Stefani Germanotta (born March, 1986), better known by her stage name Lady GaGa, is a singer-songwriter dance-pop, electronica musician signed to Interscope Records. On April 8, 2008, she released her first single "Just Dance".

As a child Germanotta attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart School. Having learned piano by ear at the age of four, Germanotta went on to write her first piano ballad at thirteen and began performing at open mic nights by the age of 14. At the age of seventeen she gained early admission to the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, where she studied music. By age twenty she began writing songs for Interscope Records artists, such as the Pussycat Dolls, also she recently declared that she wrote two songs for the upcoming Britney Spears album. Lady GaGa performed at the Miss Universe 2008 pageant in Vietnam, singing her debut single, "Just Dance". On July 31, 2008, she performed "Just Dance" live on the results show of Fox's So You Think You Can Dance. In a recent interview with TL3 Magazine she stated that she had experimented with LSD while at NYU but no longer uses any controlled substances.

In an interview with HX Magazine, she recently came out as bisexual.