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.
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• 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 play the piano by the age of 4. At the age of 11, she was accepted to the Juilliard School in Manhattan, but instead attended a private Catholic school in the city. She had her first performance in a New York nightclub at the age of 14.