After the death of his grandmother, at age 12, he returned to live with his mother in The Bronx in New York City. His parents separated early in his childhood and he went to leave with his maternal grandmother, in Jackson, Tennessee. Scott-Heron’s father, Gil Heron, nicknamed “The Black Arrow”, was a Jamaican football player in the 1950s who became the first black man to play for Celtic Football Club in Glasgow. His mother, Bobbie Scott-Heron, was an opera singer who performed with the New York Oratorio Society. Scott-Heron was born in Chicago, Illinois. Gilbert “Gil” Scott-Heron was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author, known primarily for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s.
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