Lady Gaga Trips On Stage In Atlanta

Lady Gaga took a tumble during a live performance in Atlanta last night (20th April 2011). Lady Gaga was singing her hit track 'Poker Face' when she suddenly tripped over her jacket and fell flat on the stage, reports the UK's Daily Mail.

The 25-year-old was performing an energetic rendition of the song before throwing her jacket onto the floor. As she continued her routine, she mistakenly stepped on the piece of clothing and was sent tumbling to the ground. A minder at the side of the stage immediately removed the jacket and Gaga regained her footing and joined her dancers for a choreographed routine. It marks Lady Gaga's second tumble in as many weeks. During a show in Houston on 10th April 2011, she jumped off her piano wearing towering heels. As she leapt off the instrument, her heel accidently caught the stool and she fell flat on her back. Gaga hit the headlines earlier this week after she apologised for using an offensive term during an interview with Nme magazine. The singer had called allegations that she had plagiarised a Madonna song as "retarded", adding, "What a completely ridiculous thing to even question me about".

Lady Gaga is currently midway through her tour of the U.S. and Canada. Her second studio album 'Born This Way' is set to be released on May 23rd, 2011.

Lady GaGa: Childhood & Early Career

Lady GaGa was born in Yonkers, New York. Her parents are Italian and she attended a private school, the Catholic Convent of the Sacred Heart. Previous pupils of the school include Paris Hilton, Nicky Hilton and Caroline Kennedy.

She started to learn piano as a young child and wrote her first ballad when she was 13 years old. By 14, she was performing at open mic nights and at 17, she earned early admission as a music student to the Tisch School of Arts at New York University. She is one of only 20 people in the world to have ever done so.

Lady GaGa performed in a number of bands, such as SGBand and Mackin Pulsifer, playing venues on the Lower East Side. She soon decided to break away from rock 'n' roll music, and began performing in burlesque shows.

Lady GaGa got her name when the producer Rob Fusari compared her vocal style to that of Freddie Mercury and took the nickname from the Queen song 'Radio GaGa'. It was Fusari that helped her to write some of her early hits, including 'Disco Heaven', 'Dirty Ice Cream' and 'Beautiful, Dirty, Rich'.

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Lady GaGa is an American singer and songwriter. She started working for Interscope Records when she was 20 years old, writing songs for Pussycat Dolls, among others.