The most shocking photo of Lana Del Rey
Doe eyes, puffy lips, outfits inspired by the 50s and 60s, Lana Del Rey wonderfully maintains the myth of Hollywood glam' femme fatale. Born on June 21, 1986 in New York, United States, Lana Del Rey, whose real name is Elizabeth Woodridge Grant, is the daughter of Robert Frant, a very wealthy domain name manager. The artist, self-taught, has never taken singing lessons and improves her technique on her own in the churches and schools of her childhood. As for the guitar, it was her uncle who taught her when she was 18 years old. After a childhood spent in Lake Placid, New York, she left to study philosophy at Fordham University in the Big Apple.
But she ends up giving up her studies to devote herself to her musical career, financially supported by her father. In 2009, she recorded an EP entitled Kill kill under the name Lizzy Grant, which went more or less unnoticed. However, certain titles like Yayo and Gramma, which filter today on the web, are now very appreciated by the few critics who know them.
In January 2010, her first album, Lana Del Ray, did not make much noise either. Lizzy Grant then decided to become definitely Lana Del Rey, a combination of the first name of Hollywood actress Lana Turner and the Chevrolet Delray: a name evoking Hollywood glamour, in perfect harmony with her style of music. In June 2011, the new Lana signed with the record label Stranger Record. The clip for the very melancholic song Video Games was a huge success and caused a stir on social networks in the fall of 2011. It is a mini-film directed by him, in which a hypnotizing universe is depicted. The young singer has a deep, airy voice. The clip has now been viewed more than 25 million times on Youtube.
We ignite: but who is this young singer that no one knows? But this is where all the art of the starlet lies: she is rare in interviews, and her appearances in the media are all carefully staged... The young woman is building an aura of an inaccessible star. And it works. She released two other singles, Born to Die (whose clip was entirely shot in Fontainebleau) and Blue Jeans, which experienced the same enthusiasm. Things then move very quickly. In early 2012, his album Born to Die is already in stores in Switzerland and France. But many controversies ensue. In January 2012, the singer loses her means and makes an appearance on Saturday Night Live deemed disastrous, bordering on ridiculous. The video is causing bad buzz on the Internet.
Then he was accused of plagiarism when he discovered disturbing similarities between Video Games and the Greek song Δρ?μοι που αγ?πησα (Dromi pou agapissa) by Eleni Vitali. Asked about this on the set of the Grand Journal de Canal +, Lana gets angry and decides to shun the next interviews -although already rare-, that she was to give in France. She has also been criticized for having had plastic surgery and encouraging the "duck face" fashion with her silicone lips, rumors that the singer denies, assuring that her lips are natural.
If Lana Del's musical performances Rey were really disappointing, the singer will always be able to convert: her taste for fashion and her outfits inspired by the 50s-60s have marked the spirits and earned her the cover of prestigious magazines such as English and Japanese Vogue, Glamour…. And according to rumors, she could well be the new face of the H&M brand. ?
