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Lana Del Rey Wikipedia. Elizabeth Woolridge Grant born June 2. Lana Del Rey, is an American singer, songwriter, and model. Her music has been noted by critics for its stylized cinematic quality, its preoccupation with themes of tragic romance, glamour, and melancholia, and its references to pop culture, particularly 1. Elizabeth Woolridge Grant n. Lana Del Rey, este o cntrea i compozitoare american. Lana Del Rey a. American singer and songwriter Lana Del Rey has released five studio albums, four extended plays, 20 singles, and 16 music videos. Lana Del Rey signed a record deal. National_Anthem_BTS_24629.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170325203059' alt='National Anthem Lana Del Rey Original' title='National Anthem Lana Del Rey Original' />Americana. Raised in northern New York state, Del Rey embarked on a music career in 2. New York City, and first received widespread attention in 2. Deer Hunt Challenge Patch. Video Games became a viral Internet sensation. Del Rey received further recognition after her major label debut Born to Die peaked at number two on the United States charts and was the fifth best selling album of 2. National Anthem Lana Del Rey Original' title='National Anthem Lana Del Rey Original' />A remix of its single Summertime Sadness, produced by Cedric Gervais, peaked at number six in the United States, and her extended play Paradise followed that November, garnering Del Rey her first Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album. Three of the EPs tracks were featured in her short film. Tropico 2. 01. 3. In 2. Del Rey released her third studio album, Ultraviolence, which became her first album to reach number one in the United States. In 2. 01. 5, following a North American tour with Courtney Love and Grimes, Del Rey released her fourth studio album, Honeymoon. Both albums received positive critical response. Her fifth studio album, Lust for Life, was released in 2. It received critical acclaim, and also became Del Reys second album to reach number one in the United States, while also reaching the top ten in almost every other country in which it charted. Lust for Life also earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 6. Annual Grammy Awards. Early life. Elizabeth Woolridge Grant was born in New York City on June 2. Robert England Grant, Jr., a Grey Group copywriter turned entrepreneur, and Patricia Ann Pat ne Hill, a former Grey account executive turned high school teacher. She has one younger sister, Caroline Grant,1. Charlie. 1. 41. Her paternal grandfather, Robert England Grant, Sr. Kidder, Peabody Co. Plough, Inc and Textron, and venture capitalist. She has Scottish ancestry from both her mother and father. Del Rey grew up in Lake Placid, New York,1. Roman Catholic. 1. She attended a Catholic elementary school1. She began singing in her church choir when she was a child, where she was the cantor. At age fifteen,82. Kent School by her parents to resolve a budding drinking problem. Her uncle, an admissions officer at the boarding school, secured her financial aid to attend. After graduating, Del Rey was accepted to the State University of New York at Geneseo, but she decided not to attend and instead spent a year living on Long Island with her aunt and uncle while working as a waitress. During this time, Del Reys uncle taught her how to play guitar, and she realized that she 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. I was always singing, but didnt plan on pursuing it seriously, Del Rey said. When I got to New York City when I was eighteen, I started playing in clubs in BrooklynI have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that pointand that was it. The following fall, at age nineteen, she enrolled at Fordham University where she majored in philosophy, with an emphasis on metaphysics. Del Rey has said she chose to study the subject because it bridged the gap between God and science. I was interested in God and how technology could bring us closer to finding out where we came from and why. According to Del Rey, she had trouble making friends in both boarding school and college. She lived in The Bronx and later moved to New Jersey while attending Fordham. After graduating in 2. Brooklyn, where she resided for four years. In college, Del Rey did volunteer work at homeless youth and drug and alcohol outreach programs, as well as helping paint and rebuild houses on an Indian reservation in Utah. She would cite this trip as integral in her decision to become a songwriter I remember exactly when I decided that I wanted to be a singer. I was in college, and we went to the Indian reservation. That day I realized that I had only two options either making music or volunteering for a good cause. I chose the first option. If it had not worked, I would have probably done social work in any small town. Career. 20. 052. Career beginnings and Lana Del Ray. I wanted to be part of a high class scene of musicians. It was half inspired because I didnt have many friends, and I was hoping that I would meet people and fall in love and start a community around me, the way they used to do in the 6. Del Rey explaining why she went into the music industry. On April 2. 5, 2. Elizabeth Woolridge Grant with the United States Copyright Office. The application title was Rock Me Stable with another title Young Like Me also listed. A second extended play, titled From the End, was also recorded under Del Reys stage name at the time, May Jailer. Between 2. 00. 5 and 2. Sirens under the May Jailer project,3. At her first performance in 2. Williamsburg Live Songwriting Competition, Del Rey met Van Wilson, an A R representative for 5 Points Records,4. David Nichtern. 4. In 2. 00. 7, while a senior in college, Del Rey submitted a demo tape of acoustic tracks titled No Kung Fu to 5 Points Records,3. Del Rey used the money to relocate to Manhattan Mobile Home Park, a trailer park in North Bergen, New Jersey,8 and subsequently began working with producer David Kahne,4. EP titled Kill Kill in October 2. Lizzy Grant. 4. 2 She explained that David asked to work with me only a day after he got my demo. He is known as a producer with a lot of integrity and who had an interest in making music that wasnt just pop. Her album, however, was shelved, causing her to shift her focus. Instead, she began to work in community service. Homeless outreach, drug, and alcohol rehabilitationthats been my life for the past five years, she told Vogue UK in 2. Her debut full length album, titled Lana Del Ray, was released in January 2. Her father, Robert Grant, helped with the marketing of the album,4. Tunes for a brief period before being withdrawn. David Kahne, who produced Grant and previous label owner David Nichtern have both stated that Grant bought the rights back from her label, 5 Points, as she wanted it out of circulation to stifle future opportunities to distribute itan echo of rumors that the action was part of a calculated strategy. Del Rey met her current managers, Ben Mawson and Ed Millett, three months after Lana Del Ray and they helped her to get out of her contract with 5 Points Records, where, in her opinion, nothing was happening. Shortly after, she moved to London, England and moved in with Mawson for a few years. When choosing her stage name, she said I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba Lana Del Rey reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue. She has said her lawyers and managers made up the name Lana Del Rey and persuaded her to adopt the stage name. On September 1, 2.