LADY GAGA
She Settled in a small apartment on Rivington Street towards the summer of 2005, Gaga recorded a couple of songs with hip-hop singer Grandmaster Melle Mel, for an audio book accompanying the children's book The Portal in the Park, by Cricket Casey.
Authored by Cricket Casey
Coauthored by Melle Mel
Featuring Lady Gaga
“...Melle Mel and Casey have written and produced a read ’n’ rap fable with a new message for our youth through story and hip-hop songs, to help kids choose the right path of activity-not passivity. Read ’n’ rap with your kids and join Melle Mel and Lady Gaga as they give Grammy-worthy performances. It’s 'The Message' that counts, and Melle and Casey are our kind of messengers for the future.” — Quincy Jones
She also began a band called the Stefani Germanotta SGBand with some friends from NYU – guitarist Calvin Pia, bassist Eli Silverman and drummer Alex Beckham – in September of that year. The band played a mixture of songs some self-penned, along with classic rock numbers like Led Zeppelin's "D'yer Mak'er". Playing in Lower East Side bars like The Bitter End and the Mercury Lounge, the band developed a small fan base and caught the eye of music producer Joe Vulpis.
Soon after arranging time in Vulpis' studio beneath a New Jersey liquor store in the months that followed, SGBand were selling their extended plays Words and Red and Blue at gigs around New York while becoming a local fixture of the downtown Lower East Side club scene.
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