What happened to Lenny Kravitz: from his ‘threesome’ with Lisa Bonet and Jason Momoa to an island paradise

The American singer, who has always displayed his magnetism, has spent the worst of the pandemic isolated on an island far from the luxuries that a rock star is supposed to be.

Born in New York, Leonard Albert Kravitz (57) grew up in a family immersed in show business. His mother, a renowned Bahamian-born actress, Roxie Roker, and his father, Sy Kravitz, a jazz promoter and television producer, saw to it that Lenny explored his musical talents from a very young age. A facet that he finished polishing in Los Angeles, where the family moved for work reasons.

Music was always present in the artist’s life and Prince’s influence was noticeable in the early stages of his career when he called himself Romeo Blue . But Lisa Bonet appeared in his life , with whom he was married for four years (1987-1991), which was decisive both on a personal level, she is the mother of his only daughter -Zoë Kravitz-, and on a professional level, since it helped him to shed from that wrapper closer to pop and R&B and to delve into its rockier roots.

Not surprisingly, Lenny Kravitz, as he acknowledges in a recent interview with Men’s Health , discovers the album ‘Black dog’ by Led Zeppelin in his high school years. ” It opened up a whole new world for me in sound, attitude, music, songwriting and guitar .” And it’s not that Romeo Blue was a disaster, in fact he turned down major offers, it’s that he just didn’t feel like that was the way to go.

Lisa Bonet and Jason Momoa

His definitive explosion came in 1989 with ‘Let Love Rule’ , his record debut with Virgin, in which his still wife helps him compose the lyrics for two songs. And contrary to what it might seem, almost 30 years after separating, their relationship is excellent. Even with her current husband, actor Jason Momoa.

“ People can’t believe how close Jason and I are, or how close I still am to Zoë’s mother , how we all relate. We do it simply because that is what needs to be done. You let love rule, right? I mean, obviously after a breakup, it takes some work and time, healing and reflection, and so on. But as for Jason and me? Literally the moment we met, we thought, ‘Oh yeah. I love this guy, ‘”he says.

In any case, from ‘Let Love Rule’ successes follow one another and her status as a sex symbol grows exponentially. ‘ Mama said’ (1991), ‘Are you gonna go my way’ (1993), ‘Circus’ (1995) or ‘5’ (1998) contain some of the most listened to rock songs in the last 30 years. And Lenny Kravitz, confirms his status as a musical icon with countless awards and musical collaborations at the highest level with artists such as Madonna, Slash, Aerosmith, Jay-Z, or Mick Jagger, among others.

Even the cinema opens its doors to him and he appears in films that include light hits such as Zoolander (2001), Oscar-winning films such as Precious (2009) or blockbusters such as The Hunger Games (2012 and 2013). A time when Lenny Kravitz exploits his magnetism to unsuspected heights.

It is true that on a musical level there has been a stagnation in recent years. His records do not get as much impact and he himself reduces the amount. In its first stage, until 2001, it published 6 albums while from then on it released five in 15 years, the last ‘Raise vibration’ in 2018.

Loneliness in paradise

Which brings us to the present. What does Lenny Kravitz do? Well, the musician, like the whole world, was surprised by the pandemic about to embark on a concert tour in Australia and New Zealand, first, and then tour a good part of Europe, but instead in early March 2020, Kravitz left his Paris home – a 1920s estate in the upscale 16th arrondissement – and took a flight to the Bahamas , thinking he’d spend a few days at his family retreat on the island of Eleuthera until things got back to normal. . In fact, his luggage had already left for Australia and he landed on the islands with a weekend bag with which he has been living for months with two dogs.

“I’ve been here so long alone that I’m starting to hear voices,” the musician noted in October. “When I am here, I live in a very simple way. It is wonderful to realize what you do not need . If I have to stay here another five months, five years, I am fine”, who took advantage of his stay to do the things he loves: touch the guitar, cultivate a small garden or keep in shape among coconut trees and paradisiacal beaches.

And he also took the time to give the final brushstrokes to an autobiographical book titled as his first great success, ‘Let Love Rules’, which focuses on his beginnings and that the artist describes as “a huge therapy session” . And it is that he travels through some fragile territories of his childhood, such as the complicated relationship with his father, or the search for his ‘I’ as a musician.

Thus, in the absence of resuming the tour that COVID-19 interrupted and more than a year after his last published song (Ride), Lenny Kravitz is at that point in his life where he lives every moment as if he were in Eleuthera. You are in no rush to take the next step . And it doesn’t have to be the most obvious.

In fact, his new foray into the cinema is scheduled to arrive in 2022 thanks to Shotgun Wedding , a film produced by Ryan Reynolds and directed by Jason Moor, in which the musician will share the bill with Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel . It may not be the preset script, but Kravitz was never about to do what is expected of him. His path is more linked to what he expects of himself.