<P> Raised in northern New York state, Del Rey embarked on a music career in 2005 after moving to New York City, and first received widespread attention in 2011, when the music video for her single "Video Games" became a viral Internet sensation . Del Rey received further recognition after her major - label debut Born to Die peaked at number two on the United States charts and was the fifth best - selling album of 2012 . A remix of its single "Summertime Sadness", produced by Cedric Gervais, peaked at number six in the United States, and her extended play Paradise followed that November, garnering Del Rey her first Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album . Three of the EP's tracks were featured in her short film Tropico (2013). </P> <P> In 2014, Del Rey released her third studio album, Ultraviolence, which became her first album to reach number one in the United States . In 2015, following a North American tour with Courtney Love and Grimes, Del Rey released her fourth studio album, Honeymoon . Both albums received positive critical response . Her fifth studio album, Lust for Life, was released in 2017 . It received critical acclaim, and also became Del Rey's second album to reach number one in the United States, while also reaching the top ten in almost every other country in which it charted . Lust for Life also earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards . </P> <P> Elizabeth Woolridge Grant was born in New York City on June 21, 1985 to Robert England Grant, Jr., a Grey Group copywriter turned entrepreneur, and Patricia Ann "Pat" (née Hill), a former Grey account executive turned high school teacher . She has one younger sister, Caroline Grant, and one brother, Charlie . Her paternal grandfather, Robert England Grant, Sr. was a Kidder, Peabody & Co. investment banker, a vice president for Plough, Inc and Textron, and venture capitalist . She has Scottish ancestry from both her mother and father . </P> <P> Del Rey grew up in Lake Placid, New York, and was raised Roman Catholic . She attended a Catholic elementary school and for one year, a high school where her mother taught . She began singing in her church choir when she was a child, where she was the cantor . At age fifteen, she was sent to Kent School by her parents to resolve a budding drinking problem . Her uncle, an admissions officer at the boarding school, secured her financial aid to attend . </P>

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