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Lady Gaga 40 years old!
The Grammy winner will celebrate her milestone birthday on March 28, 2026, and will be heading to Boston, Massachusetts for performances on March 29 and March 30 Chaos ball travel.
From her start dancing the gogo to her infamous meat dress and dozens of awards, US Weekly Some interesting facts about the “Abracadabra” singer are detailed in our show Latest issueon newsstands now.
Keep scrolling to see 25 things you didn’t know about Lady Gaga:
1. Lady Gaga was born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta on March 28, 1986 in New York City.
2. Her stage name is a nod to Queen’s hit song “Radio Ga Ga.”
3. Gaga’s second middle name comes from her late aunt, Joanne Germanottathe inspiration for the singer’s fourth solo studio album, Joanne.
4. She attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private Catholic school for girls. Nicky Hilton. (Paris Hilton Also participated, but she is five years older than Gaga. )
5. Gaga attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts until dropping out in 2005 to pursue music.
6. Legendary Vocal Coach don lawrenceWhen Gaga was 13, her nephew heard her singing in a boutique and insisted that his uncle take her in. He remains her vocal coach to this day.
Lady Gaga performs at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards
Christopher Polk/Getty Images7. Gaga appears in an episode of Season 3 The Sopranos At 15, she was cast in “Girls in the Pool #2.”
8. When she was at NYU, her classmates created a Facebook group called “Stefani Germanotta, You’ll Never Be Famous,” and she spoke out in 2024, writing, “This is why you can’t give up when people doubt you or put you down.”
9. Gaga began dancing and performing in New York clubs, where she would bring her demos and pretend to be her manager, asking for the best times to perform.
10.Before Akon Signed her to his record label in 2008, where she was a songwriter and wrote hits for the band britney spears, jennifer lopez and the new kid on the block.
11. She wrote her 2008 hit “Just Dance” in just five minutes, admitting “I was terribly hungover.”
12. Gaga wore a dress made entirely of raw beef to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, where she won awards in eight categories.
Lady Gaga attends the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards
Kevin Winter/Getty Images13. The singer once said that she performed without pants so that her visually impaired grandmother could “make out lighter parts like skin and hair” when watching her on TV.
14. Gaga dyed her hair her signature platinum blonde after being mistaken for blonde multiple times amy winehouse.
15. She recorded two jazz albums with Tony Bennett Before his death in 2023: cheek to cheek (2014) and love for sale (2021).
16. Gaga calls her fans “little monsters.”
17. She is the godmother of… Elton Johnsons Zechariah and Elijah.
18. She won her first Grammy Award in 2010, winning Best Electronic/Dance Album reputation and Best Dance Recording for “Poker Face.”
19. At the 2019 Academy Awards, Gaga won Best Original Song a star is born“shallow”. She was also nominated for Best Actress for her performance in the film.
Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga in “A Star Is Born”
Courtesy of Warner Bros./Everett Collection20. Gaga headlined the 2017 Super Bowl LI halftime show, a feat documented in her Netflix film, Gaga: Five feet two inches.
21. To date, Gaga has won 16 Grammy Awards from 45 nominations.
22. She became the first woman to win an Oscar, Grammy, BAFTA and Golden Globe in the same year The star is Bornoun
23. The singer launched Haus Labs, a vegan, cruelty-free cosmetics brand, in 2019.
24. She adopted a method acting approach to playing her role Patrizia Reggiani In 2021 movies House of Guccispeaking with an Italian accent 24/7.
25. Gaga once said British Vogue If she weren’t a singer, she’d be a war correspondent.
