Lana Del Rey
A Pop and Alternative Music Artist.
Lana's Biogrpahy
Lana Del Rey is a 30-year-old music artist. She was born on June 21, 1985. Lana's music has been noted as a cinematic type style music and-and represents 1940/50's music.She got famous with hits like "summertime sadness" and "young and beautiful" that sparked interest in her "gangsters", or fans. Lana has a net worth of 8 million dollars. She started singing when she was just a child in her church choir. After college, she lived with her aunt and uncle and he taught her how to play the guitar, where she thought that she could write a million songs with those chords.
Training and Education
When Lana Del Rey was a child she sung in her church choir., eventually her uncle taught her the guitar and she said, "I could write a million songs with these six chords". After she grew up she performed in new york night clubs often. Her claim to fame was video games wich got thousands of videos in 5 months. Lana started writing music at 18 and signed her first contract at 22.
Lana Del Rey - Summertime Sadness
*SUMMER WINE*
Major Roles, and awards won
Lana has 11 albums, some being her most recent, honeymoon, ultraviolence, die for me, Born to die: the paradise addition, paradise, born to die, Lana Del Rey, Lana Del Ray, born to die, and more. About 32 songs, she has had 21 concerts played in 2015, with the most played place she has been, being Los Angles. Lana Del Rey has won 13, out of the 52 awards she as been nominated for, such as the Billboard music awards, Brit awards, Critics' choice music award, Echo awards, Golden globe awards, etc. She has written 2 songs for the movie " Big Eyes".
Influences
Lana Del Rey Says she is influenced by Julee Cruise, Amy Winehouse, the Crystals, Lou Reed, Bobby Vinton, Walt, Whitman, Eminem, Nancy Sinatra, Leonard Cohen, The Eagles, and Dan Auerbach.
Fun facts
- Del Rey has the letter "M" tattooed on her left hand which references her grandmother Madeline whom she was very close to while growing up. She has the word "paradise" tattooed on the same hand.
- Her right hand is tattooed with the phrase "trust no one".
- She also has the phrase "die young" tattooed on her right ring finger.
- Not only is she a talented singer and song-writer, Del Rey is also a model. She signed a contract with Next Model Management under the same talent wing that also represents pop stars Ellie Goulding and Florence Welch.