Who Is Gil Scott Heron?
Gil Scott Heron given to the world April 1, 1949 and taken from us on May 27, 2011. He was born to Bobbie Scott Heron his mother and father of Jamacian descent Gil Heron whom was also a soccer player nicked name "The Black Arrow" In the 1950s, became the first black athlete to play for Glasgow Celtic Football Club in Scotland.
Gil's parents separated before he reached the age of three so he was sent to live with his maternal grandmother, Lillie Scott, in Tennesse whom reared him until the age of twelve.
Lillie Scott passed and Gil then moved with his mother to The Bronx in New York City, where he enrolled in DeWitt Clinton High School. He later transferred to The Fieldston School after one of his teachers, a Fieldston graduate, showed one of his writings to the head of the English department at Fieldston and he was granted a full scholarship.
Gil Scott Heron went on to attend college at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, although he never received his undergraduate degree, he received a Master's degree in Creative Writing in 1972 from Johns Hopkins University. His 1972 dissertation was titled Circle of stone.
African American poet, musician, and author known primarily for his work as a spoken word performer in the 1970s and 80s, and for his collaborative soul works with musician Brian Jackson. His collaborative efforts with Jackson featured a musical fusion of jazz, blues and soul music, as well as lyrical content concerning social and political issues of the time, delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles by Scott-Heron
Scott-Heron early years from 1970 to 1978 include works such as:
Recording:
1970 Small Talk At 125th & Lennox
1971 Pieces of A Man
1972 Free Will
1974 Winter In America
1975 The First Minute of a New Day
1976 From South Africa to South Carolina
1976 It's Your World
1977 The Bridges
1978 Secrets
Gil Scott Heron continue his career well beyond the 1970's and had recently released an album in 2010 entilted I'm New Here. Gil Scott Heron was influential in much of African-American music genres such as hip hop and neo soul.
To find out more about Gil Scott Heron visit the popular website Wikipedia for a complete bibliography of Gil Scott Heron.
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