Joanne Stefani Germanotta (born March 20, 1986), best known by her stage name Lady GaGa, is an Italian-American singer-songwriter and musician, known for work in the electronica genre.She attended Convent of the Sacred Heart School, an exclusive private all-girls school; also attended by Nicky and Paris Hilton. As a little girl, she remembers singing into a plastic tape recorder to the likes of Cyndi Lauper and Michael Jackson. By age four, Lady GaGa had taught herself to play the piano by ear. When she was a teenager she penned her first song. When she was just fourteen she was playing open mic nights at New Yorks Bitter End, and by the age of seventeen she was one of twenty people in the world to gain early admission to the Clive Davis program at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. "Paparazzi" was announced as the third single in the United Kingdom and Ireland with a release date of July 6, 2009 and the fifth single in the rest of the nations. It was also released as the fifth Australian single from the album on July 10, 2009. The song however charted before it had been released and has reached the top five in Australia, Canada, Ireland and the.