Lenny Kravitz let the music discuss, then recounted a number of the righteous steps he made alongside the way in which in his music profession, because the rocker was offered with the Music Icon Award on the 2024 Folks’s Alternative Awards.
On an evening when Taylor Swift dominated with 4 awards, however was unable to attend attributable to her present touring commitments in Australia, it was Kravitz who rocked the home with a mini-set of his traditional hits, and an emotional speech.
Kravitz and Co. took off with “Fly Away,” and cruised into medley that included ““TK421,” It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over,” “Let Love Rule” and Are You Gonna Go My Manner.”
Following the incendiary set, triple Grammy Award winner Victoria Monét current Kravitz with the silverware.
Contemplating the that means of the phrase “icon,” Kravitz remarks, “It means quite a lot of issues to lots of people, to me it means you’ve made an indelible mark by being who God created you to be. And, daring to be totally different.”
Greater than 35 years in the past, earlier than the 11 albums, 40 million data bought, and 4 Grammys gained, Kravitz was a wished man. And plenty of of these steerage officers, they wished to alter him. “After I was first developing lots of people supplied me quite a lot of offers however they wished me to alter. My music wasn’t black sufficient, it wasn’t white sufficient. It didn’t match properly inside a field. Or sound like what was on the radio on the time,” he explains. “And I turned down the cash and the glitzy guarantees of fame and stardom as a result of I couldn’t reside with myself doing one thing inauthentic.”
An icon, he considers, “is somebody who evokes and teaches others to consider in themselves and their route no matter that route is.”
Kravitz’s trajectory has “by no means been about what number of data I promote, or what number of awards I win, it’s not about attempting to put in writing hits, or being calculated or formulaic. Its about having fun with and being grateful for the journey and utilizing the items that God gave you and that journey goes the way it goes. And it’ll proceed as a result of I’m simply doing me.”
The musical journey gained’t cease anytime quickly. “I used to be a fan of music lengthy earlier than I used to be a musician,” he continues. “And my mantra now is identical because it was 35 years in the past: by no means comply with the developments, set your personal tempo and acknowledge that the very best is right here proper now in entrance of you.”
Throughout her opening assertion, Monét enthused, “We’re right here to have fun an undefinable, plain, as soon as in a lifetime genius, he’s a power.”
Kravitz, she reckons, “defies any singular description. Father, singer, songwriter, producer, kick-ass stage performer, actor, designer, trend maven, philanthropist, visionary and the king of letting love rule.”
Learn Billboard’s recap of the 2024 Folks’s Alternative Awards and the complete listing of winners right here.
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