Roberta Flack(1937-2025)
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Roberta Flack was born February 10, 1937 (1939 according to some sources), in Black Mountain, North
Carolina, a small town located about 10 miles (18 kilometers) from the
city of Asheville, North Carolina. She is best known for her love
ballad "Killing Me Softly With His Song", released in 1969. She earned
a music scholarship to Howard University and graduated with a BA in
Music. She briefly taught music after graduation from college. She was
discovered singing and playing jazz in a Washington nightclub by
pianist Les McCann, and she later signed a
contract with Atlantic Records in the late 1960s. The rest is music
history. Roberta's most recent album is a 1997 anthology of Christmas
standards simply titled "Christmas Album".
