Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Kravitz Biography and News

BORN: May 26, 1964, New York, NY

On his new album, Lenny Kravitz digs deep, goes long and hangs tough to discoverM- Ehimself.

It’s no fluke that his lng-awaited sixth album is titled, simply, Lenny. Written, produced, arranged and performed by rock and roll’s quintessential renaissance man, these twelve astonishing tracks are the most innovative, iconoclastic and involving offerings of a career marked by uncompromising creative integrity. On his first collection of new, original material since 1998’s breakthrough Grammy-winner 5 and the follow-up to his international smash Greatest Hits, Lenny Kravitz takes his music personally. The music of Lenny lays bare the essence of the artistM- Wand the man.

“This record has a very tough attitude,” asserts the creator of the densely textured sound that roars from these tracks like a sustained act of spontaneous generation. “I like extremes and contrast and I let myself reach that edge, stripping everything back to the essentials and taking a very direct path. Nothing’s wasted. Nothing’s unnecessary.”

Recorded primarily in early 2001 at his new state-of-the-art Roxie Studios in Miami, Lenny captures that creative energy in full flower, with assured, unfettered performances and production illuminating his passionate points of view. “There’s a definite theme that unites these songs,” Lenny Kravitz reveals. “It’s about being positive, about moving forward and seizing the day. I’m very optimistic and that’s a great place to be.”

It certainly is. Three years ago, the release of the album 5 catapulted Kravitz to the front ranks of rock and roll’s prime movers, consolidating a lifetime of music-making into a furious burst of creativity that included the breakthrough hit “I Belong To You,” and double Grammy-winning follow-ups, “Fly Away” and “American Woman.”

Effortlessly assuming the superstar mantle, Kravitz paused long enough to release a greatest hits collection that sold upwards of eight million copies worldwide and spawned his third consecutive Grammy for the newly cut “Again” (a track originally slated for Lenny). Yet even while putting the finishing touches on the Greatest Hits package, Kravitz was already assembling the elements of his next project. “I’ve got a place in the Bahamas,” he explains, “just a beachfront shack on an island with no distractions, where I started writing. After I got about three or four songs, I went into the studio. I never write a whole album before I start recording. A big part of what I do is discovering the direction as I go. I let the tracks take their own shape, not dictated by my ego. The music will always tell you what’s going on, where it’s heading and when it gets there. All you’ve got to do is listen.”

Kravitz was obviously listening. He built a seamlessly integrated sound from the ground up. “It takes a lot of experimentation, a lot of trial and error and a lot of patience,” he allows. “As you add one element after the other, the dynamics of the music changes and what sounds great the first time you lay it down may not hold up when you add another layer. The way I work is to get each part in place as I go. One day I might do a bass or drums or guitar. I’ll mix, balance and EQ it, then move on. I’m mixing as I go, making it work step by step. I don’t believe in fixing it in the mix. If it doesn’t work now, it’s not going to work later.”

In marked contrast to all this exacting sonic science is the resulting breathtaking intimacy and immediacy. Lenny accomplishes the seemingly impossible goal of sounding virtually live, as if one extraordinarily ambidextrous individual is playing it all, and all at the same time. “If you turn it up, it becomes like a wall of sound coming down on top of you,” Kravitz elaborates. “What I wanted to achieve was one big sound, a musical collage made up of many parts that all come together as a whole. Of course,” he adds with typical understatement, “trying to do that by yourself makes it harder.”

His astonishing feat of self-expression makes it hard to imagine anyone else intruding. With Lenny, Kravitz creates a vast aural canvas on which he renders a strikingly personal, unfailingly honest and completely authentic lyrical landscape. The sentiments expressed in such standout tracks as “Yesterday Is Gone” and “Dig In” ring with the resonance of hard won truth, a spiritual wisdom that never preaches but persuades by example. The flash and roar igniting “Battlefield Of Love” and “Bank Robber Man” (based on the artist’s well-publicized run-in with Miami police) convincingly underscore his mastery of real rock and roll’s supercharged elements, while such key cuts as “Believe In Me,” “Pay To Play” and “If I Could Fall In Love” are examples of a songwriting skill at the peak of its expressive powers.

At the same time, Lenny is laced with songs that can only be described in their own terms. On “You Were In My Heart” the artist conveys a truth all the more poignant for being familiar to anyone who has ever honestly searched themselves. “A Million Miles Away” offers unflinching insights into isolation, while the album’s stunning closer, “Let’s Get High,” is a genuinely transcendent experience in both style and substance.

“It’s about eliminating all exterior distractions,” Lenny Kravitz explains of another album highlight, “Stillness Of Heart.” “It’s about making peace with yourself, about being enough. People feel inadequate unless they’re validated by things like money or status. But, at the end of the day, you have to look at yourself in the mirror and deal with that person.”

On Lenny, this gifted and intuitive artist has searched himself, taken the full measure of his life and art, and found music that reflects a brilliant light. The album has already taken Kravitz to new heights with the artist winning his fourth record breaking Grammy Award in the “Best Male Rock Vocal Performance” category for the single, “Dig In.” With previous awards for “Again,” “American Woman” and “Fly Away,” never before in Grammy history has an artist won four consecutive awards in this category. Kravitz also was honored this year to receive his first American Music Award for Favorite Male Artist (Pop/Rock).

In an era of music where careers have become very disposable, Kravitz’s remarkable decade-plus career is only beginning with his first world tour in 3 years, scheduled to kick off in Japan on April 9th.

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Lenny Kravitz Music and Albums

5
A Tribute to Curtis Mayfield
Are You Gonna Go My Way?
Baptism
Circus
Greatest Hits
It Is Time For A Love Revolution
Lenny
Let Love Rule
ama Said
Now That’s What I Call Music 4
Rock & Roll Is Dead [single]

Lenny Kravitz Songs and Lyrics

Lenny Kravitz – A Long and Sad Goodbye
Lenny Kravitz – A Million Miles Away
Lenny Kravitz – A New Door
Lenny Kravitz – Again
Lenny Kravitz – All I Ever Wanted
Lenny Kravitz – All My Life
Lenny Kravitz – Always On The Run
Lenny Kravitz – American Woman
Lenny Kravitz – Another Life
Lenny Kravitz – Are You Gonna Go My Way
Lenny Kravitz – Ascension
Lenny Kravitz – B Side Blues
Lenny Kravitz – Back In Vietnam
Lenny Kravitz – Bank robber man
Lenny Kravitz – Baptized
Lenny Kravitz – Battlefield Of Love
Lenny Kravitz – Be
Lenny Kravitz – Believe
Lenny Kravitz – Believe In Me
Lenny Kravitz – Beyond The 7th Sky
Lenny Kravitz – Billy Jack
Lenny Kravitz – Black Girl
Lenny Kravitz – Black Velveteen
Lenny Kravitz – Blues For Sister Someone
Lenny Kravitz – Bring It On
Lenny Kravitz – Brother
Lenny Kravitz – Butterfly
Lenny Kravitz – California
Lenny Kravitz – Calling All Angels
Lenny Kravitz – Can We Find A Reason
Lenny Kravitz – Can’t Get You Off My Mind
Lenny Kravitz – Circus
Lenny Kravitz – Come On And Love Me
Lenny Kravitz – Confused
Lenny Kravitz – Dancin Til Dawn
Lenny Kravitz – Dancin’ Till Dawn
Lenny Kravitz – Destiny
Lenny Kravitz – Deuce
Lenny Kravitz – Dig In
Lenny Kravitz – Does Anybody Out There Even Care
Lenny Kravitz – Don’t Go And Put A Bullet In Your Head
Lenny Kravitz – Eleutheria
Lenny Kravitz – Empty Hands
Lenny Kravitz – Fear
Lenny Kravitz – Fields Of Joy
Lenny Kravitz – Flash
Lenny Kravitz – Flower Child
Lenny Kravitz – Flowers For Zoe
Lenny Kravitz – Fly Away
Lenny Kravitz – For The First Time
Lenny Kravitz – Freedom Train
Lenny Kravitz – God Is Love
Lenny Kravitz – God Save Us All
Lenny Kravitz – Good Morning
Lenny Kravitz – Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)
Lenny Kravitz – Heaven Help
Lenny Kravitz – I Belong To You
Lenny Kravitz – I Build This Garden For Us
Lenny Kravitz – I Don’t Want To Be A Star
Lenny Kravitz – I love the rain
Lenny Kravitz – I Want To Go Home
Lenny Kravitz – I’ll Be Around
Lenny Kravitz – I’ll be waiting
Lenny Kravitz – If I Could Fall In Love
Lenny Kravitz – If You Can’t Say No
Lenny Kravitz – If you want it
Lenny Kravitz – In My Life Today
Lenny Kravitz – Is It Me, Is It You?
Lenny Kravitz – Is There Any Love In Your Heart
Lenny Kravitz – It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over
Lenny Kravitz – It’s Your Life
Lenny Kravitz – Just Be A Woman
Lenny Kravitz – Lady
Lenny Kravitz – Let Love Rule
Lenny Kravitz – Let’s get high
Lenny Kravitz – Light Skin Girl From London
Lenny Kravitz – Like Father Like Son
Lenny Kravitz – Little Girl’s Eyes
Lenny Kravitz – Live
Lenny Kravitz – Lonely Rainbows
Lenny Kravitz – Love Love Love
Lenny Kravitz – Love Revolution
Lenny Kravitz – Magdalene
Lenny Kravitz – Main Squeeze
Lenny Kravitz – Make Noise
Busta Rhymes – Make Noise (feat. Lenny Kravitz)
Lenny Kravitz – Mean Sleep
Lenny Kravitz – Minister Of Rock And Roll
Lenny Kravitz – More Than Anything In This World
Lenny Kravitz – Mr. Cab Driver
Lenny Kravitz – My Love
Lenny Kravitz – My Precious Love
Lenny Kravitz – Pay To Play
Lenny Kravitz – Rock And Roll Is Dead
Lenny Kravitz – Rosemary
Lenny Kravitz – Sistamamalover
Lenny Kravitz – Sister
Lenny Kravitz – Sittin’ on Top of the World
Lenny Kravitz – Someone Like You
Lenny Kravitz – Spinning Around Over You
Lenny Kravitz – Stand By My Woman
Lenny Kravitz – Stillness Of Heart
Lenny Kravitz – Stop Draggin’ Around
Lenny Kravitz – Storm
Lenny Kravitz – Straight Cold Player
Lenny Kravitz – Sugar
Lenny Kravitz – Super Soul Fighter
Lenny Kravitz – Take Time
Lenny Kravitz – The Difference Is Why
Lenny Kravitz – The Majority
Lenny Kravitz – The Other Side
Lenny Kravitz – The Resurrection
Lenny Kravitz – Thin Ice
Lenny Kravitz – Thinking Of You
Lenny Kravitz – This Moment Is All There Is
Lenny Kravitz – Tunnel Vision
Lenny Kravitz – Uncharted Terrain
Lenny Kravitz – Use Me
Lenny Kravitz – We Want Peace
Lenny Kravitz – What Did I Do With My Life?
Lenny Kravitz – What Goes Around Comes Around
Lenny Kravitz – What The …. Are We Saying ?
Lenny Kravitz – When The Morning Turns To Night
Lenny Kravitz – Where Are We Runnin’?
Lenny Kravitz – Will You Marry Me
Lenny Kravitz – Without You
Lenny Kravitz – Yesterday Is Gone (My Dear Kay)
Lenny Kravitz – You Were In My Heart
Lenny Kravitz – You’re An Original
Lenny Kravitz – You’re My Flavor