Lady Gaga is of Italian (her paternal grandfather was from Naso, in the province of Messina and he came up to the United States on 1908) and French Canadian ancestry. She learned to play piano at the age of four. She wrote her first piano song at 13. She started performing live by age 14.

"Americano" is a song recorded by American singer Lady Gaga, taken from her second studio album, Born This Way (2011). The song was written and produced by Gaga with DJ White Shadow, Fernando Garibay, and Brian Lee.

23 Lady Gaga One of the world's current top writers, singers and producers, she said of herself: “I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio, I'm a producer, and I'm a writer. What I do is different.”