Roberta Flack

Roberta Flack ( Asheville ( North Carolina ), February 10 1937 ) is an American singer . She is best known for her hit Killing Me Softly with His Song.

Contents

 * 1 Biography
 * 2 Discography
 * 2.1 Albums
 * 2.2 Singles
 * 2.3 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 3 External link

Biography
Roberta Flack grew up in Arlington , Virginia . From the age of nine she took piano lessons and when she was 13, she could replace her mother Irene as organist in the church choir. Because as a child she was allowed to skip some classes, she was at the age of 15 already at the conservatory, where she graduated three years later. Before they broke into the music, she has five years of English and music lessons given high schools. Although she initially on jazz and classical repertoire founded, they gradually switched over to pop music . Here she was encouraged by her singing teacher. So she went into clubs as a pianist and singer occur.

Roberta was discovered in 1968 by jazz musician Les McCann . In 1971 she came with a few covers of famous hits in the Billboard Hot 100 they sang along with Donny Hathaway, a former classmate of hers. Her big breakthrough came only in 1972 when she was a US had number 1 hit with The First Time I Saw Your Face. That song was recorded in 1969, but three years later became popular, because in the film Play Misty for Me by Clint Eastwood was used. The song even earned two Grammys on.

She is probably best known for her performance of Killing Me Softly with His Song, written by componistenduo Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel, who wrote it for Lori Lieberman, who also released the first version in 1972. The song came in 1973 to No. 3 in the Top 40, and in 1996 in implementation of the Fugees even went to number 1. In the Netherlands she also had a hit with Feel Like Makin 'Love. In her homeland America both songs reached the top position on the Billboard Hot 100. Nine years after Feel Like Makin 'Love Roberta was again in the Top 40 with the song Tonight I Celebrate My Love, a duet with Peabo Bryson . After that song, it was quiet around Roberta Flack, both in the Netherlands and the United States. In 1991 she was in America again at number 6 with Set the Night to Music, a duet with Maxi Priest, this song did not make the charts in the Netherlands. Her latest album is Holiday, a CD with Christmas carols 2003.