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- Birth name: Roberta Cleopatra Flack
- Birth date: February 10, 1937
- Origin: Asheville, North Carolina
- Years active: 1968-Present
- Inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999
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Roberta Flack is an American, four-time Grammy Award-winning soul singer, known for a catalogue of enduring classics like "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Killing Me Softly With His Song."
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Background
Flack was raised in Arlington, Virginia. In her early teens, Flack excelled at classical piano and was awarded a full music scholarship at Howard University which she entered at the age of 15, making her one of the youngest students ever to enroll there. She eventually changed her major from piano to voice and became an assistant conductor of the university choir. Flack graduated from Howard University at 19 and began her graduate studies in music, but the sudden death of her father forced her to take a job teaching music and English for $2800 a year in Farmville, North Carolina. During her time as a teacher, her music career began to take shape on evenings and weekends in Washington DC area night spots where she would perform. Flack was discovered singing at one of these clubs by jazz musician Les McCann and signed to Atlantic.Discography
- 1969: First Take
- 1970: Chapter Two
- 1971: Quiet Fire
- 1972: Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
- 1973: Killing Me Softly
- 1975: Feel Like Makin' Love
- 1977: Blue Lights in the Basement
- 1978: Roberta Flack
- 1980: Featuring Donny Hathaway
- 1980: Live & More
- 1982: I'm The One
- 1983: Born to Love
- 1988: Oasis
- 1991: Set the Night to Music
- 1995: Roberta
- 1997: The Christmas Album
- 2001: Holiday
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Roberta Flack Questions
Am I the only one who can't stand Roberta Flack's voice? She's got great songs, I jus prefer to hear someone else sings them. 1 AnswerI think it is you. I think she has a good voice. I can think of singers that don’t have a good voice (Britney Spears) and a few others but Roberta Flack? She ha... read more
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Now Playing: Killing Me Softly With His Song by Roberta Flack
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Shout out ta the band tht "butchered" the shit out of "Killing Me Softly". U jus dnt cover a song AFTER Roberta Flack AND Lauryn H./Fugees
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