Lady Gaga

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Birth Name:

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta

Birth Place:

New York, USA

Date of Birth:

March 28, 1986

What Race or Ethnicity?:

Italian, French Canadian, English, German

The American pop-musician and songwriter’s real name is Stefani Germanotta. Lady Gaga is well known for her eccentric fashion and clothing. She was born to an Italian American father, Joseph and Cynthia Bissett who has Italian, French Canadian, German and English heritage.

Gaga pointed out similarities she shares with pop idol Madonna, ie. both being of Italian origin, both starting out in the New York underground scene and both “becoming famous when dying their hair blonde”.

She is apparently able to speak French.

Source:

  1. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/
  2. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
  3. Family Tree

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Jen January 20, 2010 at 12:12 am

Yeah I noticed that name, ‘bissett’..it doesn’t sound italian at all..so maybe she is half italian??

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Juli January 19, 2010 at 11:35 pm

I didn’t even know there were many Italians with “tanned” skin. I thought the ones who looked like that were a mixture with something else, but reading your comments, I found out that’s not true. I was raised in a Brazilian city “dominated” by Italians (no bad meanings to the word… xP ) and they were all either Alexis Bledel pale or that Asian guy from ‘Three Rivers’ pale. So I thought most of them were pale and there were lots and lots of them with really light eyes.
Actually, because I’m horrible at telling if someone was born tanned or was sun tanned, the first times I saw her I was so sure she was born with that skin shade she has on “Poker Face” that I was a li’l confused when someone asked on YouTube what her heritage was and someone answered “she’s Italian”. I thought to myself: “okay, but what else? She’s not pale enough to be just Italian, I wanna know what her non-white part is!!!”
Lol @ me… ó_ò

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ethnic January 19, 2010 at 11:26 pm

Athena good point. It sounds like a French surname. Ill look into it.

Admin

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Athena January 19, 2010 at 10:40 pm

Her mother,Cynthia Bissett is from Ohio valley,West Virginia.
http://www.news-register.net/page/content.detail/id/525756.html?nav=505.

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Anonymous January 19, 2010 at 9:43 pm

yeah paul lol ;)

Just in those pic, the dark hair makes her look a lil italian, thats all.

But yeah i guess she does still look a bit italian.

Jen
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ethnic January 19, 2010 at 5:09 pm

yep many Italians especially from the north are quite fair

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Paul. January 19, 2010 at 4:35 am

“Comment by Jen
January 18th, 2010
Oh and I think she looks quite italian in those pics too…the dark features…”

Omg, Jen, did you not read what I said about Northern Italians? :P Jk.

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kira!! January 18, 2010 at 8:35 am

Wow really? Thats awesome! how long was she on it?

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Jen January 18, 2010 at 6:27 am

nope. :)

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rockstarrr. January 18, 2010 at 6:09 am

Did you guys know she was at MTV’s Boiling Points before she was famous?

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