Kravitz joins U2 tour, works on “Negrophilia” album
Everyone’s been talking about U2’s 360 Tour since it began last year. Not only was it the highest grossing tour of 2009, but also it’s going to continue into 2010 bigger and better than ever. And how much better can you get than Lenny Kravitz as a supporting act?
Kravitz will be joining U2 on June 3, 6, 7 and 12, which are the first four dates of U2’s six-week run. U2 will also have supporting acts The Fray and Interpol later on in their tour.
After wrapping up the 360 Tour, Kravitz will get back to work on his upcoming funk/rock album, “Negrophilia.”
A New York Magazine article states that the album is named after a book Kravitz read about “the intense, often fetishistic fascination the French have with black artists.”
“When I made my first album, the Americans didn’t know what to do with me,” he told the magazine. “Here’s a black Jew, light-skinned, he’s not doing hip-hop. I didn’t fit in any box, because America’s all about formats, and Paris was one of the first places I went. And they accepted me, like being Josephine Baker or any jazz artist or whoever.”
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 2:29 pm by jordan
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