Rather than the rough streets of New York, GaGa began learning her trade at one of the city's most exclusive Catholic girls' schools - Convent Of The Sacred Heart.
She is pictured here as a fresh-faced little girl and sitting shyly by her piano - a far cry from the steamy image that has made her a pop icon.
By the age of four she was already a keen musician. And, in an early school yearbook, she states her prized possession is her piano
Her wealthy Italian/American parents, Joseph and Cynthia, thought they could have a respected pianist on their hands.
But what they got was quite different.
By the time she left the Manhattan convent, the quirky, eccentric and ambitious personality that would take her to the top of the charts around the globe was beginning to emerge.
In the 2004 yearbook, she wrote she was "separated at birth" from now fellow pop star BRITNEY SPEARS and she would one day be "headlining at Madison Square Garden".
And in a taste of things to come, she added her pet hate is "ordinary people". GaGa has since revealed she felt out of place in such conservative surroundings.......*
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