Lenny Kravitz, solid as a rock, releases a twelfth album and wins a star on Hollywood Boulevard

The album “Blue Electric Light” comes out next week, two days before his 60th birthday. A new opus that the musician will play for the French public during summer festivals.

Thirty-five years after his first record, Lenny Kravitz, almost 60 years old, released a twelfth album on May 24, 2024 and has just won his star on Hollywood Boulevard.

Let Love Rule, a rock opus, released in 1989, played and recorded with material from the 1960s/1970s. It’s time for rap in the United States. “I had no idea what was going to happen next, II didn’t know if I could make a second one.”, confides Lenny Kravitz, joined by videoconference by AFP. The music industry offers him a second chance and the New Yorker breaks through with Mama Said (1991), plowing the same furrow, carried by the hits Always on the Run And It Ain’t Over ’til It’s Over.

It was the start of a glittering career with 40 million albums sold and four consecutive Grammy Awards for best male rock vocal performance. Initial criticism (imitating 1970s rock) is outweighed by tributes from his peers today. “Going to a Lenny concert is something. He’s been doing his thing for years and everything he’s done has always been the best,” praised Pharrell Williams in the review Fader.

And at the start of the year, Barack Obama included it in his playlist of 2023 favorites with Road to Freedom. “It’s wonderful, Barack Obama makes great lists, full of meaning,” savors the singer, who plays all the instruments on his records, except the saxophone.

The former American president did not choose this piece by chance, in connection with Bayard RustinNetflix biopic named after a civil rights activist in the United States. “I’m honored to have helped tell this story. My parents were activists, I’d heard his name, but I didn’t know as much about him as I should have. Just what a lot of people should have know elsewhere”, unfolds the artist. This African-American activist undoubtedly remained in the shadow of Martin Luther King, of whom he was one of the strategists, because of his homosexuality.

Another honor, in March: Lenny Kravitz was entitled to his star on Hollywood Boulevard. Logical for the one who played on the piano in tribute to those who died in the 7th art at the last Oscars. “If I am offered flowers, I accept, I take advantage, I am always there and I am always hungry”, he smiled.

He plays this hunger in a post on A joke taken too seriously by the New York Times, which interviewed coaches who disapproved of his gestures.

His physique sculpted in the fitness rooms allows him to show off naked in his Parisian mansion for the video of TK421 (reference to a Star Wars character). This single foreshadows Blue Electric Lightalbum due May 24, two days before his 60th birthday. “It’s an idea from Tanu Muiño, director of Rosalía’s ‘Chicken Teriyaki’ video. She told me: ‘I’m coming to your house, you get up and get ready’. I tell myself it’s going to be boring. But she said to me: ‘Take off your clothes, I’m going to start’ and we had fun as you can see.” brushes the singer.

So goes Lenny Kravitz, who records his Harley-Davidson on the track Bundle of joy, but at the same time shows concern for the environment, getting involved in charity concerts for the planet. “In the Bahamas, where I often reside, for a long time, I have lived near the water, I see that the ocean has risen.” “The younger generations are inheriting a hell of a situation in relation to climate change”, he concludes.

Lenny Kravitz will be in Belfort on July 5 for Les Eurockéennes and will then go to Arras for the Main Square Festival on July 7, then to Aix-les-Bains three days later for the Musilac Festival.