“When you express your feelings about the first time you ever see a great love, you don’t rush the story,” the legendary Roberta Flack told Songwriter Universe in 2020 — a sentiment applicable to her ...

Flack first donned the Hot 100 crown with breakthrough hit “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” featured on her now platinum-certified 1969 debut album for Atlantic, First Take, and in the 1971 ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — In an era where popular music is fluid, it is easy to forget the listening world was not always so open.

Once you put into perspective that chart-topping pop and R&B vocalist-composer Roberta Flack started her career accompanying opera vocalists on piano at one club, performing quiet jazz and blues at ...

“I didn’t try to be a soul singer, a jazz singer, a blues singer – no category,” Flack said in 2020. “My music is my expression of what I feel and believe in a moment.” A classically trained pianist ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A public memorial service bursting with music including performances by Stevie Wonder and a surprise visit by Lauryn Hill celebrated the life and legacy of Grammy-winning singer and ...

Roberta Flack, the singer and pianist who charted three No. 1 hits in the '70s, has died. The North Carolina-born artist was 88. A press release noted that Flack "died peacefully surrounded by her ...