CHRISTINA LESSA: Your mother was the groundbreaking actress Roxie Roker, who among other things, was famous for her role as Helen Willis on the The Jeffersons, half of the first interracial couple to be shown on regular prime time television. I understand that you come from humble, grounded beginnings despite your mom being in the spotlight, and being raised a New York City kid with all these influences, like Duke Ellington. You were playing the piano at age five, singing with the Met Opera… LENNY KRAVITZ: I mean, she wasn’t exactly in the spotlight. When I was a little boy in New York, she was doing off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway and, you know, Poetry in the Park. It wasn’t like that; […]
