Artist: Lenny Kravitz Genre(s):
Rock
Trance: Psychedelic
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Where Are We Runnin'? Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
California Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Baptism Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Another Life Year: 2004
Tracks: 6
Mama Said Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
Lenny Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
Greatest Hits Year: 2000
Tracks: 15
Greatest Hits Year: 2000
Tracks: 1
5 Year: 1998
Tracks: 15
Let Love Rule Year: 1995
Tracks: 13
Circus Year: 1995
Tracks: 11
Are You Gonna Go My Way Year: 1993
Tracks: 11
Lady Year:
Tracks: 2
There may have been early "retro" stone acts of the Apostles earlier him, merely Lenny Kravitz was one of the first to not be pigeonholed to a individual style as he's touched upon such genres as somebody, blue funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, kinsfolk, and ballads over the long time. Born in New York on May 26, 1964 (his mother was actress Roxie Roker, best-known for her role as Helen Willis on the popular TV series
The Jeffersons, and his father was a TV producer), Kravitz was elevated in Los Angeles, where he base himself around uncounted musical giants as a minor due to his parents friendships with the likes of Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Bobby Short, and Miles Davis, among others. Kravitz was a member of the California Boys Choir until his teen long time, when he distinct to pursue stone & roll spell in heights school and under the heavy influence of funk rocking chair Prince. Kravitz's appreciation of the Purple One was so great that he at first patterned his style and approach direct subsequently Prince and became known as "Romeo Blue" (nail with blasphemous liaison lenses), just failed to country a recording sign on.
In the late '80s, Kravitz resettled back to New York City, where one of his roommates off out to be actress Lisa Bonet (wHO played the part of Denise Huxtable on
The Cosby Show); they eventually got marital. During this meter, Kravitz sagely discarded his Prince-like approach shot and looked back to such '60s/'70s authoritative bikers as Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, Bob Marley, and the Beatles for inspiration. Kravitz base a kindred liveliness in engineer Henry Hirsch (wHO would stick by Kravitz end-to-end his life history). With a back-to-basics approach shot, his style was quite novel in the humorously trashy late '80s. He inked a recording contract with Virgin Records and issued his debut button,
Permit Love Rule, in 1989. Kravitz's debut proven to be a surprise hit referable to the success of the title track, which became a strike exclusive and oft-aired video. A few critics were flying to arrogate that Kravitz's retro look and legal were just a schtick to get the public's attention, merely come up the '90s, it had get unified into the mainstream (both musically and fashion-wise), proving that Kravitz was a bit of a trendsetter. It was around this prison term that Kravitz penned a major hit single, not for himself merely for Madonna, world Health Organization went to identification number one with the sulfurous track "Justify My Love."
What should give birth been a time of happiness for Kravitz quickly turned moody as he and Bonet divorced by the early '90s. Kravitz's heartbreak was very evident in his sophomore drive,
Mum Said, which was even stronger than its predecessor, highlighted by the Led Zep-like funk rocker "Always on the Run" (a collaborationism with Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash), as well as the mega hit with the Curtis Mayfield-esque soul lay "It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over," which confirmed that Kravitz's success was no good fortune. But the best was notwithstanding to come for Kravitz. His third passing boilersuit, 1993's
Are You Gonna Go My Way, is frequently considered to be the finest album presence to back of his full vocation, and with right reason: Every individual song dynasty was a winner, including the up-tempo anthemic title track, which turned out to be one of MTV's most played videos for that year. The album was a massive hit and Kravitz became an arena star stateside, as well as organism featured on infinite powder magazine covers.
Despite an near two-year gap between albums, Kravitz's fourth passing,
Genus Circus, came off sounding unfocussed and was a major letdown compared to his leading old few releases. Perhaps sensing that he requisite to shift things up musically, Kravitz splashed with electronics and trip-hop loops for his next album, 1998's
5. Although not a brobdingnagian hit veracious off the bat, the album proven to cause an improbably retentive graph life-time, spawning the biggest hit of Kravitz's career, "Vanish Away," virtually a year after its original tone ending. With the single's success, Virgin distinct to john Cash in on the album's sudden renascence by reissuing it around the same time with a geminate of extra added fillip tracks, one of which became another ample hit single, a remaking of the Guess Who's "American Woman" (which was used in the hit 1999 clowning movie
Capital of Texas Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me). Kravitz's first base best-of set, the 15-track
Sterling Hits, was issued as a stopgap passing in 2000, piece his sixh studio tone ending overall,
Lenny, was issued a year later.
Baptism followed in 2004. After starting a residential, commercial-grade, and product designing company called Kravitz Design, he recorded a low-down version of John Lennon's "Cold Turkey" for Amnesty International's 2007 benefit compiling
Instant Karma. Before the conclusion of the year it was proclaimed that Kravitz would return in 2008 with a new album,
It Is Time for a Love Revolution.
In accession to his possess albums, Kravitz continues to pen songs for other artists and his compositions have appeared on albums by such stone heavyweights as Aerosmith and Mick Jagger, spell he produced and wrote the legal age of Vanessa Paradis' unknown self-titled 1992 passing.
