Roberta Flack (born February 10 1937 in Asheville, North Carolina) is an American singer, notable in the areas of jazz, soul, and folk. Flack is best known for singles such as "Killing Me Softly With His Song," "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," "Where is the Love", one of her many duets with Donny Hathaway, and "Feel Like Making Love." "Killing Me Softly With His Song" won the 1974 Grammy for Record of the Year. Biography Flack was raised in Arlington, Virginia. She first discovered the work of African American musical artists when she heard Mahalia Jackson and Sam Cooke sing in a predominantly black Baptist church. In her early teens, Flack so excelled at classical piano that Howard University awarded her a full music scholarship. She matriculated at Howard University at the age of 15, making her one of the youngest students ever to enroll there. She eventually changed her major from piano to voice, and became an assi

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z # TAGS