Roberta Flack

Roberta Flack was an American R&B and soul singer born in Black Mountain, North Carolina, who studied piano from childhood and earned a degree from Howard University. She taught school in North Carolina and Washington, D.C. before signing with Atlantic Records in 1968 and releasing her debut album in 1969. Her voice and piano-rooted approach made her one of the defining figures in quiet, introspective soul music across the 1970s.