Lana Del Rey is an American singer-songwriter from New York, known for a cinematic, melancholic style that blends pop, indie, and baroque elements with references to Americana and 20th-century pop culture. Emerging in the late 2000s and rising to international prominence in the early 2010s, her work often features lush, atmospheric production, languid vocal delivery, and lyrical themes of romance, nostalgia, fame and longing. Her music draws on dream pop, indie pop and alternative pop traditions, and she is recognized for a stylized, retro-inflected aesthetic and a focus on mood, storytelling and evocative imagery in both recordings and visual presentation.