US poet and songwriter Gil Scott-Heron, credited with helping to inspire the development of rap, has died at the age of 62.
Doris C Nolan, a friend of Scott-Heron's, told the Associated Press news agency on Friday that the artist died in the afternoon at St Luke's Hospital in New York. He reportedly fell ill after returning from a trip to Europe.
"We're all sort of shattered," Nolan said.
Scott-Heron - best known for his spoken word piece 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised', which critiqued mass media - used poetry as his vehicle for activism committed to the human rights of people around the world.
alJazeera
Saturday, January 21, 2012
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Because It Already Failed
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