FLY AWAY
LENNY KRAVITZ
SONGWRITER:
Lenny Albert Kravitz
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: 5
LABEL: VIRGIN RECORDS
GENRE: FUNK ROCK
YEAR: 1998
Leonard Albert Kravitz(born May 26, 1964) is
an American singer-songwriter and actor. His style incorporates elements of rock, blues, soul, R&B, funk, jazz, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, pop and folk.
Kravitz won the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance four years in a row from 1999 to 2002, breaking the record for most
wins in that category and setting the record for most consecutive wins in one
category by a male. He has been nominated for and won other awards, including American
Music Awards, MTV Video
Music Awards, Radio Music Awards, Brit Awards, and Blockbuster
Entertainment Awards. Kravitz's hit singles include
"It Ain't Over
'til It's Over" (1991) and "Again"
(2000), each of which reached the top 10 on the Billboard Top 100 chart; other
hits include "Let Love Rule"(1989),
"Always on the Run"
(1991), "Are You Gonna
Go My Way"(1993), "Fly Away"(1998),
and "American Woman"(1999),
each of which reached the top 10 on the Alternative Airplay chart.
Kravitz was ranked at Nº 93 on VH1's "100 Greatest
Artists of Hard Rock".He was made an Officer of the Ordre des
Arts et des Lettres in 2011, and has played Cinna in the Hunger
Games film series. In his career, Kravitz has sold
over 40 million albums worldwide. He is the son of actress Roxie Roker, a
cousin of television anchor Al Roker, and the
father of actress Zöe Kravitz.
5 is the fifth full-length studio album by
American rock musician Lenny Kravitz,
released on May 12, 1998, by Virgin Records.
The album produced six singles released over the course of 1998 and 1999.
The album featured such hits as "Fly Away"
and "I
Belong to You", which helped Kravitz to
expand his success in Europe. The album won two Grammy Awards.
5 was re-issued in 1999, including Lenny
Kravitz's latest single from the soundtrack of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,
"American Woman",
plus a bonus track called "Without You"—initially a B-side to the lead
single, "If You Can't Say No".
Initially, the album received mediocre
reviews by some critics, and its rise to commercial success was quite slow,
until it gained traction towards the end of 1998 and throughout 1999 producing
a string of worldwide hits and becoming one of the most successful albums of
1999. Despite paling in comparison in US chart position with Kravitz's other
albums, it managed to have a remarkably long chart-life, charting for nearly
three years straight on the Billboard 200, two of which were spent in the top
100.
The album gained Kravitz multiple awards
nominations and gave him his first two Grammy Awards in the Best Male Rock Vocal Performance category for the hits "Fly Away" and "American
Woman"
I wish that I could fly
Into the sky
So very high
Just like a dragonfly
I'd fly above the trees
Over the seas in all degrees
To anywhere I please, oh
I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Let's go and see the stars
The Milky Way or even Mars
Where it could just be ours
Let's fade into the sun
Let your spirit fly
Where we are one
Just for a little fun
Oh, oh, oh yeah
I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I got to get away (get away, get away)
Girl, I got to get away (get away, get away)
Oh, oh, oh yeah
I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah (with you), yeah, yeah (oh yeah)
I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah (with you) yeah, yeah
I got to get away
I want to get away
I want to get away
I want to get away
I want to get away, yeah
I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah (with you) yeah, yeah
Oh girl, I got to get away
I want to get away
I want to get away
I want to get away
I want to get away, yeah
I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah (with you) yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.