This week on Tuesday Trivia, we’re going all the way up to the east side to find out which famous rock star’s mother starred on the hit 1970s comedy, The Jeffersons.

First, the mother. Roxie Roker played Helen Willis, the upstairs neighbor to George and Louise. While Helen and Louise were the best of friends, she was indeed George’s worst nightmare. See, Helen was married to Tom Willis, a white guy, and that didn’t sit too well with George Jefferson. He had a thing about mixed-marriages and often referred to the pair as ‘chocolate and vanilla,’ or ‘zebra.’ Helen could dish it out as well as take it though, calling him shorty on an almost daily basis. The Jeffersons did run for 11 seasons though, and by the end the two managed to get along, at least to the point of tolerating one another.

Roxie Roker, the actress who played Helen Willis, was born in Miami, Florida, but grew up in Brooklyn, NY.

Yes, she’s the cousin of noted television personality, Al Roker, but we’re not here to talk about him. Roxie appeared on many TV programs throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including Punky Brewster, Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper, A Different World, Beat the Clock, and she was also in the television mini-series, ROOTS.

Unfortunately, Roxie Roker died of breast cancer in 1995, but not before leaving behind a famous rock star son. Her and her husband, Sy, were married from 1962 to 1985 and during that time they had a baby boy.

So who was it? Maybe if I ask you another question you’ll be able to guess.

Are you gonna go my way?

You got it. Roxie Roker and her husband, Sy Kravitz, gave birth to Leonard Albert Kravitz on May 26, 1964. Leonard, of course, went on to become Lenny Kravitz, the rock star with such hits as “Are You Gonna Go My Way?”, “It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over” and “Mr. Cab Driver.”

There, now you got a piece of the pie too.

See you next week on Tuesday Trivia.