Gil ScottHeron, "Godfather of Rap," dies at 62 CBS News


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Gil ScottHeron, "Godfather of Rap," dies at 62 CBS News

Gil Scott-Heron was a New York City poet, activist, musician, social critic and spoken-word performer whose songs in the '70s helped lay the foundation for rap music.


GIL SCOTTHERON Still We Rise

Sun 29 May 2011 13.55 EDT. In 1970, the American poet and jazz musician Gil Scott-Heron, who has died aged 62 after returning from a trip to Europe, recorded a track that has come to be seen as a.


Gil ScottHeron NPR

Album Winter in America (1974). Peace to you, brother.


Gil ScottHeron, Poet And Musician, Has Died The Record NPR

Revolutionary poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron, best known for his 1970 work "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," died May 27th at a New York City hospital.The exact cause of death is.


Gil ScottHeron's Nothing New LP made available digitally

By Alec Wilkinson. May 29, 2011. Gil Scott-Heron, who died late Friday at the age of sixty-two, was among the very first musicians to understand the power of declamatory singing, of holding forth.


i, write, riot RIP Gil ScottHeron

May 28, 2011. Gil Scott-Heron, the poet and recording artist whose syncopated spoken style and mordant critiques of politics, racism and mass media in pieces like "The Revolution Will Not Be.


Posthumous Gil ScottHeron album to be released on Record Store Day Celebrity News

Official audio for Whitey On the Moon by Gil Scott-Heron, released on Ace Records. Subscribe to the official Ace channel for more classics, lost gems, playli.


The Last Holiday A Memoir By Gil ScottHeron Book Review The New York Times

Gil Scott-Heron performing in 2010. Photograph: David Corio/Redferns. Gil taught me to "study Black history, in order to know where you're coming from, so you'll know where you're going


Remembering Gil ScottHeron, One of Soulโ€™s Heroes New

How Gil Scott-Heron and Stevie Wonder set up Martin Luther King Day. In an extract from his memoir written before he died last year, Gil Scott-Heron talks about when he toured with Stevie Wonder.


Gil ScottHeron THE LABEL

Early years. Gil Scott-Heron was born in Chicago. His mother, Bobbie Scott, born in Mississippi, was an opera singer who performed with the Oratorio Society of New York.His father, Gil Heron, nicknamed "The Black Arrow", was a Jamaican footballer who in the 1950s became the first black man to play for Celtic F.C. in Glasgow, Scotland. Gil's parents separated in his early childhood and he was.


Gil ScottHeron comes to life in new Han Ong play

Poet, novelist, musician, and songwriter Gil Scott-Heron was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 1, 1949 to parents Bobbie Scott Heron, a librarian, and Giles (Gil) Heron, a Jamaican professional soccer player. He grew up in Jackson, Tennessee where he was active in the integration of the city's public as one of the first of three African.


Gil ScottHeron played by his own rules Anne Frankenstein

Gil Scott-Heron. The son of New York opera singer Bobbie Scott and Celtic's first black footballer Gil Heron, Scott-Heron was born in Chicago in 1949 and grew up in Tennessee before moving to New.


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But in many ways, Gil Scott-Heron has remained indefinable, a singular personality whose influence has continued to grow in the decade since his death in 2011 at the age of 62. The future star was born in Chicago in 1949, and overcame a turbulent childhood; his parents divorced when Gil was still an infant, and he was sent to live with his.


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Poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron was born in Chicago. His mother, Bobbie Scott-Heron, was an opera singer and a teacher, and his Jamaican-born father, Gilbert Heron, was the first professional black soccer player in the United States and the first to play on Celtic FC in Scotland. After his parents' early divorce, Scott-Heron moved to Lincoln, Tennessee, to live with his grandmother Lily.