Lady Gaga turns 30 - and is far from quitting

Since the beginning of her career Lady Gaga has been known for her extravagant costumes and lavish style. When she performed for Queen Elizabeth II in Blackpool in 2009, she appeared to have toned down her look as best she could. Wearing a red PVC outfit, featuring a 20ft-long cloak with an Elizabethan-style collar, she played a "floating" piano, suspended in the air on giant stilts.

When Lady Gaga took the stage at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards jaws dropped.She wore an outfit that appeared to be made of raw meat. Although many said she did it for the attention, Lady Gaga had a message: "If we don't stand up for what we believe in and if we don't fight for our rights, pretty soon we're going to have as much rights as the meat on our own bones. And, I am not a piece of meat."

Lady Gaga's apparent lack of restraint continued at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2011. She appeared as her male alter ego, Jo Calderone. Like many of her performances before she used this one to raise awareness about LGBT rights. It wasn't the first time Gaga performed as Jo. She had posed for Vogue Japan as Calderone before; she had also dressed up as Jo for the cover of her single "You and I."

In 2014, Gaga collaborated with American jazz legend Tony Bennett on their collaborative jazz Album, "Cheek to Cheek." It became Gaga's third consecutive number-one record in the United States. The album went on to win a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. It was reportendly inspired by Bennett and Gaga's desire to introduce American Songbook standards to a younger generation.

The next step in Gaga's career was to star in American Horror Story: Hotel. It was the fifth season of the Horror series, which ran from October 2015 to January 2016. Lady Gaga played the role of Elizabeth, the owner of the hotel. She won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Film for her performance. Gaga has recently announced that she will return for the sixth season.

Lady Gaga performed The Star-Spangled Banner, the US national Anthem, at the Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara, California, kicking off the historic match between the Carolina Panthers and Denver Broncos. Wearing a bright red suit and swanking blue nails as well as American flag-themed platform shoes, Gaga’s performance drew compliments from many in the sports community and on social media.

At the 58th annual Grammy Awards Lady Gaga, who had long named the Starman as her greatest influence (she even dressed as Ziggy Stardust during her "Fame" album days), performed a medley of David Bowie's greatest hits to honor his legacy. Nile Rodgers, who had produced Bowie's 1983 "Let's Dance" album, served as the tribute's musical director.

Gaga's performance of "Til It Happens to You," a song about sexual assaults on college campuses, which was featured in the documentary "The Hunting Ground," is widely regarded as her strongest performance so far. With tears in her eyes Lady Gaga struggled to perform the song at the 88th Academy Awards, as 50 sexual assault survivors marched onstage for the finale, earning her a standing ovation.