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Submit Cancel. Please enter Valid details Ok got it! Enter Email ID Submit. Edit Email Id Contact Us. Biography There may have been other "retro" rock acts before him, but Lenny Kravitz was one of the first to not be pigeonholed to a single style as he touched upon such genres as soul, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk, and ballads over the years.
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.
In the late '80s, Kravitz relocated back to New York City, where one of his roommates turned out to be actress Lisa Bonet who played the part of Denise Huxtable on The Cosby Show ; they eventually got married. Kravitz found a kindred spirit in engineer Henry Hirsch who would stick by Kravitz throughout his career. With a back-to-basics approach, his style was quite refreshing in the humorously gaudy late '80s. He inked a recording contract with Virgin Records and issued his debut release, Let Love Rule, in 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.
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. It was around this time that Kravitz penned a major hit single, not for himself but for Madonna, who went to number one with the sultry track "Justify My Love.
Kravitz's heartbreak was very evident in his sophomore effort, Mama Said, which was even stronger than its predecessor, highlighted by the Led Zep-like funk rocker "Always on the Run" a collaboration with Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash , as well as the mega hit with the Curtis Mayfield-esque soul ballad "It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over," which confirmed that Kravitz's success was no fluke.
But the best was yet to come for Kravitz. His third release overall, 's Are You Gonna Go My Way, is often considered to be the finest album front to back of his entire career, and with good reason: Every single song 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 headliner stateside, as well as being featured on countless magazine covers.
Despite an almost two-year gap between albums, Kravitz's fourth release, Circus, came off sounding unfocused and was a major letdown compared to his stellar previous few releases. Perhaps sensing that he needed to stir things up musically, Kravitz dabbled with electronics and trip-hop loops for his next album, 's 5. Although not a huge hit right off the bat, the album proved to have an incredibly long chart life, spawning the biggest hit of Kravitz's career, "Fly Away," almost a year after its original release.
With the single's success, Virgin decided to cash in on the album's sudden rebirth by reissuing it around the same time with a pair of extra added bonus tracks, one of which became another sizeable hit single, a remake of the Guess Who's "American Woman" which was used in the hit comedy movie Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Kravitz's first best-of set, the track Greatest Hits, was issued as a stopgap release in , while his sixh studio release overall, Lenny, was issued a year later.
Baptism followed in After starting a residential, commercial, and product design company called Kravitz Design, he recorded a funky version of John Lennon's "Cold Turkey" for Amnesty International's benefit compilation Instant Karma. Before the end of the year it was announced that Kravitz would return in with a new album, It Is Time for a Love Revolution. The album arrived in February, accompanied by a brief tour.
In addition to his own albums, 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 release.
Year: Tracks: 16 Bitrate: MP3 Strut Japanese Edition. Year: Tracks: 12 Bitrate: MP3 New York, USA is an american singer-songwriter, record producer, and guitarist whose retro amalgam of rock, pop, funk, and even techno is inspired by such music icons as David Bowie Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. Like Prince and Sly Stone before him, Kravitz uses a multi-ethnic, mixed-gender backing band.
Kravitz plays guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, percussion, and sitar. He often plays these instruments on each recorded track, but frequently collaborates with other musicians as well when recording. His debut album Let Love Rule was a moderate success. In he released his second album, Mama Said, which reached the top 40 of the Billboard album charts.
He released the Circus album in , which reached number 10 on the Billboard chart on the back of his past achievement. With 5 , Kravitz embraced digital technology such as Pro Tools and samplers for the first time. Kravitz released a Greatest Hits compilation in It proved to be his most successful album. Kravitz released his sixth album Lenny in October Kravitz's seventh album Baptism was released in May Artist website: www.
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