“ It’s just that my family is still around and close,” she explained. Del Rey made little of his comments on her shadowy persona. When pop icon Elton John interviewed her for Rolling Stone Magazine in 2019, even the 72-year-old show business veteran admitted to finding Del Rey enigmatic. In the tell-all confessional world of modern pop, the sense of mystery Lana Del Rey exudes is magnetic. The road ahead however, would be laden with thorns. After years of struggle, she had finally found success with a viral music video - which has now been streamed more than 650 million times.

‘Video Games’ was Del Rey’s ticket to fame. Setting a haunting ballad to a home-made music video, ‘ Video Games‘ was born and the world would never seem the same. Rechristening herself Lana Del Rey, Grant transformed herself into the dark, sultry, and mysterious woman the public has come to know today. Born Elizabeth Grant in New York in 1985, she performed in nightclubs under aliases like ‘Sparkle Jump Rope Queen’, ‘Lizzy Grant & the Phenomena’ and simply ‘Lizzy Grant’.

Lana Del Rey was determined to be different from the very start.

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