He met musician Brian Jackson when both were students at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, and in 1970 they formed the Midnight Band to play their original blend of jazz, soul and prototype rap music. Astonishingly precocious, Scott-Heron had published two novels (The Vulture and The Nigger Factory) plus a book of poems (Small Talk At 125th And Lenox) by 1972. His estranged father played for Glasgow Celtic, a Scottish soccer team.
Raised in Jackson, Tennessee, by his grandmother, Scott-Heron moved to New York at the age of 13.
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