Gil Scott-Heron E' morto Gil Scott-Heron, musicista e poeta nonché pioniere dell’hip-hop 28/05/2011 di Emanuele Tamagnini

Gravissimo, inaspettato, dolorosissimo lutto. A 62 anni è morto a New York Gil Scott-Heron, straordinario ed influente musicista, poeta, pioniere dell’hip-hop. Le cause della morte sono ancora da accertare. “One of America’s greatest cultural figures of the 1970s and an inspiration to generations since, Scott-Heron had been in fragile health for many years as a result of a decades-long battle with cocaine and HIV infection”. Scott-Heron era tornato nel 2010 con il magnifico album ‘I’m New Here’ dopo sedici anni di assenza ed aveva bissato il successo quando ad inizio 2011 aveva dato alle stampe il disco di remix ‘We’re New Here’ realizzato assieme a Jamie XX. “Together throughout the 1970s, Scott-Heron and Jackson made music that reflected the turbulence, uncertainty and increasing pessimism of the times, merging the soul and jazz traditions and drawing on an oral poetry tradition that reached back to the blues and forward to hip-hop. The music sounded by turns angry, defiant and regretful while Scott-Heron’s lyrics possessed a satirical edge that set them apart from the militant soul of contemporaries such as Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield”.

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