Lana Del Rey’s father Rob Grant has said that he is “happy to be the first nepo daddy” as he prepares to release his debut album.As announced in February, Grant, 69, is due to drop the 14-track ‘Lost At Sea’ on June 9 via Decca Records.
You can pre-order/pre-save it here.He’s already previewed the project with the singles ‘Setting Sail On A Distant Horizon’, ‘Poetry Of Wind And Waves’, ‘The Mermaids Lullaby’ and ‘Deep Ocean Swells’.Del Rey – real name Lizzie Grant – will feature on the record’s title track and another song called ‘Hollywood Bowl’.
Her frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff is credited as one of the album’s producers.During a new interview with GQ, Rob Grant – who is said to have had “no kind of formal musical training”, per an official blurb – responded to the online reaction to his new venture.“The nepo daddy thing I love,” he told the publication.
According to the article, Grant first encountered the concept – a play on the ‘nepo baby’ label – within his Instagram comments.“I’m happy to be the first nepo daddy,” he continued.Del Rey then claimed that Mitch Winehouse – father of the late Amy Winehouse – was actually the first ‘nepo daddy’, having tried to make it as a jazz artist following Amy’s tragic death.Grant said that “they didn’t have nepo babies” back then. “It’s only because of the whole nepo baby thing.
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