On June 21, 1986, singer Elizabeth Woolridge Grant was born in New York, United States, which changed its name to "Lana Del Rey". The name is a combination of the actress "Lana Turner" and part of the name of the King's Ford vehicle, according to the singer herself in one of her interviews.
The singer has an excellent voice, which empowers in her songs, which are of genre indie, pop and rock.
The singer's career began in 2010, though with the name of Lizzy Grant. Their first album was called "Lana Del Rey a.k.a. Lizzy Grant", and could only be obtained by means of downloads in digital platforms.
In mid-2011, the singer signed a contract with a label called Stranger Records, with which she released her first single "Video games". A few months later he would change record labels to Intercscope Records and Polydor.
The song "Video games", was used for an important scene of the series "Ringer", which turned it into the center of attention of many spectators and lovers of the music. This also served to be nominated for "Best New Album" by the magazine "Pichford".
Taking advantage of this media pull, the singer would promote this song along with some more on MTV Brazil.
All this, together with the commercialization of the album by Europe, served to him to the singer to obtain diverse contracts to act in London.
In mid-October 2011, it was announced that the singer had won the Q Award in the "Next Big Thing" category.
The singer, meanwhile, finalized her new album, giving the finishing touches. At the beginning of 2012, he personally announced that he would be called "Born to Die".
In fact, it can be said that this album was actually the first to go on sale for the singer, since the previous one was only sold and published through digital Internet platforms.
The album "Born to die" was finally released at the end of the month of January of 2012, managing to sell more than 117,000 copies in the first week, arriving at the position number 2 of the Billboasrd 200.
According to reports the sales of this album have reached the amount of 2000000 copies sold worldwide.
It has also achieved first place sales in many countries, including Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Switzerland, among others.
It also obtained the second position in this same ranking in the United States.
As something to emphasize, we must comment that the singer herself was the director of her music video "Carmen", which is part of this album.
