b. 26 May 1964, New York, USA. Kravitz's family ties - his Jewish father was a top television producer; his Bahamian mother an actress - suggested a future in showbusiness. As a teenager he attended the Beverly Hills High School where his contemporaries included Slash, later of Guns N'Roses, and Maria McKee of Lone Justice. Kravitz's interest in music flourished in 1987 with the completion of the first of several demos which concluded with an early version of Let Love Rule. These recordings engendered a contract with Virgin America, but the company was initially wary of Kravitz's insistence that the finished product should only feature "real" instruments - guitar, bass, keyboards and drums - rather than digital and computerized passages. Although denigrated in some quarters as merely retrogressive, notably in its indebtedness to Jimi Hendrix, Let Love Rule proved highly popular. 
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