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Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Kravitz (b. circa 1965, Brooklyn, New York) has built a growing audience in the '90s by playing music that draws conspicuous inspiration from such '60s figures as Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, Curtis Mayfield, and Sly & the Family Stone. Kravitz's affection for the '60s runs much deeper than mere matters of his appearance, or even his songwriting; deeply involved in the production of his own albums, he is, for instance, militantly in favor of analog recording methods that use tubes rather than transistors. The art that Kravitz has not only found but displayed with love on all his albums has won him a large international audience, and with 1992's Are You Gonna Go My Way?, taken him to platinum sales levels. The Brooklyn-born son of Jeffersons actress Roxsie Roker and NBC-TV producer Sy Kravitz, Kravitz grew up on New York's Upper East Side, immersed in the music of Bobby Short, Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald. At one point in his childhood, he's said, he sat on Duke Ellington's lap as the master jazz composer played the piano. After his mother moved to Los Angeles for her Jeffersons role, Kravitz spent three years with the California Boys Chorale, with whom he participated in conductor Zubin Mehta's recording of Mahler's Third Symphony. Attending... Next

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