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WORDS BY ALEX PAPPADEMAS PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARK SELIGER

At age 57, Lenny Kravitz is still the ultimate rock god and a divorced dad who actually gets along with his ex (and everyone around him). He didn’t choose to go into seclusion, but it’s only made him stronger. 

It’s a beautiful thing to really realise what you don’t need.

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bahamas

In early March 2020, as the spread of COVID-19 picked up speed, Kravitz left his house in Paris and caught a flight to the Bahamas, thinking he’d hang out at his place on the island of Eleuthera for a few days until things went back to normal. His tour luggage had already been shipped to Australia; he landed in the islands with a few pairs of jeans in a weekend bag. “And I’ve been living out of this weekend bag,” Kravitz says when we speak, “for almost five and a half months.”

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I moved some hand weights over next to a coconut tree that basically comes out of the ground sideways, so that’s now my bench and I lift weights on this coconut tree. I’m doing a complete jungle workout.

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Eleuthera

"My best shape is not behind me. It’s in front of me right now. We keep moving that bar as we get older”. But in Eleuthera he’s had to improvise a little, Albert Roker style. He’s found trails on his property, runs through the bush on grass and dirt.

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