DEL REY, LANA - VIOLET BENT BACKWARDS OVER THE GRASS

Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21, 1985), known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer-songwriter. Her music is characterised by its melancholic exploration of glamour and romance, often referencing pop culture and 1950s–1970s Americana. She has received several awards, including an MTV Video Music Award, three MTV Europe Music Awards, two Brit Awards, two Billboard Women in Music awards, and a Satellite Award, as well as nominations for eleven Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. In 2023, Variety recognised her at their Hitmakers Awards as one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 21st century, and Rolling Stone included her in their list of the "200 Greatest Singers of All Time", while Rolling Stone UK named her the "greatest American songwriter of the 21st century". Raised in upstate New York, Del Rey moved to New York City in 2005 to pursue a music career. She achieved widespread recognition in 2011 with the viral success of the single "Video Games", which led to a recording contract with Polydor and Interscope. Her second album, "Born to Die" (2012), received critical and commercial success, featuring a moody, hip hop-influenced sound and the sleeper hit "Summertime Sadness". The album topped multiple international charts and holds the record for the longest-charting album by a woman on the US Billboard 200. She subsequently reached the top of the US charts with the albums "Ultraviolence" (2014) and "Lust for Life" (2017). Her sixth studio album, "Norman Fucking Rockwell!" (2019), was nominated for Album of the Year at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards and was listed among Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Her ninth studio album, "Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd" (2023), included the critically acclaimed single "A&W", named one of Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time", and later that year she released the Billboard Global 200 top-20 single "Say Yes to Heaven". Del Rey has contributed to several film soundtracks. In 2013, she wrote and appeared in the musical short film "Tropico" and recorded "Young and Beautiful" for the romantic drama "The Great Gatsby", which received Grammy and Critics' Choice Award nominations. She recorded "Once Upon a Dream" for the dark fantasy adventure "Maleficent" (2014) and the theme song for the biopic "Big Eyes", which was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. She also collaborated on "Don't Call Me Angel" for "Charlie's Angels" (2019). In 2020, she published a poetry and photography collection titled "Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass". Studio albums Lana Del Ray (2010) Born to Die (2012) Ultraviolence (2014) Honeymoon (2015) Lust for Life (2017) Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019) Chemtrails over the Country Club (2021) Blue Banisters (2021) Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023) Stove (2026) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.