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Lana Del Rey: Career Overview and Influence

Elizabeth Woolridge Grant is known by her stage name Lana Del Rey. She started songwriting at age 18 and signed her first recording contract in 2005, releasing her first digital album Lana Del Ray in 2010. She signed with Interscope, Polydor, and Stranger Records in 2011. Some of her major album releases include Born to Die in 2012, Paradise in 2012, and Ultraviolence in 2014. Her music draws influence from various aspects of pop culture from the 1950s and 1960s, and she has described her style as a "self-styled gangsta Nancy Sinatra."

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Lana Del Rey: Career Overview and Influence

Elizabeth Woolridge Grant is known by her stage name Lana Del Rey. She started songwriting at age 18 and signed her first recording contract in 2005, releasing her first digital album Lana Del Ray in 2010. She signed with Interscope, Polydor, and Stranger Records in 2011. Some of her major album releases include Born to Die in 2012, Paradise in 2012, and Ultraviolence in 2014. Her music draws influence from various aspects of pop culture from the 1950s and 1960s, and she has described her style as a "self-styled gangsta Nancy Sinatra."

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Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21, 1985),[1] known by her stage name Lana Del

Rey, is an American singer-songwriter !e" #ey starte$ songwriting at the age o% 18[2] an$
signe$ her &rst recor$ing contract with 5 'oints #ecor$s in 2((),[*] re"easing her &rst $igita"
a"bum Lana Del Rayin January 2(1( !e" #ey bought herse"% out o% the contract with 5 'oints
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#ecor$s in Ju"y 2(11[/]
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two on the 0, Billboard 2((, an$ was the &%th best-se""ing a"bum o% 2(12 A remi1 o% its &%th
sing"e 2,ummertime ,a$ness2, +ro$uce$ by 3e$ric 4er5ais, became her highest-charting
track on the 0,Billboard 6ot 1(( a%ter +eaking at number si1 in the country !e" #ey
re"ease$ her thir$ e1ten$e$ +"ay Paradise that 7o5ember8 three o% its tracks were %eature$ in
her short &"m Tropico, which was +remiere$ in !ecember 6er thir$ stu$io
a"bum Ultraviolence was re"ease$ in June 2(1/ an$ $ebute$ as number one on the 9i""boar$
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!e" #ey:s music has been note$ %or its cinematic soun$ an$ its re%erences to 5arious as+ects
o% +o+ cu"ture, +articu"ar"y that o% the 195(s an$19;(s Americana <he singer has $escribe$
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$eems to be the masters o% each genre, inc"u$ing ?"5is 'res"ey, Amy @inehouse, Janis
Jo+"in, 7ir5ana,[5] [6] ?minem, 9ruce ,+ringsteen, an$ 9ritney ,+ears,[)] as we"" as
%rom +oetry an$ &"m noir[8]

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