Lana Del Rey
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21, 1985), better known by her stage name Lana Del Rey, is an American singer and songwriter. Her music is noted for its stylized cinematic quality; its themes of tragic romance, glamour, and melancholia; and its references to pop culture, particularly 1950s and 1960s Americana.[1]
Born in New York City and raised in Upstate New York, Del Rey returned to New York City in 2005 to begin her music career. Following numerous projects, including her self-titled debut studio album, Del Rey's breakthrough came after the viral success of her debut single "Video Games" in 2011.[2] She signed with Interscope and Polydor later that year. Her major label debut Born to Die (2012) proved an international success and spawned a top-ten single on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Summertime Sadness", as well as the internationally successful singles "Blue Jeans", "Born to Die", and "National Anthem".[3] Del Rey then released the Grammy-nominated EP, Paradise in 2012. The next year, Del Rey ventured into film as she wrote and starred in the short music film, Tropico, and released "Young and Beautiful" as the lead single for the romantic drama film The Great Gatsby (2013).
Del Rey subsequently issued her third album, Ultraviolence (2014), to critical success, topping the charts and spawning the single, "West Coast". That same year, Del Rey recorded the eponymous theme for the drama film Big Eyes, which garnered her Grammy and Golden Globe nominations. She released the albums Honeymoon in 2015 and Lust for Life in 2017, with the latter topping the charts in the U.S. and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. Her sixth album, Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019), received widespread critical acclaim and two Grammy nominations, including Album of the Year.[4] In 2019, Del Rey also released the singles "Doin' Time" and "Don't Call Me Angel", the latter being a trio with Ariana Grande and Miley Cyrus.
As of 2020, Del Rey has sold 19.1 million albums and over 13 million singles worldwide,[5][6] while her YouTube and Vevo pages have combined lifetime views of 4.1 billion.[7][8][9] Among her awards and nominations, Del Rey has received 2 Brit Awards, 2 MTV Europe Music Awards, a Satellite Award and 9 GAFFA Awards, and has been nominated for 6 Grammy Awards[10] and a Golden Globe Award
Del Rey was born Elizabeth Woolridge Grant on June 21, 1985[11] in Manhattan, New York City,[12] to Robert England Grant, Jr., a wealthy Grey Group copywriter, and Patricia Ann "Pat" (née Hill), an account executive at Grey Group.[13][14][15] She has one younger sister, Caroline,[16] and one younger brother, Charlie.[17][18] She was raised Roman Catholic and is of Scottish descent. Her ancestors were from Lanarkshire. [19][20] When she was one year old, the family moved to the upstate New York town of Lake Placid, which famously hosted the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics.[21] In Lake Placid, her father initially worked for a furniture company before becoming an entrepreneurial domain investor;[22] her mother worked as a schoolteacher.[23] In Lake Placid, she attended St. Agnes School for her elementary years[18] and began singing in her church choir, where she was the cantor.[18][24]
She attended the high school where her mother taught for one year,[23] but, at age 15,[12][23][25] was sent to Kent School by her parents[25] to resolve a budding drinking problem.[26] Her uncle, an admissions officer at the boarding school, secured her financial aid to attend.[22][27][28][29] According to Grant, she had trouble making friends throughout much of her teenage and early adult years.[30][31] She elaborated on being preoccupied with death from a young age, and its role in her feelings of anxiety and alienation:
When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal. For some reason that knowledge sort of overshadowed my experience. I was unhappy for some time. I got into a lot of trouble. I used to drink a lot. That was a hard time in my life.[32]
After graduating from the Kent School, she spent a year living on Long Island with her aunt and uncle while working as a waitress.[22] During this time, Grant's uncle taught her how to play guitar, and she "realized [that she] could probably write a million songs with those six chords."[33] Shortly after, she began writing songs and performing in nightclubs around the city under various names such as "Sparkle Jump Rope Queen" and "Lizzy Grant and the Phenomena".[33] "I was always singing, but didn't plan on pursuing it seriously", she said. "When I got to New York City when I was eighteen, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn—I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point—and that was it."
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