Lenny Kravitz

Leonard Albert Kravitz , born with New York the May 26th 1964, is American a type-setter author. He passed his childhood between Manhattan and Brooklyn. Its principal influences are Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and Prince. kinds: Pop-rock'n'roll, Neo-psychédelique, Hard rock…

Childhood

Wire of the producer tele Sy Kravitz and the actress Roxie Roker, known in particular for the role of Helen Willis in the television series The Jeffersons between 1975 and 1985, it bathes in the Jazz and R&B as of its more young age. It leaves to Los Angeles where it sings in the California Boys Choir and collaborates with Zubin Mehta. On the benches of the college, Beverly Hills High School, it crosses in particular Slash, the future guitarist of Guns Pink (which exploits 2 pieces of the album Mama Said ) as well as the actress Angelina Jolie. It is only sons.

Private life

In 1986, Lenny settles in New York, with his/her boyfriend, LISA Bonet, one of heroins of the Cosby Show. They marry the year according to, in Las Vegas. One year later, in December 1988, they give birth to a girl, Zoë. This marriage will balance however by a divorce, in 1993, LISA being exceeded variations of Lenny, in particular with Madonna, for which it has Co-writing with Ingrid Chavez and produces a title, Justify My Love , in 1991.

It was a time the companion, during the Années 1990, of the singer and French actress Vanessa Paradis, for which it will write and produce entirely an album, sobrement entitled Vanessa Paradis . And one can add to his conquests in love the singer Natalie Imbruglia, the actress Nicole Kidman as well as the top model Adriana Lima.

Discography

Let Coils Rule (1989) classified 61 US
Mama Said (1991) classified 39 US, 8 the U.K.
Are You Gonna Go My Way (1993) classified 12 US, 1 the U.K.
Circus (1995) classified 10 US, 5 the U.K.
5 (1998) classified 28 US, 18 the U.K.
Greatest Hits (2001) classified 2 US, 12 the U.K.
Lenny (2001) classified 12 US, 55 the U.K.
Baptism (2004) classified 14 US, 74 The U.K.

KIS My Ass (album of resumptions of the group KIS on which Lenny played 1 title)

Anecdotes

With the whole beginning of its career, Lenny had taken as pseudonym Romeo Blue , and he slept in a car which he rented 5$/jour.

At the time of its passage to Paris for its concert the Confessions Tower, Madonna invited it to come on scene to sing in duet with it title I coils New York.

External bonds

the official site of English Lenny
the site of French Lenny
Another site of French fan
One of the best sites on Lenny

Simple: Lenny Kravitz

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