Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer-songwriter and producer Her music is noted for its cinematic quality and exploration of tragic romance, glamour, and melancholia, with frequent references to contemporary pop culture and 1950s–1960s AmericanaRaised in upstate New York, Del Rey moved to New York City in 2005 to pursue a music career 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 She achieved critical and commercial success with her second album, Born to Die (2012), which contained the sleeper hit "Summertime Sadness" Del Rey's third album, Ultraviolence (2014), featured greater use of guitar-driven instrumentation and debuted atop the US Billboard 200 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 Her next studio albums, Chemtrails Over the Country Club and Blue Banisters, followed in 2021
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