ARTIST

Lenny Kravitz

Blessed--or cursed--by his relative youth, Lenny Kravitz (b. circa 1965, Brooklyn, New York) has built a growing audience in the '90s by playing music that draws conspicuous inspiration from such '60s figures as Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, Curtis Mayfield, and Sly & the Family Stone. What seems to gall his many critics most? That he actually dresses the part. With his bellbottom pants, his boots, and his necklaces and medallions, he could be an extra from the cast of Hair, were it not for the telling modern touches of dreadlocks and a nose ring.

Kravitz's affection for the '60s runs much deeper than mere matters of his appearance, or even his songwriting; deeply involved in the production of his own albums, he is, for instance, militantly in favor of...
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