Lady Gaga is among the many stars slated to pay tribute to the music icon Frank Sinatra at Sinatra 100 – an All-Star Grammy Concert. The live concert, which celebrates Frank's 100th birthday, will tape on December 2 at Wynn Las Vegas' Encore Theatre and will air on December 6th on CBS.

Other performers at the event include Celine Dion, Ariana Grande, Zac Brown, Garth Brooks, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Adam Levine, Carrie Underwood and Usher.

Also performed at the star-studded show is the 17-time Grammy winner Tony Bennett, whose jazz album with Lady Gaga sold over a million copies and topped charts worldwide. "Frank Sinatra was a mentor, colleague and dear friend of mine, and he was the master of intimate singing," said Bennett.

The fifth episode of American Horror Story: Hotel starring Lady Gaga aired on FX on Wednesday night! In this episode, called "Room Service," Alex uses an unconventional treatment to save a dying patient; a Halloween-hating hipster couple tests Iris's limits. 

What did you think of the episode? Watch below and share your thoughts in the comments!

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The next episode of American Horror Story: Hotel, called "Room 33," airs next Wednesday. 

Related: Watch the season premiere of American Horror Story: Hotel

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Our reader Muhammad has recorded a video of him meeting Lady Gaga in New York City and it's hilarious! The Little Monster presented her with a letter from his teacher Joanna Giuttari, who was also Gaga's Latin teacher in 8th grade. Mother Monster was then reminded that she performed "Bye Bye Bye" by NSYNC at a school sleepover when she was 14. Watch her priceless reaction below!

"I met Gaga and it was the best day of my life," Muhammad told Gaga Daily. "She means the world to me and has helped me through my hardest times to figure out who I am and who I want to be. After my friends and I waited for 9 hours, Gaga came out and I got the chance to speak to her. I gave her my letter, in which I explained my struggles and wrote about Joanna. Thank you for all you do Gaga, you are changing the world one sequin at a time!"

Gaga's former teacher Joanna added: "We are all very proud of Stefani and I can't wait to see where she goes next musically and artistically."

Lady Gaga has earned her first nomination as an actress! Gaga, who plays The Countess on the new season of American Horror Story: Hotel, is among the nominees for Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV actress at the 2016 People's Choice Awards. Click HERE to support Mother Monster by voting!

This is Lady Gaga's thirteenth nomination for a People's Choice Award. Gaga has won three: Favorite Breakout Artist and Favorite Pop Artist in 2010, and Favorite Album of The Year for Born This Way in 2012.

Update: Gaga's fiancé Taylor Kinney is also up for a People's Choice Award for his role on NBC's Chicago Fire. Click HERE to support him in the Favorite Dramatic TV Actor category!

Lady Gaga wowed the crowd when she played an hour-long set of jazz standards at the annual amfAR Inspiration Gala on Thursday night in Los Angeles. The event honored Ryan Murphy for his impact on the television and film industry, as well as his work to fight AIDS.

"I love Ryan so much, and I'm so, so happy to be here. He's really my friend and he's a wonderful person," said Gaga, who stars in the latest season of Murphy's show American Horror Story. She added: "Since I met Ryan, I have rediscovered something in myself, and it's my favorite part of me so thank you. I think it's because you appreciate the part of me my Christian guilt is mortified by."

Mother Monster played a handful of jazz classics, including "I Can’t Give You Anything But Love," "Little Coquette," "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)," "Lush Life," "Call Me Irresponsible," and "La Vie En Rose." 

Lady Gaga finished her set with a performance of her emotional ballad "Til It Happens To You," telling the crowd simply, "We're all in this together."

This year's amfAR Gala raised over $3 million toward HIV/AIDS research. Lady Gaga contributed to the total by bidding a winning $200,000 on a photograph of Elizabeth Taylor taken in 2001.

The fourth episode of American Horror Story: Hotel starring Lady Gaga aired on FX on Wednesday night! The Halloween episode, titled "Devil's Night," features a dinner party with some of the biggest serial killers of all time, including Aileen Wuornos played by Lily Rabe.

What did you think of the episode? Watch below and share your thoughts in the comments!

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The next episode of American Horror Story: Hotel, called "Room Service," airs next Wednesday. 

Related: Watch the season premiere of American Horror Story: Hotel

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Lady Gaga stopped by Yale University's campus on Saturday for the Emotion Revolution Summit, organized by the Born This Way Foundation in collaboration with the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. The event aims to "ignite important conversations about making schools a place where all students can thrive."

Check out highlights from the conversation or watch it below (Gaga's part starts at 59:00)...

On what made her start the Born This Way foundation:
I started writing Born This Way and the experience was extremely therapeutic for me to reveal to myself things that I didn't always want to admit. I think a lot of what we're doing here today and what I'm hoping that you all take away from this today is that you should not need feel like a victim in this situation. In fact, nobody can help you more than you can help yourself. And when I was writing Born This Way I was asking myself how I really felt, and what I discovered that there was a lot of repressed anger, and rage, and sadness that I had not dealt with for years. I looked out into the sea of my amazing fans every night and I saw tiny mirrors in a disco ball reflecting back at me. I saw lots of different versions of myself. And the truth is that we share in our stress, we share in our anxiety, and we're here today because it is the parts of our brain that handle stress, that also handle our physical pain, our emotional pain, it comes from the same place. We want to put it out there that there is a strategy for everyone to feel better. But how can we stop telling kids how to do things, and what they should do and start listening to what it is that we can do for you.

On what Emotion Revolution is about:
What I wanna know is, how can we impress to people that this really isn't as complicated as they think it is? I know that we're not holding sick children  and saying "Your check goes here." What we're saying is that this is an important issue, emotional intelligence affects your future, and your opportunities, and your ability to live a happy life. It affected my ability to live a happy life, it still does. And these kids that are doing it best, they are the ones that are inhaling this philosophy with all of them. It's not just about being nice one day. This is about every day of your life as a student and as a teacher revealing yourself, revealing your emotions to you and to the people around you that you're actually listening when they're talking. 

On the importance of being able to say 'no':
I have some sort of anxiety, depression, something... that's changed my whole live. I take an antidepressant medication for it. I have tried to get off of it, my doctor always tells me not to. That it's not safe for me to, whenever I've tried to I've gotten very neurotic, manic, sick. So, I have had to study all different types of ways. I started looking into ayurvedic medicine, I started looking into mindfulness and meditation, I started looking into a mantra, I do acupuncture, I do cupping, I pray sometimes, I make music, I write poetry, I'm an actress now (that's helped me a lot!). These are the things I started to do but what helped me the most that I want to impress upon all of you is that realized that part of my identity is saying 'no' to things I don't want to do. And you're all in school and you all a lot of teach and a lot of people around you that tell you all day that you have to do but it is your right to choose what  you do and don't do. It's your right to choose what you believe in and don't believe in. It's your right to curate your life and your own life and your own perspective.

I have had to make decisions like, "Why am I unhappy? Okay, Stefani, Gaga, Hybrid person, why are you unhappy? Why is it that you want to quit music?" Well, I really don't like selling these fragrances, perfumes. I don't like wasting my time spending days just shaking people's hands and smiling, taking selfies. It feels shallow to my existence. I hae a lot more to offer than my image. I don't like being used to make people money. I feel sad when I'm overworked and that I've just become a moneymaking machine and that my passion and my creativity take a back seat. That makes me unhappy. So what did I do? I started to say 'no.' I'm not doing that. I don't wanna do that. I'm not taking that picture. I'm not going to that event. I'm not standing by that, because that's not what I stand for. And slowly but surely I remembered who I am. And then you go home, and you look in the mirror and you're like, 'Yes! I can go to bed with you every night, because I know that person.' That person has balls, that person has integrity, that person has an opinion. That person doesn't get a text from somebody and say 'Oh my god, they wrote this, and they sent this emoji, should I write this back, what do you think, is that okay?' This is the age that we live in. We're not actually communicating with each other, we're unconsciously communicating lies.

On the power of words on the Internet: 
What if we told all just told Twitter that they had to have a standard of morality? From an artist's mouth, I am telling you that freedom of speech is overrated. What you choose to do with your voice in this world is extremely powerful. We have seen throughout history how dangerous it can be to use your voice for evil. Now we all have a platform. But what really scares me is these massive corporations that just have no standarts for values at all. "It's not my problem, it's your problem. But I'll take your money and we'll go public." Is that what we're gonna do? Is that what we stand for as a generation? Oh, it's fine, because I still get to post my pictures? Nobody is going to remember what you tweeted, but you will never forget all that hateful s--t that you read every single day that made you sick at school. 

Visit bornthisway.foundation for more information about Emotion Revolution.

Lady Gaga's fiancé Taylor Kinney may be her best friend and biggest supporter, but that doesn't mean he enjoyed watching her blood-drenched sex scene in the first episode of American Horror Story: Hotel.

"It was awkward! They had a really lovely premiere in Los Angeles the other week, and I was sitting next to her father and we were both kind of like, 'Wow! Good job, honey!,'" Taylor joked on yesterday's Meredith Vieira Show.

Related: Lady Gaga talks love scenes in 'American Horror Story: Hotel'

He continued: "I remember I was walking out, and Ryan Murphy, who created the show and directed that episode as well, he's like, 'Hey, what did you think?' and I don't think I said anything. I'm still trying to process what the hell I just watched. But I couldn't be more proud and she's excited and she's loving it."

Brace yourself, Taylor, because Gaga has filmed about a dozen more sex scenes for the show.

Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga are ready to go cheek to cheek again!

The 89-year-old jazz legend confirmed that a follow-up to the duo's massively successful album Cheek to Cheek is in the works! "We're doing an album. It's going to be all Cole Porter songs," Bennett told Vulture. "He was the best writer of all of them in the Great American Songbook. Highly intelligent. We're going to have a lot of fun doing that."

Tony went on to praise Gaga's talent and added that he thinks she's going to have a big acting career.

"Gaga is a gorgeous singer, and when she sings a great ballad, I get goose bumps," he said. "We get along great. She's got a lot of talent. I think someday she's going to be very big in films, which I'm not too interested in. I work live, to audiences, but I think she's going to surprise everybody and make some good films."

But the new jazz album is not the only new music Gaga is working on at the moment. Mother Monster is also busy recording a brand new pop album, which is due out next year.

"I love balancing [jazz and pop], I basically have multiple personalities anyway (shocking reveal!) so that rebellious and extreme side of me loves to go back and forth, I never get bored," Gaga said in an exclusive Q&A with Gaga Daily. "Somedays I feel quiet, others I need to rage. Those parts of me will always be there, it's my two-toned soul. Cheek to Cheek will not be my last jazz album, and ARTPOP was not my last pop album. I have many years ahead of me to make music and I feel stronger than ever, like I did when I first moved to Hollywood to make it. I'm a fighter again. Put me in the ring. Ring the bell, I'm ready life!"

Episode three of American Horror Story: Hotel, titled "Mommy," aired on FX on Wednesday night! In this episode, written by James Wong and directed by Bradley Buecker, Donovan is targeted by a dangerous rival of The Countess, Ramona Royale. Alex is pushed to her breaking point after Scarlett stirs up memories of Holden. 

If you're in the U.S., click here to download "Mommy" in high definition on iTunes. International fans, watch below...

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The next episode of American Horror Story: Hotel airs next Wednesday, October 28th. The two-part Halloween episode is called "Devil's Night," and will feature a dinner with "the biggest serial killers of all time."

Lady Gaga was honored at the annual National Arts Awards, presented by Americans for the Arts, the nation's leading non-profit organization for advancing the arts and arts education, on Monday night in New York City. Mother Monster received the "Young Artist" award for her work that shows deep commitment to art and demonstrates extraordinary achievement.

"What I always wanted was to be taken seriously and tonight's the closest I might come to that," Gaga said as she accepted the Jeff Koons-designed award, wearing a gorgeous Marc Jacobs gown. "Art can make you foolish and wild but it’s always been a warm blanket for me to rely on. Art has totally cured me. I don't think there's a single award that is more meaningful to me than this one."

Earlier that night, Gaga walked the red carpet of her fiancé Taylor Kinney's new movie Rock the Kasbah.

Lady Gaga told fans that she can't wait for them to see what the Haus of Gaga is working on! 

"When your coolest of cool friends tell you they felt liberated by an artistic experience -- one you conjured from your heart for them, I think there is no greater soaring of the soul," Gaga wrote on her Instagram page. "Not to make art not for the elusive 'other,' but for each other. So it can live on through the sharing of our creative processes. Through love. Can't wait for the world to see what the Haus is making now."

Related: Ryan Murphy says Lady Gaga has a tour next year

Monsters, what do you think team Gaga is cooking up? Share your thoughts in the comments!

Lady Gaga and Elton John, who have been close friends for years appear together on the cover of Billboard's "We Can Be Heroes" philanthropy issue. Elton has penned an exclusive essay on HIV for the issue, while Gaga sat down for an interview about her Born This Way foundation and her new song "Till It Happens To You." Read excerpts from Gaga's interview below and be sure to pick up your copy of the magazine, on newsstands now!

Related: Elton John says Lady Gaga's new music is really fantastic

On creating the Born This Way foundation:
This foundation was born from the years I spent watching my fans grow up. Many of them were really young: 11- to 17-year-olds in very tumultuous times. They would tell me their stories -- and many of them were very dark. As I began to care for them and to see myself in them, I felt I had to do something that would remind kids they're not alone. When they feel isolated, that's when it leads to suicide.

On what makes her proudest about Born This Way:
When I see the friendships these kids have built. When I see a child with an eating disorder sit down with somebody who has a lifelong terminal illness and somebody who's in transition -- that makes me feel like we're doing something no one else is. This is my life purpose, this foundation. This is why I was brought to life, I think.

On changing the way she dresses:
There's always a dichotomy within me. If you see me dressing really out there, I tend to be self-deprecating inside. When I dress like a lady, I tend to be feeling very wild and confident. That sounds bizarre, but I get a lot of s--t done with that blond hair. I haven't changed. It's just that I'm almost 30. I'm learning how to function effectively in society.

On "Till It Happens To You":
It's hard to listen to that song, it's hard to watch it. Diane [Warren] really held my hand. I was like, "I've done a lot of things Diane, but can I do this?" She was like, "You can do this." It was extremely cathartic to know that not only am I not alone, but that other men and women aren't alone -- we all have each other. Even outside of rape culture, there are a lot of people silently in pain about extremely traumatic things. 

On her friendship with Elton John:
He inspires me in ways I could not even begin to list properly. He is my friend, he is like a parent. He looks out for me, he was there for me during the hardest times in my life. He doesn't allow me to slip into depression without making sure that I'm OK. Everything he has done for AIDS, everything he has done for the LGBT community. He's just everything -- when I'm with him, I just want to help be a part of his genius plan to save the world. 

Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney may be engaged now, but their first interaction was not love at first sight. The 34-year-old actor, who is the star of NBC's hit series Chicago Fire, told Andy Cohen that Gaga slapped him the first time he kissed her on the set of the "Yoü And I" music video.

"I remember I went up, and we're rolling, and I kissed her and she didn't expect it," Taylor recalled. "They cut, and she slapped me. And it was just awkward. And the next take, I just did it again and then she didn't slap me. She didn't slap me then. We had a good time. I think there was chemistry. It was a late shoot. We were shooting until 4 or 5 in the morning. We exchanged information. A few weeks went by and we kept in touch and then that's that."

The couple got engaged this Valentine's Day after being together for more than three years.

"He put me on the back of his motorcycle and we drove away from all my security and he got in a lot of trouble," Gaga said of her first date with Taylor. "I just remember my helmet got all foggy because I was crying because I hadn't been outside by myself for so long. He hid me away in this little shack at the beach, where we made love all day long and then he introduced me to all his friends. And I'll never forget it because the one before him told me I would never make another friend, he told me I would die a rich old woman in a big house. With all my fame and no sense of the world. But not this guy. He told me that he was a gypsy too and if I wanted to we could go anywhere together or anywhere apart."

Catch Taylor Kinney on Chicago Fire every Tuesday on NBC.

The second episode of American Horror Story: Hotel starring Lady Gaga aired on FX on Wednesday night. In this episode, written by Tim Minear and directed by Bradley Bueker, fashion mogul Will Drake brings couture to the Hotel Cortez and a model catches The Countess's eye, while John learns about the hotel's sadistic first owner.

If you're in the U.S., click here to download "Chutes and Ladders" in high definition on iTunes. International fans, watch below...

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What did you think of "Chutes and Ladders"? Let us know in the comments below!

Ryan Murphy might have just hinted that Lady Gaga is already planning a tour for her next album. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the Emmy-winning producer said that Gaga had not yet decided if she will return for season six of American Horror Story, which is scheduled for spring 2016, because "she's working on an album and has a tour."

"I really think she's the artist of her generation. I think that she can do everything. She pushes boundaries and I push boundaries which tends to piss a lot of people off," he said of working with Gaga on Hotel, adding: "We have talked about the next season. She's working on her album and she has a tour. So we're trying to figure that out. But I have my fingers crossed, because I have a great role for her next year that she likes."

Lady Gaga told the magazine earlier this month that Murphy is a creative soulmate for her.

"'It's over the top, it's trying too hard...' every single thing I'm sure that has ever been said about Ryan has been said about me many more times for sure," she said. "Through my career, even after Grammys and tons of accolades and awards, I'm still a blond with tits and an ass, and there's like some inability for people to take me seriously. And Ryan is not that way. Ryan's like, 'You're an old movie star, come sit next to me, let me brush your hair, let's talk about your career.'"

Gaga continued: "I know it shouldn't matter that he's gay but for what it's worth I have very special relationships with my gay friends, it's a whole other thing. It's a wise feminine connection that extends beyond sex. It's more about admiring each other as people. So he's certainly a creative soulmate for me and I just can't even believe he's in my life."

Monsters, how close do you think we are to #LG5? Share your thoughts in the comments below! 

Shiseido have released another gorgeous commercial starring the beauty brand's new face Lady Gaga. Directed by Ellen von Unwerth, the clip was filmed back in February and features Gaga dancing to a DJ White Shadow remix of "Cheek to Cheek" with Japanese models.

"We are having the best time," Gaga told her Japanese fans backstage at the shoot. "We are having fun celebrating makeup and continuing to redefine what it means to be beautiful. Thank you so much for all of your love and support!"

Watch the commercial, titled "Dance with Japan," below!

Although the commercial was made for the Japanse audience, Shiseido products are available to buy worldwide.

Lady Gaga performed at the Columbus Citizens Foundation Gala on Saturday night. Mother Monster took the stage at New York's Waldorf Astoria to play several songs, including "La Vie En Rose" and "O Sole Mio" with Tony Bennett, at the event which celebrated the strong bonds between Italy and the United States and raised over $3 million for scholarships.

"I loved singing for the Columbus Citizens Foundation last night," Gaga wrote on her Instagram page. "Poured into some of Dinah Washington's favorites and commemorated decades of Italian immigrants supporting one another. Thank you for loving me and my family all these years, Ti Amo!"

Unfortunately, no videos are available at the moment.

Lady Gaga has just been announced to perform the 71st annual Columbus Day Parade, which will take place on Monday, October 12th in New York City. The parade brings together 35,000 Italian Americans celebrating their rich heritage and culture.

It will be Gaga's second performance at the event -- she first played there exactly 10 years ago when she was just nineteen. She sang a song called "No Floods" from her very first EP as Stefani Germanotta, and wowed the crowd with her vocals. "She's only nineteen and what a voice," said one of the hosts during the live broadcast on NBC.

Gaga and her mother will also be honored with a Humanitarian award for her work with the Born This Way Foundation. The show will be broadcast live on ABC7 New York at noon.

Update: Unfortunately, Lady Gaga did not appear at the event, even though her performance was announced in the official UNICO press release. We apologize for the misinformation.

Lady Gaga has blasted Russia's anti-gay leader Vladimir Putin, telling Inquirer that she can't understand people who use their power for evil.

"I am irate with people who are cruel," Gaga said when asked what upsets her most. "One of the people I think about most often is Vladimir Putin. I don't understand people who use their voice for evil. I watch society today — people bitching and moaning at each other over the Internet. It feels stupid, unimportant and shallow, totally missing the point."

Back in 2013, the Russian government unanimously passed a law prohibiting "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations" among minors, which made it illegal to speak about homosexuality in public, and fuelled homophobia. Later that year, Putin signed a law banning the adoption of children by same-sex parents.

Watch: Lady Gaga speaks on gay rights in Moscow

In 2012, Lady Gaga was threatened with arrest if she spoke about the LGBT community at her Born This Way concerts in Moscow and St. Peteresburg. However, she dedicated a significant portion of both shows to speeches about equality and human rights, telling the crowd, "When they said that when you go to Russia, they may arrest you. I said 'Arrest me, I don't give a f--k what people say!' If you are willing to give it all up for your freedom would you cuff yourself, Russia?"

In a recent interview with CBS, Putin claimed that the gay community experiences "no persecution at all" in Russia.

Lady Gaga says American Horror Story has liberated her and become a place where she can put all her imperfections.

"I am finding a million new things about myself, what I want and who I want to be but most importantly, I have actually found a place to put so much pain and anguish that I have nowhere to put," Gaga told The Inquirer. "You can put it in your music but that's not always what people want from me in my music... They want a sweet, delightful, 'Just Dance' kind of girl or they want 'Bad Romance' and that's fine."

She continued: "I am happy to give people that but maybe with my song 'Dope' or some of the things I did on ARTPOP, you saw a kind of dark side, wrapped up in colors. But maybe that was not always what people want to see. They want to see the perfection. Here (on Hotel), it's the imperfection that is the win. So it's very liberating."

Monsters, do you agree with Gaga's words about people wanting "the perfection"? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

The season premiere of American Horror Story: Hotel starring Lady Gaga was not only well-received by fans and critics alike, but also a ratings hit, drawing over 5.8 million viewers according to Nielsen. The episode, which marks Gaga's television debut, is the second most watched episode of the entire series -- the top spot belongs to Freak Show's opener with 6.1 million.

Watch: 'American Horror Story: Hotel' season premiere

These early numbers don't include non-live viewers, so Hotel still has a chance to surpass Freak Show's rating once three days of DVR playback are factored in.

Additionally, "Checking In" topped the social ratings last night, driving 878,000 tweets seen by over 5.4 million people.

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett's latest album Cheek to Cheek has been a massive success, selling over one million copies, spawning a sold-out world tour, and earning a Grammy award and an Emmy nomination. And now, they are ready for more!

The jazzy duo are back in studio with the Brian Newman band and the Tony Bennett Quartet, according to pictures posted on Gaga's and Bennett's Instagram accounts.

"Lady Gaga has never looked better or happier," the 89-year-old jazz legend posted on Wednesday night as Gaga was having a bloody foursome with Matt Bomer on screen in American Horror Story: Hotel. "Loved singing with her today."

Although it is not yet confirmed whether Tony and Gaga were working on another full-length album, they duo have plans to release a cover album of Cole Porter's songs for the 1936 musical Red, Hot & Blue. Back in February, Tony told the LA Times: "Gaga's not a flash in the pan. That's why I had to do these great standards. And it's really paying off because the album's so big. Now we're about to record an album of all Cole Porter songs. That'll be the second album."

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett are set to perform at a Frank Sinatra tribute concert on December 12th in Las Vegas.

American Horror Story premiered its fifth season starring Lady Gaga with a jaw-dropping episode called "Checking In" on Wednesday night! Written by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuck, the highly-anticipated season premiere was everything you hoped it would be and more, with brilliant acting, stunning visuals, and, of course, Lady Gaga in all her bloody glory.

Monsters, what did you think of the episode? Sound off in the comments!

If you're in the U.S., click here to download "Checking In" in high definition for free on iTunes. International fans, watch below...

The show's second episode, titled "Chutes and Ladders," airs next Wednesday.

Americans for the Arts, the nation's leading non-profit organization for advancing the arts and arts education, has announced its annual National Arts Awards honorees and among them is Lady Gaga! Mother Monster will receive the "Young Artist Award" for her work that shows deep commitment to art and demonstrates extraordinary achievement.

According to a press release, the awards honour "individuals who share a common belief in the power of the arts and arts education to enrich individual lives and communities alike." Other honorees include Sophia Loren, Herbie Hancock, Joan and Irwin Jacobs, Alice Walton, and Maria Bell.

In 2013, Lady Gaga released a whole album aiming to bring art culture into the sphere of pop. "I'm still a very young artist, I'm still growing," she said during the promo tour for ARTPOP. "I feel like I don't even know if I will come upon a truly great original moment for ten more years. It is like I have an insatiable need just to try."

The 2015 National Arts Awards will be presented on October 19th at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.