1. Lana Del Rey is the recipient of various accolades, including an MTV Video Music Award, three MTV Europe Music Awards, two Brit Awards, two Billboard Women in Music awards and a Satellite Award, in addition to nominations for eleven Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
Lana Del Rey achieved critical and commercial success with her second album, Born to Die, which featured a moody, hip hop-inflected sound and spawned the sleeper hit "Summertime Sadness".
Del Rey has collaborated on soundtracks for visual media; in 2013, she wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed musical short Tropico and released "Young and Beautiful" for the romantic drama The Great Gatsby, which was highly praised by critics and received Grammy Award and Critics' Choice Award nominations.
Del Rey recorded the collaboration "Don't Call Me Angel" for the action comedy Charlie's Angels.
Del Rey published the poetry and photography collection Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass.
Lana Del Rey has a younger sister, Caroline "Chuck" Grant, and a younger brother, Charlie Grant.
Lana Del Rey was raised Catholic and is of Scottish and English descent.
Lana Del Rey attended the high school where her mother taught for one year, but when she was 14 or 15, her parents sent her to Kent School, an Episcopal boarding school in Connecticut, to get sober from alcoholism.
Lana Del Rey has said she was preoccupied with death from a young age, and its role in her feelings of anxiety and alienation:.
Lana Del Rey spent a year living on Long Island with her aunt and uncle and working as a waitress.
Lana Del Rey originally went to SUNY Geneseo in Geneseo, New York, but dropped out to take a gap year.
In spring 2005, while still in college, Del Rey registered a seven-track extended play with the United States Copyright Office; the application title was Rock Me Stable with another title, Young Like Me, listed.
Lana Del Rey used the money to relocate to Manhattan Mobile Home Park, a trailer park in North Bergen, New Jersey, and began working with producer David Kahne.
Del Rey graduated from Fordham with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy in 2008, after which she released a three-track EP, Kill Kill, as Lizzy Grant, featuring production by Kahne.
Lana Del Rey is known as a producer with a lot of integrity and who had an interest in making music that wasn't just pop.
Lana Del Rey's father helped with the marketing of the album, which was available for purchase on iTunes for a brief period before being withdrawn in April 2010.
On September 1,2010, Del Rey was featured by Mando Diao in its MTV Unplugged concert at Union Film-Studios in Berlin.
In 2011, Del Rey uploaded self-made music videos for her songs "Video Games" and "Blue Jeans" to YouTube, featuring vintage footage interspersed with shots of her singing on her webcam.
The "Video Games" music video became a viral internet sensation, which led to Del Rey being signed by Stranger Records to release the song as her debut single.
Lana Del Rey started dating Scottish singer Barrie-James O'Neill in the same year.
Del Rey performed two songs from the album on Saturday Night Live on January 14,2012, and received a negative response from various critics and the general public, who deemed the performance uneven and vocally shaky.
In September 2012, Del Rey unveiled the F-Type for Jaguar at the Paris Motor Show and later recorded the song "Burning Desire", which appeared in a promotional short film for the vehicle.
Adrian Hallmark, Jaguar's global brand director, explained the company's choice, saying Del Rey had "a unique blend of authenticity and modernity".
Lana Del Rey subsequently premiered the music video for "Ride" at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, California, on October 10,2012.
Del Rey received several nominations at the 2012 MTV Europe Music Awards in November and won the award for Best Alternative performer.
In May 2013, Del Rey released an original song, "Young and Beautiful" for the soundtrack of the 2013 film adaptation of The Great Gatsby.
In June 2013, Del Rey filmed Tropico, a musical short film paired to tracks from Paradise, directed by Anthony Mandler.
Del Rey screened the film on December 4,2013, at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood.
On January 26,2014, Del Rey released a cover of "Once Upon a Dream" for the 2014 dark fantasy film Maleficent.
Lana Del Rey began dating photographer Francesco Carrozzini after he directed Del Rey's music video for "Ultraviolence"; the two broke up in November 2015 after more than a year.
Del Rey described the album as being "more stripped down but still cinematic and dark", while some critics characterized the record as psychedelic and desert rock-influenced, more prominently featuring guitar instrumentation than her previous releases.
Later that year, Del Rey contributed the songs "Big Eyes" and "I Can Fly" to Tim Burton's 2014 biographical film Big Eyes.
Additionally, Del Rey co-wrote and provided vocals on the track "Prisoner" from the Weeknd's Beauty Behind the Madness, released on August 28,2015.
In November 2015, Del Rey received the Trailblazer Award at the Billboard Women in Music ceremony and won the MTV Europe Music Award for Best Alternative.
On February 9,2016, Del Rey premiered a music video for the song "Freak" from Honeymoon at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles.
Later that year, Del Rey collaborated with the Weeknd for his album Starboy, providing backing vocals on "Party Monster" and lead vocals on "Stargirl Interlude".
On September 27,2017, Del Rey announced the LA to the Moon Tour, an official concert tour with Jhene Aiko and Kali Uchis to further promote the album.
In January 2018, Del Rey announced that she was in a lawsuit with British rock band Radiohead over alleged similarities between their song "Creep" and her song "Get Free".
Del Rey announced that summer while performing at Lollapalooza in Brazil the lawsuit was "over".
In November 2019, Del Rey was announced as the face of Gucci's Guilty fragrances and subsequently appeared in print and television advertisements with Jared Leto and Courtney Love.
Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele said Guilty is a scent for a woman who does whatever she wants; Del Rey stated she is "very much that person".
In September, Del Rey was featured on a collaboration with Ariana Grande and Miley Cyrus titled "Don't Call Me Angel", the lead single of the soundtrack for the 2019 film Charlie's Angels.
In September 2020, Del Rey was featured on a remix of Matt Maeson's 2019 song "Hallucinogenics".
In November 2020, Del Rey announced that she would release a digital record composed of "American standards and classics" on Christmas Day, though it has yet to be released.
Del Rey released the cover as a limited-edition single, with all profits going to the LFC foundation.
Del Rey is known to be a fan of the club, and has attended matches at Anfield.
On March 19,2021, Del Rey released her seventh studio album, Chemtrails over the Country Club, to critical acclaim.
On January 21,2022, Del Rey premiered a song titled "Watercolor Eyes" on an episode of Euphoria.
Del Rey erased the stolen laptop's contents remotely, which contained the only working copy of her poetry book.
On October 21,2022, Del Rey was featured on "Snow on the Beach" by Taylor Swift, on her album Midnights, written by Swift, Del Rey, and Jack Antonoff.
On December 7,2022, Del Rey released "Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd" as the lead single from her ninth studio album of the same name.
In January 2023, Del Rey was photographed by Nadia Lee Cohen and interviewed by Billie Eilish for the cover of Interview's March issue.
On May 19,2023, Del Rey released her popular unreleased song "Say Yes to Heaven" as a single, having previously written and recorded it in November 2013, planning to include it in Ultraviolence, before cutting it.
On July 20,2023, Del Rey was spotted pouring coffee and chatting with customers at a Waffle House in Florence, Alabama, in full employee uniform complete with her own "Lana" name tag.
In 2023, Del Rey embarked on a tour in support of Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.
On October 20,2023, Del Rey featured in Holly Macve's single "Suburban House".
Lana Del Rey was hired as the face for the Skims 2024 Valentines Day Collection.
On January 31,2024, Del Rey announced at Billboards pre-Grammy event that her next album, was due to be released in September 2024.
On November 25,2024, Del Rey announced her UK and Ireland Tour 2025 which will begin on June 23,2025, and ends on July 3,2025, in which she will be performing in Cardiff's Principality Stadium, Glasgow's Hampden Park, Liverpool's Anfield Stadium, Dublin's Aviva Stadium and finally London's Wembley Stadium.
Del Rey has been labeled an "alt-pop" or alternative pop artist.
Lana Del Rey's works have been variously categorized as pop, rock, dream pop, baroque pop, indie pop, psychedelic rock, while incorporating trip hop, hip hop, lo-fi, and trap elements.
Del Rey cites a wide array of musical artists as influences, including numerous pop, jazz, and blues performers from the mid-twentieth century, such as Andrew Lloyd Webber, Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Bobby Vinton, The Crystals, and Miles Davis.
Del Rey has named singer-songwriter Cat Power, Hole frontwoman Courtney Love, rapper Eminem, and singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse as artists she looked up to.
Del Rey has cited the soundtrack to American Beauty as a partial inspiration for her album Born to Die.
Del Rey has cited film directors, David Lynch and Federico Fellini, and painters, Mark Ryden and Pablo Picasso, as influences and has stated actress Lauren Bacall is someone she admires.
Lana Del Rey has an interest in and was influenced by the book Lolita and the title character, as well as the films it spawned in 1962 and in 1997.
Lana Del Rey has demonstrated Lolita fashion in the past and even wrote a same-titled song, included as a bonus track on some editions of her 2012 album Born to Die.
Del Rey possesses an expansive contralto vocal range, which spans three-plus octaves and has been described as captivating and highly emotive, ranging with great ease from high notes in a girlish timbre to jazzy ornaments in her lower register.
When recording in the studio, Del Rey is known for vocal multi-layering, which, as it has been noted, is difficult for her to replicate within a live setting, especially with the lack of backing singers to fill out the original vocal style.
Del Rey was eerily casual, singing and smiling with the ease of someone performing at singer-songwriter night at the local coffee shop.
Del Rey responded to the criticism that race was the theme of her post by saying that she mentioned the singers she did because she "[loves] these singers and [knows] them".
Del Rey attracted further criticism for briefly posting a video of looters during the George Floyd protests in May 2020.
Del Rey has frequently been critical of US President Donald Trump.
Lana Del Rey has described him as being a narcissist and a product of a culture of sociopathy, stating his mental state makes him devoid of any understanding of what his words and actions can lead to.
In January 2021, Del Rey incited commentary for stating Trump "[didn't] know that he's inciting a riot" as a result of his "delusions of grandeur".
Lana Del Rey was critical of Kanye West in 2018 for his support of former President Trump.
In November 2020, Del Rey honored Joe Biden's election as President of the United States by covering "On Eagles' Wings".
Billboard credited Born to Die with being one of the main catalysts for pop music's shift from an overall brash EDM tone to a moodier, hip-hop-inflected palette in the mid-2010s, and opined that Del Rey is indispensable to the decade's pop music, having influenced alternative-leaning pop artists such as Lorde, Halsey, Banks, Sky Ferreira, Father John Misty, Sia, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift.
Del Rey has received many awards, including 3 MTV Europe Music Awards, 2 Brit Awards, a Satellite Award and 9 GAFFA Awards.
Del Rey married Jeremy Dufrene on September 26,2024, in Louisiana.
Dufrene is a tour boat captain in Des Allemands, Louisiana; Del Rey took a tour with him in 2019.