Pre-Lady Gaga Wowed NYU

She used to be Stefani Germanotta, student

By Mary Papenfuss, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 20, 2009 2:40 AM CST

(Newser) – Before she was an over-the-top star dogged by rumors that she's intersex, Lady Gaga was babelicious Stefani Germanotta, a New York University student with a killer voice who wowed her classmates at a 2005 talent show. Gaga strutted her new stuff for fictional students of... Read full story »

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