From her 1969 debut album, "First Take," through a 2012 collection of Beatles covers, "Let it Be: Roberta," Flack, whether ...

The pair went on to make their own albums together, starting with 1972’s “Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway.” But this new song from Hathaway signaled something greater for him and her ...

Roberta Flack hypnotized audiences with epically slow ballads and helped define a new approach to R&B and soul music. (The new format was named after Smokey Robinson’s 1975 album A Quiet Storm.) ...

‘Here, There and Everywhere’ (2012) Flack’s final studio album, “Let It Be Roberta,” was in a sense a return to her roots: a sometimes-radical collection of her interpretations of a ...

upon the 50th anniversary of the million-selling Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway album. “He could play anything, sing anything. Our musical synergy was unlike (anything) I’d had before or since.” She ...

Roberta Flack ... between people—gave her music a lasting quality. Flack would not gain commercial success until 1971, when the initial album’s iconic single, “The First Time Ever I Saw ...

When we say Roberta Flack, I think she had an album title called Quiet Fire, and thats kind of the mental image, said Rickey Vincent. He emphasized how her music carried a peaceful quality, yet it had ...

By Gil Kaufman Roberta ... and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, as well as Mozart’s Requiem. After getting her public debut playing piano as an adolescent in the Lomax church, Flack studied piano ...

upon the 50th anniversary of the million-selling “Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway” album. “He could play anything, sing anything. Our musical synergy was unlike (anything) I’d had before ...