Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer-songwriter. Her music is noted for its cinematic quality and themes of tragic romance, melancholia, and references to pop culture from the 1950s and 1960s. She possesses a wide vocal range and directs many of her own music videos. Throughout her career she has released several successful albums and tours the world performing her unique brand of dreamy pop music.

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Laura Guerrero

2. WHO IS LANA DEL REY?
 ElizabethWoolridge Grant ,known
professionally as LANA DEL REY, is an
American singer, songwriter, record
producer, poet, model, and music
video director.

3. WHO IS LANA DEL REY?
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 1950s and
1960sAmericana.
Del Rey possesses an expansive contralto vocal range,
which spans three-plus octaves and has been
described as captivating and highly emotive.
Since her career beginnings as an independent artist, Del
Rey has recorded clips of herself singing along to her
songs and when she became more famous she
started directing her own music videos.
Critics have noted Del Rey for her typically simple,
but authentic live performances.

4. Lanadel Ray aka.
LizzyGrant (2010)
DISCOGRAPHY
BorntoDie (2012)
BorntoDie (The
Paradise Edition)
(2013)
Ultraviolence(2014)
Honeymoon(2015)
LustforLife(2017)

5. TOURS
 Born to DieTour (2011–2012)
 ParadiseTour (2013–2014)
 The Endless SummerTour (2015)
 FestivalTour (2016)
 L.A. to the MoonTour (2018)
 FestivalTour (2019)

6. BIOGRAPHY
1985-2004: Early life
 ElizabethWoolridge Grant was born in NewYork City on June 21,
1985, to Robert EnglandGrant, Jr., a Grey Group copywriter, and
PatriciaAnn "Pat", a former Grey account executive turned high
school teacher. She has one younger sister, Caroline Grant, and one
brother, Charlie.
 Grant grew up in Lake
Placid, NewYork, and was
raised RomanCatholic. She
began singing in her
church choir when she was
a child, where she was the
cantor.

7. BIOGRAPHY
 Lana struggled with alcohol abusse in her early adolescent years.
 At 18, Lana moved back to NewYork to go to rehab for her various
addictions.
 After getting sober and graduating high school Lana declined an
offer of admission to the state university of NY, opting to spend the
year with her aunt and uncle in Long Island.While she worked as a
waitress, her auncle taught her how to play guitar wich pushed her
to start writing original music under nicknames like Lizzy Grant.
2005-2010: Career begginings

8. BIOGRAPHY
 From 2005-2006 she recorded two lost albums and
one LP that were never released. However, she
created an album, Sirens, under the name May
Jailer eventually leaked in 2012.
 In 2007 during her senior year at NY Fordham
University producer David Kahne sign Lana del Rey
to a ten-thousand dollar record contract with Five
Point Records after only hearing one demo.
 She relocated to New Jersey to work on her label
debut.
 Kill Kill, her three track EP
was released in october of 2008
under the stage name Lizzy Grant.

9. BIOGRAPHY
 Her major label debut BornTo Die dropped on January 31,
2012 but she had a really bad performance on SNL that got
everybody talking about if she deserved the success she was
having.
 Along her career she always have struggled with stage fright.
 The record putted Lana on the number 2 spot in the
Billboard 200 chart and it sold 3.4M copies being the most
succesful album Lana had.
 Shortly after, Lana’s Paradise EP was made avaible
November 12 2012, wich included new songs and won the
Best Alternative at the 2012 MTV.
2011- 2013: Breakthrough with Born to Die and Paradise

10. BIOGRAPHY
 For the next 2 years Lana would work on her first full-lenght album:
Lana Del Rey AKA Lizzy Grant was released on Itunes in January
2010 but pulled off only being available for a few months.
 Eventually negotiating to terminate her contract with Five Point
Records, Lana moved to London where she fine tuned her sound and
persona and officialy becaming Lana del Rey.
 In June 2011, she got her big break with the release of the DIY video
for her singleVideogames onYoutube.The video went viral catching
the attention of Polydor Records, wich Lana signed for.The single
was re-released in the fall and it was a total hit.

11. BIOGRAPHY
 2013 was a huge year for Lana, Paradise
was nominated for best pop vocal album as
part of the 56th annual Grammy Awards.
 She also picked up a Brit Award for
international female solo artist.
 In addition she was also Grammy
nominated forYoung and Beautiful her
track on Baz Luhmann’s adaptation of the
Great Gatsby.
 On december 5th 2013 Del Rey release
Tropico, a short film featuring songs Body
Electric, Gods and Monsters, and Bel Air.

12. BIOGRAPHY
 Ultraviolence was released on June 13 2014 debuting in the
number one spot in 12 countries.
 Lana’s uniquely dark tunes were heavily influenced by her
thoughts on death as she told on an interview.
 While on her 2015 Endless SummerTour Lana performed and
promoted the new singles on the upcoming album:
Honeymoon, released september 18th 2015.
 In november of that year Lana was honored at Billboard’s
Women in Music event with theTrailblazer award.
2014-2015: Ultraviolence and Honeymoon era

13. BIOGRAPHY
 On the 21 of july 2o17 Lust For Life was
released, a much more positive and happy
album than the past records. She also
talks on her lyrics about polityc subjects
and has colaborations with really
important artists.
 To this day, Lana already released 3
singles of her upcoming record (Norman
Fucking Rockwell) coming in 2019 and she
also announced she will be releasing a
poetry book.
2016-2017: Lust for Life and collabs
2018-present: NFR and poetry book

14. BIOGRAPHY
 Throughout her career Lana del Rey has proven she’s more than
just a pretty face, she is also really talented.
 Acclaimed Grammy award-nominated singer-songwriter, her
unique perspective and style have made her truly one-of-a-kind
unafraid to explore the darker side of herself, Lana has never
shied away from creating art that makes audiences think
becoming one of the icons of pop music and a living legend.

15. AWARDS
 Lana was nominated to 4
Grammy awards.
 She won in total 23 awards
and was nominated to 60.
Lana at the Cannes Festival 2012
Lana at the Grammys 2018

16. ANECDOTES
 Success brought Del Rey new
opportunities. She modeled for H&M
and a Mulberry signature handbag —
"The Del Rey" — was created for her.
 In 2013 she made a short film called
Tropico, as well as aTropico EP.
 That year Cedric Gervais made an
EDM remix of her "Summertime
Sadness" that went platinum.
 In 2014 Del Rey went to the Palace of
Versailles to sing at the pre-wedding
dinner for Kim Kardashian and Kanye
West.

17. WHY I LOVE LANA DEL REY?
 I discovered Lana in 2016, and that summer, I listened to her music
all the time. I became her fan really quick.
 The first song I heard of hers was the Summertime Sadness remix by
Cedric Gervays.
 The thing I like the most about her is her voice and the uniqueness
factor in her songs. I feel they are from another world. I also love her
lyrics, I feel they are really deep and special.
 On April 19th of 2018 Lana came to Barcelona (Palau Sant Jordi) and I
went to see her, and it was amazing.

18. CURIOSITIES
1. At age 18 he decided to study Philosophy at Fordham
University. It was there, where he studied the nature of
existentialism, where his musical experience began.
2. Lana Del Rey during her adolescence had serious problems with
alcohol that she managed to overcome after going through a
rehabilitation process in Connecticut.To this day, the singer
seems to have no problems with this addiction.

19. CURIOSITIES
3. Before deciding that her stage name was Lana Del Rey, she tried
another pseudonym, May Jailer. In fact, the singer made a demo of
an album titled Sirens under that name in 2005.The album was
leaked onYouTube in 2012.
4. Lana Del Rey has both hands tattooed. On the left you can read
“Paradise" and the initial "M", in honor of his grandmother
Madeleine.On the right is written “Trust no one’’.
Sirens
MayJailer

20. CURIOSITIES
5. Lana Del Rey toldVogue that her stage name came
when she frequently visited her Cuban friends in
Miami. "Lana Del Rey reminds us of the glamour of
the seashore, it sounds beautiful when it's
pronounced." To do this, he merged the name of one
of his favorite actresses, LanaTurner, with his
favorite car brand, Ford Del Rey.
6. The video of Born to Die was filmed in the
Fontainebleau Palace, in France. It was the first time
that they were allowed to record in those rooms. In
addition, the singer used real tigers for the video.

21. LYRICS
Think I'll miss you forever
Like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky
´´Summertime Sadness´´
 She compares this to the sky and the stars.The stars are never out at
the same time as the sun so they never see each other, they are
always too late to see the sun.This connects to Lana’s lover, because
she will always be too late to catch him and she will always miss him.
o Translation:
Creo que te echaré de menos por siempre
Como las estrellas extrañan el sol en el cielo de la mañana

22. LYRICS
'Cause we're the masters of our own fate, We're
the captains of our own souls, There's no way
for us to come today 'Cause boy, we're gold;
boy, we're gold
´´Lust for Life ft.TheWeekend´´
 Lana quotes a famous poem: ‘’Invictus’’.The poem’s title is Latin for
“unconquered” and speaks of the importance of remaining strong
through the troubles of life. Boy were gold is a way for Lana to say to her
lover (The Weekend) that they’re worth it and really sucessful.Also,
Lana is known byTheWeekend fans as Stargirl.
 Translation:
Porque somos los amos de nuestro propio destino, somos los capitanes de nuestras
propias almas, no hay manera de que podamos venir hoy porque, chico, somos
oro; chico somos oro.

23. LYRICS
Baby, if you wanna leave, come to California Be a
freak like me, too
´´Freak´´
 He longs to be free; as he’s leaving his past behind and wants to start
a new life with Lana. She invites him to escape to California where
she has been living, but looks like he’s just an angel in Los Angeles,
called by Del Rey “the Land of Gods and Monsters”.A freak like Lana
is young, wild and crazy, evoking emotion and wants her lover to be
like her, enjoying partying and having fun. passion. She
 Translation:
Cariño, si quieres irte, ven a California.
Sé una loca como yo, también.