Lana Del Rey is Elizabeth Grant, the New York-born singer-songwriter whose vintage-glamour take on art pop reshaped the past decade of popular music. Born to Die (2012) was the defining breakthrough, and Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019) was named an album of the decade by multiple publications. Explore Lana Del Rey vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, performing as Lana Del Rey, was born in New York City on June 21, 1985 and raised in Lake Placid, New York. She launched her recording career as Lizzy Grant in the late 2000s before reinventing herself as Lana Del Rey in 2010. Her 2011 viral single Video Games launched her commercial breakthrough, with her major-label debut Born to Die (2012) becoming a defining contemporary art pop album. She has continued releasing material across multiple decades with stylistic exploration. Her 2019 album Norman Fucking Rockwell! was widely cited as one of the most important albums of the 2010s and received the album of the decade designation from multiple publications.
Lana Del Rey's sound combines art pop, indie pop, dream pop, baroque pop, alternative R&B, and chamber pop with her distinctive vocal delivery, atmospheric production approaches (Jack Antonoff production from Norman Fucking Rockwell! onward), and lyrical content drawing on Americana, classic Hollywood, melancholy, and her distinctive aesthetic of vintage glamour. Her foundational influence on contemporary art pop and broader popular music is widely documented.
Polydor/Interscope pressings of the Lana Del Rey catalog have been issued in extensive color variant editions and limited deluxe pressings, with collector demand.
Listeners new to Lana Del Rey typically start with Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019) or Born to Die (2012).
