Lana Del Rey

At 38 years old, Lana Del Rey has this physical status:

Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21, 1985), also known as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer and songwriter.

Del Rey, a born in New York City and raised in Upstate New York, has been lauded for her stylized cinematic quality; its themes of tragic romance, beauty, and melancholia; and her ties to pop culture, particularly 1950s and 1960s Americana.

Del Rey's breakthrough came following numerous ventures, including her debut studio album and the unreleased Sirens.

Later this year, she signed Interscope and Polydor.

Born to Die (2012), her major label debut, was a huge success, and she spawned her only top-ten single on the Billboard Hot 100 with her Cedric Gervais remix of "Summertime Sadness," as well as the internationally popular singles "Blue Jeans," "Born to Die," and "National Anthem."

Paradise, Del Rey's Grammy-nominated EP, was released in 2012.

Del Rey moved into film next year as she wrote, produced, and appeared in Tropico's short music film, "Young and Beautiful" as the lead single for the romantic drama film The Great Gatsby (2013). Del Rey's sophomore big label attempt, Ultraviolence (2014), saw her second straight hit and birthed the single, "West Coast."

Del Rey developed the eponymous theme for the drama film Big Eyes in the same year, earning her Grammy and Golden Globe nominations.

Del Rey published Honeymoon (2015) and Lust for Life (2017), the latter of which reached the top charts in the United States and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album shortly after.

Norman Fucking Rockwell is her sixth studio album. (2019) received acclaim and two Grammy awards, including for Album of the Year, as a result.

Del Rey's "Doin' Time" and "Don't Call Me Angel" were also released in 2019, the latter being a trio with Ariana Grande and Miley Cyrus. Del Rey has sold 16 million albums around the world as of 2019.

She has sold over 5 million singles in the United Kingdom and has sold 5.5 million RIAA-certified units in the United States.

Her YouTube and Vevo pages have combined lifetime views of 3.5 billion.

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Life and career

Elizabeth Woolridge Grant was born in Manhattan, New York City, on June 21, 1985, to Robert England Grant Jr., a Grey Group copywriter, and Patricia Ann "Pat" (née Hill), an account executive at Grey Group. She has a younger sister, Caroline "Chuck" Grant, and Charlie Grant, a younger brother. She was raised Roman Catholic and of Scottish descent. Her ancestors came from Lanarkshire. The family moved to Lake Placid, New York, when she was one year old. Her father worked for a furniture company before deciding to become an entrepreneur in Lake Placid; her mother worked as a schoolteacher. She went to St. Agnes School in her elementary years and began singing in her church choir, where she was the cantor.

She attended the high school where her mother worked for a year, but her parents sent her to Kent School to get sober from alcoholism when she was 14 or 15. "That's really why I was sent to boarding school aged 14 to get sober," Grant said in an interview. Her uncle, an admissions officer at the academy, arranged for her financial assistance in attending the school. During a large portion of her teen and early adult years, Grant had a hard time making friends. She has said she was preoccupied with death from a young age and it played a role in her feelings of anxiety and alienation:

She spent a year on Long Island with her aunt and uncle, as a waitress, after graduating from Kent School. "She [that she] could possibly write a million songs with those six chords," Grant's uncle taught her to play guitar, and she "realized [that she] could possibly write a million songs with those six chords." 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." "I was always singing, but I didn't know how to pursue it seriously," she said. "I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn when I was eighteen, but we weren't playing for each other at that time."

Grant earned her undergraduate degree in philosophy at Fordham University in The Bronx in fall 2004, with a strong emphasis on metaphysics. "British God and science," she said as she pursued the field because it "bridged the gap between God and science." "I was curious in God and how technology could bring us closer to discovering where we came from and why." Del Rey, a student at the University of California, completed a seven-track extended play with the United States Copyright Office in spring 2005; the application name, Young Like Me, was also listed. At the time, May Jailer, Del Rey's second extended performance, From the End, was also recorded under Del Rey's stage name. Sirens, an acoustic album that debuted on the internet in mid-2012, was released on the internet between 2005 and 2006.

Del Rey met Van Wilson, an A&R representative for 5 Points Records, an independent label owned by David Nichtern, at her first public performance in 2006 for the Williamsburg Live Songwriting Competition. She sent a demo tape of acoustic tracks, No Kung Fu, to 5 Points in 2007, obtaining her a recording contract for $10,000 when she was a Fordham junior. She used the funds to relocate to Manhattan Mobile Home Park, a trailer park in North Bergen, New Jersey, where she began working with producer David Kahne. "Our goal was to get it all organized and have a record to go," Nichtern said, and she'd be touring right after she came from college. She transformed like a lot of artists. When she first arrived to us, she was playing plunky little acoustic guitar, [had] sort of straight blonde hair, making her a very pretty young woman. A little bit dim, but very thoughtful. We heard that. However, she was able to continue progressing very quickly.

Del Rey graduated from Fordham with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy in 2008, shortly after which she released Kill Killer, a three-track EP starring Kahne, starring Kahne. "David asked to work with me just a day after he had seen my demo," she said. He is well-known as a producer with a lot of reputation and who was involved in making music that wasn't strictly pop." Del Rey was also doing community outreach for homeless people and heroin users; she had been keen on community service work in college since she had helped paint houses on an Indian reservation in Utah.

She's discussed choosing a stage name for her debut album: "I wanted a name I could mold the music towards." I was going to Miami a lot at the time, but Lana Del Rey from Cuba recalled the seaside's glamour. "Coming off the tip of the tongue, it sounded beautiful." The name was also inspired by actress Lana Turner and the Ford Del Rey sedan, which were produced and sold in Brazil in the 1980s. Lana Del Ray, the alternative spelling under which her self-titled debut album was first released in January 2010, was the first she used in the first. Her father helped with the album's promotion, which was available on iTunes for a brief period before being deleted in April 2010. Del Rey bought the rights back from 5 Points because she wanted it out of circulation to "stifle future opportunities to sell it," Kahne and Nichtern said, an echo of claims that the move was part of a calculated plan.

Del Rey's three-months after Lana Del Ray was released, her managers, Ben Mawson and Ed Millett, helped her get out of her 5 Points Records deal, where, in her opinion, "nothing was happening." "For a few years," she moved to London and began working with Mawson "for a few years." Del Rey was in a Mando Diao film at Union Film-Studios in Berlin on September 1, 2010. She appeared in a short film, Poolside, which she made with many friends the same year.

Del Rey released self-made music videos for her songs "Video Games" and "Blue Jeans" on YouTube in 2011, interspersed with images of her singing on her webcam. The "Video Games" music video became a hit on the internet, prompting Del Rey to be signed by Stranger Records to release the song as her debut single. "I just put the song on a few months ago because it was my favorite," she told The Observer. To be honest, it wasn't going to be the single, but people were really interested in it." The song received a Q award for "Next Big Thing" in October 2011 and an Ivor Novello award for "Best Contemporary Song" in 2012. Born to Die, her second studio album, was signed in the same month by Interscope Records and Polydor. Barrie-James O'Neill, a Scottish singer, started dating her in the same year. After three years together, the couple split in 2014. On Saturday Night Live on January 14, 2012, Del Rey performed two songs from the album and received a critical reaction from numerous critics and the general public, who characterized the performance as uneven and vocally shaky. "I'm a natural performer," she said of her arrival on the program, "I'm a natural singer..." I've been singing for a long time, and I believe [SNL creator] Lorne Michaels knows that... it's not a fluke decision."

Born to Die was released worldwide on January 31, 2012, charting at number one in 11 countries and debuting at number two on the US Billboard 200 album chart, but critics at the time were divided. She revealed this week that she had purchased back the rights to her 2010 debut album and had plans to re-release it in the summer of 2012 under Interscope Records and Polydor. Contrary to Del Rey's press release, her old record label and singer David Kahne have both confirmed that she purchased the album rights before the label stopped distributing the album due to the new contract's termination. Born to Die's fifth-best-selling album of 2012, it sold 3.4 million copies in 2012. Born to Die charted on the Billboard 200 well into 2012, lingering at number 76, after 36 weeks on the chart.

Del Rey premiered the F-Type for Jaguar in September 2012 and later recorded the song "Burning Desire," which appeared in a promotional short film about the car. The company's global brand director, Adrian Hallmark, described Del Rey's pick as "a unique blend of authenticity and modernity." A music video for Del Rey's cover of "Blue Velvet" was released as a promotional single for the H&M 2012 autumn campaign, which Del Rey also modeled for in print advertising. Del Rey launched the single "Ride" in the promotion of her forthcoming EP, Paradise, on September 25, 2009. On October 10, 2012, she premiered "Ride" at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, California. Some commentators condemned the video for reportedly pro-prostitution and antifeminist, while Del Rey's portrayal of a prostitute in a biker group was criticized.

Paradise was released as a separate product on November 12, 2012, as well as Born to Die: The Paradise Edition, which combined Del Rey's previous album with the additional eight tracks on Paradise. Paradise was a hit with Del Rey's second top ten albums in the United States, debuting at number 10 on the Billboard 200 with 67,000 copies sold in the first week. At the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, it was also voted for Best Pop Vocal Album. Del Rey received several nominations at the 2012 MTV Europe Music Awards in November, including Best Alternative Artist honors. She received the award for Best Female Solo Artist at the British Academy in February 2013, followed by two Echo Award winners in the categories of Best Newcomer and Best International Pop/Rock Artist.

"Summer Wine" by Barrie-James O'Neill, Leonard Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel#2," followed by a duet with her then-boyfriend, Barrie-James O'Neill of Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra's "Summer Wine" over the next several months. For the soundtrack of the 2013 film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, Del Rey's "Young and Beautiful" released in May 2013. Following the album's debut, it landed at number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the second time. However, the label abruptly stopped a hit on modern hit radio and decided to send a new song to radio; the Cedric Gervais remix of Del Rey's "Summertime Sadness" debuted on July 2, 2013, topping "Young and Beautiful" in number six and becoming her first American top ten hit, and the first American top ten hit. In 2013, the remix received the Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording Non-Classical, while "Young and Beautiful" was nominated for Best Written for Visual Media.

Del Rey produced Tropico, a musical short film matched to tracks from Paradise directed by Anthony Mandler in June 2013. On December 4, 2013, Del Rey screened the film at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. On December 6, the soundtrack was released on digital retailers.

Del Rey's "Once Upon a Dream" cover for the 2014 dark fantasy film Maleficent appeared on January 26, 2014. Del Rey began writing and recording her sequel, Ultraviolence, which featured Dan Auerbach's production after Paradise's completion. Ultraviolence was unleashed on June 13, 2014, and it debuted in 12 countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom. The album, which has sold 880,000 copies around the world in its first week, was preceded by the singles "West Coast," "Shades of Cool," "Ultraviolence," and "Brooklyn Baby." Francesco Carrozzini, a photographer, started dating photographer Francesco Carrozzini after he directed Del Rey's music video for "Ultraviolence"; the two parted in November 2015 after more than a year. Del Rey's album was referred to as "more stripped down but also cinematic and dim," while some commentators characterized the album as psychedelic and desert rock-influenced, more prominently featuring guitar playeration than her previous releases. Del Rey contributed the songs "Big Eyes" and "I Can Fly" to Tim Burton's 2014 biographical film Big Eyes later this year.

Del Rey's fourth studio album Honeymoon was released on September 18, 2015, to acclaim from music critics. Del Rey previews the album "Honeymoon," the single "High by the Beach"), and the promotional single "Terrence Loves You" prior to its release. Del Rey's demise of Honeymoon was the start of The Endless Summer Tour, which featured Courtney Love and Grimes as opening acts. In addition, Del Rey co-wrote and performed vocals on the track "Prisoner" from the Weeknd's Beauty Behind the Madness, which was released on August 28, 2015.

Daniel Johnston, a Del Rey executive, made a short film Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston, chronicling singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston's life. She portrayed Johnston's song "Some Things Last a Long Time" on the film. Del Rey received the Trailblazer Award at the Billboard Women in Music Awards in November 2015 and also received the MTV Europe Music Award for Best Alternative.

Del Rey premiered a music video for Honeymoon's song "Freak" on February 9, 2016, Los Angeles's Wiltern Theatre. Del Rey teamed up with the Weeknd for his album Starboy (2016), providing support vocals on "Party Monster" and lead vocals on "Stargirl Interlude" later this year. Del Rey, who co-wrote "Party Monster," was released as a single and quickly made it to the Billboard Hot 100 and was awarded double-platinum in the United States.

Lust for Life, Del Rey's fifth studio album, was released on July 21, 2017. "Love" and "Life" preceded the album; "Life" with the weeknd; "Summer Bummer" with A$AP Rocky and Playboi Carti; and "Groupie Love" with Rocky; also with Rocky. Del Rey wrote: "I made my first 4 albums for myself, but this one is for my fans and about where I hope we are all headed." The collection also included collaborations with Stevie Nicks and Sean Ono Lennon, marking the first time she had featured other artists on her own release. The album received widespread praise and became Del Rey's third top-one album in the United Kingdom and the country's second number-one album. Del Rey revealed the Los Angeles to the Moon Tour, an official concert tour with Jhené Aiko and Kali Uchis, on September 27, 2017. The tour started in North America in January 2018 and ended in August in August. Lust for Life was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album for the 60th Grammy Awards, marking Del Rey's second nomination in the category.

Del Rey appeared on January 2018 that she was involved in a lawsuit with British rock band Radiohead over alleged resemblances between their album "Creep" and her song "Get Free." Following Del Rey's statement that the band solicited "100 percent of the song's royalties," the group's legal representatives and legal representatives from Warner/Chappell denied the suit. Del Rey announced that the case was "over" during his summer appearance at Lollapalooza in Brazil.

Del Rey appeared on several tracks by other artists, including "Life with Myself" by Jonathan Wilson for Rare Birds (2018), "God Save Our Young Blood" by Brns (2018), and "Woman" by Cat Power for Wanderer (2018). Del Rey was introduced in November 2019 as Gucci's Guilty perfumer, and since then appeared in print and television advertisements with Jared Leto and Courtney Love. The campaign was centered around the phrase "Hollyweird." Guilty is a scent for a woman who does what she pleases, according to Del Rey. She is "very much the one."

Guillermo del Toro, a filmmaker from Hollywood, was on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 6, 2019, and Del Rey later released a cover of "Season of the Witch," which was titled Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Del Rey released "Looking for America," a non-album song she wrote and performed earlier this week in reaction to back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton.

Norman Fucking Rockwell, her sixth studio album, was announced on August 30, 2019. Having announced the album in September 2018, "Mariners Apartment Complex," "Venice Bitch," "Realize Is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman Like Me," "Doin' Time," and "Doin' Time" were among the album's "Material Complex," "I Love You"/" the Greatest"/Japanese. The album has received acclaim, and according to review website Metacritic, it is the most well-reviewed album of Del Rey's career to date. The album was rated five out of five stars by NME. "The long-awaited Norman Fucking Rockwell is even more majestic and majestic than anyone expected," Rob Sheffield wrote in his Rolling Stone review. Lana's fifth and best album transforms into a journey of sordid American dreams, going deep into all our country's most twisted fantasies of beauty and terror," and ultimately calls the album a "pop classic." For the album's title track, it was nominated for two Grammy Awards, Album of the Year and Song of the Year.

Norman Fucking Rockwell!

Del Rey appeared on and produced a majority of the album for the first time; Antonoff later worked with Del Rey on her following studio album and spoken word album.

Del Rey appeared on "Don't Call Me Angel," the lead song of the 2019 film Charlie's Angels, a collaboration between Ariana Grande and Miley Cyrus. The song was moderately successful internationally and was later awarded Gold in several countries. Del Rey appeared in the Amazon Prime special The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Exhibition in November, alongside guests such as Camila Cabello, James Corden, and Troye Sivan.

Del Rey related to write a Broadway film in an interview with L'Officiel's first American edition in early 2018, when she was asked about her interest in making a film, she replied that she had been approached to write a Broadway script and had just started working on it. "I can finish in two or three years" when asked how long it would be before the work's finished, she replied. She also revealed that she will be playing a new version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on the soundtrack.

Del Rey announced Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass and the accompanying spoken word collection in 2020 after announcing a spoken word album in 2019. On September 29, the physical book was published, and the Jack Antonoff-produced audiobook was published on July 28. The spoken word poem "LA Who Am I to Love You" was released as the lead single the day before the album's debut. Del Rey published Behind the Iron Gates – Insights from the Institute, a second book that was supposed to be published in March 2021; her progress on the novel was interrupted when the manuscript was stolen from her car in 2022.

Del Rey was featured on a remix of Matt Maeson's 2019 album "Hallucinogenics" in September. In 2019, the pair had previously performed the song together. Del Rey said she'll debut a digital album made up of "American standards and classics" on Christmas Day in November 2020, but it has yet to be announced. Several songs on Nikki Lane have been recorded on the album. She appeared on "You'll Never Walk Alone" in a documentary about Liverpool F.C., The End of the Storm, during which she performed the club's anthem, "You'll Never Walk Alone." The issue was also released as a limited-edition single, with all funds going to the LFC foundation. Del Rey is a football fan and has attended games at Anfield. It was reported that she was engaged to musician Clayton Johnson in December 2020.

Del Rey's seventh studio album, Chemtrails over the Country Club, received critical acclaim on March 19, 2021. The album was originally scheduled for release in 2020 under the name White Hot Forever, but it was postponed in November 2020 due to a delay in vinyl manufacturing. Chemtrails over the Country Club was largely produced by Del Rey and Jack Antonoff, similar to Norman Fucking Rockwell. It was preceded by the singles "Let Me Love You Like a Lady" on October 16, 2020, and the title track was set on January 11, 2021. Both songs and "White Dress" were also released on YouTube.

Blue Banisters, her eighth studio album, was released on October 22, 2021. It was preceded by the simultaneous appearance of three singles, "Text Book," and "Wildflower Wildfire," as well as the introduction of the single "Arcadia" on September 8, 2021. On September 8, 2021, a music video for "Arcadia" was released, as well as an alternate music video for the track that was released on October 7, 2021. On October 20, 2021, a music video for the track "Blue Bannisters" was released.

Del Rey premiered "Watercolor Eyes" on an episode of Euphoria on January 21, 2022. Del Rey said she has been working on new music and poetry since 2022, but her backpack, which contained a laptop, hard drives, and three camera recorders, was stolen on October 19, 2022, allowing robbers access to unfinished songs, a 200-page manuscript of her forthcoming poetry book Behind the Iron Gates – Insights from an Institution, and two years of family video footage. Del Rey erased the stolen laptop's contents remotely, which included the only working copy of her poetry book. "I am secure in the fact that this is happening," Del Rey said on Instagram. Taylor Swift, Del Rey, and Jack Antonoff's "Snow on the Beach" featured Del Rey on October 21, 2022.

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