Gaga was cast in girl group No Secrets when she was 16
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Aligned With Artists’ Aspirations Whether developing big-name talent or independent artists, alumnus Steven Beer, JD, focuses on helping artists gain control over their careers.
Though he now focuses much of his time and energy on the independent film and music industries, from 1993 to 2003 Beer was working in a more traditional commercial market.
“My industry colleagues like to remind me of my active involvement in the development and career launches of Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Aaron Carter and numerous other mainstream music artists,” he says.
It was Beer who cast Lady Gaga in the group No Secrets when she was only 16 years old. “I instantly knew from her audition that she had the talent and drive required to someday be a force in the business,” he says.
The strains of developing artists, however, compelled Beer to re-focus his practice. He explains: “I was traveling too much, and I was really missing my family. I didn’t feel like management was something I could do well on a full-time basis, so I told Stefani and her dad — she wasn’t Gaga then — that I wouldn’t be able to continue to develop her.”
Beer dropped Gaga from his celebrity client lineup in 2003, seizing an opportunity to transition away from artist management when his partner at the firm, Larry Rudolph, quit practicing law to become Britney Spears’ full-time manager. Beer then moved to the law firm of Greenberg Traurig, where he practices today.
He still represents big names like Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo and DJ Pauly D of Jersey Shore fame, and he’s still handling big-money deals. At the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Beer sold a film to Sony Pictures Classics that became one of the top-grossing documentaries at the box office last year (Beats, Rhymes, & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest). He’s also at work on a big-budget Berry Levinson film starring John Travolta and Al Pacino on the life of John Gotti Jr. Yet Beer now finds time to work with smaller, independent music and film artists.
******** he dumped her because she didn't look like a star back then and she looked average, she proved everybody wrong and she became the biggest bitch in the game, you go fave, showing these bitches who can do it!
I am really grateful Gaga got dropped from that and Def Jam, it just made her more passionate about what she was doing, she never gave up and she became stronger.
I am really grateful Gaga got dropped from that and Def Jam, it just made her more passionate about what she was doing, she never gave up and she became stronger.
So this proves the theories about her just showing up at Interscope and being manufactured wrong. She worked her butt off since the age of 16 and look where she is now.
Gaga being dropped from Def Jam and opportunities like this were the biggest blessings of her life. She would have NEVER gotten to the level she's at now without Interscope's grace.
And now all these people that never gave her an opportunity have her worldwide dominance and iconic pop status to grieve over.
I used to like them when I was a little kid
Good for her, though. I'm glad she never joined them. She's done far better on her own and we've never heard anything from any of the No Secrets girls ever again.
Gaga would've sounded terrible doing this music 
Not Gaga doing That's what girls do. I just can't see that. But interesting how she got so far even through all the rejection and put downs. 
