Lana Del Rey

Lana Del Rey occupies a space in pop music that nobody else can convincingly enter. Where others chase brightness, she built an entire career on melancholy — faded Americana, doomed romance, glamour with rot at the edges. I find her commitment to that aesthetic genuinely admirable; from Born to Die through Ultraviolence and beyond, she has deepened her world rather than diluted it for trends. The New Yorker who studied at Fordham writes like someone who has read widely and grieved privately. To me, she is less a pop star than an American novelist who happens to sing, and that distinction is everything.

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Name (English)

Lana Del Rey

Name (Japanese)

ラナ・デル・レイ

Reading

らな・でる・れい

Born

June 21, 1985 (age 41)

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Height

170 cm

Occupation

singer-songwriter / recording artist / singer / actor / musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Ox

University

Fordham University

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://lanadelrey.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/lanadelrey/
• Xhttps://x.com/LanaDelRey
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lana%20Del%20Rey
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37150

Tags

• New York
• singer-songwriter
• recording artist
• singer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.