LADY GAGA’S EARLY CAREER ANALYZED IN NEW YORK PROFILE

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Laura

It began on the Upper West Side of New York, where she grew up in a duplex with her dad, whose company installed wi-fi systems in hotels, her mother, who was a vice president at Verizon for a time and younger sister Natali, now 18, who has a cameo in the “Telephone” video. The sisters attended the small Sacred Heart Catholic girls school near the Guggenheim museum, where the Germanotta’s were a solidly middle class pair mixed in with the outrageously wealthy and those attending on scholarships. She began taking day-long acting classes on Saturdays at age 11 and by eighth grade was landing the leads in shows such as “Guys and Dolls” and “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” at Sacred Heart’s brother school, Regis High. Friends told New York that she insisted on being called by her character’s names even then, refusing to answer to Stefani backstage during rehearsals and performances.

Gaga also held down a job as a waitress at a diner on the Upper West Side during her school years, using one of her first paychecks to guy a $600 Gucci purse, a preview of her later dive into high fashion. Though some jealous older girls sometimes referred to her as “the Germ,” the article says, most classmates remember her as being popular and not the awkward outcast she has painted herself to be in interviews.

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-Source: Gil Kaufman, MTV; New York Magazine