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Born in Liverpool, Malik was taken into care at the age of nine after his seafaring father became paralysed. He would spend his adolescence in a system that proved violent, neglectful, exploitative, traumatising and mired in abuse. Aged 18, he emerged semi-literate, penniless with no connections or sense of where he was going - until a chance meeting with Gil Scott-Heron. Letters to Gil will tell the story of Malik’s empowerment and awakening while mentored by Gil, from his introduction to the legacy of Black history to the development of his voice through poetry and music.

Born in Philadelphia to a Jewish father and an enigmatic Puerto Rican mother, Quiara Alegría Hudes had a love- and-trouble-filled upbringing, haunted by the unspoken, untold family secrets of the barrio. In the face of real-world wounds, the powerful, Orisha-like women of her family possessed a strength, joy and sensuality that left a young Quiara awe-struck. She vowed to tell their stories.

Fragmentos de diarios, dietarios, epifanías, aforismos y poemas que dan fe de los extraordinarios logros del "Dylan negro". Al tiempo que componen una conmovedora estampa de sus tempranas vivencias y de su peripecia vital; salpicada con los recuerdos de los momentos compartidos con otros compañeros de armas Bob Marley, Michael Jackson y también por la aparición de sus mentores en la industria musical Clive Davis, Stevie Wonder y en las procelosas aguas del mundo del libro.