American singer-songwriter Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, better known by her stage name Lana Del Rey, was born on June 21, 1985. She is known for the cinematic quality of her music, which explores tragic romance, glitz, and melancholy while making frequent allusions to modern pop culture and 1950s–1960s Americana.

In addition to being nominated for six Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe Award, she has won a number of awards, including two Brit Awards, two MTV Europe Music Awards, and a Satellite Award. At the Hitmakers Awards, Variety recognized her as “one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 21st century.”

Grant enrolled at Fordham University in The Bronx in the fall of 2004, at the age of 19, to study philosophy with a focus on metaphysics. She stated that she wanted to study the subject because it “bridged the gap between God and science… I was interested in God and how technology may get us closer to discovering where we originated from and why.” Del Rey registered a seven-track extended play with the United States Copyright Office in the spring of 2005, while still in college; the application title was Rock Me Stable, with another title, Young Like Me, also indicated. A second extended play, From the End, was also recorded under Del Rey’s stage name at the time, May Jailer. Sirens, an acoustic album produced between 2005 and 2006 under the May Jailer project, was leaked on the internet in mid-2012.

Lana Del Rey’s wife: Is Lana Del Rey married?

It was reported in December 2020 that she was engaged to artist Clayton Johnson.