Lenny Kravitz was honored for his impression within the music business on the 2024 Individuals’s Selection Awards.
The singer, 59, acquired the Music Icon Award through the Sunday, February 18, ceremony, which was held on the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. He additionally took the stage to carry out a medley of hits from his catalog, together with “Fly Away,” “TK421,” “It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over,” “Let Love Rule” and “Are Your Gonna Go My Manner.”
After the efficiency, Kravitz took the stage and gave thanks for the “unbelievable award.”
“Once I was occupied with what to say tonight, I saved going again to that phrase, ‘icon,’” he stated. “It means plenty of issues to lots of people. However to me, it means you’ve made an indelible mark by being who God created you to be and daring to be completely different.”
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Kravitz famous when he was first “developing,” he was supplied “plenty of offers” however individuals wished him “to alter.”
“My music wasn’t black sufficient. It wasn’t white sufficient. It didn’t match properly inside a field or sound prefer it was on the radio on the time. And I turned down the cash and the glitzy guarantees of fame and stardom as a result of I couldn’t dwell with myself doing one thing inauthentic,” he stated. “An icon to me, [is] somebody who evokes and teaches others to imagine in themselves and their path, no matter that path is.”
Kravitz stated it’s “by no means been” about what number of information he sells or awards he wins, however about “having fun with and being grateful” for the journey and utilizing “the presents God gave you.” He famous, “It should proceed as a result of I’m simply doing me.”
He added that his mantra has been the identical because it has been for 35 years: “By no means comply with the developments, set your individual tempo and acknowledge that the perfect is correct right here proper now in entrance of you.”
Earlier than concluding the speech, Kravitz gave his because of a number of individuals in his life, together with his dad and mom for “taking [him] to all these superb concert events when [he] was a child as an alternative of leaving [him] dwelling with a babysitter.” He additionally praised his followers, saying “the entire cause” he creates and performs music is to “amplify love.”
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“There’s no barrier between performer and viewers. It’s all about all of us embracing love and unity on this world that God has given us,” he stated. “Love is the strongest energy and love will win. We’re all one. One God, one individuals, one planet.”
The respect was introduced by Victoria Monét, who celebrated Kravitz, whom she known as an “simple, as soon as in a lifetime genius.”
“His music has made you are feeling all of it. Love, hope, reflection, pleasure, heartache, rage, that typically makes you need to fly away. However take it from him, it ain’t over ‘til it’s over,” she quipped.
NBC, Peacock and E! introduced in January that Kravitz could be celebrated through the telecast. “With 11 studio albums throughout a decades-long profession, Lenny Kravitz has cemented himself as a worldwide rock celebrity,” Jen Neal, an govt vice chairman at NBCUniversal Leisure, stated in an announcement on the time. “Whether or not he’s writing and performing his personal hit songs or working behind the scenes writing for different business greats, Lenny’s musical present is actually unmatched. We’re thrilled to honor him as this yr’s Music Icon and look ahead to seeing what he brings to the stage.”
Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis/Getty Photos Lenny Kravitz is “Sittin’ on High of the World” as a loyal father to daughter Zoë Kravitz. Lenny and ex-wife Lisa Bonet welcomed their solely youngster collectively in December 1988. The couple, who married one yr earlier, in the end break up in 1993 however remained dedicated to coparenting Zoë. (Bonet additionally shares […]
Previous to Kravitz, solely two artists have received the Music Icon Award. Christina Aguilera was the inaugural recipient in 2021, adopted by Shania Twain in 2022.
Exterior of the awards present, Kravitz is gearing up for the debut of his upcoming album, Blue Electrical Gentle, in Could, marking his first file launch in additional than 5 years. In his 2023 Esquire cowl story, he revealed that he concurrently labored on three albums through the lockdown imposed by the coronavirus pandemic. After restrictions loosened, he workshopped his new music within the studio, mixing the songs “a thousand instances” as he “saved sprucing.”
Whereas the opposite two information are largely accomplished and he believes followers will hear them sometime, Kravitz knew Blue Electrical Gentle was the album that wanted to be dropped first. “This one spoke to me,” he defined. “This one has to return out.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Kravitz addressed the dearth of respect he acquired from critics all through his profession. “It was discouraging at instances,” he confessed, earlier than insisting that the negativity didn’t wreck his perspective. “I’m good. Intact — blissful, wholesome, targeted, with nonetheless a lot to do.”
Though Kravitz has earned 4 Grammys and was nominated for induction into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame earlier this month, he emphasised that there are extra significant issues in his life than awards. “I’m not right here for the accolades,” he stated. “I’m right here for the expertise.”
