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Timeline : Lana Del Rey

June 21, 1985

Lana Del Rey is born Elizabeth Grant in New York City.

October 10, 2011

Lana Del Rey releases her first single, "Video Games," a song inspired by two fractured relationships.

January 14, 2012

Little-known Lana Del Rey takes heaps of social media abuse for her lethargic performance on Saturday Night Live. She gets retribution when her Born To Die album, released two weeks later, earns her a global fanbase.

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