During this time, Grant's uncle taught her to play guitar, and she "realized could probably write a million songs with those six chords." 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". Īfter graduating from the Kent School, she spent a year living on Long Island with her aunt and uncle and working as a waitress. For some reason that knowledge sort of overshadowed my experience. 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. She has said she was preoccupied with death from a young age, and its role in her feelings of anxiety and alienation: According to Grant, she had trouble making friends during much of her teenage and early adult years. Her uncle, an admissions officer at the school, secured her financial aid to attend. She attended the high school where her mother taught for one year, but when she was 15 her parents sent her to Kent School to resolve a budding drinking problem. Agnes School in her elementary years and began singing in her church choir, where she was the cantor.
In Lake Placid, her father worked for a furniture company before becoming an entrepreneurial domain investor her mother worked as a schoolteacher. When she was one year old, the family moved to Lake Placid, New York. She was raised Roman Catholic and is of Scottish descent. She has a younger sister, Caroline, and a younger brother, Charlie.
1.6 2020–present: Chemtrails over the Country Club, Blue Banisters and poetry collectionsĮlizabeth Woolridge Grant was born on June 21, 1985, in Manhattan, New York City, to Robert England Grant Jr., a Grey Group copywriter, and Patricia Ann "Pat" (née Hill), an account executive at Grey Group. 1.5 2017–2019: Lust for Life and Norman Fucking Rockwell!. 1.4 2014–2016: Ultraviolence, Honeymoon, and film work. 1.3 2011–2013: Breakthrough with Born to Die and Paradise. 1.2 2005–2010: Career beginnings and early recordings. Outside of music, Del Rey published the poetry and photography collection Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020). Del Rey collaborated with Ariana Grande and Miley Cyrus on " Don't Call Me Angel" for the action comedy Charlie's Angels (2019), which peaked at number 13 on the U.S. In 2014, she recorded " Once Upon a Dream" for the dark fantasy adventure film Maleficent and the self-titled theme song for the biopic Big Eyes. Del Rey followed this with the albums Chemtrails over the Country Club and Blue Banisters, both in 2021.ĭel Rey has collaborated on soundtracks for visual media in 2013, she wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed musical short Tropico, and performed " Young and Beautiful" for the romantic drama The Great Gatsby. Her fourth and fifth albums, Honeymoon (2015) and Lust for Life (2017), saw a return to the stylistic traditions of her earlier releases, while her critically acclaimed sixth album, Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019), explored soft rock. Del Rey's third album, Ultraviolence (2014), featured greater use of guitar-driven instrumentation and debuted atop the U.S. She achieved critical and commercial success with her second album, Born to Die (2012), which contained the sleeper hit " Summertime Sadness". After numerous projects, including her self-titled debut studio album, Del Rey's breakthrough came in 2011 with the viral success of her single " Video Games" she subsequently signed a recording contract with Polydor and Interscope. Raised in upstate New York, Del Rey moved to New York City in 2005 to pursue a music career. Variety honored her at their Hitmakers Awards for being ″one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 21st century." 
She is the recipient of various accolades, including two Brit Awards, two MTV Europe Music Awards, and a Satellite Award, in addition to nominations for six Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Her music is noted for its cinematic quality and exploration of tragic romance, glamour, and melancholia, containing references to contemporary pop culture and 1950s– 1960s Americana. Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 22, 1985), known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer and songwriter.
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