Lenny Kravitz Net Worth

Lenny Kravitz's Quotes

• [on the wearing of fur] My great-grandmother was a Cherokee. With the Indians, it wasn't slaughter. I have some vintage fur. I don't buy new stuff.
• I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.
• I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock.
• [on his mother explaining his racial heritage - a Russian Jewish father, and a Bahamian mother] I remember her telling me, 'I want you to know your heritage. You are no more one thing than another, but society will only see you as black'. I don't even know if I understood what that really meant, but I think I somehow got it, and got it more a couple of years later - that people weren't going to see both sides. As people used to say back in the day, and maybe still say today, one drop of black blood and you're black. That's it.
• [on why he likes acting] It's not all about me. When I make music , it is all about me - I write it, I record it, I produce it. I'm involved in engineering and mixing. It's a big me-fest. That's fine, that's how it works, but it's nice to walk away from yourself and serve a director's vision and a character - and it has nothing to do with you.

Interesting Facts about Lenny Kravitz

1. Has a daughter, Zoë Kravitz, with Lisa Bonet.
2. Son of Roxie Roker and Sy Kravitz.
3. Musician
4. Lenny's father was of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage (from a family from Eastern Europe, either Russia or Ukraine). Lenny's mother was of Afro-Bahamian and African-American ancestry.
5. Engaged to Brazilian model Adriana Lima [May 2002]
6. Once known for the long dreadlocks he'd had since he was a teenager, Kravitz cut them off prior to the release of his album "Five" in 1998.
7. Named after his father's younger brother, Pfc. Leonard Kravitz, who was killed in action in Korea on 7 March 1951 while suppressing a Chinese attack and saving most of his platoon. He was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Lenny has joined the fight to get his uncle the Medal of Honor. Supporters believe the Medal of Honor was denied to Private Karvitz because he was Jewish.
8. Graduated Beverly Hills High School in 1982.
9. Attended Beverly Hills High School, the same school as as Angelina Jolie, Michael Klesic, Nicolas Cage, David Schwimmer, Jonathan Silverman, Gina Gershon, Rhonda Fleming, Jackie Cooper, Rob Reiner, Antonio Sabato Jr., Pauly Shore, Elizabeth Daily, Corbin Bernsen, Michael Tolkin, Betty White, Crispin Glover and Albert Brooks.
10. Used to perform under name Romeo Blue early in his career.
11. Voted Hollywood's Biggest Heartbreaker by readers of In Touch magazine (2004).
12. Attended high school with guitarist Slash from Guns N' Roses.
13. His mother died at five minutes after midnight on December 2, 1995 only a day after his daughter, Zoë Kravitz's birthday. There was some concern that she would die on her birthday and the family did not want to celebrate the death of Zoe's grandmother on the same day as her birthday.
14. Distant cousin of Al Roker.
15. Lives on Sunset Island in Miami
16. Winner of the 1994 Brit Award for International Male.
17. Does a wide variety of musical styles; hard rock, soft rock, pop, funk, soul, and Motown-flavored R&B.
18. Ranked #14 on VH1's 100 Sexiest Artists.
19. Ranked #93 on VH1's 100 Greatest Hard Rock Artists.
20. Went to the same high school as Profiler (1996) star Jamie Luner.