Major record deal for Lady Gaga covering accordion player

A Lithuanian accordion player who covers Lady Gaga has landed a major record deal in the UK.

Twenty-two-year-old Martynas Levickis, a world champion virtuoso accordion player, and graduate of London's Royal Academy of Music, has landed a classical deal.

The Lithuania's Got Talent winner said he aims to bring the keyboard to a wider audience, as the first accordion player to be signed by Decca Classics.

His album, which will be released this summer, includes classical standards such as Air On A G String, Hungarian Dance and Rondo Alla Turca, as well as Lady Gaga's chart-topper Telephone.

Levickis' talent was developed after his godfather gave him a tiny accordion as a child in his native Lithuania.

He studied with one of his country's leading teachers at the Saulius Sondeckis Music School before graduating from London's Royal Academy of Music.

He said:

Paul Moseley, managing director of Decca Classics, said: