France Honors Lenny Kravitz With Greatest Award

First Released: November 30, 2011 6:29 PM EST Credit: Getty Images PARIS, France -- Caption Lenny Kravitz works at Terminal 5 in NY City on August 31, 2011 France has compensated tribute to Grammy champion Lenny Kravitz using its greatest award, the Legion of Recognition. Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand praised the 47-year-old singer-songwriter in a Paris ceremony on Wednesday, telling him you freed yourself from the obstacles between black and whitened seem. Kravitz told The Connected Press he got his first large break in a 1989 music festival within the western French town of Rennes that changed his career overnight. He stated Yes, it seems like a story book nevertheless its true. Kravitz was created to some black mother and whitened father, and the latest album, Black and Whitened America, takes up interracial issues particularly what his parents familiar with sixties NY. Copyright 2011 through the Connected Press. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.