Roberta Flack
June, 1971
scaling the heightsShe's been singing and accompanying herself on the piano since the age of four, when she began to play by ear. Although Roberta Flack, at 32, is one of today's most musically accomplished pop artists, it's her piercingly intense delivery, cleaving to the dead center of her soul-filled material, that makes her an artist apart. Music has been her life. Shortly after her family moved to Washington, D. C., from her Black Mountain, North Carolina, birthplace, she started skipping g...
