Photos: Happy birthday, Lady Gaga!

Posted Mar 28, 2012

By ctansey

Singer Lady Gaga turns 26 today. Here’s a look back at her eccentric style.

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FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2010 file photo, Lady Gaga is seen backstage after accepting the award for Video of the Year for "Bad Romance" at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)
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Lady Gaga appears a the Polaroid booth to announce a partnership during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010 in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)
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FILE - Singer Lady Gaga performs in concert at Radio City Music Hall on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini) ** ZU APD6281 **
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FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2008, photo Lady Gaga makes an appearance at MTV Studio's in Times Square for MTV's "Total Request Live" show in New York. It's John McCain versus Lady Gaga as the Senate takes up repeal of the ban on gays serving openly in the military. Senate Democrats have attached a measure ending "don't ask, don't tell" to a bill authorizing $726 billion in military spending next year. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File)
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Lady Gaga tapes an episode of "106 and Park" at BET Studios in New York, Monday, May 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)
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US singer Lady Gaga performs on stage during the Europride gay rights march, at Rome's Circus Maximus, Saturday, June 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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Lady Gaga performs during the fifth annual concert festival at Lollapalooza in Grant Park Friday, Aug. 6, 2010., in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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Lady Gaga performs during an AIDS-awareness event in Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, April 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, Iori Sagisawa) ** JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, FOR COMMERCIAL USE ONLY IN NORTH AMERICA **
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Lady Gaga holds a coffee cup with a "We pray for Japan" message during a press conference to promote MTV Video Music Aid Japan in Tokyo Thursday, June 23, 2011. Lady Gaga is in Japan to attend the MTV event to help support people in the tsunami-hit northeastern Japan. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
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FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2010 file photo, singer Lady Gaga performs in concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)
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Singer Lady Gaga, poses for pictures at a press conference announcing, Heartbeats by Lady Gaga, the latest addition to the Beats by Dr. Dre family of headphones from Monster Cable, in New York, on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)
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Singer Lady Gaga arrives at the New Tokyo International Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo, for her Japan tour concerts in Kobe and Yokohama, Tuesday, April 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
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FILE - In this July 7, 2011 file photo, U.S. singer Lady Gaga gives a press conference ahead of her showcase concert at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Gaga's YouTube account was suspended Thursday, July 14, 2011. The notice read that the suspension was due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube's copyright policy. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, file )
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Musician Lady Gaga poses for photographers while signing copies of her new album "The Fame Monster" at a Best Buy store in Los Angeles on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
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U.S singer Lady Gaga performs at the Glastonbury festival in Somerset, Friday June 26 2009. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
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U.S singer Lady Gaga performs at the Glastonbury festival in Somerset, Friday June 26 2009. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)