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PARIS — France has paid tribute to Grammy winner Lenny Kravitz with its highest award, the Legion of Honor. Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand hailed the 47-year-old singer-songwriter at a Paris ceremony Wednesday, telling him, “You freed yourself of the barriers between black and white sound.”
Kravitz said he got his first big break at a 1989 music festival in the western French city of Rennes that transformed his career “overnight.” Kravitz was born to a black mother and a white father, and his latest album, “Black and White America,” tackles interracial issues — notably what his parents experienced in 1960s New York.
