Singer Roberta Flack has died at age 88 of cardiac arrest. Flack’s voice emerged professionally in 1968 when she started singing at a restaurant in Washington, D.C. The Howard University graduate worked briefly as a music teacher after graduating at the age of 19. Jazz pianist Les McCann discovered herContinue Reading
Valerie Simpson, Roberta Flack, Deniece Williams, Tawatha Agee and Klymaxx will all be members of the Women Songwriters Hall Of Fame inaugural class this year. Jeri Keever “Bunny” Hull, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Veryl Howard and two more women are also part of the list of inductees. The WSHOF’s mission isContinue Reading
Roberta Flack was first inspired to cover “Killing Me Softly With His Song” after hearing it while traveling on an airplane. She soon became to work on her own version and performed it live in 1972 as the opening act for Marvin Gaye. The audience responded with excitement and GayeContinue Reading
Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway met as students at Howard University in the ’60s. Both of them were also signed to Atlantic Records and it was Jerry Wexler who suggested a duets project to them. Flack had already been commercially successful on her first album with “The First Time EverContinue Reading