Musician Gil Scott-Heron Dies

US musician and poet Gil Scott-Heron has died aged 62, media reports, publicists and publishers have said. The cause of Scott-Heron’s death, in a New York hospital, is not clear. Scott-Heron’s material spanned soul, jazz, blues and the spoken word and his 1970s work heavily influenced the US hip-hop and rap scenes. There was a [...]

28 May 2011, MauritiusHot