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Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz (born May 26, 1964. New York, USA) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, guitarist and actor whose retro amalgam of rock, pop, funk, and even techno is inspired by such music icons as David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. Like Prince and Sly Stone before him, Kravitz uses a multi-ethnic, mixed-gender backing band. Kravitz plays guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, percussion, and sitar. He often plays these instruments on each recorded track, but frequently collaborates with other musicians as well when recording. His 1989 debut album Let Love Rule was a moderate success. In 1991 he...

Jamaican dancehall DJ, found fame as a teenager for his 1989 hit 'Gun In A Baggy' from the album of the same name. .

Lenny Williams (born Leonard Charles Williams on February 6, 1945, in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American singer known for his work in the R&B and soul music genres. During the 1970s, he was the lead vocalist for Tower of Power. As a soloist, he made several hit recordings, including “Cause I love You” (recorded on his solo album) and “So Very Hard To Go’ Background Williams moved to Oakland at a very young age. Learning to play the trumpet in elementary school fueled his interest in music; his skills as a vocalist were first nurtured by singing in gospel...

There's two Lenny Dees. One is the fifties organ player who had a #1 hit with Plantation Boogie in 1955. The other is a New York DJ. You can find out more about the organ player here and here. Lenny Dee Born Leonard George DeStoppelaire, 5 January 1923, Chicago, Illinois Died 12 February 2006, Saint Petersburg, Florida Dee master of dee organ who made dee most of his dee-stinctive name. The youngest of eleven children, he was born in Chicago, where his father ran a tavern near Logan Square, but the family moved to Florida when he was a child,...

If ever an artist could be described as down to earth, it's North Carolina-born Lenny Cooper. Although he's a friendly, approachable guy, the down-to-earth label is mostly appropriate thanks to his mud-caked likeness, which graces the country performer's Mud Dynasty album cover. In just a few short years, Lenny has become Crown Prince of the Mud Diggers, thanks to his favorite hobby of mud-bogging, the practice of driving the vehicle of your choice into a mud-covered pit while spectators cheer -- and your vehicle. He's also one of the young purveyors of an increasingly popular subgenre of country music which...