Roberta Flack
Roberta Flack
Roberta Cleopatra Flack is an American singer and musician. She is best known for her classic #1 singles "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and "Feel Like Makin' Love", and for "Where Is the Love" and "The Closer I Get to You", two of her many duets with Donny Hathaway...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth10 February 1937
CityBlack Mountain, NC
CountryUnited States of America
Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country.
I have my own charity I am trying to get off the ground as well, which some of my concerts go toward funding, ... I am building a school-the Roberta Flack School of Music-in two brownstones I purchased in New York City. The purpose is to help other young musician artists just as I received good teaching and help from my family and friends back home.
When I go back home and go to church, I still see the woman who helped me learn to sing and play the piano, ... She still treats me the same way she always has. I'll go to the piano and play some classical music piece, dressed in my white dress, just as I always did on Sundays.
A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes ...
My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.
So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.
Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress.
The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes
Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.
Tonight, we will both discover, how friends turn into lovers, when I make love to you.
Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.
I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.
Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.
Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.