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Lana Del Rey

Lana Del Rey —whose real name is Elizabeth Woolridge Grant— was born in New York on June 21, 1985. She grew up in the northern part of the state and by the age of 18 was already singing in city clubs. At 20, she signed her first contract with 5 Points Records, and in January 2010 she released her debut album, Lana Del Ray. That project didn't work, but everything changed in 2011 when the video for Video Games went viral. That same year she signed with Interscope and Polydor Records.What defines her music is a mix of cinematography, melancholy, and retro glamour. References to pop culture and the aesthetics of the 1950s and 1960s in the United States appear throughout her work.

Singer, songwriter, model, actress, writer, producer, and poet: she does many things at once, and it shows.In 2012 came Born to Die, her second album, and with it an international breakthrough. Summertime Sadness entered the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, and Blue Jeans, Born to Die, and National Anthem also appeared on the list. That year she also released the EP Paradise, which received a Grammy nomination. In 2013 she composed, wrote, and starred in the music short film Tropico, and released Young and Beautiful as the lead single for the movie The Great Gatsby.

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In 2014 she released Ultraviolence, her third album, with more guitar and more instrumental weight: it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. At the end of that same year she collaborated on the soundtrack of Big Eyes, which brought her Grammy and Golden Globe nominations.Honeymoon (2015) and Lust for Life (2017) revived the tone of her previous works. In Lust for Life she collaborated with The Weeknd, ASAP Rocky, Sean Lennon, and Stevie Nicks, and the album was nominated for a Grammy for Best Vocal Pop Album. In 2019 she recorded Don't Call Me Angel with Ariana Grande and Miley Cyrus for the movie Charlie's Angels, reaching number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100.

On August 30 of that year, Norman Fucking Rockwell! was released, praised by critics and nominated for a Grammy in the categories of Song and Album of the Year.In 2020 she took another step: she published her first poetry collection, Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass, along with an audiobook where she herself narrates each poem. In 2021 came Chemtrails over the Country Club and Blue Banisters. In 2022 she collaborated with Taylor Swift on Snow on the Beach, from the album Midnights, which reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 — the highest position Del Rey had ever achieved on that list.

Her ninth album, Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, was released in 2023, the same year that the magazine Rolling Stone included her in its list of the 200 greatest artists of all time and its British edition named her the best American songwriter of the 21st century. The magazine Time had already highlighted her among the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012.

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Nacimiento
21 jun 1985
País
🇺🇸 United States
Género
alternative pop

Awards and honors

  • Brit Awards
  • MTV Video Music Award

Record labels

{{Hlist|5 Points Records|Stranger Records|Polydor Records|Interscope Records}}