Lenny Kravitz, born May 26, 1964, is a multi-instrumentalist who incorporates many different genres of music into his records. Kravitz was born in New York City to an African-American mother and a Ukranian-Jewish father. He first debuted on the Billboard
"And that's when conversations of race and what the world was like really started happening between my mother and I," he continued. In his memoir, Kravitz also describes the difficult relationship he had with his late father which saw him leave home after a heated argument when he was just...
Calling himself “Romeo Blue,” he hit the road to try to make it big within the music enterprise. Despite his mother and father’ superstar connections, Kravitz was decided to succeed on his own merit. The early years of his musical profession had been something but glamorous. Kravitz lived...
Zoë Kravitzregrets her choice to move away from her mother,Lisa Bonet, when she was younger in order to live with fatherLenny Kravitz. “I think it was very hurtful that I moved away from her to be with my dad and my dad wasn’t even there,” Zoë, 35, toldEsquirein a profile...
Kravitz, 56, dedicated the book to his mother, actress Roxie Roker, who was best known for her role in “The Jeffersons” as Helen Willis, half of one of TV’s first interracial couples. TV producer Sy Kravitz, his father and a former military man, was strict with the younger Kravitz....
and Spike Lee all came from there. It made life very interesting and I learnt to relate with all kinds of people. But then my father is a Russian Jew and my mother is from the Bahamas, so here I am in the middle.Interview Andrew G Marshall...
and cultures could be attributed to his multi-cultured heritage (his mother, who played Helen Willis on the TV show The Jeffersons, was of Afro-American and Afro-Bahamian descent and his father, from a Russian-Jewish family originating from Ukraine). Then again, it could simply be down to ...
and to me, I knew that my father looked different than my mother. We’d go to church, we’d go to temple, we’d go to my grandmother’s in Brooklyn and eat soul and Caribbean food, and we’d go to my grandmother’s in Sheepshead Bay and eat Jewish food. I had it all and...
Modern family!Nicole Kidman‘s relationship withZoë Kravitzhas evolved from getting engaged to her father,Lenny Kravitz, toBig Little Liescostars and now … sisters. Related:Famous Celebrity Families “I feel protective, like a big sister, toward her. She is carving her...
Lenny Kravitz:That would have been back in the early Seventies, when my mother was wearing YvesSaint Laurent. My mother had great style, and she used to wear all kinds of beautiful garments. She’d be dressed [in the fashion], but I also used to as a kid play in her closet. I lov...