Gil Scott Heron

Gil Scott-Heron is a name known to a little everyone. His music is sometimes a little less so despite The revolution will not be televised , a title that has entered history and now an integral part of American pop culture. Icon of black music across the Atlantic, he is noticed by a verb that will become his trademark and performances at the intersection of Soul Music, Funk, Blues and Jazz. Born in 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, the hub of the American black protest and theatrical social movements of importance during the 1960s (industrial crisis, birth of the Chicago Freedom Movement of Martin Luther King, ghettos, immigration, racial riots...) strongly marked by his environment he entered the path of disputing art at the end of the decade. The young Gil quickly established himself as a defender of the American black cause and of those left behind for the American dream, tells his daily life and that of thousands of others of his compatriots: that of the street and its difficulties. A defender of the policies of the time, he was part of the protesting current that took art on his own in the 1970s. He will never leave this niche, although in the mid-1980s the rhythm of his studio recordings experienced a significant slowdown. Yet the artist continues to write and shoot, with his eyes open to the society around him, regularly addresses some remarkable brulots to the politicians or rappers of the time ( Message to messengers ) and records in 1994 what will remain for a long time his last album: Spirits . Ever since, among other things, drug problems, domestic violence, and supposedly seriously ill Gil Scott-Heron even failed in prison in 2001. Only in 2010 did he sign a somewhat unexpected return to New Here.
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