Lana Del Rey, born Elizabeth Grant, aged 25 was born in New York. She grew up in Lake Placid and when she was eighteen her uncle taught her "six basic chords" on the guitar.
"I realised I could write a million songs with those six chords- so I moved to New York and took a couple of years to write whatever I wanted."
She is an upcoming and much welcomed artist who has been in the charts lately. Her debut single, Video Games is a great track, but was at first rejected by almost every record company. It was only until she put the video on youtube, and after twenty two million views she was signed to a major label. and a contract with NEXT model management.
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Lana's most recent single, Born to die features her unique and soft vocals which at times can be dark, but her melodies are spine tingling. You definitely have to be in a certain mood to listen to her songs- but its worth it.
Check out her website for her latest video, to browse her gallery and her latest tweets: http://www.lanadelrey.com/
Her album, Born to Die was released January 2012, and most of it was written in the UK. The album went straight to number one in the UK charts, as 117,000 copies were sold within the first week.
Here is the video for Video Games; it's raw, low budget and a refreshing change to the big production sexual music videos that seem to circulate these days. Lana stuck vintage clips she found on youtube together, and was actually sued. Still, she has a great voice, and it's a great video.
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