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  Lenny Kravitz
Kravitz was a member of the California Boys Choir until his teenage years, when he decided to pursue rock and roll while in high school and under the heavily influence of funk rocker Prince.
Kravitz's admiration of the Purple One was so great that he at first patterned his style and approach directly after Prince and became known as "Romeo Blue" (complete with blue contact lenses), but failed to land a recording contract.
A few critics were quick to assume that Kravitz's retro look and sound were simply a shtick to get the public's attention, but come the '90s, it had become integrated into the mainstream (both musically and fashion-wise), proving that Kravitz was a bit of a trendsetter.
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 The Lenny Kravitz Website - New version 2006
Lenny Kravitz’s seventh album Baptism (2004) shows a singer-songwriter at the peak of his powers.
Lenny Kravitz has always been a great mimicker of mid-1970s rock and even though his latest offering Baptism (2004) is something like that, it has a deeper resonance than his previous albums.
LENNY KRAVITZ: Born May 26, 1964, New York, NY, Lenny Kravitz attended the Beverly Hills High School with contemporaries Slash (of Guns N ' Roses) and Maria McKee (of Lone Justice).
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 Lenny Kravitz - Virgin Radio
Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and arranger whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk, and ballads.
Kravitz was born in New York City, the son of Ukrainian-Jewish American NBC television news producer Sy Kravitz, and Bahamian American actress Roxie Roker, best known as her character Helen Willis on the hit 1970s television sitcom The Jeffersons (a spin-off of All in the Family).
Kravitz fearlessly defended against a surprise Chinese Army attack, saving most of his platoon; he was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the second highest military decoration of the United States Army.
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  Lenny Kravitz Concert Tickets - Lenny Kravitz Tickets - Cheap Lenny Kravitz Tickets
Lenny Kravitz's Roots The retro rocker we know as Lenny Kravitz was born in 1964 in Brooklyn, NY to parents Sy Kravitz and the late actress Roxie Roker.
Lenny Kravitz had a thing for music right away and by age 10 had dragged his parents to see Sarah Vaughan, James Brown and the Jackson 5.
Lenny Kravitz Los Angeles is expected to be one of his strongest shows of the Lenny Kravitz Tour.
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  Lenny Kravitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leonard Albert Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American rock/hard rock singer, songwriter, producer, and guitarist whose retro-style amalgam of rock, pop, funk, and even techno is inspired by such music icons as Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon.
Kravitz was born in New York City, and is the son of Russian-Jewish American film producer Sy Kravitz and Bahamian American actress Roxie Roker, best known as Helen Willis, a regular character on The Jeffersons.
Kravitz is currently serving as the opening act for Aerosmith on their fall 2005 tour.
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 Lenny Kravitz Bio | Singer | Biography | Alternative Rock | Are You Gonna Go My Way   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Lenny Kravitz is a sensitive rocker who's spent most of his career singing the message of love.
The retro rocker we know as Lenny Kravitz was born in 1964 in Brooklyn, NY to parents Sy Kravitz and the late actress Roxie Roker.
Lenny Kravitz had a thing for music right away and by age 10 had dragged his parents to see Sarah Vaughan, James Brown and the Jackson 5.
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 Baptism (Lenny Kravitz album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baptism is the seventh album by Lenny Kravitz, released on May 2004.
Lenny Kravitz originally intended this album to be a 1970s style funk album.
Kravitz had previously played guitar on Jay-Z's album The Blueprint 2: The Gift and the Curse.
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 CMT.com : Lenny Kravitz : Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Kravitz was a member of the California Boys Choir until his teenage years, when he decided to pursue rock & roll while in high school and under the heavily influence of funk rocker Prince.
Kravitz's debut proved to be a surprise hit due to the success of the title track, which became a hit single and oft-aired video.
Kravitz's first best-of set, the 15-track Greatest Hits, was issued as a stopgap release in 2000, while his sixh studio release overall, Lenny, was issued a year later.
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 IOnOne | art | music | Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz has described this self-produced disc as his most personal recording to date, a description that's hard to argue with, given the intimate lyrical tenor of many of the album's 13 songs and the one-man-band makeup of many others.
Lenny indulges his Sly Stone fixation on a passel of Baptism's cuts, most notably the good-vibe ode "I Don't Want to Be a Star," which gooses the Family Stone classic "Everybody Is a Star" into the post-paparazzi world.
Lenny may seem like an oddly nondescript title, but it's apt; these 12 songs simply sound like the work of Lenny Kravitz.
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 Lenny's AOL Chat - Lenny Kravitz Forum
Lenny Kravitz: I was in New York, and I was definitely horrified.
Lenny Kravitz: Your motivation should not be about being famous, it should be about becoming an artist, if that's what you want to be.
Lenny Kravitz: He dared to be different than the rest of the crowd.
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 Welcome to Lenny Kravitz.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Prince has often been cited as one of Lenny Kravitz's influences, so it should come as no surprise that Kravitz has decided to create and star in a semiautobiographical film in which he plays a musician searching for love and happiness.
Kravitz's cinematic debut, "Barbecues and Bar Mitzvahs," will be a dramatic comedy the artist compares to the films of Woody Allen.
Lenny will play the lead character, but the other roles are up for grabs.
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 Amazon.ca: Lenny Kravitz:Greatest Hits: Music: Lenny Kravitz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Lenny Kravitz is one of those rockers who has something in common with Frank Sinatra, he does things his way.
At the end of the day Lenny Kravitz is simply a really good songwriter able to kick out the jams, giving us songs that are never boring even in their moments of passive reflection.
Lenny Kravitz is a great musician backed by a first rate band and anyone who wants a taste of what the guy has to offer should check this CD out.
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 Amazon.ca: Lenny: Music: Lenny Kravitz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Lenny's latest self-titled CD (why are all the singers doing that now??) might not be the best, but you decide for yourself when you buy it.
Lenny still shines here with expert handling of song structure and song order, still one of the best guitarists around, but I think his lyrics suffer a little.
Yet it is no surprise that Kravitz chose to title his latest "Lenny"; it is pure and unadulterated Lenny Kravitz, finally delivering on the promise of his greatest and most original songs, notably the recent "Greatest Hits" ballad, "Again".
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 Rock On The Net: Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz was born in New York on May 26, 1964.
Kravitz, who is half-Jewish and half-Bahamian, grew up in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Los Angeles with his mom, actress Roxie Roker of (Helen Willis on The Jeffersons), and dad, TV producer, Sy Kravitz.
Kravitz was handcuffed and questioned by police in Miami because he matched the description of a bank robber being searched for by the police.
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 Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz was born in Brooklyn, New York City, in 1964.
Lenny, the son of an interracial couple, was interested in music at an early age.
Lenny Kravitz moved away from home, named himself "Romeo Blue" and, according to some sources, slept in a car he rented for $5/day.
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 Low-Life | UK Hip Hop Story | International | Lenny Kravitz - Baptism
Lenny Kravitz has always been one to do his own thing and whilst his influences have been obvious, e.g.
Lenny sings in a real pained and emotional way, but although it is what is expected from a track called Minister Of Rock 'N Roll I feel that the electronic guitar spoils the track.
Lenny is a mish mash of styles and over the years he has found the ideal ways to combine all this and it makes for an authentic sound.
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 hip online: artists: lenny kravitz
At the beginning of his career Lenny was a pioneer of a return to basic recording, this time Kravitz embraced hi-tech, incorporating his own samples and loops into his trademark tube-amp, down 'n' dirty recording approach.
Lenny's fiercest, fullest music the vocals crisp and immediate, the instrumentation surprising (everything from wah-wah guitar to mellotron and mini-moog to "green Heineken bottles" as percussion).
A child of two cultures, Kravitz grew up half-Bahamian, half-Jewish in Manhattan and Brooklyn, the son of TV producer Sy Kravitz and actress Roxie Roker (Helen on "The Jeffersons").
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 Lenny Kravitz's Toilet Troubles - October 22, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Lenny Kravitz's Toilet Troubles - October 22, 2004
OCTOBER 22--An overflowing toilet in Lenny Kravitz's $13 million Manhattan penthouse caused "catastrophic water damage" to a neighbor's apartment and now an insurance company wants the rock star to reimburse it for a six-figure damage claim.
In a New York State Supreme Court lawsuit filed Wednesday, Amica Mutual Insurance Company claimed that, in August, a Kravitz commode became "blocked, clogged and congested with various materials," leading to major water damage to the downstairs apartment of businessman Joel Disend, who paid $2.84 million in March 2001 for his fifth-floor spread.
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 Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz was one of the first to not be pigeonholed to a single style as he's touched upon such genres as soul, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk, and ballads over the years.
Kravitz was raised in Los Angeles, where he found himself around countless musical giants as a youngster 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 continues to pen songs for other artists and his compositions have appeared on albums by such rock heavyweights as Aerosmith and Mick Jagger, while he produced and wrote the majority of Vanessa Paradis' obscure self-titled 1992 release.
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 TrouserPress.com :: Lenny Kravitz
The old fart's cry — that youth is wasted on the young — gets a new twist in the hands of Lenny Kravitz, a sprout who reckons that history shouldn't be left to its ghosts.
The son of NBC producer Sy Kravitz and TV actress Roxie Roker, Kravitz grew up bi-coastal, learning drums, guitar and piano while developing his voice as a member of the California Boys Choir and the Metropolitan Opera (!).
Kravitz subsequently grew more sophisticated and RandB-geared in his appropriations, playing up his Prince-ly falsetto and cozy soul grooves.
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 Lenny Kravitz @ Soundbug
Lenny Kravitz is a musician whose retro-style amalgam of Rock, Pop, Funk, and even Techno is inspired by such music icons as Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon.
Kravitz would cover the Kiss (band) song "Deuce" for a tribute album with the track reaching #15 on the Billboard mainstream rock chart.
Jay-Z invited Lenny Kravitz to appear on the track "Guns and Roses" on his 2002 Blueprint 2: the Gift and the Curse.
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 Lenny kravitz lyrics, Lenny kravitz guitar tabs, Lenny kravitz bass tabs, Lenny kravitz pictures, Lenny kravitz fonts, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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 Lenny Kravitz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Kravitz's family ties - his Jewish father was a top television producer; his Bahamian mother Roxie Roker an actress - suggested a future in showbusiness.
Kravitz's interest in music flourished in the mid-80s and he signed a recording contract with I.R.S. Records under the moniker Romeo Blue.
Circus featured a stripped-down version of Kravitz's trademark sound, displaying his talent as a writer of more contemporary sounding material rather than the 60s pastiches of his earlier albums.
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 Lenny Kravitz and the Photo Dogs of Madison Square Garden - Redirect (NY Rock)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
I heard that we were about to witness Lenny's "big show" and upon arrival at the photo pit, I learned what this meant.
Lenny surfaced from the cloud as ye faithful audience roared in high decibel approval.
Not to take anything away from Lenny – who clearly is a star by all rights and an amazing spectacle to observe – you just gotta see this sonofabitch live to know what I mean.
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 www.myspace.com/lennykravitz
As Kravitz's music has resonated through seven studio albums into a timeless catalog, the expansive color of his career can now be heard on a special collector's edition of the rocker's GREATEST HITS album, an acclaimed release that underscores Kravitz's peerless status as a writer, producer and multi-instrumentalist.
Kravitz’s appeal has also been recognized by his peers; his collaborative efforts are as varied as his own influences, having worked with Madonna, Slash, Jay-Z, N.E.R.D., P. Diddy and Alicia Keys.
Kravitz's mix of classic rock, soul and psychedelic pop, and his iconic, bohemian and dreadlocked look, would enrapture fans.
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