Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer-songwriter. An influential figure in alternative pop music, Del Rey's songs are noted for their melancholic exploration of romance and glamour, with frequent references to pop culture and 1950s–1970s Americana. She is widely considered one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 21st century. Del Rey grew up in upstate New York and moved to Manhattan in 2005 to pursue a music career. After signing with Polydor and Interscope, she released her first major-label album, Born to Die, which featured a cinematic, hip-hop-inflected sound and garnered a cult following. It holds the record for the longest charting album by a woman in the history of the US Billboard 200. She explored psychedelic, orchestral, and folk genres on her next albums Ultraviolence, Honeymoon, and Lust for Life. Rolling Stone ranked her sixth album, Norman Fucking Rockwell!, among the 500 greatest albums, while her subsequent albums Chemtrails Over the Country Club, Blue Banisters, and Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd received further critical acclaim. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lana_De...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)