Gil Scott-Heron Dies in New York at Age 62
28.05.2011 Soul legend and "Godfather of Rap" Gil Scott-Heron died Friday afternoon in a New York hospital.
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Musician Gil Scott-Heron, who helped lay the groundwork for rap by fusing minimalistic percussion, political expression and spoken-word poetry on songs such as "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", died Friday at age 62.
A friend, Doris C. Nolan, who answered the telephone listed for his Manhattan recording company, said he died in the afternoon at St. Luke's Hospital after becoming sick upon returning from a European trip.
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Unbedingt empfehlenswert:
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
-> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS3QOtbW4m0
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Mehr:
http://gilscottheron.net/news/
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Scott-Heron
http://www.zoolamar.com/2010/02/09/slum-poetry-die-rueckkehr-des-spoken-word-hero-gil-scott-heron/
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/0,1518,765428,00.html
http://www.zeit.de/kultur/musik/2011-05/gil-scott-heron-nachruf