Rob Grant

A self-taught pianist who made his first record at the age of 69, Lana Del Rey's father creates undulating, organic, neo-classical miniatures that take inspiration from time spent on, or near, oceans, rivers, and lakes. Rob Grant was born in 1953 in Evanston, Illinois but grew up in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, where his father was employed by the navy as an aviator. Grant spent his early teens learning how to maneuver small boats and, as a 15-year-old, began to sail on the Atlantic in a sloop named after Samuel Butler's satirical novel Erewhon. He studied at Prescott Col...