Foundation, and $850,000 from Barneys New York.
Lady Gaga's free concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, held as part of the "Todo Mundo no Rio" initiative, became the most-attended concert by a female artist with an estimated audience of between 2.1 and 2.5 million people. The concert was performed during her promotional run for the album Mayhem in the spring of 2025.