Lana Del Rey

Profile Overview

Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21, 1985), known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer-songwriter. Her music is noted for its melancholic exploration of glamour and romance, with frequent references to pop culture and 1950s–1970s Americana. She 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 11 Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Variety honored her at their Hitmakers Awards for being "one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 21st century". In 2023, Rolling Stone placed Del Rey on their list of the "200 Greatest Singers of All Time", while Rolling Stone UK named her as the "greatest American songwriter of the 21st century".
Del Rey grew up in upstate New York and moved to Manhattan in 2005 to pursue a music career. Del Rey's breakthrough came in 2011 with the viral success of her single "Video Games", leading to a recording contract with Polydor and Interscope. She achieved critical and commercial success with her second album, Born to Die (2012), which featured a moody, hip hop-inflected sound and spawned the sleeper hit "Summertime Sadness". The album topped numerous national charts around the world, and holds the record for the longest charting album by a woman in the history of the US Billboard 200. She subsequently topped the US charts with the albums Ultraviolence (2014) and Lust for Life (2017).
Her critically acclaimed sixth album Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019) was nominated for Album of the Year at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards and listed as one of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" by Rolling Stone. Del Rey's ninth studio album Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd was released in 2023, supported by the critically acclaimed single "A&W", which was named one of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" by Rolling Stone. Later that year, she released the Billboard Global 200 top-20 hit "Say Yes to Heaven".
Del Rey has collaborated on soundtracks for visual media; in 2013, she wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed musical short film 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. In 2014, she recorded "Once Upon a Dream" for the dark fantasy adventure film Maleficent and the titular theme song for the biopic Big Eyes, which was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Del Rey also recorded the collaboration "Don't Call Me Angel" for the action comedy Charlie's Angels (2019). In 2020, Del Rey published the poetry and photography collection Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass. In 2026, she collaborated with veteran James Bond composer David Arnold on the title soundtrack for the video game 007: First Light, releasing a song of the same name.