He’s Black, but he’s also rock, and he’s blues, and he’s totally funk,” he’d tell her.
“It was kind of surreal for me to see her on stage with Lenny Kravitz because I used to have her watch his concerts,” Wilson shares with EBONY. For Kenny Wilson, H.E.R.’s dad, who began nurturing his daughter musically before she could basically walk, watching her trade guitar riffs with rocker Kravitz was a full circle moment. H.E.R., sparkling in purple, performing with one of her music idols Lenny Kravitz, flexing all his rockstar badness in a bronze jumpsuit, on this year’s Grammy stage to his 1993 hit “Are You Gonna Go My Way,” a song she’s often performed solo, was much more than a memorable moment destined to be enshrined in the Grammy vault of great performances.
