The singer left the family home when he was just 15 because he couldn't bear to watch his dad Sy regularly cheat on his mother.
He says, "We never saw eye to eye and I moved out when I was 15. I was a mama's boy, and his infidelities were something I took personally."
The pair met and reconciled shortly before Sy died in 2005.
In new track A Long and Sad Goodbye - from Kravitz' latest album It is Time for a Love Revolution - he sings, "Papa why did you turn your back? Why didn't you stay on track?"
Source: WENN