Fill in the Blanks Gaga BioOnline version Fill in the blanks. by Barbara Bujtas 1 musicals never talent single younger is television success school played she family began 17 lived since working in private playing Lady Gaga a singer . She was born in New York 1986 . When she was a kid she with her family in Manhattan . She is from a middle - class , she has a sister , Natali . She attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart , a all - girls Roman Catholic on Manhattan's Upper East Side , from the age of 11 . She liked the piano and acting in high school . She has been singing she was 14 . She a minor part in the drama series The Sopranos in 2001 . When she was she went to the New York University's Tish School of the Arts but she graduated . By age 20 she working with Iheerscope records as a songwriter . Akon recognized Gaga's vocal . Her first Just Dance ( nominated for a Grammy ) was a huge . Now she is on her third album , maybe will give it a away for free .