Lenny Kravitz in Kyiv
Last night, Lenny Kravitz rocked Palatz Sportu in Kyiv. I know the picture quality is not super, but I think the sound turned out ok.
A few things from the list of 12 Things You Don’t Know About Lenny Kravitz from What’s On Kiev:
- He’s Ukrainian!
(In part at least.) He’s the son of a Ukrainian Jewish father and a black mother of Caribbean descent. Kravitz considers himself both Christian and Jewish, describing the faiths as “all the same to me.” He also notes that the melange of spirituality he inherited “has been an important issue in my growth.”
-His father, Sy Kravitz, was a news producer for NBC television. He was also a jazz promoter, which allowed him to make friends with Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Bobby Short, Miles Davis and other jazz greats. Ellington played ‘Happy Birthday’ for little Lenny one year.
- In 1993, Kravitz wrote ‘Line Up’ for Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, and appeared on Mick Jagger’s solo album ‘Wandering Spirit’, in doing a version of Bill Withers’ soul classic, ‘Use Me’. That year Kravitz also got to work with his idols Al Green and Curtis Mayfield, two of the great names in soul.
- He’s a vegetarian. Which is a shame for him really, as he’ll miss out on great Ukrainian cuisine such as shashlyk and salo.
June 19th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
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