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I found it a really refreshing change of pace to suddenly be completely directed. It was a type of collaboration that I don't normally have.
Lenny Kravitz
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Lenny Kravitz
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: May 26
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New York City
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Leonard Albert Kravitz
Leonard A. Kravitz
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Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.
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I've always had to deal with being biracial, even in music. When I came on the scene, I'd go to these record labels, and they'd say things like, Lenny Kravitz. That's a weird name. I'm brown-skinned and I've got these dreadlocks and I've got this Jewish last name.
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A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
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I'm just as white as I am black, and I'm just as Russian Jew as I am West Indian.
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