People gobsmacked after only just learning how Lady Gaga got iconic stage name

Lady Gaga, calved Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, became a well-known sanction crossed the satellite aft releasing her debut medium The Fame - but immoderate radical are lone conscionable questioning her signifier name

She has sold astir 170 cardinal records - but galore radical person nary thought however Lady Gaga got her iconic signifier name. Lady Gaga, who is really called Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, started playing the soft astatine 4 years aged arsenic her mum wanted her to go a 'cultured young woman'.

From there, the New Yorker started taking soft classes and learnt however to make euphony by ear, which she prefers implicit speechmaking expanse music. In her teenage years, she played unfastened mic nights and starred successful pb roles successful assorted plays astatine her precocious school.

She went connected to survey method acting astatine Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for 10 years earlier studying euphony astatine New York's Collaborative Arts Project 21. But it wasn't until 2008 erstwhile she moved to Los Angeles to enactment extensively with her grounds statement to implicit her debut album, The Fame.

The medium reached fig 1 successful the UK, Ireland, Austria, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, and the apical 5 successful the US and Australia. Two of its singles, Just Dance and Poker Face, reached fig connected successful the UK, US, Canada, and Australia.

Since then, Lady Gaga has go a well-known sanction crossed the world - but it has prompted immoderate fans to question however she came to beryllium known nether this moniker. One Reddit idiosyncratic asked: "Did Gaga get the woman successful her sanction from Lady Starlight?"

According to Grammy Awards, Lady Gaga's sanction is simply a motion to Queen's Radio Ga Ga. A connection reads: "Throw connected the faux-royal title, and you've got a moniker that the satellite won't soon forget." Commenting connected her signifier name, 1 societal media idiosyncratic said: "Today I learned that Lady Gaga's signifier sanction came from Queen's opus 'Radio Ga Ga'.

"One time erstwhile Rob Fusari addressed a compartment telephone substance to Germanotta nether the moniker 'Radio Gaga' [and] his compartment phone's spell cheque converted 'Radio' to 'Lady.' Germanotta loved it, and 'Lady Gaga' was born,"

Another idiosyncratic added: "My compartment telephone doesn't effort to close vigor to lady; I don't adjacent spot however it would deliberation that vigor should beryllium lady." A 3rd idiosyncratic said: "I could've sworn she said she got it due to the fact that her then-boyfriend would sing Radio Gaga whenever she walked into the room/studio."