Lenny Kravitz Parents: Meet Sy Kravitz & Roxie Roker

Lenny Kravitz was born in New York City, the only child of NBC television news producer Sy Kravitz and actress Roxie Roker.

Meet Lenny Kravitz Parents

• Sy Kravitz

Sy Kravitz is the father of Lenny Kravitz. He was of Ukrainian Jewish ancestry. There isn’t much information about his father on the internet as he loved to keep his life away from the media.

• Roxie Roker

Roxie Roker was an American actress who portrayed Helen Willis on the CBS sitcom, The Jeffersons, half of the first interracial couple to be shown on regular prime-time television. Roker is the mother of a rock musician, Lenny Kravitz and the paternal grandmother of actress Zoe Kravitz.

She died in Los Angeles, California, on December 2, 1995, of breast cancer. She was 66.