Gil Scott-Heron

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Gil Scott Heron (1949 – 2011)

Gil Scott Heron was born in Chicago, USA, his mother Bobbie Scott was an opera singer, his father Gil Heron was a Jamaican footballer who in the 1950s became the first black man to play for Celtic Football Club in Glasgow, Scotland.

Gil Scot heron was a musician and author, known for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 80s. His long-term collaboration with the musician Brian Jackson was a fusion of Jazz, blues, and soul as well as lyrical content that reflected the social and political issues of the time. His own term for himself was ‘bluesologist’. His poem ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’ delivered over a jazz-soul beat is considered a major influence on hip hop music.

His music preceded the genres of hip hop and neo soul, and his style of delivery is considered to be a major influence and progenitor of rap music.

Gil Scott Heron received a number of posthumous awards after his death including Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, accepted into the National Museum of African American History and Culture and inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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KWATZ is a small T-shirt label producing limited editions of unique multi-colour designs individually printed by hand in a tiny studio. We cater for people who appreciate the difference between mass produced machine prints and the quality of original artisan work. The process is not mechanised at all – every print really is unique – the screens for printing are hand held, designs are hand dawn and all stencils are intricately hand-cut from paper, only producing small runs of each print before the paper stencils become unusable.

Amanda Roseveare, the artist behind KWATZ, seeks to bring new vigour to the T-shirt with a small range of flamboyant, distinctive designs inspired by the art and folklore of Africa and the colour and energy of modern street culture. T-shirts are an ideal vehicle for Amanda’s art, always a popular piece of clothing and a great canvas for ideas as ‘wearable art’.

The prints are soft, durable and colour fast, screen printed in ravishing colours using water based inks. Our standard T-shirt model is a top quality semi-fitted unisex classic 100% cotton jersey T-shirt, a wardrobe staple that can be worn all year round. It features a crew neck, short sleeves and is slightly longer in length.

  • Hand printed in the UK
  • 100% certified organic combed cotton 
  • Climate neutral
  • Ethically sourced
  • Slightly shaped fit with taped neck seam
  • Jersey 155 g / 4.6 oz

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