Lenny Kravitz is paying tribute to his good friend Harry Belafonte, who died of congestive coronary heart failure yesterday at 96. In a video posted to his YouTube account, Kravitz carried out a canopy of “How Lengthy Have You Been Blind,” which was initially finished by Dakota Sioux musician and political activist Floyd “Pink Crow” Westerman and appeared on 1982’s This Land Is Your Mom. (Westerman, who additionally appeared in movies reminiscent of 1990’s Dances With Wolves), famously turned concerned in Belafonte’s marketing campaign towards the unfold of nuclear energy.) Belafonte carried out the music quite a few instances within the Eighties. “Relaxation in energy, king,” Kravitz wrote in tribute to Belafonte. Watch his cowl under.
