Lana Del Rey Tour 2024/2025

Highlights:

• Multiple Awards and Honors: Lana Del Rey is the recipient of two Brit Awards, two Billboard Women in Music, two MTV Europe Music Awards, and a Satellite Award.
• Chart-Topping Albums: Del Rey’s major label debut album, Born to Die, topped the charts globally, followed by six number-one albums in the UK.
• Highest Peak: Del Rey’s collaboration with Taylor Swift, “Snow on the Beach”, debuted at number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
• Poetry Collection: Del Rey published the poetry and photography collection Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass in 2020.

Lana Del Rey, an American singer-songwriter, is renowned for her music’s cinematic quality, evoking themes of tragic romance, glamour, and melancholia, often infused with references to contemporary pop culture and 1950s-1970s Americana. Her expansive discography and artistic contributions have earned her numerous accolades, including six Grammy Award nominations and a Golden Globe nomination. She has been acknowledged as “one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 21st century” by Variety and was named in Rolling Stone’s list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time (2023).

Born and raised in northern New York, Del Rey moved to New York City in 2005 to pursue a music career. Her breakthrough came in 2011 with the viral success of her single “Video Games,” leading to a recording contract with Polydor and Interscope. Del Rey released her major label debut album, Born to Die, in 2012, which contained the sleeper hit “Summertime Sadness” and quickly became a global sensation, topping charts around the world.

Del Rey continued to dominate the music scene with her subsequent albums. Her third album, Ultraviolence (2014), featured guitar-driven instrumentation and debuted atop the U.S. Billboard 200. Her fourth and fifth albums, Honeymoon (2015) and Lust for Life (2017), harked back to the stylistic traditions of her earlier work. Her critically acclaimed sixth album, Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019), explored soft rock and was named one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by Rolling Stone. Del Rey released two more studio albums, Chemtrails over the Country Club and Blue Banisters, in 2021.

In addition to her studio albums, Del Rey has contributed to various soundtracks and visual media projects. She wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed musical short Tropico in 2013 and recorded “Young and Beautiful” for The Great Gatsby, earning Grammy and Critics’ Choice Award nominations. She also recorded songs for the films Maleficent and Big Eyes, the latter of which was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

Del Rey’s collaboration with Taylor Swift, “Snow on the Beach,” from Swift’s tenth studio album Midnights (2022), marked her highest peak on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, debuting at number four. Her ninth studio album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, was released in 2023.

In 2020, Del Rey added another dimension to her artistic expression by publishing the poetry and photography collection Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass. Del Rey’s unparalleled ability to transcend time and genre has solidified her place as a visionary artist and an enduring voice in the world of music.