Create account Log in

Lenny Kravitz

[Edit]

Wikimp3 information about the music of Lenny Kravitz. On our website we have 70 albums and 70 collections of artist Lenny Kravitz. You can find useful information and download songs of this artist. We also know that Lenny Kravitz represents Rock genres.

Biography

[Edit]

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. 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 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. 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 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. During this time, Kravitz wisely discarded his Prince-like approach and looked back to such '60s/'70s classic rockers as Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, Bob Marley, and the Beatles for inspiration. 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 1989. 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 schtick 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."

What should have been a time of happiness for Kravitz quickly turned sour as he and Bonet divorced in the early '90s. 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 a 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, 1993'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 uptempo, 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, 1998'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 sizable hit single, a remake of the Guess Who's "American Woman" (which was used in the hit 1999 comedy movie Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me). Kravitz's first best-of set, the 15-track Greatest Hits, was issued as a stopgap release in 2000, while his sixth studio release overall, Lenny, was issued a year later. Baptism followed in 2004. 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 2007 benefit compilation Instant Karma. Before the end of the year it was announced that Kravitz would return in 2008 with a new album, It Is Time for a Love Revolution. The album arrived in February, accompanied by a brief tour.

Kravitz made his acting debut in the Academy Award-nominated 2009 film Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. As he was filming his next role — a spot in the eagerly awaited adaptation of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games — he released his ninth album, Black and White America, in the summer of 2011. Reprising his role of Cinna in the second of The Hunger Games movies in 2013, Kravitz wouldn't return to the studio until the following year. Kravitz released his tenth studio album, Strut, in September of 2014; it was preceded by the disco-rock single "The Chamber."

Title: Heaven Help

Artist: Lenny Kravitz

Genre: Rock

Title: Strut

Artist: Lenny Kravitz

Genre: Rock, Pop

Title: Fly Away

Artist: Lenny Kravitz

Genre: Rock

Title: Strut [Explicit]

Artist: Lenny Kravitz

Genre: Rock, Pop

Title: Baptism

Artist: Lenny Kravitz

Genre: Rock, Pop, Psychedelic

Title: 5

Artist: Lenny Kravitz

Genre: Electronica, Rock, Pop

Title: The ROCK Sampler

Artist: Lenny Kravitz

Genre: Rock

Title: Like a Jet - Single

Artist: Lenny Kravitz

Genre: Rock

Title: Fields Of Joy

Artist: Lenny Kravitz

Genre: Rock

Title: Always On The Run

Artist: Lenny Kravitz

Genre: Rock

Title: Believe In Me

Artist: Lenny Kravitz

Genre: Rock, Pop, Pop Rock

Title: I'lll Be Waiting

Artist: Lenny Kravitz

Genre: Rock, Pop

Title: Greatest Hits CD2

Artist: Lenny Kravitz

Genre: Rock

Title: Another Life

Artist: Lenny Kravitz

Genre: Rock

Title: Black Velveteen

Artist: Lenny Kravitz

Genre: Rock

Title: The Very Best

Artist: Lenny Kravitz

Genre: Rock, Pop

Title: Edition Limitee

Artist: Lenny Kravitz

Genre: Rock

Title: Stand - Single

Artist: Lenny Kravitz

Genre: Rock

Title: Unplugged

Artist: Lenny Kravitz

Genre: Soul, Blues, Rock, Funk

Title: Lady (Promo)

Artist: Lenny Kravitz

Genre: Rock

Title: Calling All Angels

Artist: Lenny Kravitz

Genre: Rock, Pop

Title: Believe!

Artist: Lenny Kravitz

Genre: Rock

Collections

Title: Hitzone 59 CD2

Genre: Pop

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next >

Featuring albums

Title: Anarchy

Artist: Busta Rhymes

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap

Title: NOW #1's

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Pop

Title: Aida

Artist: Elton John

Genre: Rock, Pop

Title: Wildheart [Clean]

Artist: Miguel

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B

Title: Passion Play

Artist: Teena Marie

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rock

Title: Le Lendemain

Artist: Loane

Genre: Pop, Acoustic

Title: Justify My Love

Artist: Madonna

Genre: Trip Hop, Disco

Title: Open Letter

Artist: Jay - Z

Genre: Rap, Soul, Blues

Title: 90s Mixtape

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Pop

Title: All 10s

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Pop

Title: Patriotic

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Pop

Title: Songs For Dad

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Pop

Title: Feel Good Weekend

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Pop

Title: Girls Night

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Pop

Title: Soft Summer Rock

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Rock, Pop

Title: Good Vibes Only!

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Pop

Title: Cool Rock

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Rock, Punk Rock

Title: 2010s

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Pop

Title: The 10s

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Pop

Title: Winter Acoustic

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Pop

Title: Pop 2K

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Pop

Title: Party Acoustic

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Pop

Genres