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ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) STORY: United States pop star Lady Gaga received the LennonOno Grant For Peace award from Yoko Ono at a ceremony in the Icelandic capital Reykjavik on Tuesday (October 9). Lady Gaga was awarded the prize together with Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot whose members have been jailed over an anti-Kremlin protest. Peace activist Yoko Ono said in a statement the biennial peace grant, established in the name of her late husband, former Beatle John Lennon, rewarded Lady Gaga for combining her stardom with activism and changing "the mental map" of the world. Grammy-winning Lady Gaga, who shot to fame with her debut album "The Fame" in 2008, accepted the award in person in Reykjavik along with a charitable donation that she would in turn give to the Elton John AIDS Foundation. "My popularity is of no interest to me, what people think of me or my work in terms of what I am as a musician is entirely separate from my mission as a human being which is to be endlessly and devotedly compassionate in every scenario that I can be, and that is a risk that I am willing to lose it all for," she said.