His mother was a Puerto Rican and his father of Haitian origin.
He had started as a street artist painting graffiti art and then he became a very popular and sucessful avant-garde artist.
His style was very original - nervous, fierce and energetic.
He was a close friend of Andy Warhol, and the two made a number of collaborative works.
Basquiat became addicted to heroin, and died of an overdose[?].
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