Byline: A Velvet Voice Covers a Living Legend

Byline • Written by Jack Ryan

Arriving fashionably late is practically party etiquette at the Chateau Marmont. So when Los Angeles-based musician Loren Kramar strolled into the French Gothic hotel for a friend’s birthday, he timed it perfectly—slipping into an intimate celebration of just ten people without a beat.

Loren, a musician known for his sensitivity to detail since emerging in 2015, remembers the usual scene—drinks flowing, cigarettes lit, everyone playing their part in a series of fleeting vignettes that defined the Chateau Marmont mood. Amid it all, he noticed Lana Del Rey sitting on the hotel room floor, cradling a cappuccino, entirely at ease and untouched by the energy around her. Leaving the party, he thought, “God, I should’ve ordered a cappuccino. She’s so above all this bullshit.”

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