Michael Polansky

{{Infobox person

| name = Michael Polansky

| image = File:Michael Polansky.jpg

| alt = A man in a black tuxedo glancing towards a camera

| caption = Polansky in 2024

| birth_place = Minnesota, U.S.

| birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date|46|2025|03|10}}

| alma mater = Harvard University

| occupation = Executive Director of Parker Foundation

| boards = {{Flatlist|

}}

| partner = Lady Gaga (2020–present; engaged)

}}

Michael Polansky (born 1978 or 1979){{Cite web |title=Lady Gaga Reveals the Wholesome Quality She 'Cared About the Most' Upon Meeting Fiancé Michael Polansky |url=https://people.com/lady-gaga-reveals-quality-she-cared-about-most-michael-polansky-11694105 |access-date=April 24, 2025 |website=People |language=en |archive-date=April 5, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250405170302/https://people.com/lady-gaga-reveals-quality-she-cared-about-most-michael-polansky-11694105 |url-status=live }} is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist.{{Cite web |date=January 28, 2025 |title=Lady Gaga Reveals How Michael Polansky Collaborates On Her Songs And Their Plans For Having Children |url=https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/culture/a63568771/lady-gaga-michael-polansky-family-album/ |access-date=May 8, 2025 |website=Elle |language=en-GB}} He is engaged to Lady Gaga and has co-written various songs with her.{{Cite news |last=Ryan |first=Patrick |title=Lady Gaga's fiancé proposed to her with a blade of grass |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2025/03/11/lady-gaga-fiance-proposal/82272709007/ |date=March 11, 2025 |access-date=March 14, 2025 |newspaper=USA Today}}{{Cite magazine |last=Logan |first=Elizabeth |date=March 14, 2022 |title=A Complete Timeline of Lady Gaga and Michael Polansky's Relationship |url=https://www.glamour.com/story/lady-gaga-michael-polansky-relationship-timeline |access-date=March 14, 2025 |magazine=Glamour}}

Early life and education

Polansky was born in the U.S. state of Minnesota.{{Cite news |last=Sominder |first=Aadrika |date=October 3, 2024 |title=Inside Lady Gaga's love story: Who is Michael Polansky & details about their obscure proposal |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/htcity/cinema/inside-lady-gagas-love-story-who-is-michael-polansky-details-about-their-obscure-proposal-101727938922879.html |access-date=March 16, 2025 |newspaper=Hindustan Times }} His father, Steven Polansky, is a writer{{Cite web|url=https://www.heart.co.uk/showbiz/lady-gaga-husband-micheal-polansky-age-job/|title=Who is Lady Gaga's fiancé? Micheal Polansky's age, job, family and more revealed|date=March 11, 2025|access-date=March 20, 2025|publisher=Heart|archive-date=March 20, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250320154122/https://www.heart.co.uk/showbiz/lady-gaga-husband-micheal-polansky-age-job/|url-status=live}} and his mother, Ellen Woods, is the president of the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education.

He studied applied mathematics and computer science at Harvard University.{{Cite web |date=March 13, 2025 |title=All About Michael Polansky, Lady Gaga's Tech CEO Fiancé And Partner Of 4+ Years |url=https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/culture/a62542892/michael-polansky-lady-gaga-fiance/ |access-date=March 14, 2025 |website=Elle |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Lady Gaga's fiancé is a tech CEO who went to Harvard with Mark Zuckerberg |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/lady-gaga-boyfriend-tech-ceo-michael-polansky-life-career-2020-2 |date=July 29, 2024 |access-date=March 14, 2025 |website=Business Insider}} He enrolled in 2002 and graduated in 2006.{{Cite magazine |last=Krol |first=Jacklyn |title=Who Is Lady Gaga's Fiancé? All About Michael Polansky |url=https://people.com/music/who-is-michael-polansky-lady-gaga-boyfriend/ |date=March 7, 2025 |access-date=March 14, 2025 |magazine=People |archive-date=August 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804021439/https://people.com/music/who-is-michael-polansky-lady-gaga-boyfriend/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite magazine |date=September 5, 2024 |title=Who Is Michael Polansky, Lady Gaga's Fiancé? |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/who-is-michael-polansky-lady-gaga |access-date=March 14, 2025 |magazine=Vogue}}

Career

Polansky is founder or co-founder of the companies Avos Capital Management, Hawktail, and Outer Biosciences. He is a board member of Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and Lady Gaga's cosmetics brand Haus Labs.{{Cite news |last=Vaziri |first=Aidin |title=Lady Gaga confirms engagement to San Francisco tech executive |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/lady-gaga-engaged-olympics-sf-tech-executive-19605433.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250404062437/https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/lady-gaga-engaged-olympics-sf-tech-executive-19605433.php |archive-date=April 4, 2025 |access-date=April 24, 2025 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |language=en}} Polansky is the executive director of the Parker Foundation, which he co-founded with Sean Parker in 2015.{{Cite magazine |date=September 6, 2024 |title=Lady Gaga's Mom Wanted to Set the Pop Star Up With Her Future Fiancé, Michael Polansky |url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a30756629/who-is-michael-polansky-lady-gaga-boyfriend/ |access-date=March 14, 2025 |magazine=Harper's Bazaar}} He has also been the chief operating officer of Airtime, which was founded by Parker and Shawn Fanning in 2011. Polansky has been involved in other projects by Parker.{{Cite web |date=April 10, 2024 |title=Who is Lady Gaga's beau Michael Polansky – and is she engaged? |url=https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3258500/lady-gaga-really-engaged-meet-her-beau-michael-polansky-one-shallow-singers-first-public-outings |access-date=April 24, 2025 |website=South China Morning Post |language=en}}

Polansky was a co-executive producer of Lady Gaga's 2024 soundtrack album Harlequin and co-wrote and reworked the traditional songs "Get Happy", "Good Morning", "If My Friends Could See Me Now", and "Oh, When the Saints".{{Cite web |last=Avila |first=Daniela |title=Lady Gaga Worked on New 'Harlequin' Album with Fiancé Michael Polansky: See What They Did Together |url=https://people.com/lady-gaga-worked-on-new-harlequin-album-with-fiance-michael-polansky-8719767 |date=September 27, 2024 |access-date=March 14, 2025 |magazine=People |archive-date=March 9, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250309232204/https://people.com/lady-gaga-worked-on-new-harlequin-album-with-fiance-michael-polansky-8719767 |url-status=live }} He also has writing and production credits on Lady Gaga's 2025 studio album Mayhem,{{Cite news |last=Irshad |first=Zara |date=March 6, 2025 |title=Lady Gaga and her S.F. tech exec fiancé co-wrote a song about their engagement |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/lady-gaga-michael-polansky-mayhem-20206631.php |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=March 16, 2025 }} including "The Beast", "Blade of Grass", "Disease", "Don't Call Tonight", "How Bad Do U Want Me", "LoveDrug", and "Vanish into You".{{Cite magazine |last=Zellner |first=Xander |date=March 20, 2025 |title=Lady Gaga's Fiancé Michael Polansky Makes His Billboard Chart Debut |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/lady-gaga-fiance-michael-polansky-billboard-chart-debut-1235927633/ |access-date=April 24, 2025 |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US |archive-date=April 8, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250408013324/https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/lady-gaga-fiance-michael-polansky-billboard-chart-debut-1235927633/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite magazine |last=Bowenbank |first=Starr |date=March 7, 2025 |title=A Complete Timeline of Lady Gaga and Michael Polansky's Relationship, Because You're Nosy |url=https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a32161664/lady-gaga-michael-polansky-relationship-timeline/ |access-date=March 14, 2025 |magazine=Cosmopolitan |archive-date=February 19, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250219084940/https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a32161664/lady-gaga-michael-polansky-relationship-timeline/ |url-status=live }} He and Lady Gaga also co-wrote the original song "All I Need Is Time".{{Cite magazine |last1=Lee |first1=Abigail |last2=Horowitz |first2=Steven J. |date=January 31, 2025 |title=Lady Gaga Debuts New Song 'All I Need Is Time,' Co-Written With Fiance, During FireAid Concert Finale |url=https://variety.com/2025/music/news/lady-gaga-new-song-fiance-michael-polansky-fireaid-1236291813/ |access-date=March 19, 2025 |magazine=Variety |archive-date=March 19, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250319164353/https://variety.com/2025/music/news/lady-gaga-new-song-fiance-michael-polansky-fireaid-1236291813/ |url-status=live }}

Personal life

Polansky is based in San Francisco, as of 2024.{{Cite web |last= |date=July 29, 2024 |title=Who Is Michael Polansky, Lady Gaga’s Rumoured Fiancé? |url=https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/lady-gaga-michael-polansky-engaged |access-date=May 8, 2025 |website=British Vogue |language=en-GB |archive-date=November 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241114014434/https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/lady-gaga-michael-polansky-engaged |url-status=live }}

As of 2025, Polansky is engaged to Lady Gaga.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/lady-gaga-october-2024-cover-interview|title=Lady Gaga on 'Joker: Folie à Deux', Getting Engaged, and the Joy of Making Pop Music Again|first=Jonathan Van|last=Meter|date=September 5, 2024|access-date=March 20, 2025|website=Vogue|archive-date=September 5, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240905114643/https://www.vogue.com/article/lady-gaga-october-2024-cover-interview|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/music/article/lady-gaga-new-album-mayhem-interview-l6ncqxvtn|title=Lady Gaga: 'People don't always make it through success. I did'|first=Jonathan|last=Dean|date=March 8, 2025|access-date=March 20, 2025|website=The Times}} The couple started dating in 2020.{{Cite web |title=Lady Gaga Reveals the Shocking Question She Asked Fiancé Michael Polansky on Their First Date Before They Sat Down |url=https://people.com/lady-gaga-reveals-the-question-she-asked-michael-polansky-on-first-date-11692836 |access-date=April 24, 2025 |website=People |language=en |archive-date=April 9, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250409222657/https://people.com/lady-gaga-reveals-the-question-she-asked-michael-polansky-on-first-date-11692836 |url-status=live }} He proposed to her using a blade of grass, which inspired Lady Gaga's song of the same name on Mayhem.{{Cite magazine |last=Mier |first=Tomás |date=March 6, 2025 |title=Lady Gaga Explains How Michael Polansky's Proposal Inspired Her Song 'Blade of Grass' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/lady-gaga-fiance-michael-polansky-proposal-blade-of-grass-1235283056/ |access-date=April 24, 2025 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US |archive-date=March 6, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250306193002/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/lady-gaga-fiance-michael-polansky-proposal-blade-of-grass-1235283056/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=How Lady Gaga and Michael Polansky's Romantic Engagement Inspired Her New Song 'Blade of Grass' |url=https://people.com/how-lady-gaga-and-michael-polansky-romantic-engagement-inspired-new-song-blade-of-grass-11691682 |access-date=April 24, 2025 |website=People |language=en}}

Discography

class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="text-align:center;" \|+All songs written by Polansky and Gaga, with the other writers listed below ! scope="col"\| Song ! scope="col"\| Performer(s) ! scope="col"\| Co-writer(s) ! scope="col"\| Album ! scope="col"\| Year ! scope="col"\| Ref(s).
scope="row"\| "Good Morning" (2024) \| rowspan="12" \|Lady Gaga \| Nacio Herb Brown Arthur Freed \| rowspan="4" \|Harlequin \| rowspan="4" \|2024 \| rowspan="4" \|{{cite web \|title=Harlequin / Lady Gaga / Credits \|date=September 27, 2024 \|url=https://listen.tidal.com/album/389681225/credits \|publisher=Tidal \|access-date=May 30, 2025}}
scope="row"\| "Get Happy" (2024) \| Harold Arlen Ted Koehler
scope="row"\| "Oh, When the Saints" (2024) \| Traditional
scope="row"\| "If My Friends Could See Me Now" (2024) \| Cy Coleman Dorothy Fields
scope="row"\| "All I Need Is Time" \| \|Unreleased \| — \|{{Cite web \|last=Horowitz \|first=Abigail Lee,Steven J. \|date=January 31, 2025 \|title=Lady Gaga Debuts New Song ‘All I Need Is Time,’ Co-Written With Fiance, During FireAid Concert Finale \|url=https://variety.com/2025/music/news/lady-gaga-new-song-fiance-michael-polansky-fireaid-1236291813/ \|access-date=May 4, 2025 \|website=Variety \|language=en-US \|archive-date=March 19, 2025 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250319164353/https://variety.com/2025/music/news/lady-gaga-new-song-fiance-michael-polansky-fireaid-1236291813/ \|url-status=live }}
scope="row"\| "Disease" \| rowspan="6" \| Andrew Watt Henry Walter \| rowspan="7" \|Mayhem \| rowspan="7" \|2025 \| rowspan="7" \|{{cite web \|title=MAYHEM / Lady Gaga / Credits \|date=March 7, 2025 \|url=https://listen.tidal.com/album/421850005/credits \|publisher=Tidal \|access-date=May 30, 2025}}
scope="row"\| "Vanish into You"
scope="row"\| "LoveDrug"
scope="row"\| "How Bad Do U Want Me"
scope="row"\| "Don't Call Tonight"
scope="row"\| "The Beast"
scope="row"\| "Blade of Grass" \| Andrew Watt Mike Lévy

class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="text-align:center;"

|+All songs written by Polansky and Gaga, with the other writers listed below

! scope="col"| Song

! scope="col"| Performer(s)

! scope="col"| Co-writer(s)

! scope="col"| Album

! scope="col"| Year

! scope="col"| Ref(s).

scope="row"| "Good Morning" (2024)

| rowspan="12" |Lady Gaga

| rowspan="4" |Harlequin

| rowspan="4" |2024

| rowspan="4" |{{cite web |title=Harlequin / Lady Gaga / Credits |date=September 27, 2024 |url=https://listen.tidal.com/album/389681225/credits |publisher=Tidal |access-date=May 30, 2025}}

scope="row"| "Get Happy" (2024)

scope="row"| "Oh, When the Saints" (2024)

Traditional

scope="row"| "If My Friends Could See Me Now" (2024)

scope="row"| "All I Need Is Time"

|Unreleased

| —

|{{Cite web |last=Horowitz |first=Abigail Lee,Steven J. |date=January 31, 2025 |title=Lady Gaga Debuts New Song ‘All I Need Is Time,’ Co-Written With Fiance, During FireAid Concert Finale |url=https://variety.com/2025/music/news/lady-gaga-new-song-fiance-michael-polansky-fireaid-1236291813/ |access-date=May 4, 2025 |website=Variety |language=en-US |archive-date=March 19, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250319164353/https://variety.com/2025/music/news/lady-gaga-new-song-fiance-michael-polansky-fireaid-1236291813/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row"| "Disease"

| rowspan="6" |

| rowspan="7" |Mayhem

| rowspan="7" |2025

| rowspan="7" |{{cite web |title=MAYHEM / Lady Gaga / Credits |date=March 7, 2025 |url=https://listen.tidal.com/album/421850005/credits |publisher=Tidal |access-date=May 30, 2025}}

scope="row"| "Vanish into You"

scope="row"| "LoveDrug"

scope="row"| "How Bad Do U Want Me"

scope="row"| "Don't Call Tonight"

scope="row"| "The Beast"

scope="row"| "Blade of Grass"