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Roberta Cleopatra Flack Wiki Biography

Roberta Cleopatra Flack was born on 10 February 1939, in Black Mountain, North Carolina USA, to Irene and Laron LeRoy Flack, both parents being musicians of African-American descent. She is a singer and musician, best known for her hits “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”, “Killing Me Softly with His Song”, “Feel Like Makin’ Love”, “Where Is the Love” and “The Closer I Get to You”.

A talented singer, how wealthy is Roberta Flack? Sources state that Flack has earned a net worth of over $20 million, her wealth having been earned mostly through her singing career which now spans almost 50 years.

Flack grew up in Arlington, Virginia and started taking piano lessons at an early age, which enabled her to receive a piano scholarship to Howard University in Washington D.C., where she became an assistant conductor of the university choir. She later continued her music education at the University of Massachusetts in Amherts, Massachusetts. After graduating in 1958 with a B.A. in music education, she taught music and English in Farmville, North Carolina. She also sang in various clubs, where she was eventually discovered by jazz musician Les McCann, who arranged a record deal for her with Atlantic Records.

Flack’s first two albums, the 1969 “First Time” and the 1970 “Chapter Two” both received positive reviews, and selling over one million copies each. However, her breakthrough came with “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”, her adaption of Ewan MacColl’s song on her third, 1972 album “Quiet Fire”, after the song was used in the soundtrack of Clint Eastwood’s movie “Play Misty For Me”. It became the biggest hit of 1972, and the #1 single which earned Flack a million-selling Gold disc as well as a Grammy Award. Her popularity boosted and her net worth started to rise.

Flack continued to score hits, such as her chart-topping singles “Killing Me Softly with His Song” for which she received a Grammy Award, and “Feel Like Makin’ Love”, as well as her duets with Donny Hathaway “You’ve Got a Friend”, “The Closer I Get to You” and “Where Is the Love”, earning another Grammy for the latter song. In the meantime, she launched her own music production and publishing company, and went on to compose and produce soundtracks for television and motion pictures, such as for the film “Bustin’ Loose” and “Sudden Impact”. All added to her wealth.

After Hathaway’s death in 1979, Flack teamed up with Peabo Bryson, scoring a hit with their 1983 duet “Tonight, I Celebrate My Love”. Her next hit was the 1991 duet with Maxi Priest, “Set the Night to Music”. In 1999, she received a Star on Hollywood’s legendary Walk of Fame.

The following years Flack spent touring and performing, and released several albums. Her most recent recording was her 2012 album of Beatles coverings, entitled “Let It Be Roberta”, and she is currently working on another Beatles album. Flack’s music has made her a performer of legendary status and has enabled her to amass a significant wealth. It has also earned her various awards and honors throughout her career.

When it comes to her personal life, Flack was married to jazz bassist Steve Novosel from 1966 to 1972. She has one child, the rhythm and blues musician Bernard Wright. Flack is deeply involved in charity. Aside from her numerous performances for charity causes, she has founded the Roberta Flack School of Music, focused on providing a free music education program to underprivileged students. She is a member of the Artist Empowerment Coalition, advocating the artists’ rights to control their creative properties, and a spokeswoman for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

IMDB Wikipedia “Feel Like Makin’ Love” (1975) “I’m the One” (1982) “Let it Be Roberta” (2012) “Oasis” (1988) “The Christmas Album” (1997) $20 million 1937 1937-2-10 5′ 3″ (1.6 m) Actress Aquarius Bernard Wright Black Mountain Boogie Nights (1997) Bustin’ Loose (1981) Donny Hathaway Ewan MacColl February 10 Les McCann Maxi Priest Music Department North Carolina Play Misty for Me (1971) Roberta Cleopatra Flack Roberta Flack Net Worth Soundtrack Sudden Impact (1983) The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) United States X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

Roberta Cleopatra Flack Quick Info

Roberta Cleopatra Flack Trademarks

1. Lengthy recordings of songs that tend to run 5 minutes or more
2. Smooth silky soulful voice

Roberta Cleopatra Flack Quotes

• Women have to do twice the work of male rock singers such as The Rolling Stones. We have to sing, play instruments and get accustomed to walking out on stage in high heels. Never mind the pressures of your image. If something goes wrong on my stage in any way, from sound to style, nobody can blame a band member. It’s Roberta Flack who gets the rap and looks bad! I’m the one on the bill alone, with no gang of boys or crew behind me.

Roberta Cleopatra Flack Important Facts

• Longtime friend and next-door neighbor at Manhattan’s Dakota apartment building is Yoko Ono.
• One of her “star pupils” was a young musician by the name of Richard Smallwood who went on to become one of the most celebrated name’s in gospel music.
• Originally, she wanted to be a concert pianist.
• Her song, “Killing Me Softly” (1969), was a tribute to “American Pie” singer Don McLean. It was first recorded by folk singer/songwriter Lori Lieberman, who saw Don McLean in concert and wrote a poem based on her experience. The songwriting team of Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox turned Lori’s poem into a song. Lori’s original was followed in order by versions by Anne Murray, Bobby Goldsboro and Perry Como, all three of which predated Flack’s recording. Roberta was on a plane when she happened to listen to Lori Lieberman’s original version of the song, and knew she wanted to record it when she landed. Then, it was released as a single and it became a smash hit.
• Mentioned in the song “My Lovely Man” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
• In 1973, there were press reports that Flack was going to star in a film biography of blues singer Bessie Smith, with a script by Lonne Elder III, to be directed by Gordon Parks. The film was never made.
• Member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
• Ranked #45 on VH1’s Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
• She sang the theme song to the popular television series Valerie’s Family: The Hogans (1986), later called “The Hogan Family”, entitled “Together Through the Years”. This song sung by Flack was used for the show’s entire six year run (1986-1991)
• Her song, “Killing Me Softly” (1973), was a tribute to American Pie singer Don McLean.
• Her song “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”, was included on the jazz-tinged soundtrack for Clint Eastwood’s 1971 film titled Play Misty for Me (1971).
• After Donny Hathaway committed suicide in 1979, she started touring with Peabo Bryson in 1980, scoring a hit duet: “Tonight, I Celebrate My Love” (1983).
• She sang popular duets with Howard University classmate, Donny Hathaway: ‘Where Is The Love?’ (1972), ‘The Closer I Get To You’ (1978), ‘You Are My Heaven’ (1980) and ‘Come Ye Disconsolate.’
• After a period of student teaching, she was discovered singing and playing jazz in a Washington nightclub by pianist Les McCann, who recommended her talents to Atlantic Records, in the late 1960s.
• She graduated from Howard University with a BA in Music.
• She was the daughter of a church organist (her father) and started playng piano early enough to get a music scholarship to Howard University.
• She was born into a musical family.
• She is known as a singer of soulful jazz and pop ballads.

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