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“I would take my music around to the labels and would get the whole ‘It’s not black enough’ [response]. … The people at the R&B A&Rs couldn’t deal with the pop side, and the people on the pop side were confused as well.”
Lenny Kravitz, the four-time Grammy winner whose 1989 debut album, “Let Love Rule,” and 1991 follow-up, “Mama Said,” established him as a mega-wattage psychedelic-funk-rock recording star, is on a world tour promoting his 11th studio album, “Raise Vibration.” “Love is the center of everything I do as far as subject matter,” Kravitz tells Variety about the album.
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