
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.

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.

She also has been recognized with the Variety's Decade Award at the Variety Hitmakers Awards for being ″regarded as 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, a Satellite Award, and has been nominated for six Grammy Awards and one 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 and 1960s Americana. Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21, 1985), known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer-songwriter.
