Lady Gaga is coming
Saturday, May 7 2011
Lady Gaga...
The rumours are true, Grammy-award winner Lady Gaga will perform in Trinidad on July 16 at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port-of-Spain.
The show which is entitled “Alpha and Omega Out of the Box” will feature several local acts and promoters UC Entertainment have assured a grand show from 5 pm to 2 am. Tickets will go on sale from June 3.
According to online sources, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta is better known by her stage name Lady Gaga. She is an American pop singer-songwriter.
A fter performing in the rock music scene of New York City’s Lower East Side in 2003 and later enrolling at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, she soon signed with Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records. During her early time at Interscope, she worked as a songwriter for fellow label artists and captured the attention of rapper Akon, who recognised her vocal abilities, and signed her to his own label, Kon Live Distribution. Gaga came to prominence following the release of her debut studio album The Fame (2008), which was a commercial success and achieved international popularity with the singles “Just Dance” and “Poker Face.” The album reached number one on the record charts of six countries, accomplished positions within the top-ten worldwide, and topped the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart while simultaneously peaking at number two on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States.
A chieving similar worldwide success, The Fame Monster (2009), its follow-up, produced a further two global chart-topping singles “Bad Romance” and “Telephone” and allowed her to embark on a second global headlining concert tour, The Monster Ball Tour, just months after having finished her first, The Fame Ball Tour. Her second studio album, Born This Way, is scheduled for release on May 23, 2011 after the arrival of its eponymous lead single “Born This Way”, which achieved the number-one spot in countries worldwide and was the fastest-selling single in iTunes history, selling one million copies in five days.
Inspired by glam rock artists like David Bowie, Elton John and Queen, as well as pop singers such as Madonna, Michael Jackson, and Amy Winehouse, Gaga is well-recognised for her bizarre sense of style in fashion, in performance and in her music videos. Her contributions to the music industry have garnered her numerous achievements including five Grammy Awards, among 12 nominations; two Guinness World Records; and the estimated sale of 15 million albums and 51 million singles worldwide.
Billboard named her both the Artist of the Year in 2010 and the top selling artist of 2010, ranking her as the 73rd Artist of the 2000s decade. Gaga has been included in Time magazine’s annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world as well as Forbes’ list of the 100 Most Powerful and Influential celebrities in the world. Forbes also placed her at number seven on their annual list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.
http://www.newsday.co.tt/features/0,140151.html
