Lenny Williams is a successful R&B vocalist who is perhaps best known as the lead singer of Tower of Power from 1972 to 1975, when the group recorded "So Very Hard to Go" and several other of its other biggest hits. Williams went solo in 1975 and had 18 singles on the Billboard R&B Top 100 charts between 1975 and 1995. He is still touring and recording, having released the album "My Way" in 2004.
Although LennyWilliams has had a long solo career, he is still best-known for his three years as the lead singer of Tower of Power, one of the top funk/soul bands of the '70s.
But Williams was pursuing a solo career before joining Tower of Power, and he resumed his solo career after leaving that famous Oakland outfit in 1975.
Williams, who moved to Oakland, CA, when he was 14, planned to become a Christian minister but ended up changing his mind and decided to pursue a career as a secular R&B singer.