- Angelina Jolie handpicked her to perform the song "Once Upon a Dream" as the main theme for Maleficent (2014).
- Stated that she has suffered from alcohol dependence. At age 15, she was sent to Kent School, a boarding school in Connecticut, for three years to get sober.
- Her stage name came from a series of managers and lawyers over the last 9 years (as of 2014) who wanted a name that they thought better fit the sound of the music. It's a combination of the late old Hollywood actress Lana Turner and the Ford Del Rey (car).
- Was accepted at State University of New York at Genesso, but declined. She decided to take a gap year and the following fall she attended Fordham University, where she studied metaphysics, a branch of philosophy.
- Has described herself as a "self-styled gangsta Nancy Sinatra"; and cites Britney Spears, Thomas Newman, Eminem, Elvis Presley, Antony and the Johnsons, and Kurt Cobain as her musical influences.
- Her debut single, "Video Games", attained worldwide success, reaching number one in Germany and top-ten positions in Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Ireland, Scotland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom (as of December 2011).
- Born To Die is the second longest running album on the Billboard 200 by a female artist.
- She lived in The Bronx and later moved to New Jersey while in college and volunteered at homeless youth and drug and alcohol outreach programs, as well as helping paint and rebuild houses on an Indian reservation in the western United States.
- Used to be able to speak fluent Spanish when she was younger.
- Her musical style is known as "Hollywood sadcore".
- Steven J. Horowitz recalled that when he first interviewed Lana for her first Billboard cover, she ordered granola, a large bowl of yogurt and strawberries. But instead of taking all that for herself, she only took a few bites from it and then tried to convince him to take something from the remaining food and eat it. From that moment on, he knew she was an icon.
- She has English and Scottish ancestry.
- Before she started singing, she wanted to be a poet.
- Performed gratis at the wedding of Kim Kardashian and Ye (May 2014).
- Was an alcoholic as a youngster and was sent to a boarding school in Connecticut for three years to deal with her alcohol issues.
- Close friends with actress Jaime King.
- She is a big fan of Guns N'Roses.
- She received her first recording contract at the age of twenty while performing at a local club. She worked in community service jobs when her first album got shelved by the record company.
- Her 2012 album Born to Die peaked at number two on the U.S. Billboard 200.
- Her name in Spanish means "king's money".
- Ranked #82 on Maxim's "Hot 100" of 2014 list.
- Is retiring her song "Cola" because it was about Harvey Weinstein.
- Loves soft drinks and often makes reference to Them in her songs.
- Parents are Robert and Patricia Grant; has a younger brother and sister.
- Older sister of Caroline Grant, a photographer, who goes by the name of Chuck Grant.
- Collects Barbie dolls.
- Is the oldest of three children from Robert and Patricia Grant. Has one sister, Caroline, and one brother, Charlie.
- She used to work as a babysitter and briefly kept doing it even after her music career took off.
- She was born to Rob and Pat Grant and raised alongside her siblings Caroline and Charlie.
- "Born to Die" is a quote from the Play "Antigone" by Sophocles.
- She has matching tattoos with Adele. Adele got a tattoo of "paradise" on her left hand which was about her son, and was not aware that Lana Del Rey had already had one.
- She collaborated with Cheryl Cole on her album A Million Lights.
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