Why everyone is still going gaga for Gaga.
Born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, Lady Gaga started life in Yonkers, New York. Her parents are Italian-American. Her father (Joseph) is an internet entrepreneur, and her mother (Cynthia) worked in telecommunications. Lady Gaga taught herself to play the piano by the age of four (she was later classically trained) and went on to write her own music in her teens. She went to a strict Catholic school and later became one of the very few people in the world to get early admission onto the Clive Davis program (a prestigious course in music) at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.