Gil Scott-Heron

Gilbert Scott-Heron (1 April 1949 – 27 Mei 2011) merupakan seorang penyajak, penulis dan pemuzik Amerika Syarikat. Beliau mengkhusus utama dalam genre-genre spoken word soul dan jazz. lagi-lagi dengan karya bersama Brian Jackson pada tahun-tahun 1970-an dan 1980-an.

Beliau dilihat sebagai antara pelopor kepada seni rap yang turut mempengaruhi genre-genre muzik terkemudian di Amerika Syarikat seperti hip hop dan neo soul; malah beliau dianggap MC dan penyanyi rap pertama dalam subbudaya ini.

Biografi

 Gaya penulisan 

 Diskografi 
 Album studio 
TahunAlbumLabel1970Small Talk at 125th and LenoxFlying Dutchman1971Pieces of a ManFlying Dutchman1972Free WillFlying Dutchman1974Winter in AmericaStrata-East1975The First Minute of a New DayArista1975From South Africa to South CarolinaArista1976It's Your WorldArista1977BridgesArista1978SecretsArista19801980Arista1980Real EyesArista1981ReflectionsArista1982Moving TargetArista1994SpiritsTVT2010I'm New HereXL2011We're New HereXL /Young Turks2014Nothing NewXL

 Album langsung 
TahunAlbumLabel1976It's Your WorldArista1990Tales of Gil Scott-Heron and His Amnesia ExpressCastle Music UK/Peak Top1994Minister of Information: LivePeak Top2004The Best of Gil Scott-Heron LiveIntersound2004Tour De ForcePhantom Sound & Vision2004Save the ChildrenDelta Music2004Winter in America, Summer in EuropePickwick2005Greatest Hits Live: Collector SeriesIntersound2008Live at the Town & Country 1988Acadia/Evangeline

 Album kompilasi 
TahunAlbumLabel1974The Revolution Will Not Be TelevisedFlying Dutchman1978The Mind of Gil Scott-HeronArista1984The Best of Gil Scott-HeronArista1988The Revolution Will Not Be TelevisedBluebird1990Glory: The Gil Scott-Heron CollectionArista1998The Gil Scott-Heron Collection: Sampler 1974–1975TVT1998Ghetto StyleCamden1999Evolution and Flashback: The Very Best of Gil Scott-HeronRCA2005Anthology: Messages (Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson)Soul Brother2006The Best of Gil Scott-HeronSony/BMG2009Storm Music (The Best of Gil Scott-Heron)Phantom Sound & Vision2012The Revolution Begins: The Flying Dutchman MastersBGP

 Album kolaborasi 

 Rhythms of the Diaspora Vol 1 & 2 Ft. Gil Scott-Heron and The Last Poets (bersama Malik & the O.G's untuk MentiS, 2015)

 Bibliografi 
 The Vulture (1970) - ISBN: 0862415284
 Small Talk at 125th and Lenox (1970)
 The Nigger Factory (1972) - ISBN: 0862415276
 So Far, So Good (1990) - ISBN: 0883781336
 Now and Then: The Poems of Gil Scott-Heron (2001) - ISBN: 086241900X
 The Last Holiday (2012) - ISBN: 0857863010

 Rujukan 

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 Pautan luar 

 Laman web persendirian rasmi
 Laman web keluarga waris rasmi
 Profil dan karya di Discogs
 Text of "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
 "An American Griot: Gil Scott-Heron in Conversation with Don Geesling" at Brooklyn Rail (November 2007)
 Wawancara NPR, bertarikh 11 Disember 2007
 Temubual  bersama Brian Pace (bertarikh 17 Februari 2009) di Vimeo

Kategori: Penulis Amerika Syarikat
Kategori: Penyajak Amerika Syarikat
Kategori: Penyanyi rap Amerika Syarikat