"I was a boy they knew was different, They knew who my parents were and would call them Mr. and Mrs. Day Night, or they would call me zebra." "She would make a lot. It was her and Penny Johnson, Rick James' sister. They looked after me, fed me. She took me to concerts. She took a lot of people. The major reason why I'm here because of this sister. She was serious. She was independent, a multi-instrumentalist, a writer, producer. "
With a new album that drops this month titled ‘Black And White America’, it was inevitable that he spoke about his interracial upbringing in the intimate interview, “I was the kid they knew was different. They knew who my parents were and would call them Mr. Day and Mrs. Night, or they’d call me zebra,” says Kravitz in reference to his Jewish father and his black mother. “I didn’t stick to one group, and I ended up listening to all kinds of music,” he remembers.
