Flack had already used a track by up-and-coming R&B lover man Donny Hathaway on her debut album. The pair went on to make their own albums together, starting with 1972’s “Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway.” But this new song from Hathaway signaled something greater for him and her: an...
Unfairly because it is in every way an equal partner to its two luminous predecessors in constituting the third instalment of a triumvirate of great Roberta Flack albums. Significantly, even its immediate successor, the excellent "Killing Me Softly", doesn't quite measure up artistically with ...
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Flack had several No. 1 hits in the 1970s and produced 20 studio albums. Although she wrote some of her own songs and collaborated on others, she considered herself as an interpreter of the music. "When Flack sings a song, she caresses each cadence, considering and intensifying th...
Over the course of her illustrious career, Flack scored a total of 18 Hot 100 hits, and notched four albums in the top three of the Billboard 200, as well as more than two dozen charting hits on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Flack was also nominated for 14 Grammys and won thre...
For a long stretch of her career, Flack produced her own albums, including 1975’s “Feel Like Makin’ Love” and 1977’s “Blue Lights in the Basement,” using the pseudonym Rubina Flake as a joke. At the time, Black women record producers — even stars like her — were exceptionally...
From her 1969 debut, the single-take LP First Take, through her many landmark albums of folk covers, Broadways songs, civil rights protest anthems, and original music in the ensuing years, Flack used her diverse musical expertise to develop a deceptively light, spare style that paired classica...
Roberta Flack holds the Grammy award for her record, "Killing Me Softly With His Song" as singer Isaac Hayes (right), looks on at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on March 4, 1974. (PHOTO / AP) Flack had several No. 1 hits in the 1970s and produced 20 studio albums. Although she...
before hathaway’s death in 1979. later, in the 1980s, flack recorded with the singer and songwriter peabo bryson; their 1983 duet “tonight, i celebrate my love” reached as high as number five on billboard ’s r&b chart. in 2022, after releasing 15 studio albums, winning four ...
Roberta Flack, Usher, and the kora player Sona Jorbarteh will receive honorary Doctor of Music degrees at Berklee College of Music’s 2023 commencement ceremony. The honors are awarded each year to artists who have “accomplished extraordinary career achievements in the arts, and who exemplify ...