Lady Gaga delivered a spot-on and touching tribute to the late David Bowie at the 2016 Grammy Awards last week and has expressed just how much the iconic rock singer has meant to her and her career.
"How do I feel now that [the performance] is over? I mean, I feel like my whole career is a tribute to David Bowie," Gaga told NPR in a recent interview. "I've been watching his videos all day long, and also listening to 'Blackstar,' his last album, which is a truly incredible piece of music. It's one of the single greatest things an artist has ever done: making a masterpiece album that is their own eulogy. Can you imagine? To go into the studio every day and put your heart in that place, where you are saying goodbye to life? I mean, his art made him strong."
She went on to explain that the cover of his album "Aladdin Sane," which is the same image she had tattooed on her body prior to the tribute performance, changed her life. "I was 19 years old, and it just changed my perspective on everything, forever. It was an image that changed my life," she explained, describing the first moment she listened to it. "'Watch That Man' came on and, I mean, that was just the beginning of my artistic birth."
Bowie passed away on Jan. 10 after a long battle with cancer and just a few days before his death, Gaga spoke about her love for him as an artist and how he inspired many of her fashion moments.
"When I fell in love with David Bowie, when I was living on the Lower East Side, I always felt that his glamour was something he was using to express a message to people that was very healing for their souls," she told The Hollywood Reporter at the time. "He is a true, true artist and I don't know if I ever went, 'Oh, I'm going to be that way like this,' or if I arrived upon it slowly, realizing it was my calling and that's what drew me to him."
