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Shannon "Gaga" (Shannon Annette Cantu) (November 4, 1990) is an American performer, little monster, and Lady Gaga performer. She is best known for doing videos based on Gaga songs, and also performing. She is from Corpus Christi, Texas but earned most of her notoriety in San Marcos Texas and Austin, Texas for performing there and also on the Texas State campus.

Early Years

Shannon grew up most of her life in Corpus Christi, Texas. She was an honor roll student and she also was in band, theatre, Spanish Honor Society and she states that most people didn't like her.

"I can say that I only had a few friends in my school years. I was more of the reading and writing and more introverted when I was in school. People always seemed to judge me for that. Maybe I came off snobby or something. But it just takes time for one to get to know me. I never was mean to anyone, for the most part."

Shannon has stated that she loves to read and write stories. She had wrote many stories from 5th grade to the present but did not get anything published besides a book called "The Greyhounds Love" a self written and drawing book. It was written as a "children's type book" since she wrote it in the seventh grade, when she was also a junior handler to her beagle, Shiloh. She enjoyed dog-handling and had dreamed of going to Westminster as a junior, but due to the fact, that she didn't go to but four or five shows a year, that dream was impossible and also expensive. She played clarinet in Middle and High School, but thinks it wasn't her thing. She said "I was okay and I never made the effort to get better at the clarinet." Of course, that was the case when she realized that her passion wasn't in clarinet but in color guard. Her father, at first did not "want" her too, nor believed that she had the coordination to do so. She auditioned for her junior year and didn't make it but the next year she worked very hard to make the team. It was then that she realized that working twice as hard as the other girls was the only way. For some, it was natural and "easy" for them. "I had to work at it. I was in band and I had a job. My day was from 6 am to 10 pm. I'd wake up, go to band (whether band camp or school), then after that, went to work, then came home and practiced. I'd fall into bed every night, till the next morning when I had to do it all again."

Beginnings of Shannon Gaga

It began with Karaoke nights at George's, a bar/dining area in the LBJ Student Center of Texas State University. She said, "It was a small start. I went there, because I liked karaoke and it broke the monotony of school."

"Why Gaga? One would wonder. It began with the 2009 VMA performance. I had heard of Lady Gaga and had heard some of her music and I had liked it, but I never was serious about it till I was completely wowed and inspired by her performance. It was the day I became Shannon Gaga-only I didn't know it yet. "