Biography
Rob Grant is known for crafting soft and melodic solo piano pieces that frequently convey a sense of yearning, whether optimistic or nostalgic. His music typically blends piano with atmospheric synthesizers and strings, as heard throughout his first album, Lost at Sea, issued in 2023; that collection comprised twelve instrumental tracks plus two vocal pairings with his daughter Lana Del Rey, one of them the title song.
Born Robert England Grant, Jr. in Evanston, Illinois in 1954, he was employed as a copywriter in Manhattan when he wed Patricia Ann Hill, who worked as an account executive at the same agency. The couple raised three children: Charlie Grant, Caroline "Chuck" Grant, and Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, the eldest of whom later achieved fame as pop superstar Lana Del Rey.
Although he never received formal training in reading or performing music, Grant found he possessed a natural capacity to improvise and compose at the piano, an activity he is known to pursue for hours on end. After completing a piano ballad with his daughter, he arranged his initial studio session at Conway Recording Studios in Los Angeles using a Steinway concert grand; the resulting track, "Sweet Carolina," ultimately became the closing song on Del Rey’s Blue Banisters (2021) album.
Heartened by that process, Grant remained in Los Angeles with Del Rey in early 2022 while she recorded her ninth album, Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, at Henson Studios. His own sessions at the same facility yielded the song "Lost at Sea," which became the basis for a full project. The Decca label subsequently joined the effort and enlisted ambient producer Luke Howard to collaborate with Grant. The finished Lost at Sea album, built primarily around yearning instrumental arrangements of piano, strings, and atmospheric synths, also featured two duets with Del Rey—"Hollywood Bowl" and the wistful title track—which appeared as a single in early June of 2023, with the complete album following on Decca before the month concluded.
Born Robert England Grant, Jr. in Evanston, Illinois in 1954, he was employed as a copywriter in Manhattan when he wed Patricia Ann Hill, who worked as an account executive at the same agency. The couple raised three children: Charlie Grant, Caroline "Chuck" Grant, and Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, the eldest of whom later achieved fame as pop superstar Lana Del Rey.
Although he never received formal training in reading or performing music, Grant found he possessed a natural capacity to improvise and compose at the piano, an activity he is known to pursue for hours on end. After completing a piano ballad with his daughter, he arranged his initial studio session at Conway Recording Studios in Los Angeles using a Steinway concert grand; the resulting track, "Sweet Carolina," ultimately became the closing song on Del Rey’s Blue Banisters (2021) album.
Heartened by that process, Grant remained in Los Angeles with Del Rey in early 2022 while she recorded her ninth album, Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, at Henson Studios. His own sessions at the same facility yielded the song "Lost at Sea," which became the basis for a full project. The Decca label subsequently joined the effort and enlisted ambient producer Luke Howard to collaborate with Grant. The finished Lost at Sea album, built primarily around yearning instrumental arrangements of piano, strings, and atmospheric synths, also featured two duets with Del Rey—"Hollywood Bowl" and the wistful title track—which appeared as a single in early June of 2023, with the complete album following on Decca before the month concluded.
Singles
