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Lana Del Rey Set For Rockwave Athens

LanaAmerican music sensation Lana Del Rey will play this year’s Rockwave Festival in Athens in July, festival organizers Didi Music have confirmed.

Critics don’t hold back when it comes to Lana Del Rey. The 26-year old singer has been called “a highly medicated Fiona Apple,” targeted for supposedly not knowing who she is, and categorized as having a “career founded on bad faith” — harsh words that are acknowledged by Del Rey herself.

Born Elizabeth Grant in New York, Del Rey showed a vulnerable, sensitive side in a recent interview with Canada’s Fashion magazine. The singer spoke of the copious criticism that both her music and her self-created persona receive.

“I feel like my work’s important, but I don’t always feel like I get respect for it,” Del Rey told the publication. “I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true.”

Del Rey went on to explain how the criticism affects her, adding, “When I feel like people don’t like (my) music and that the 10 years I spent making what I made was not for a good reason, that makes me want to drink again.” She has spoken about trouble with alcohol in the past, telling British GQ about teenage years spent struggling with alcoholism.

In what may be a strategy to be taken more seriously, Del Rey’s music has recently made the move past the radio airwaves, as her song Young and Beautiful for Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby was featured prominently in the film. She also recently covered classic songs including Nancy Sinatra’s Summer Wine and Leonard Cohen’s Chelsea Hotel No. 2.

She will headline the second day of the festival, after legendary British rockers Echo and the Bunnymen take to Terra Vibe’s main stage on July 8.  Del Rey initially began performing in clubs in New York City at age 18 and signed her first recording contract when she was 20 years old with 5 Points Records, releasing her first digital album Lana Del Ray a.k.a. Lizzy Grant in January 2010.

Del Rey bought herself out of the contract with 5 Points Records in April 2010 and signed a joint contract with Interscope, Polydor, and Stranger Records in October 2011. After she released her debut single Video Games in June 2011, a music video created by Del Rey for the song was posted on YouTube in August 2011. After the song became a viral internet hit with over 20 million views, her second studio album, Born to Die, was released in January 2012.

The album sold over 3.6 million copies worldwide in 2012, making it the fifth best-selling album of 2012. Charting across Europe, the album spawned numerous top ten hits, including Blue Jeans, National Anthem, Born to Die, and Summertime Sadness.

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