Is Lady Gaga Serbian and is her real name Srboljupka Živadinović? No, that's not true: Lady Gaga's real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta and she is American. The singer was born in New York City to a Catholic family of Italian ancestry.
The claim originated from a TikTok video (archived here) published by the account @malonasjealnasima on September 24, 2023. It opened (translated to English from Croatian by Lead Stories staff):
Srboljupka Živadinović better known as Lady Gaga 🇷🇸
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken on Thu Nov 9 14:00:31 2023 UTC)
The TikTok account @malonasjealnasima has also posted other similar videos falsely claiming that different celebrities are Serbian. For example, it claimed that Adele (TikTok video archived here), Lana del Rey (TikTok video archived here), Miley Cyrus (TikTok video archived here), Egyptian Queen Nefertiti (TikTok video archived here) and many more are Serbian.
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She was born in New York City to an American family of Italian descent. Her mother is Cynthia Louise Germanotta (née Bissett), born and raised in a small town in West Virginia. Her father is Joseph Germanotta, an Italian American born in New Jersey. Stefani Germanotta attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private all-girls Roman Catholic school from the age of 11. She later gained admission to a music school at New York University at 17, and quit after two years to focus on her music career.
Lady Gaga visited Serbia's capital, Belgrade, in June 2015.
