and Al Roker from the Today show is his 1st cousin 1x removed.

Yes, Cindy Blackman is the drummer in this video...and now the wife of Carlos Santana! She definitely deserves her props.

And his ex-wife and mother of his daughter is Lisa Bonet who used be on the Cosby show and she's now married to Jason Momoa. And Lisa's the one who cut off his dreadlocks. she told it was "time to change his energy".

Not just any vintage mixing desk. It is one of the EMI REDD desks used at Abbey Road by The Beatles early in their career.

my uncle and aunt had Carlos and lenny's mom over for dinner once. I'm still pissed I didn't get to join them, rofl.

I just learned about all that stuff a few months ago, so cool.

She was awesome

Eh 🤦‍♂️

Yeah what I remember is that She sucked and was more a prop for inclusion and diversity, but come on Karen Carpenter would of drummed circles around this lady. Hundreds and hundreds of highschool drummers easily could play this

As a white guy the main thing I was blown away by was the fact that a black guy was rocking so hard. I thought that was badass.

Such a sexy guitar riff

She married her Russian Jewish lawyer, and Lenny was the result. Edit: Forgot the parallel- Roxie played the wife in the very first interracial couple on primetime TV.

As a matter of fact, Roxie got the part of Helen when she had auditioned and the casting director had asked her if she'd have an issue with playing the role of a woman who was married to a White man and she'd showed that director a photograph of her with her husband and Lenny and told him "That's my family"

She played Helen Willis.

His ex wife is Lisa Bonet, mother of Zoe, and who starred as Denise Huxtable in "The Cosby Show"

And Al Roker of NBC is his cousin.

Yes she is amazing!!!

I'm a Huge fan of Mr. Kravitz, but I didn't know that. But having a female drummer makes it cooler. Thanks.

my fave by him!!!!

Good call

One of his best for sure and yes we would like to see a review of ( It ain't over till it's over) !!!!!

Agreed, my fave by him for sure!

It ain’t over til it’s over was a song where Lenny was trying to rekindle his relationship with his then wife Lisa Bonet. Lisa was a TV Star when she played one of Bill Cosby children in his hit show. Sadly the song didn’t work on Lisa as Lenny and Lisa divorced. But the Soulfulness of the song showed Lenny’s range as a primarily Rock artist to being able to crossover into R&B, funk and soul music. It’s one of my favorite Lenny songs.

Does Lenny know that? 😏

Lenny and Al Roker are 2nd cousins.

I read or heard an interview with Roxie Roker when she was auditioning for The Jeffersons, and I don't know if it was Norman Lear or a casting agent who told her that she would be playing a woman in an interracial relationship and would she have a problem with that, and she responded by going into her wallet and pulled out a photo of her husband and Lenny 😊

his white Jewish father was an NBC producer whose family immigrated from Ukraine! Lenny was also married to Lisa Bonet from the Cosby Show

@@chriso6719 oh, ok Well, I had the cousins part right

American woman and I want to fly away we're on the same album weren't they?. It's a little before my time but I like money a lot and I'm thinking they were on the same album but I could be wrong. Do you know who Zoe's mom is? You probably do but if you don't you might be a little surprised but not too much if you were around back in those days too bad it didn't work out but you know who she's married to now? The Hawaiian stud LOL

Rosemary on that album is awesome. He also covered Kiss' 'Deuce' also amazing. (it was on a Kiss tribute album)

I thought that was Terence Trent D'Arby who played that song

@@karlsmith2570 it's Lenny. A lot of people get them confused.

@@scapito probably because back then, they looked so similar

@@karlsmith2570 it was Lenny. That said, they HAVE to react to TTD’s “Sign Your Name”!

@@ZacCostilla or even "Wishing Well" unless they've already reacted to that one

Alright so you were either around back then or you're just a huge Lenny Kravitz fan or just music fan that gets trivia down. I remember the lady on that show The Jeffersons from reruns and her name on the show was Helen if I'm not mistaken. I've been trying to figure out who do all these people commenting think he sounded like from the 60s and 70s other than Maybe Jimi Hendrix because of the guitar and a little bit of Blues-funk. All the big stars that I think of our big tracks from the 60's and 70's are from fans that do sound anything like this. I'm going to name a few but it doesn't mean I know all the music I'm just saying these are the big bands I know about from the 60's and 70's just to name a few and I'm only tagging you in hopes that you can throw out some names that he is reminiscent of from the sixties-70s. No particular order but I'm going to try to just toss out the bands that stand out to meet as far as knowing their music to an extent and I asked you to help me tell me please and show me please where am I missing the pieces? The bands I know from the 60s and 70s that were pretty hitmaker people are The Beatles, the stones, the Eagles the doors, The Who, Pink Floyd, Queen, CSN, Doobie Brothers, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Boston, and I could name a lot more but they're all basically going to fall under the umbrella I just mentioned and I'm not sure if I mentioned Pink Floyd because I am using speech to text since I'm on a break right now at my job. So I'm not saying these are the biggest bands of the 60s and 70s but to me it seems like they were making hits on a consistent basis. Jimi Hendrix experiment or experience because I can't remember, and the Doobie Brothers where Funk / Rock to me. Possibly Santana? I'm trying to learn and I cannot learn if I don't ask people in real life and people like you who is it that his stone is reminiscing to in the 60s and 70s because I don't know anybody. Keep in mind again I'm only 21 years under my belt so I don't know that much except everything that I'm learning and have learned as I mentioned above. I've heard of earthwindandfire but I don't know if they are rock or Funk or something of a hybrid. So you're going to have to help me out here because honestly all I can think of when I hear him if we're talkin about the 60s has to be Jimi Hendrix and it's not because of the skin is just I know about Jimi Hendrix from reading his story from Young. Lenny most definitely reminds me of Jimi Hendrix. It's not really anything to do with the skin color but it's more so maybe it was somebody that Lenny Kravitz gravitated towards because of the skin color but also because of the rock-funky sound and the guitar. I don't know the history of Prince that will but I do know that purple happens to have been his favorite color. I'm thinking Jimi Hendrix color was also purple but now I'm grasping at strings. You can ignore this long freaking message from some youngster or if you get time maybe you can kick me down some knowledge so I can continue to learn about this rock of different eras period keep in mind that I was pretty much raised a hip hop head, but since the virus hit us and we all seemed to have more time because of the lockdown in the beginning, I feel like I've learned a lot about different types of music but I do officially have a favorite rock band haha. You might love this or you might hate it but so far is guns and roses and I'm talkin anything I've heard from the sixties all the way up to the alternative scene and then

@@choice12ozborne Couple things I can point out: Lenny's vocals, in THIS song at least. He's using a very "Jimi Hendrix"-style delivery. I'm not a huge fan of his, so I don't know all his songs; but he definitely didn't have this same style when he covered "American Woman" or in "Fly Away". Also...listen to the TONE of the guitar. That kind of distortion...with the "fuzzy" kind of sound...only comes from OLD amps with transistor tubes (or from modern software that can duplicate the sound). Amps made after the 70s largely stopped using the tubes in them, and the sound of the distortion changed.

@@choice12ozborne Frist, if anything. I am simply interested in music, curious enough to pay attention to detail and have been around for a while longer than you. I do not think he sounds like any particular 70s artist. But he uses recording techniques, and equipment designed to capture the overall sound of that period. His guitar tone sounds similar to Jimm Page, Joe Perry and Marc Bolan. His overall image is reflective of the late 60s to 70s. I think his image is what most people are reacting to.

This song has that late sixties vibe to it...its awesome!

This song was a huge hit in the UK in the early spring of 1993 but I always thought it sounded straight out of 1973. I absolutely loved rocking out to it and still do. Around that time there was quite a lot of nostalgia for the music and styles of the early 70s taking off,at a time when the economy was in a mess and the government was still being hard-nosed about helping out those who'd taken a hit. I thought Lenny seemed to have a real earlyish 70s retro vibe going,in his soulful and slower numbers as well as his rockers. The critics sneered at the retroness of his style but I didn't care about that.

Lenny and Slash. Nummy

He was until he used the word assemblage (oss-em-blonge).

You're joking when you say you don't know what it's about aren't you? Maybe you're being sarcastic or maybe you're being serious but IDK. This was before my time I think. When I see before my time, I just mean I was young young and really didn't pay attention to rot too much. All I cared about was Sports and video games.

His very best song...his other songs are great but the message in this song is direct and universal. We need this message more than ever now✌️❤️

It's a fantastic song! 😁⭐😁⭐😁

Favorite Lenny! How I discovered him- that video on MTV

🤦‍♂️

Such a gorgeous man.

That makes a lot of sense. I was probably a little kid when that aired, but I was a huge Kirstie Alley fan throughout my youth and I saw her on VH1's series "The List" where celebrities and musicians would vote on the best songs of a genre. She was on the episode with Meatloaf and Alice Cooper where they ranked rock songs. She was gushing over how much she loved Jimi Hendrix, especially the song "Purple Haze". I can totally envision her reaction to seeing Lenny in person. lol

Shizzzz, if I were him, I would have lost it looking into Kirstie's eyes...they are equally gorgeous. But yeah, Lenny does have that irresistible glare.

Dude I've always thought that!

That’s what makes me love his sound. “ It Ain’t Over Till it Over” is still my all time favorite Lenny songs! Soooo goood!

So it wasn't just me. Lenny has that 60's/70's sound

Perfect description of Lenny’s music!

When he first started he only used vintage recording gear. When most bands where starting to use modern digital recorders. Lenny recorded with old analog tape recorders and mixing boards and effects from the early seventies in order to get that fat rich classic rock sound. Later he started recording digitally and you can definitely hear a big difference between his first four albums and the ones that came later.

Thank you. You beat me to it. 😆

Extremely spiritual song

Good suggestion

Spot on. Was mentioning up top my wife picked that up after about 10 seconds when it came out. Lol

I still cant believe that this isnt a Hendrix cover...it sounds so authentic!

How about his mom Roxie Roker who played Helen Willis on The Jeffersons

@@davidkelly2355 Talented family; And the best part is that Lenny got HUGE on his terms, playing HIS style

@@bigmike2464 Wellll, I would have to strongly disagree that his style is "his" style. He'd have none of it without Hendrix. But maybe that's not what you mean..?

@@joshb23 His first album has a John Lennon Plastic Ono Band vibe.

@@joshb23 there's always someone that did it before you or inspired you but that is not saying he copied that exactly from Hendrix, he still has his own style & there was a big gap between him & Hendrix.

Seconded! American Woman was a great 60s rock song on its own, then Lenny Kravitz took it and turned it up to 11.

Yeap and the live version with him and Prince is even better

@@susankaman8519, His version is rockin' and steady, but even though the Guess Who's version starts out slow, it rocks harder.

I didn't like his cover at all; I'll take the original from The Guess Who any day.

American woman ft Prince

She's an absolute badass. I saw Lenny at the Aragon Ballroom. She had some amazing solos.

She's an absolute badass. I saw Lenny at the Aragon Ballroom. She had some amazing solos.

@@dominicpardo4783 @hopemorrison24 Check out her last solo album. When I was 12 back in the late 80s deciding that I actually wanted to go for it I listened to two guitarists a lot. There's a song on her album where she's got both of them.

Except it's Lenny playing drums on this song.

Check out American Woman by Lenny.. if you're a Rocker.. We saw him open up for Aerosmith. We sat in on his sound check also.. He is COOLNESS.. Badass.

Yes, Gary Clark Jr

Gary Clark Jr. is amazing!

He sucks

3rd vote for Clark Jr.

All true...but furthermore, you hear HIS influence on younger artists... Jack White and the White Stripes in general, The Hives.. and a lot of others...

I find it amazing that you would say that a devout Jewish kid like Lenny Kravitz would sing about Jesus. Hint: Its not about Jesus.

@@GrumpyOldGuyPlaysGames His dad was Jewish but his mom was Christian, and he grew up in-between both. He says in an interview that it is indeed about Jesus Christ's point of view ... I suggest finding the article.

@@JoeMama410 Messianic Judaism en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messianic_Judaism

@@GrumpyOldGuyPlaysGames Lenny has said on many occasions that it was about Jesus. While his dad is Jewish and he embraces his Jewish heritage, he has called himself a Christian for decades.

@@GrumpyOldGuyPlaysGames technically Lenny's not Jewish. To be Jewish your mother has to be Jewish and his mother was not.

Oh yeah....Hendrix definitely flows through his bloodstream. Great song. 🎵 Old school 60's, 70's heavy guitar rock sound. Those were the days‼️

Actually dude you're wrong if you look up information on what Lenny said the song is about he will tell you that the song is about Jesus and his sacrifice

@@sushig174, apparently you are correct and I am wrong. Thanks for the correction.

@@ajaxfernsby4078 no worries I have been listening to him since I was 12 I am now 42 a lot of his songs are faith-based because he is Christian was raised as a Christian by his parents and it does not shy away from speaking about it in his music as far as Hendrix goes it is a definite influence to his sound he loves all the greats like the Beatles and led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and music like that but he is not afraid or ashamed to write songs that proclaim his faith and exactly what and how he feels about it and that is one of the things that I admire most about him and part of the reason why I have loved his music for so long I've never heard a song from him that I didn't like there are some that I like more than others yes but very few artists ever come out musically where every single song I fall in love with or can identify with he's definitely one of the few and he is in a league of his own and he is so so handsome ❤️

@@sushig174, well, thanks for all that. I should have known better than to pass off things that I heard, as fact without checking myself, especially about Lenny Kravits since I’ve heard numerous erroneous rumors about who his mother was, most of them wrong. Thanks again.

His acting in the hunger games in my opinion is flat and one dimensional

@@tjhunger8644 thank goodness he had music as his music as his backup ! Thanks TJ.

Absolutely amazing musician

@@tjhunger8644 Absolutely TJ. and Hi from New Zealand ! We are in the midst of a covid meltdown after being virtually covid free for so long, we're up to nearly 200 cases a day and there were 2 more deaths overnight. Nothing by comparison as to what you've been going through in the USA, but I hope you and your loved ones are safe and well.

Godspeed my kiwi friend hopefully your upcoming summer months will give you and your fellow countrymen some well deserved relief

You are so right!!!! I forgot about that song! Thanks!

Heaven Help is my fav!

Oh yeah.. Mr Cab Driver!! Cool one

Oh and he's also very sexy...couldn't leave that out lol

Agreed Wendy! On both points!

@@wendyhodges7172 Cinna! I just adore everything about him.

@@adamsgrad93 me too. His character was so underrated. I would have loved to have seen him more throughout the series.

OK, literally, he was the ONLY reason I was conned into watching Hunger Games.

I’d love to see him live!

Three times here!

I think they would love this song because of the message.

What!!! Wow!!!