Life and career

1986–2004: Early life

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was born on March 28, 1986, at Lenox Hill
Hospital in Manhattan, New York City,[1] to an upper middle class Catholic family. Both of her parents
have Italian ancestry.[2] Her parents are Cynthia Louise (née Bissett), a philanthropist and business
executive, and Internet entrepreneur Joseph Germanotta,[3] and she has a younger sister
named Natali.[4] Brought up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Gaga said in an interview that her
parents came from lower-class families and worked hard for everything.[5][6] From age 11, she
attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private all-girls Roman Catholic school.[7] Gaga has
described her high-school self as "very dedicated, very studious, very disciplined" but also "a bit
insecure". She considered herself a misfit and was mocked for "being either too provocative or too
eccentric".[8]
Gaga began playing the piano at age four when her mother insisted she become "a cultured young
woman". She took piano lessons and practiced through her childhood. The lessons taught her to
create music by ear, which she preferred over reading sheet music. Her parents encouraged her to
pursue music and enrolled her in Creative Arts Camp.[9] As a teenager, she played at open
mic nights.[10] Gaga played the lead roles of Adelaide in the play Guys and Dolls and Philia in the
play A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at Regis High School.[11] She also
studied method acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for ten years.[12] Gaga
unsuccessfully auditioned for New York shows, though she did appear in a small role as a high-
school student in a 2001 episode of The Sopranos titled "The Telltale Moozadell".[13][14] She later said
of her inclination towards music:
I don't know exactly where my affinity for music comes from, but it is the thing that comes easiest to
me. When I was like three years old, I may have been even younger, my mom always tells this really
embarrassing story of me propping myself up and playing the keys like this because I was too young
and short to get all the way up there. Just go like this on the low end of the piano ... I was really,
really good at piano, so my first instincts were to work so hard at practicing piano, and I might not
have been a natural dancer, but I am a natural musician. That is the thing that I believe I am the
greatest at.[15]
In 2003, at age 17, Gaga gained early admission to Collaborative Arts Project 21, a music school
at New York University (NYU)'s Tisch School of the Arts, and lived in an NYU dorm. She studied
music there, and improved her songwriting skills by writing essays on art, religion, social issues and
politics, including a thesis on pop artists Spencer Tunick and Damien Hirst.[16][17] In 2005, she
withdrew from school during the second semester of her second year to focus on her music
career.[18] That year, she also played an unsuspecting diner customer for MTV's Boiling Points, a
prank reality television show.[19]
In a 2014 interview, Gaga said she had been raped at age 19, for which she later underwent mental
and physical therapy.[20] She has post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) which she attributes to the
incident, and credits support from doctors, family and friends with helping her.[21] Gaga later gave
additional details about the rape, including that "the person who raped me dropped me off
pregnant on a corner at my parents' house because I was vomiting and sick. Because I'd been being
abused. I was locked away in a studio for months."[22]

2005–2007: Career beginnings

In 2005, Gaga recorded two songs with hip-hop artist Melle Mel for an audio book accompanying
Cricket Casey's children's novel The Portal in the Park.[23] She also formed a band called the
SGBand with some friends from NYU.[11][24] They played gigs around New York and became a fixture
of the downtown Lower East Side club scene.[11] After the 2006 Songwriters Hall of Fame New
Songwriters Showcase at the Cutting Room in June, talent scout Wendy Starland recommended her
to music producer Rob Fusari.[25] Fusari collaborated with Gaga, who traveled daily to New Jersey,
helping to develop her songs and compose new material.[26] The producer said they began dating in
May 2006, and claimed to have been the first person to call her "Lady Gaga", which was derived
from Queen's song "Radio Ga Ga".[27] Their relationship lasted until January 2007.[28]

Gaga performing at Lollapalooza in 2007

Fusari and Gaga established a company called Team Lovechild, LLC to promote her career.[27] They
recorded and produced electropop tracks, sending them to music industry executives. Joshua
Sarubin, the head of Artists and repertoire (A&R) at Def Jam Recordings, responded positively and,
after approval from Sarubin's boss Antonio "L.A." Reid, Gaga was signed to Def Jam in September
2006.[29][30] She was dropped from the label three months later[31] and returned to her family home for
Christmas. Gaga began performing at neo-burlesque shows, which according to her represented
freedom.[32] During this time, she met performance artist Lady Starlight, who helped mold her onstage
persona.[33] The pair began performing at downtown club venues like the Mercury Lounge, the Bitter
End, and the Rockwood Music Hall. Their live performance art piece, known as "Lady Gaga and the
Starlight Revue" and billed as "The Ultimate Pop Burlesque Rockshow", was a tribute to 1970s
variety acts.[34][35] They performed at the 2007 Lollapalooza music festival.[34]
Having initially focused on avant-garde electronic dance music, Gaga began to incorporate pop
melodies and the glam rock style of David Bowie and Queen into her songs. While Gaga and
Starlight were performing, Fusari continued to develop the songs he had created with her, sending
them to the producer and record executive Vincent Herbert.[36] In November 2007, Herbert signed
Gaga to his label Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records, established that
month.[37] Gaga later credited Herbert as the man who discovered her.[38] Having served as an
apprentice songwriter during an internship at Famous Music Publishing, Gaga struck a music
publishing deal with Sony/ATV. As a result, she was hired to write songs for Britney Spears, New
Kids on the Block, Fergie, and the Pussycat Dolls.[39] At Interscope, musician Akon was impressed
with her singing abilities when she sang a reference vocal for one of his tracks in studio.[40] Akon
convinced Jimmy Iovine, chairman and CEO of Interscope Geffen A&M Records (a brother company
for Def Jam), to form a joint deal by having Gaga also sign with his own label KonLive, making her
his "franchise player".[31][41]
In late 2007, Gaga met with songwriter and producer RedOne.[42] She collaborated with him in the
recording studio for a week on her debut album, signing with Cherrytree Records, an Interscope
imprint established by producer and songwriter Martin Kierszenbaum; she also wrote four songs with
Kierszenbaum.[39] Despite securing a record deal, she said that some radio stations found her music
too "racy", "dance-oriented", and "underground" for the mainstream market, to which she replied:
"My name is Lady Gaga, I've been on the music scene for years, and I'm telling you, this is what's
next."[7]

2008–2010: Breakthrough with The Fame and The Fame Monster

By 2008, Gaga had relocated to Los Angeles to work extensively with her record label to complete
her debut album, The Fame, and to set up her own creative team called the Haus of Gaga, modeled
on Andy Warhol's The Factory.[43][44] The Fame was released on August 19, 2008,[45] and reached
number one in Austria, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland and the UK, as well as the top five in
Australia and the US.[46][47] Its first two singles, "Just Dance" and "Poker Face",[48] reached number
one in the United States,[49] Australia,[50] Canada[51] and the UK.[52] The latter was also the world's best-
selling single of 2009, with 9.8 million copies sold that year, and spent a record 83 weeks
on Billboard magazine's Digital Songs chart.[53][54] Three other singles, "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can
Say)", "LoveGame" and "Paparazzi", were released from the album;[55] the lattermost reached
number one in Germany.[56] Remixed versions of the singles from The Fame, except "Eh, Eh
(Nothing Else I Can Say)", were included on Hitmixes in August 2009.[57] At the 52nd Annual
Grammy Awards, The Fame and "Poker Face" won Best Dance/Electronica Album and Best Dance
Recording, respectively.[58]

Gaga performing on The Monster Ball Tour in 2010. It grossed $227 million and became the highest-grossing
concert tour for a debut headlining artist.[59]

Following her opening act on the Pussycat Dolls' 2009 Doll Domination Tour in Europe and Oceania,
Gaga headlined her worldwide The Fame Ball Tour, which ran from March to September
2009.[60] While traveling the globe, she wrote eight songs for The Fame Monster, a reissue of The
Fame.[61] Those new songs were also released as a standalone EP on November 18, 2009.[62] Its first
single, "Bad Romance", was released one month earlier[63] and went number one in Canada[51] and
the UK,[52] and number two in the US,[49] Australia[64] and New Zealand.[65] "Telephone", with Beyoncé,
followed as the second single from the EP and became Gaga's fourth UK number one.[66][67] Its third
single was "Alejandro",[68] which reached number one in Finland[69] and attracted controversy when its
music video was deemed blasphemous by the Catholic League.[70] Both tracks reached the top five in
the US.[49] The video for "Bad Romance" became the most watched on YouTube in April 2010, and
that October, Gaga became the first person with more than one billion combined views.[71][72] At
the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, she won eight awards from 13 nominations, including Video of
the Year for "Bad Romance".[73] She was the most nominated artist for a single year, and the first
woman to receive two nominations for Video of the Year at the same ceremony.[74] The Fame
Monster won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album, and "Bad Romance" won Best Female
Pop Vocal Performance and Best Short Form Music Video at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards.[75]
In 2009, Gaga spent a record 150 weeks on the UK Singles Chart and became the most
downloaded female act in a year in the US, with 11.1 million downloads sold, earning an entry in
the Guinness Book of World Records.[76][77] Worldwide, The Fame and The Fame Monster together
have sold more than 15 million copies, and the latter was 2010's second best-selling album.[78][79][80] Its
success allowed Gaga to start her second worldwide concert tour, The Monster Ball Tour, and
release The Remix, her final record with Cherrytree Records[81] and among the best-selling remix
albums of all time.[82][83] The Monster Ball Tour ran from November 2009 to May 2011 and grossed
$227.4 million, making it the highest-grossing concert tour for a debut headlining artist.[59][84] Concerts
performed at Madison Square Garden in New York City were filmed for an HBO television
special, Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden.[85] Gaga also
performed songs from her albums at the 2009 Royal Variety Performance, the 52nd Annual Grammy
Awards, and the 2010 Brit Awards.[86] Before Michael Jackson's death, Gaga was set to take part in
his canceled This Is It concert series at the O2 Arena in the UK.[87]
During this era, Gaga ventured into business, collaborating with consumer electronics
company Monster Cable Products to create in-ear, jewel-encrusted headphones called Heartbeats
by Lady Gaga.[88] She also partnered with Polaroid in January 2010 as their creative director and
announced a suite of photo-capture products called Grey Label.[89][90] Her collaboration with her past
record producer and ex-boyfriend Rob Fusari led to a lawsuit against her production team, Mermaid
Music LLC.[a] At this time, Gaga was tested borderline positive for lupus, but claimed not to be
affected by the symptoms and hoped to maintain a healthy lifestyle.[93][94]

2011–2014: Born This Way, Artpop, and Cheek to Cheek

In February 2011, Gaga released "Born This Way", the lead single from her studio album of the
same name. The song sold more than one million copies within five days, earning the Guinness
World Record for the fastest selling single on iTunes.[95] It debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100,
becoming the 1,000th number-one single in the history of the charts.[96] Its second single "Judas"
followed two months later,[97] and "The Edge of Glory" served as its third single.[98] Both reached the
top 10 in the US and the UK.[49][52] Her music video for "The Edge of Glory", unlike her previous work,
portrays her dancing on a fire escape and walking on a lonely street, without intricate choreography
and back-up dancers.[99]

Gaga promoting Born This Way with performances in Sydney, Australia

Born This Way was released on May 23, 2011,[97] and debuted atop the Billboard 200 with first-week
sales of 1.1 million copies.[100] The album sold eight million copies worldwide and received three
Grammy nominations, including Gaga's third consecutive nomination for Album of the
Year.[101][102] Rolling Stone listed it among "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2020.[103] Born
This Way's following singles were "You and I" and "Marry the Night",[104] which reached numbers six
and 29 in the US, respectively.[49] While filming the former's music video, Gaga met and started
dating actor Taylor Kinney in July 2011, who played her love interest.[105][106] She also embarked on
the Born This Way Ball tour in April 2012, which was scheduled to conclude the following March, but
ended one month earlier when Gaga canceled the remaining dates due to a labral tear of her right
hip that required surgery.[107] While refunds for the cancellations were estimated to be worth
$25 million,[108] the tour grossed $183.9 million globally.[109]
In 2011, Gaga also worked with Tony Bennett on a jazz version of "The Lady Is a
Tramp",[110] with Elton John on "Hello Hello" for the animated feature film Gnomeo & Juliet,[111] and
with The Lonely Island and Justin Timberlake on "3-Way (The Golden Rule)".[112] She also performed
a concert at the Sydney Town Hall in Australia that year to promote Born This Way and to celebrate
former US President Bill Clinton's 65th birthday.[113] In November, she was featured in
a Thanksgiving television special titled A Very Gaga Thanksgiving, which attracted 5.7 million
American viewers and spawned the release of her fourth EP, A Very Gaga Holiday.[114] In 2012,
Gaga guest-starred as an animated version of herself in an episode of The Simpsons called "Lisa
Goes Gaga",[115] and released her first fragrance, Lady Gaga Fame, followed by a second one, Eau
de Gaga, in 2014.[b]
Gaga began work on her third studio album, Artpop, in early 2012, during the Born This Way Ball
tour; she crafted the album to mirror "a night at the club".[118][119][120] In August 2013, Gaga released the
album's lead single "Applause",[121] which reached number one in Hungary, number four in the US,
and number five in the UK.[52][49][122] A lyric video for Artpop track "Aura" followed in October to
accompany Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills, where she plays an assassin named La
Chameleon.[123] The film received generally negative reviews and earned less than half of its
$33 million budget.[124][125] The second Artpop single, "Do What U Want", featured singer R. Kelly and
was released later that month,[126] topping the charts in Hungary and reaching number 13 in the
US.[49][127] Artpop was released on November 6, 2013, to mixed reviews.[128] Helen Brown in The Daily
Telegraph criticized Gaga for making another album about her fame and doubted the record's
originality, but found it "great for dancing".[129] The album debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart, and
sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide as of July 2014.[130][131] "G.U.Y." was released as the third
single in March 2014 and peaked at number 76 in the US.[49][132]

With the Cheek to Cheek era, Gaga (seen here performing on the Cheek to Cheek Tour alongside Tony
Bennett) ushered in an overhaul of her image.[133]

Gaga hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live in November 2013.[134] After holding her second
Thanksgiving Day television special on ABC, Lady Gaga and the Muppets Holiday Spectacular, she
performed a special rendition of "Do What U Want" with Christina Aguilera on the fifth season of the
American reality talent show The Voice.[135][136] In March 2014, Gaga had a seven-day concert
residency commemorating the last performance at New York's Roseland Ballroom before its
closure.[137] Two months later, she embarked on the ArtRave: The Artpop Ball tour, building on
concepts from her ArtRave promotional event. Earning $83 million, the tour included cities canceled
from the Born This Way Ball tour itinerary.[138] In the meantime, Gaga split from longtime
manager Troy Carter over "creative differences",[139] and by June 2014, she and new manager Bobby
Campbell joined Artist Nation, the artist management division of Live Nation Entertainment.[140] She
briefly appeared in Rodriguez's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, and was confirmed as Versace's spring-
summer 2014 ambassador with a campaign called "Lady Gaga For Versace".[141][142]
In September 2014, Gaga released a collaborative jazz album with Tony Bennett titled Cheek to
Cheek. The inspiration behind the album came from her friendship with Bennett, and fascination with
jazz music since her childhood.[143] Before the album was released, it produced the singles "Anything
Goes" and "I Can't Give You Anything but Love".[144] Cheek to Cheek received generally favorable
reviews;[145] The Guardian's Caroline Sullivan praised Gaga's vocals and Howard Reich of
the Chicago Tribune wrote that "Cheek to Cheek serves up the real thing, start to finish".[146][147] The
record was Gaga's third consecutive number-one album on the Billboard 200,[148] and won a Grammy
Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album.[149] The duo recorded the concert special Tony Bennett
and Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek Live!,[150] and embarked on the Cheek to Cheek Tour from
December 2014 to August 2015.[151]

2015–2017: American Horror Story, Joanne, and Super Bowl

performances
In February 2015, Gaga became engaged to Taylor Kinney.[152] After the lukewarm response
to Artpop, Gaga began to reinvent her image and style. According to Billboard, this shift started with
the release of Cheek to Cheek and the attention she received for her performance at the 87th
Academy Awards, where she sang a medley of songs from The Sound of Music in a tribute to Julie
Andrews.[133] Considered one of her best performances by Billboard, it triggered more than 214,000
interactions per minute globally on Facebook.[153][154] She and Diane Warren co-wrote the song "Til It
Happens to You" for the documentary The Hunting Ground, which earned them the Satellite Award
for Best Original Song and an Academy Award nomination in the same category.[155] Gaga
won Billboard Woman of the Year and Contemporary Icon Award at the 2015 Annual Songwriters
Hall of Fame Awards.[156][157]
Gaga had spent much of her early life wanting to be an actress, and achieved her goal when she
starred in American Horror Story: Hotel.[158] Running from October 2015 to January 2016, Hotel is the
fifth season of the television anthology horror series, American Horror Story, in which Gaga played a
hotel owner named Elizabeth.[159][160] At the 73rd Golden Globe Awards, Gaga received the Best
Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film award for her work on the season.[158] She appeared in Nick
Knight's 2015 fashion film for Tom Ford's 2016 spring campaign[161] and was guest editor
for V fashion magazine's 99th issue in January 2016, which featured 16 different covers.[162] She
received Editor of the Year award at the Fashion Los Angeles Awards.[163]

Gaga performing on the Joanne World Tour in 2017

In February 2016, Gaga sang the US national anthem at Super Bowl 50,[164] partnered
with Intel and Nile Rodgers for a tribute performance to the late David Bowie at the 58th Annual
Grammy Awards,[165] and sang "Til It Happens to You" at the 88th Academy Awards, where she was
introduced by Joe Biden and was accompanied on-stage by 50 people who had suffered from sexual
assault.[166] She was honored that April with the Artist Award at the Jane Ortner Education Awards
by The Grammy Museum, which recognizes artists who have demonstrated passion and dedication
to education through the arts.[167] Her engagement to Taylor Kinney ended in July; she later said her
career had interfered with their relationship.[168]
Gaga played a witch named Scathach in American Horror Story: Roanoke, the series' sixth
season,[169] which ran from September to November 2016.[170][171] Her role in the fifth season of the
show ultimately influenced her future music, prompting her to feature "the art of darkness".[172] In
September 2016, she released her fifth album's lead single, "Perfect Illusion", which topped the
charts in France and reached number 15 in the US.[173][174][175] The album, titled Joanne, was named
after Gaga's late aunt, who was an inspiration for the music.[176] It was released on October 21, 2016,
and became Gaga's fourth number one album on the Billboard 200, making her the first woman to
reach the US chart's summit four times in the 2010s.[177] The album's second single, "Million
Reasons", followed the next month and reached number four in the US.[175][178] She later released a
piano version of the album's title track in 2018,[179] which won a Grammy for Best Pop Solo
Performance.[180] To promote the album, Gaga embarked on the three-date Dive Bar Tour.[181]
Gaga performed as the headlining act during the Super Bowl LI halftime show on February 5, 2017.
Her performance featured a group of hundreds of lighted drones forming various shapes in the sky
above Houston's NRG Stadium—the first time robotic aircraft appeared in a Super Bowl
program.[182] It attracted 117.5 million viewers in the United States, exceeding the game's
113.3 million viewers.[183] The performance led to a surge of 410,000 song downloads in the United
States for Gaga and earned her an Emmy nomination in the Outstanding Special Class
Program category.[184][185] CBS Sports included her performance as the second best in the history of
Super Bowl halftime shows.[186] In April, Gaga headlined the Coachella Valley Music and Arts
Festival.[187] She also released a standalone-single, "The Cure", which reached the top 10 in
Australia.[188][189] In August, Gaga began the Joanne World Tour, which she announced after the
Super Bowl LI halftime show.[190] Gaga's creation of Joanne and preparation for her halftime show
performance were featured in the documentary Gaga: Five Foot Two, which premiered
on Netflix that September.[191] Throughout the film, she was seen suffering from chronic pain, which
was later revealed to be the effect of a long-term condition called fibromyalgia.[192] In February 2018,
it prompted Gaga to cancel the last ten shows of the Joanne World Tour, which ultimately grossed
$95 million from 842,000 tickets sold.[193][194]

2018–2020: A Star Is Born, Vegas residency, and Chromatica

In March 2018, Gaga supported the March for Our Lives gun-control rally in Washington,
D.C.,[195] and released a cover of Elton John's "Your Song" for his tribute album Revamp.[196] Later
that year, she starred as struggling singer Ally in Bradley Cooper's musical romantic drama A Star Is
Born, a remake of the 1937 film of the same name. The film follows Ally's relationship with singer
Jackson Maine (played by Cooper), which becomes strained after her career begins to overshadow
his. It received acclaim from critics, with a consensus that the movie had "appealing leads, deft
direction, and an affecting love story".[197] Cooper approached Gaga after seeing her perform at a
cancer research fundraiser. An admirer of Cooper's work, Gaga agreed to the project due to its
portrayal of addiction and depression.[198][199] A Star Is Born premiered at the 2018 Venice Film
Festival, and was released worldwide that October.[200] Gaga's performance was acclaimed by film
critics, with Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian labeling the film "outrageously watchable" and stating
that "Gaga's ability to be part ordinary person, part extraterrestrial celebrity empress functions at the
highest level";[201] Stephanie Zacharek of Time magazine similarly highlighted her "knockout
performance" and found her to be "charismatic" without her usual makeup, wigs and
costumes.[202] For the role, Gaga won the National Board of Review and Critics' Choice awards for
Best Actress, in addition to receiving nominations for the Academy Award, Golden Globe
Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actress.[203]

Gaga at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival prior to the screening of A Star Is Born

Gaga and Cooper co-wrote and produced most of the songs on the soundtrack for A Star Is Born,
which she insisted they perform live in the film.[204] Its lead single, "Shallow", performed by the two,
was released on September 27, 2018[205] and topped the charts in various countries including
Australia, the UK and the US.[206] The soundtrack contains 34 tracks, including 17 original songs, and
received generally positive reviews;[207] Mark Kennedy of The Washington Post called it a "five-star
marvel" and Ben Beaumont-Thomas of The Guardian termed it an "instant classics full of Gaga's
emotional might".[208][209] Commercially, the soundtrack debuted at number one in the US, making
Gaga the first woman with five US number-one albums in the 2010s, and breaking her tie with Taylor
Swift as the most for any female artist this decade;[210] Swift tied with her again in 2019.[211] It
additionally topped the charts in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland and the
UK.[212] As of June 2019, the soundtrack had sold over six million copies worldwide.[213] The album
won Gaga four Grammy Awards—Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media and Best Pop
Duo/Group Performance and Best Song Written for Visual Media for "Shallow", as well as the latter
category for "I'll Never Love Again"—and a BAFTA Award for Best Film Music.[180][214][215] "Shallow"
also won her the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Critics' Choice Award for Best Original
Song.[203]
In October, Gaga announced her engagement to talent agent Christian Carino whom she had met in
early 2017.[216] They ended the engagement in February 2019.[217] Gaga signed a concert residency,
named Lady Gaga Enigma + Jazz & Piano, to perform at the MGM Park Theater in Las
Vegas.[218] The residency consists of two types of shows: Enigma, which focused on theatricality and
included Gaga's biggest hits,[219] and Jazz & Piano, which involved tracks from the Great American
Songbook and stripped-down versions of Gaga's songs. The Enigma show opened in December
2018 and the Jazz & Piano in January 2019.[220] Gaga launched her vegan makeup line, Haus
Laboratories, in September 2019 exclusively on Amazon. Consisting of 40 products, including liquid
eyeliners, lip glosses and face mask sticker, it reached number-one on Amazon's list of best-selling
lipsticks.[221] In February 2020, Gaga began a relationship with entrepreneur Michael Polansky.[222]
Gaga's sixth studio album, Chromatica, was released on May 29, 2020, to positive reviews.[223][224] It
debuted atop the US charts, becoming her sixth consecutive number-one album in the country, and
reached the top spot in more than a dozen other territories including Australia, Canada, France, Italy
and the UK.[225] Chromatica was preceded by two singles, "Stupid Love", on February 28,
2020,[226] and "Rain on Me", with Ariana Grande, on May 22.[227] The latter won the Best Pop
Duo/Group Performance at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, and debuted at number one in the
US, making Gaga the third person to top the country's chart in the 2000s, 2010s and 2020s.[228][229] At
the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, Gaga won five awards, including the inaugural Tricon Award
recognizing artists accomplished in different areas of the entertainment industry.[230] In September
2020, she appeared in the video campaign for Valentino's Voce Viva fragrance, singing a stripped-
down version of Chromatica track "Sine from Above", along with a group of models.[231]

2021–present: Love for Sale and House of Gucci

Gaga singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the inauguration of Joe Biden in 2021

During the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States on January 20,
2021, Gaga sang the US national anthem.[232] In February 2021, her dog walker Ryan Fischer was
hospitalized after getting shot in Hollywood. Two of her French Bulldogs, Koji and Gustav, were
taken while a third dog named Miss Asia escaped and was subsequently recovered by police. Gaga
later offered a $500,000 reward for the return of her pets.[233][234] Two days later, on February 26, a
woman brought the dogs to a police station in Los Angeles. Both were unharmed. Los Angeles
Police initially said the woman who dropped off the dogs did not appear to be involved with the
shooting,[235] but on April 29, she was one of five people charged in connection with the shooting and
theft.[236]
In April 2021, Gaga teamed up with Champagne brand Dom Pérignon, and appeared in an ad shot
by Nick Knight.[237] On September 3, she released her third remix album, Dawn of
Chromatica.[238] This was followed by her second collaborative album with Tony Bennett, titled Love
for Sale, on September 30.[239] The record received generally favorable reviews, and debuted at
number eight in the US.[240][241] To promote it, they presented a pair of shows at Radio City Music Hall,
on August 3 and 5, called One Last Time: an Evening with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga.[242] An
hour-long special, featuring performances from the concerts, simultaneously premiered
on CBS and Paramount+ on November 28, 2021.[243] Another taped performance by the duo
recorded for MTV Unplugged was released on December 16, 2021,[244] and a documentary
called The Lady and the Legend, which will include footage from the making of Gaga and Bennett's
two collaborative albums, will be available exclusively on Paramount+ in 2022.[243][244] At the 64th
Annual Grammy Awards, Love for Sale won Gaga and Bennett the award for Best Traditional Pop
Vocal Album.[245]
After an appearance in the television special Friends: The Reunion, in which Gaga sang "Smelly
Cat" with Lisa Kudrow,[246] she portrayed Patrizia Reggiani, who was convicted of hiring a hitman to
murder her ex-husband and former head of the Gucci fashion house Maurizio Gucci (played
by Adam Driver), in Ridley Scott's biographical crime film titled House of Gucci.[247][248] For the part,
Gaga learned to speak with an Italian accent. She also stayed in character for 18 months, speaking
with an accent for nine months during that period.[249] Her method acting approach took a toll on her
mental wellbeing, and towards the end of filming she had to be accompanied on-set by a psychiatric
nurse.[250] The film was released on November 24, 2021, to mixed reviews, though critics praised
Gaga's performance as "note-perfect".[251] She earned the New York Film Critics Circle Award, and
nominations for the BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors
Guild Award for Best Actress.[252] Gaga wrote the song "Hold My Hand" for the 2022 film Top Gun:
Maverick,[253] and also composed the score alongside Hans Zimmer and Harold Faltermeyer.[254]