Gaga’s grandma from West Virginia
At her Pittsburgh
concert, Lady Gaga, while introducing her “Born This Way” song, gave a
shout-out to her grandmother from Glendale, West Virginia, a Wheeling suburb.
- Lady Gaga said: “My grandma’s here tonight. My grandmother was there with me for one of the hardest times in my life, and she’s been there for every other hard time since that one.
- We have been through a lot together because my grandmother’s from West Virgin-i-a.”
In 2013 Lady Gaga
recovered from hip surgery at Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling by staying
at grandma’s house.
Her grandparents, Paul and
Veronica “Ronnie” Bissett, live on Zitko Terrace in Glen Dale. They are the parents
to Lady Gaga’s mother, Cynthia Bissett Germanotta, a graduate of Wheeling’s
John Marshall High School and West Virginia University.
“My granddaughter is
considered nothing but ordinary when she comes for a visit,” Mrs. Bissett said.
“She is famed for her outrageous costumes, but that’s about it. Other than
that, she is a well-adjusted kid, and the best granddaughter a grandmother could
ever ask for.”
Country music star Brad
Paisley was born and reared in Glen Dale, where his mom is a schoolteacher and
his dad works for the West Virginia Highway Department.
So was country singer Lionel
Cartright and former West Virginia governor Arch Moore, Jr.
Other former Glen Dale
residents include Moore’s daughter, Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito, baseball
Hall of Famer George Brett and Jeff Kessler, a Democratic member of the West
Virginia Senate, first in line to become governor if something happens to
Governor Tomblin. And Swami Bhaktipada, founder of New Vrindaban, a Hare
Krishna community on the outskirts of Glen Dale. And Charles Manson was reared
by his aunt and uncle just outside Glen Dale.
Lady Gaga was born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was born
in the Bronx, New York City to a
Catholic family on March 28, 1986. She is the elder daughter
of internet entrepreneur Joseph Anthony "Joe" Germanotta, Jr. and
Cynthia Louise "Cindy" Bissett (born c. 1955). Gaga has Italian and
French ancestry. Her sister Natali (born in 1992) is a fashion student.
Gaga learned to
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