Kravitz, Lenny: Greatest Hits (2000) - CD

Leonard Albert “Lenny“ Kravitz (* May 26, 1964, New York) is an American singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer, whose “retro“ style combines rock, soul, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelia, folk and ballad.

He often plays guitar, bass, drums, keyboards and percussion in addition to the main and backing vocals in the studio. On VH1, he reached number 93 on the 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. He sold around 20 million worldwide. white.

His father was a Ukrainian-American Jew, producer Sy Kravitz and his mother a Bahamian actress Roxie Roker. Lenny got his name from his uncle, who fell in Korea. He grew up in Manhattan under the influence of R & B, jazz, classical music, opera, gospel and blues. In 1974, he moved with his parents to Los Angeles.

Lenny Kravitz has also performed a total of five times in the Czech Republic, for the first time in 1996 at the Prague Exhibition Grounds. He has performed in Prague twice since then, in 2004 in the former factory complex of Vysočany in Prague and again in Vysočany for another four years, but this time in the O2 Arena. In 2009 he also performed in front of the Brno audience. Another, already the sixth concert, was scheduled as part of the European part of the world tour on 13 November 2014 again at the O2 arena, however, it was postponed to 19 December of the same year due to illness.