Lady GaGa officially signed with Def Jam record at the age of 19, but was dropped 3 months later. Shortly after, her former management company brought songwriter and producer RedOne and GaGa together. Her first song she produced was with RedOne entitled "Boys Boys Boys".
She later moved into an apartment on the Lower East Side wher she recorded a couple of songs with hip-hop singer Grandmaster Melle Mel for an audio book for the children's book The Portal in the Park by Cricket Casey .
She also started the Stefani Germanotta Band with some friends from NYU. They recorded an EP of ballads at a studio underneath a liquor store in New Jersey. They became a local hit at the downtown Lower East Side club scene. She began experimenting with drugs soon after. Her father did not understand the reason behind her drug addiction and would not look at her for several months.
Music producer, Rob Fusari, helped her write some of her earlier songs. He compared some of her vocal harmonies to that of Freddie Mercury. Fusari helped create Lady Gaga, after the Queen song "Radio Ga Ga". GaGa was trying to come up with a stage name when she received a text message from Fusari that read "Lady Gaga". From that moment on she has gone by "Lady GaGa".
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