Lady Gaga is Stefani Germanotta, born in Manhattan in 1986, a pop shape-shifter with 13 Grammy Awards and an Oscar for Shallow from A Star Is Born. The Fame (2008) launched it all with Just Dance and Poker Face; Chromatica (2020) is the other common entry point. Shop Lady Gaga vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, performing as Lady Gaga, was born in Manhattan, New York City on March 28, 1986 and raised in the Upper West Side. She attended the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU before pursuing music full-time. Her debut The Fame (2008) launched her commercial breakthrough, with the singles Just Dance and Poker Face becoming international hits. She has continued releasing material across multiple decades with stylistic exploration. Her 2014 jazz collaboration with Tony Bennett, Cheek to Cheek, won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. Her 2018 starring role in A Star Is Born (with Bradley Cooper) and the resulting song Shallow won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2019. Her 2021 starring role in House of Gucci further established her acting career. She has won 13 Grammy Awards across multiple categories including Album of the Year for Joanne nominee (2016).
Lady Gaga's sound combines pop, dance-pop, electropop, synth-pop, pop rock, jazz pop, country pop, art pop, and disco with her distinctive vocal range and extensive stylistic exploration across her multiple albums. Her foundational influence on contemporary pop performance and visual aesthetic is widely documented.
Interscope and Streamline pressings of the Lady Gaga catalog have been issued in extensive color variant editions and limited deluxe pressings.
Listeners new to Lady Gaga typically start with The Fame (2008) or Chromatica (2020).
