TaraDeS — 3 weeks ago(March 12, 2026 09:06 PM)

Superstar celebrates Birthday
Liza Minnelli first appeared on camera at the age of three.
Later, she achieved worldwide fame with movies such as
"Cabaret"
.
Now the grande dame turns 80 – and celebrates with her memoirs.
Actually, Liza Minnelli never wanted to write an autobiography.
"When I'm dead, you can tell me everything,"
the US-American diva repeatedly told her friend, pianist Michael Feinstein. But then the two joined forces and wrote it all down, so that Minnelli can now celebrate her 80th birthday on Thursday (March 12, 2026) with her autobiography:
"Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!"
Minnelli was never one for holding back – and so her nearly 500-page autobiography is full of stories from her decades-long rollercoaster career as an actress, singer and Broadway star, and already made headlines even before its official release. Minnelli likes to dish it out – and this time, fellow musician Lady Gaga gets it.
Oscars Incident - Minnelli is angry with Lady Gaga
At the 2022 Oscars, she was forced to come on stage in a wheelchair and wasn't allowed to sit in a director's chair, as she requested due to her back pain, Minnelli writes.
"The person I was supposed to present the award with — Lady Gaga! — also insisted that she would only go on stage with me if I was in a wheelchair."
Afterward, Lady Gaga treated her condescendingly and humiliatingly on and off stage, acting as a kind of saviour —
"as if I were a complete idiot."
Minnelli accuses Gaga of planning and orchestrating the entire incident and is still angry.
"Thanks to her, there's a shadow over my current career that I wasn't quite able to shake off yet."
Childhood in Show Business
Liza Minnelli is an undisputed "EGOT" — one of the few people who won all 4 major awards in the USA entertainment industry: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. She was famous even before her birth, when fans and tabloids eagerly awaited the child of actress Judy Garland (
"The Wizard of Oz"
) and director Vincente Minnelli (
"Father of the Bride"
).
“The day my parents brought me home from the hospital, Hollywood was still a nice neighbourhood,”
Minnelli writes in her autobiography.
“More of a close-knit community than the center of a global media circus.”
Minnelli first appeared on camera at the age of three.
“I got my drive from my mother, my dreams from my father and a good sense of humor from both,”
Minnelli once said in an interview.
She became a Broadway star, dancer and nightclub singer until her breakthrough came in the early 1970s. The film adaptation of the musical
“Cabaret”
became a worldwide success. With her role as nightclub singer Sally Bowles in 1931 Berlin, Minnelli created an icon and won an Oscar. When her name was called, her father screamed loudly, Minnelli recalls.
“I have tinnitus from my father screaming at the Oscars, honestly.”
Out of her Parents' Shadow: "I did it all myself."
Minnelli tried to step out of the shadow of her famous parents.
"The hardest part was becoming known as myself and not as someone's daughter,"
says the diva.
"It wasn't and isn't easy to lead a so-called normal life."
She says she did it all herself.
"My mother wasn't much into lessons and advice. Even when I entered the industry, she didn't lay everything out for me — I just did it. Producers and directors were certainly fascinated that I was Judy Garland's daughter, and that certainly helped me, but I went out there and did it all myself."
Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra became close friends, and Minnelli, along with Andy Warhol, was a regular at the famous New York nightclub Studio 54. But life wasn't always smooth sailing for her, both professionally and personally. Roles eluded her, and men came and went. Minnelli married four times and divorced four times. She also struggled with alcohol and drugs and for many years with health problems.
"80 years old and happy to be alive."
But Minnelli always perseveres – and this too became her trademark.
"I simply have a very strong and unwavering faith. I believe that you always must think positively, keep learning, and enjoy and appreciate your life more each day,"
she once told the German Press Agency. Her goal:
"To keep getting better."
And:
"I would make all my mistakes again."
The conclusion of her life so far, as she writes in her autobiography:
"I am 80 years old and happy to be alive."
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/superstar-feiert-geburtstag-glucklich-am-leben-zu-sein-liza-minnelli-wird-80-15339773.html
March 11, 2026
Happy birthday, Mrs. Minnelli! ​​
May many more years come!
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Liza Minnelli on Broadway with Baryshnikov (1980) Medley of Dances
Liza Minnelli surprises the Audience (2026) GLAAD Media Awards