LENNY ALBERT KRAVITZ, 'ARE YOU GONNA GO MY WAY'

Today, The Grandma is relaxing at home. She has been listening to one of her favourite musicians, Lenny Kravitz, the American singer, who was born on a day like today in 1964.

Leonard Albert Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor.

His style incorporates elements of rock, blues, soul, R&B, funk, jazz, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, pop, folk, and ballads.

Kravitz won the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance four years in a row from 1999 to 2002, breaking the record for most wins in that category and setting the record for most consecutive wins in one category by a male.

He has been nominated for and won other awards, including American Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, Radio Music Awards, Brit Awards, and Blockbuster Entertainment Awards.

He was also ranked at No. 93 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. He was made an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011, and has played Cinna in the Hunger Games film series. In his career, Kravitz has sold over 40 million albums worldwide.

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Leonard Albert Kravitz was born in Manhattan, the only child of actress Roxie Roker (1929–1995) and NBC television news producer Sy Kravitz. His mother came from a Christian family of African-American and Bahamian descent. His father descended from Ukrainian Jews, with one of his great-grandfathers hailing from Kyiv.

Kravitz released his début album Let Love Rule in 1989, a combination of rock and funk with a 1960s vibe.

In 1990, Kravitz produced the song Justify My Love for Madonna, which he co-wrote with Ingrid Chavez. The song, which appeared on her greatest hits album The Immaculate Collection and created controversy because of its explicit video, went to number 1 for two consecutive weeks.

In 1993, Kravitz wrote Line Up for Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, and appeared on Mick Jagger's solo album, Wandering Spirit, in a cover of the Bill Withers soul classic Use Me, and played guitar on the title track of David Bowie's The Buddha of Suburbia. That year Kravitz also got to work with idols Al Green and Curtis Mayfield. Are You Gonna Go My Way was released, reaching number 12 on the Billboard 200 and Kravitz earned a BRIT Award for best international male artist in 1994.

He would win the first of his four consecutive Grammy for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance at the Grammy Awards of 1999.

Kravitz released his sixth album Lenny in October 2001.

Kravitz's seventh album Baptism was released in May 2004.

Kravitz's next album, tentatively titled Funk, was tentatively re-titled Negrophilia and was due out sometime in 2010.

The Raise Vibration world tour, (2018) coincided with the release of his 11th studio album.

Kravitz Design Inc. is a New York City-based company founded by Kravitz in 2003.

Kravitz Design focuses on commercial, residential and product creative direction and design.

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I just need to know that I did the very best
I could and that I was true to myself.

Lenny Kravitz