Roberta Flack — seen performing for a television studio audience in 1973 — possessed one of the most singular singing voices of her era. (ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment ...

Roberta Flack ... Ms. Flack taught music and accompanied other vocalists on piano before she was cajoled into singing Christmas carols while appearing at a Washington nightclub in the 1960s.

Roberta Cleopatra Flack was born on Feb. 10, 1937, in Black Mountain, North Carolina. Her father was a draftsman for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and her mother was a music teacher and ...

In the late 1960s, Roberta Flack’s rise from a D.C. schoolteacher to a music icon began on a stage at Mr. Henry’s on Pennsylvania Avenue. On Monday, the club mourned the loss of Flack at the ...

Roberta Flack, the fearless singer and pianist ... After working as a teacher and moonlighting as a nightclub singer in Washington, D.C., Flack was signed by Atlantic Records and in 1969 released ...

“We were deeply connected creatively,” Flack told Vibe in 2022, upon the 50th anniversary of the million-selling “Roberta Flack ... but her own shows at Washington’s renowned Mr. Henry ...

In the final hour of the final day that Roberta Flack drew breath on this earth ... good to you after all these years,” she told The Washington Post in 1989. The fact that a debut album this ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Roberta ... Flack not only knew of the ballad, but used it while working with a glee club during her years as an educator. “I was teaching at Banneker Junior High in Washington ...

NEW YORK — Roberta ... Flack not only knew of the ballad, but used it while working with a glee club during her years as an educator. “I was teaching at Banneker Junior High in Washington ...

Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose intimate vocal and musical style on “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and other hits made ...