How the stars are lit
When in the New York apartment of the jazz musician Italian Josef Germanotta on the weekend gathered a lot of relatives, the owner's daughter was placing a cassette tape recorder on the coffee table, including Michael Jackson's songs and singing along to him. For this, the girl used as a microphone spoons, forks and even pieces of bread. "My daughter will be an actress! "- assured all the father of 6-year-old Stephanie, the future star Lady Gaga. So that the girl could study at the prestigious Catholic school "Monastery of the Holy Heart" in Manhattan, Joseph left the music and took up business. Family members were not rich people. Therefore, so that Stephanie could dress like the same as her peers, parents worked from 8 am to 8 pm. Still, classmates teased the girl. Stephanie was always an outsider in his youth and was too ambitious. Since childhood she has become accustomed to the fact that people do not understand her. But Stephanie-Gaga believed that she was destined for another fate. This is the real face of the future pop diva. From complexes the future freak-star began to get rid in the School of arts at the New York university. Playing in the school theater, where she shone in the role of Anna Andreevna in Gogol's "Inspector", greatly increased her self-esteem. Success, independence, friends-musicians, first admirers - Stefanie felt dizzy. She decides to start another life, rent an apartment and leave the house.
Child of vice
From now on, Stephanie Germanotta is a regular at nightclubs. She paints her nails with black lacquer and goes on stage in a dry leather jacket. But soon realizes: this image does not work. Stephanie is looking for herself - during the performances she sets a stream of hair spray, wears a leopard bikini with sparkles, sticks in an orchid wig. The audience is shocked by the behavior of the 17-year-old singer, but they like this "child of vice". Learning that Stephanie is playing in clubs in one of the most troubled areas of New York, his father avoided looking into her eyes. But she does not care about the opinion of her parents - Stephanie enjoys freedom. She suddenly realized that she was not bad-looking. Has grown thin, has slightly pumped up and has turned from the ugly duckling in the sexy girl. Parents dreamed of another future for the child, but she went against their will and preferred to the university a striptease and job as a waitress. Stephanie dances at night in several clubs at once, for the drive begins to take cocaine. She did not think that something was wrong with her until friends said: "Do you take drugs alone? ".
"Well, why, I'm doing this with a mirror," says Lady Gaga. "One day my father came to my apartment. We were at loggerheads and did not communicate for several years. He silently approached me, took me by the hand and said: "The child, your business is bad! Remember: as long as your life is connected with this , you will never achieve success in your personal life and career. "
From Stephanie Germanotta - to Lady Gaga
Father's words acted on Stephanie better than any courses of anonymous drug addicts and auto-training. She got stuck with drugs, changed her apartment and friends, and in 2006 she got acquainted with the producer - Rob Fusari. He appreciated her singing talent and her manner of grimacing, like Freddie Mercury. Rob came up with her nickname - Lady Gaga in honor of the popular Queen song "Radio Ga-Ga". Stephanie was not enthusiastic, but when she began to receive the first "dividends" from the pseudonym, immediately fell in love with him and now often repeats: "The new face of Lady Gaga has changed my life."
In fact, this girl has calculated everything: people are interested in everything unusual, they are attracted to freaks, then we will freak and earn on it! She thought of everything - the style of performance, the image, the manner of speaking. Gaga is so merged with the stage image that even in ordinary life he does not allow himself to go out without a mask. Every her appearance is a real show. The singer comes to a cafe in a balloon dress, arrives at a recording studio in a chain mail, decorated with rhinestones. All the costumes the artist comes up with herself in her own studio Haus of Gaga.
The singer has created around herself such an aura of mystery that few people already understand who is hiding under the mask of a freak. Rumors have spread that the real face of Lady Gaga is that of a transvestite, then a bisexual, then a hermaphrodite. Fortunately, the paparazzi several times caught Lady Gaga "without a mask", and everyone saw a modest, not very attractive person. As the star admitted: "When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a simple girl, but then I say to myself:" You are Lady Gaga! Dress up, do make-up and go to work! I do not even allow myself to drink water when someone is near. No one should see me as an ordinary person. " In October 2009, Lady Gaga announced that she had made the ninth tattoo - in honor of her father, who successfully underwent heart surgery. The singer hides the location of the tattoo, but admits that it is a heart, in the center of which the word "dad" is written. Probably, this is the real face of Stephanie - Lady Gaga, a rebel who loves her family.