Career 1985–1990: Virgin Records and career debut Kravitz is the honorary nephew of Diahann Carroll, whom he called Aunt D, and actress Cicely Tyson was his godmother.

His parents divorced in 1985, which had a profound impact on him. He taught himself to play piano and bass and made friends with Zoro, who would later become his long-time collaborator. Kravitz attended Beverly Hills High School, where he was classmates with Maria McKee, Nicolas Cage, and Slash. Later influences came in the form of John Lennon and Bob Marley. His other musical influences at the time included Fela Kuti, Bill Withers, Marvin Gaye, Pharoah Sanders, and Miles Davis. It was in Los Angeles that Kravitz was introduced to rock music, listening to the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Kiss, Pink Floyd, and the Who, and he said he was 'attracted to the cool style, the girls, the rock 'n' roll lifestyle.' During his junior high school years, he was also introduced to marijuana he has stated that he was a 'pothead' during his youth. He took part in Mahler's Third Symphony at the Hollywood Bowl. At his mother's urging, he joined the California Boys Choir for three years, where he performed a classical repertoire, and sang with the Metropolitan Opera. In 1974, at the age of 10, Kravitz relocated to Los Angeles with his parents when his mother landed her role on The Jeffersons. His father, who was also a jazz promoter, was friends with Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Bobby Short, Miles Davis, and other jazz greats Ellington even played 'Happy Birthday' for him on his fifth birthday. He said, 'My parents were very supportive of the fact that I loved music early on, and they took me to a lot of shows.' Around the age of seven, he saw the Jackson 5 perform at Madison Square Garden, and they became his favorite performers. He grew up listening to the music his parents listened to: R&B, jazz, classical, opera, gospel, and blues. He began playing the drums and soon added guitar. He decided that he wanted to be a musician at the age of five. Kravitz began banging on pots and pans in the kitchen, playing them as drums at the age of three. 6 for elementary school, and spending weekends at his grandmother Bessie's house in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Kravitz grew up spending weekdays on the Upper East Side of Manhattan with his parents, attending P.S. After a spiritual experience when he was 13, he started attending church and later became a non-denominational Christian. ĭuring his early years, Kravitz did not grow up in a religious environment. Kravitz, a private first class who was killed in action in the Korean War at the age of 20, while single-handedly holding off a Chinese attack, enabling most of his platoon to escape. Through his mother, Kravitz is a second cousin of television weather presenter Al Roker as their grandfathers were brothers. Kravitz's father was of Russian-Jewish origin. His mother came from a Christian family which was of African-American and Bahamian descent. Leonard Albert Kravitz was born on in New York City, the only child of NBC television news producer Sy Kravitz (1924–2005) and actress Roxie Roker (1929–1995). He has played Cinna in the Hunger Games film series.

He was made an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011. In his career, Kravitz has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. 93 on VH1's '100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock'. Kravitz's hit singles include ' It Ain't Over 'til It's Over' (1991) and ' Again' (2000), each of which reached the top 10 on the Billboard Top 100 chart other hits include ' Let Love Rule' (1989), ' Always on the Run' (1991), ' Are You Gonna Go My Way' (1993), ' Fly Away' (1998), and ' American Woman' (1999), each of which reached the top 10 on the Alternative Airplay chart. 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. 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. Kravitz a cousin of television anchor Al Roker, and the father of actress Zoë Kravitz. He is the son of actress Roxie Roker, nephew of posthumous Medal of Honor recipient Leonard M. He has received several awards including four Grammy Awards and an American Music Award along with nominations for two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

His style incorporates elements of rock, blues, soul, R&B, funk, jazz, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, pop and folk. Leonard Albert Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter and actor.

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