Lenny Kravitz: In hospital with flu complications
February 12, 2008
Grammy award winning American singer, songwriter, record producer and arranger Lenny Kravitz has been hospitalized due to complications from bronchitis. Kravitz came down with the flu in January and has been suffering from severe respiratory tract infections. The European tour to promote the new album It Is A Time For Revolution has been postponed.
Lenny Kravitz spokesperson issued the following statement, "Due to extreme dehydration and fatigue, doctors were unable to control it with outpatient treatment and advised the singer to check into the hospital. He was taken this morning to the emergency room at Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami for immediate treatment."
Kravitz retro hippie reggae funk rock style of music are in part a result of the early musical influences of Count Basie, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Bobby Short, Sarah Vaughan, and the rock music of Aerosmith, Jimi Hendrix, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Cream, and The Who. To date, Kravitz has released nine albums: Let Love Rule, Mama Said, Are You Going My Way, Circus, 5, Greatest Hits, Lenny, Baptism and It is Time for a Love Revolution.
