This album is giving me life rn, it gave me the same feeling I got the first time I heard TFM, what an incredible album, I'm sure it will be one of the best albums of all time
Gaga, who grew up in New York, on the Upper West Side, was 13 years old and trying on clothes at a neighborhood boutique when the guy who ran the shop heard her singing to herself. He thought she had an amazing voice and suggested she reach out to his uncle, Don Lawrence, a vocal coach who’d worked with Christina Aguilera, Mick Jagger and Billy Joel. Gaga said she was shaking when they first spoke. Lawrence gave her an appointment. She sang Mariah Carey’s “Hero” for him, and he told her that he would make room in his schedule for her, and give her a special rate, if she practiced every day. She promised she would.